killerjimbag
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- The Great White North
- abetterplaya
Fat fingered my phone.
NASCAR Daytona set up
- Thread starter mike102888
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- Atlanta, GA, USA
- Bhowe83
First off raise the ride height to the max. That always helps the car handle better.
Really there is no reason to tune the car in single car runs by yourself. The car will handle fine by itself. But when you get into the draft then the time spent tuning will really show. Now my theory is that handling is more important than straight line speed.
Remember, PD scanned Daytona in 2007 before it was repaved in 2010. That means that this version in GT6 is bumpy as all get out and doesn't have much grip.
Therefor handling is a big factor when racing here in stock cars. And usually a car that runs slower by itself is the one that comes across the line first. A car that can stick like glue to the bottom is the best car you can have.
So first order of business when tuning the car after maxing the ride heights is to stiffen the springs up. Now I think around the 18-21 range for both rear and front springs is a good area to start. Put the rear springs 1.00 - 2.00 higher than the fronts, and then focus on getting the car sealed to the track using the dampers. You can also use the dampers to help gain speed on the straights. Remember, compression is how resistant the shocks are to being compressed down by the car on a scale from 1-10, one being the easiest to push down, 10 being the hardest. The opposite is true for extension. Extension dampening is how resistant the shock is to rebounding, or coming back up, after being compressed.
If you run soft compression, and high extension shocks, the car will stay low to the ground. You especially want the back end out of the air to gain speed on the straights, so long as you aren't giving up time in the corners.
I maxed out both front and rear ARB's simply because I don't want any chassis roll in the corner. Roll = friction, friction= speed loss.
I run no downforce whatsoever and use the chassis to make my car handle.
So take this advice and go make your car drive around the bottom with as little steering input as possible and you should be good to go
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After racing with WhoosierGirl/Nautical or Elite_50/Bull you might think differently about that. They both have crazy fast solo cars and that knowledge would seem to have trickled down to their race setups, they are about as fast and clean as your going to find online.
One of the things that ruins some of the good clean nascar rooms is people just show up without putting time in learning how to setup a nascar. Killer posted a good base setup months ago, even hosted a room for helping people.
There is good setups posted here but all of them would have to be somewhat tweaked to fit each car and each driver. Not one of the setups is going to fit every driver or ever car, find one that feels safe and go practice solo and learn what settings change what. Then go race and apply what you learned so you don't paste someone into turn 3.
- 628
- Atlanta, GA, USA
- Bhowe83
Yes, a fast car in solo will usually be a fast car in race, but it's more important to to tune for race and using races as a testing ground.
I try to provide people with base setups that they can tweak and change as they like. I prefer a car that handles good and can move around at will. Some people prefer a car that will absolutely fly down the straights and try to hold onto it in the corners. I try to provide a mix between the two.
Most of my setup knowledge comes from Nr2003 and iRacing from the setups I've made over the past 10 or so years. It's just a strange hassle trying to set a stock car up using a road course chassis and aero with symmetrical setups. Plus I have no ability to touch air pressure, which I'm sure is put somewhere around 20-30 psi.
But basically my point in saying that was seeing people go and try to set the rear end all the way to the floor and fly by themselves, and then flying off into turn 1 in a race and not being able to hold the car in the corner anymore.
killerjimbag
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- The Great White North
- abetterplaya
Yes it is. Probably the closest to real in the game.
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- phmedalz23
For the gear setup do you have to tune all 4 at the same time or are the 2 different, i'm having a hard time figuring that out.
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- United States
- phmedalz23
- 26
- United States
- phmedalz23
how do u set that up w/o the transmission on Daytona?I haven't been on in almost a month, and this borders on creepy!
I'm good, just had a family matter to attend to and as Doodle posted I have to take care of my shoulder.
Yes, both 2010 Fords are the fastest solo so far, I did the updates yesterday and made a few laps last night to see if anything had changed.
Ran a .487 with the 2010 99 and a .49something with the 43, so it would seem nothing has.
I have run 43.5's with at least 5 other 2010's/11's and 43.7's with the 2013 #48, not as fast as the Fords but close enough.
I try to stick to this idea for qualifying "Quiet tires make for fast laps".
This is correct
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- Happyville
- WhoosierGirl
Sorry, but I don't quite understand the question.
- 26
- United States
- phmedalz23
- 26
- United States
- phmedalz23
I do have both AJ cars and they are going about 207 before the turn. It seems that everyone passes me up when I am a half lap a head of them. Am I doing something wrong or are they most likely hacked cars or good tune ups? I find the 2013 cars most useful for motegi and indy. I have 11 nascars and it seems like the other people are going at leas 210 or more. The suspension set ups I got are useful and reliable for some cars. Thanks.
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- United States
- phmedalz23
I need help setting my AJ car up my speeds are to low.
- 767
- Happyville
- WhoosierGirl
I am guessing you are going to Dirty Nascar rooms, they set the room up with boost on high. With boost you can have a car that is a second a lap faster than everyone else and it won't keep them from catching you. The leader gets slowed down and the last place car will be running crazy fast lap times.
