hey guys, new to the board, lurked a bit beforhand but now here i am.. little about me
i play gt because i have an obsession with tuning, been playing gt religously for about a year, reading on here there are some very interesting ideas about cars.
i'm a real life racer as well, i pilot an 87 GTA with a 5.7 liter 8 slug, runs the quarter in 14 seconds and change.
my friend/ tuning partner will be signed up soon. we've developed our own brand of tuning, i.e. many of the tuned cars i see are runing race tires. the problem with this is that you can make anything handle with enough tire, we reserve race tires for race cars, why? because in arcade you CAN'T run race tires on street cars and vice versa, a car is useless in competition if tuned for stickier tires. we tune cars to take out other cars on the same tires, sport softs most commonly. we also use no driving aids to accomplish this, they slow us down.
we're running 1'41's at el capitan on street tires, i honestly don't know where that falls on your scale but i can tell you it took alot of hours of r and d to make a street car go that fast there on street tires, we lay down 1'43's in fd's there as well, our 1032 hp viper is hundreths of a second slower then that but is not fully sorted out yet.
in anycase, we'll be sharing our stuff soon, taking and giving from the knowledge out there allready, maybe even cook up some american cars for all you non yankee's out there.. best wishes
-david
i play gt because i have an obsession with tuning, been playing gt religously for about a year, reading on here there are some very interesting ideas about cars.
i'm a real life racer as well, i pilot an 87 GTA with a 5.7 liter 8 slug, runs the quarter in 14 seconds and change.
my friend/ tuning partner will be signed up soon. we've developed our own brand of tuning, i.e. many of the tuned cars i see are runing race tires. the problem with this is that you can make anything handle with enough tire, we reserve race tires for race cars, why? because in arcade you CAN'T run race tires on street cars and vice versa, a car is useless in competition if tuned for stickier tires. we tune cars to take out other cars on the same tires, sport softs most commonly. we also use no driving aids to accomplish this, they slow us down.
we're running 1'41's at el capitan on street tires, i honestly don't know where that falls on your scale but i can tell you it took alot of hours of r and d to make a street car go that fast there on street tires, we lay down 1'43's in fd's there as well, our 1032 hp viper is hundreths of a second slower then that but is not fully sorted out yet.
in anycase, we'll be sharing our stuff soon, taking and giving from the knowledge out there allready, maybe even cook up some american cars for all you non yankee's out there.. best wishes
-david
best wishes
. i have a tuned s179 that needs a lil refresher, i'll post up the series one eventually followed by a pony car war, the iroc z, the 2002 camaro, the new mustang and the ol shelby gt 350.
will let yaz know when i get it to drift
