New to GT......Tuning Help?

[Jovanni Baez]

What's up guys,
As you can see by the tittle, I'm new to the world of GT. I love cars, but I really know nothing about them. So as you can imagine tuning a car to fit my needs is like learning a foreign language right now. My question is, do you know anywhere I can basically read up on what all the tuning settings do and how they work together in the game? I just want a better understanding of what I should be looking out for and how to properly tune cars. Thanks, hope someone can help.

 

[hairLAD]

Really, there's no database of info for GT6 yet, so you'll be figuring it out with the best of 'em. Just keep tweaking until you find what works best.

 

[Bee_Bee9]

You either got to wait for the main guys here to write up as much info as they have found out about tuning in GT6 because there' some strange goings on with the tuning, or like me and maybe others just dive in their and start tweaking, try move sliders around one at a time and take for a drive, see if you can feel what it's done to the car. I'm not very scientic, know bugger all about the technicalities of tuning it's all about feel, test and try, test and try and hopefully find your moving in the right direction with the car.
Try choosing a car already available in the thread by XS, but build your own to similar PP/tyres when your happy with the car, then try out a tune for the same car provided by the main tuners here (main tuners tend to be the busiest threads) see how their car feels to what you built, look at their build to see where the differences are and play around.
Learning or at least making the decision to try out the tuning side provides a bigger part of the game to play aound in, brings headaches when the the tuine for the car escapes you but excitement when you can feel the progress is +, enjoy yourself,

cheers Bee9

 

[JuiceMcGoose]

You can't write a how-to on suspension tuning when half the cars in the game respond to changes backwards. I just wrote that last sentence and Bee Bee nailed it. It's pretty much hit and miss in respect to how to control oversteer and understeer. LSD changes are correct and uniform for all cars, so that is something that can be written about.

 

[Youngun]

Im not saying I'm in the same boat but a Sticky Tread about the basics may help in future. The thing thats really annoying it the number system rather than stiffer-softer.

And the Diff seems opposite to GT5, i used to run 555 on my Drift cars now, it doesn't kick out at all, but 606060 does, is that right. Did try on Tokyo and 555 was much faster round that big turn but no understeer as description mentioned, 60s had the understeer but tail happy.

 

[Voodoovaj]

You can't write a how-to on suspension tuning when half the cars in the game respond to changes backwards. I just wrote that last sentence and Bee Bee nailed it. It's pretty much hit and miss in respect to how to control oversteer and understeer. LSD changes are correct and uniform for all cars, so that is something that can be written about.

All the cars work "in reverse", not just some.

https://www.gtplanet.net/forum/threads/spring-rate-formula.294364/

Use the spread sheet in the first post to get the springs, which will be 75% of your handling. Works on everything so far.

 

[JuiceMcGoose]

All the cars work "in reverse", not just some.
https://www.gtplanet.net/forum/threads/spring-rate-formula.294364/
Use the spread sheet in the first post to get the springs, which will be 75% of your handling. Works on everything so far.

Thanks Voodoo. I haven't noticed that, will have to check it out.

Try this...once you have set the springs, if the car still oversteers, lower the rear of the car and/or raise the front of the car. On any car, regardless of engine or drive location, that should reduce oversteer. On some cars it will, on some cars it will increase oversteer.

The same with understeer. Once the springs are set, you should be able to lower the front and/or raise the back to decrease understeer. On some cars it works the way it should, on some cars you need to raise the front and/or lower the back to decrease understeer.

This is not based on some method I just came up with. It's standard in real life and Forza.

I've tuned about 170-180 cars at Tsukuba so far. I'm divorced are retired. I've got their times written down to find my favorite ones to go online.