It's been quiet in here lately.
So I am determined to get to several tunes this month for review, most of them should be quick but better than nothing. First up (lucky draw?) is
@DolHaus and his 550pp entry.
I have come to find that DolHaus and I like our cars different to say the least, I like them planted, lots of grip and mostly stable. I have been accused of being too safe with some of my tunes and that's ok, my times are usually not far from the wild ones. DolHaus likes to throw them around more, loves a controlled drift and sometimes I have found them freakishly fun. (See his GTO FITT Tune
here). This tune is no different, he set the Torgue Centering Diff to 10:90(
) which makes the car feel like an MR and not an AWD. Bad thing, well maybe not. The tune does seem to lose just a touch of that AWD launch on exit but really not all that much. It also helped to remove most, but not all of the exit understeer. When I took it to Silverstone International, the understeer was present in only 2 places but mainly the final corner. This could be corrected, however, by changing your line through the final section. The car handled really nice and was not what I expected, the rear weight is very noticeable especially when braking. Again, once you figure it out though, it actually is not too bad and perfectly manageable. My time was off compared to most 550pp cars I have run there but that could have been fixed by changing the final gear a bit as 6th was used very little. The gears are set up nicely and stretched for longer tracks as well, certainly not a knock as it did the job and my best lap was a 1:07.549. Some can get down into the 1:06 range for me but not many, this seems to be the most popular area for the pp range.
Next stop was Ascari, a track I have really come to enjoy, even with a few tricky corners, and where the stretched gears hurt ever so slightly. The Saleen last month that I tuned yielded a surprising time of 2:07.xxx, with my Gallardo 550 tune not far behind; so how would this tune do? Well, just a touch off but could have been the driver and the fact most of my time lately has been spent on Spa and Midfield, coming in at 2:10.599. Easily could be bettered in a few more laps since I only ran 3. The weight in the rear is more noticeable here and does need your attention but boy is this a fun tune to throw around this course, I highly suggest giving it a go for yourself.
Overall, what I would expect from DolHaus, fun, exciting and not hard to drive even for someone who prefers them more stable. I seem to transition to his tunes well and then back to my own, they even are starting to make me attempt to get my own tunes just a bit less safe, (see my RX-8 FITT
Tune).
Job very well done 👍