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- ELITE_RCNG-50
If your half a lap in front and loosing ,then what are you loosing too? and in under how many laps ,and what slip stream strength as loosing to a fast pack chasing a solo car in under 10 laps is just the way it goes or was prior to the slipstream update ,you simply cant outrun a solid fast pack on your own if theres enough laps remaining for them to chase you down
I find it best in situations like that to save race replay and watch exactly why you lost. It could be the as stated above ,or assuming it was a tyre wear race ,your tyres are gone ,your no where near as fast because of loss of traction and or you opted for a harder compound which are slower this could cost you upto a second a lap maybe more against the driver whos got fresh soft tyres in a 1-v-1 situation
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- ELITE_RCNG-50
You know i was going to ask if it was a dirty nascar race as i havent seen his name in a room i`m in ,but then i thought surely he knows what boost does
- 767
- Happyville
- WhoosierGirl
- 157
- United Kingdom
- ELITE_RCNG-50
Yh new real draft settings with half a lap lead you got time to spin it 180 and do the last part in reverse and wave to the fans as you cross the line
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- phmedalz23
I am talking about with no draft and everything else off. Even driving in those bad rooms with strong boost on. Last night I started first and right away I was crashed with tire wear and fuel turned off, I was a lap behind it took 2 laps to catch up to them than I was crashed again, lol. There playing in packs.
- 628
- Atlanta, GA, USA
- Bhowe83
Look at the setups posted and then come back.
My guess is that you're either A, using a default setup which won't get you anywhere, or B, your transmission is setup to where your getting past the peak torque/hp ban too quickly. Anything past around 8500 RPM and the HP drops off like a cliff. You have to set the transmission to where 4th gear is hitting the hp peak around 205-210, depending on what you like
- 26
- United States
- phmedalz23
I kinda noticed no transmission tunes on here but the rest of the setups are cool and good speeches.
- 157
- United Kingdom
- ELITE_RCNG-50
This is true and theres good reason for it ,most are too hard to explain without the new top speed being displayed in GT6 when you move the final gear
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- TheJudge2009
Great topic here,
learnt a lot, again
thanks to all off you
learnt a lot, again
thanks to all off you
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- Aegina
- Willful-Underdog
Suspension
Ride Height: 60/70
Spring Rate: 24.55/21.00
Dampers (Comp): 2/2
Dampers (Ext): 2/2
Anti-Roll Bars: 7/7
Camber: 0.0/0.0
Toe: -0.25/-0.20
Brakes
Brakes & Calipers: 4/2
Transmission
i) Final Gear to 5.000
ii) Top Speed in 240 km/h
iii) Gears:
1st 2.033
2nd 1.476
3rd 1.147
4th 1.099
iv) Final Gear to 2.975
Note: You can change 1st and 2nd to improve the launch of the car. You will have faster exit from the pit box.
LSD
Initial Torque: 60
Acceleration Sensitivity: 60
Braking Sensitivity: 5
Chassis
Aerodynamics: 200/400
Notice that lower ride height will give you higher top speed, something that will help you improve your lap times.
My best time lap in Daytona was 0:44,2xx using 50/60 in ride height, but I changed it in 60/70 to have more stability in races with a lot of draft.
The car can hold both inside and outside lines very well.
Special thanks to @kostasteam3 for the Base tune and to @meek for his tips & advices. 👍
Good luck & enjoy your drive
Ride Height: 60/70
Spring Rate: 24.55/21.00
Dampers (Comp): 2/2
Dampers (Ext): 2/2
Anti-Roll Bars: 7/7
Camber: 0.0/0.0
Toe: -0.25/-0.20
Brakes
Brakes & Calipers: 4/2
Transmission
i) Final Gear to 5.000
ii) Top Speed in 240 km/h
iii) Gears:
1st 2.033
2nd 1.476
3rd 1.147
4th 1.099
iv) Final Gear to 2.975
Note: You can change 1st and 2nd to improve the launch of the car. You will have faster exit from the pit box.
LSD
Initial Torque: 60
Acceleration Sensitivity: 60
Braking Sensitivity: 5
Chassis
Aerodynamics: 200/400
Notice that lower ride height will give you higher top speed, something that will help you improve your lap times.
My best time lap in Daytona was 0:44,2xx using 50/60 in ride height, but I changed it in 60/70 to have more stability in races with a lot of draft.
The car can hold both inside and outside lines very well.
Special thanks to @kostasteam3 for the Base tune and to @meek for his tips & advices.
👍Good luck & enjoy your drive
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- stevestone1000
I use the test drive mode mostly, daytime settings. That picture is from earlier on before they update the game. The update changed the tire temperature characteristics. I can do 43.50's on the second lap so no need to get the tires warmed up anymore.
Best lap now is 43.489 on lap 4 and did the identical time on lap 5. I have a video of it posted in the video section. Just hitting 210mph on backstretch and 206 at the finish line, 199/200 on exit.
Settings are no tire wear and real grip, daytime in both test drive and practice time trial. Both modes show the same speed, I did a .491 in test mode and switch to the TT mode and did the .489 so I had a record of when I did it.
I knew it wouldn't take you long to get tuning on a nascar.
Could you send me your "Trans-Setup" For this run. Thanks...Steve
