Thanks for the extra hand ninja.
Ya help the brother out to your best of knowledge.
If he still doesn't get it lemme know ill try to explain it in a different way.
Thing is tho, I sent this guy a de-tuned version of mine, which can, and does run 8.922-8.925 with ideal launch... I know this, because its the exact time I done before I sent it to him. I dont know what he done with it but it seems like he just wants a
better one....
To Ferarri, look buddy, the tunes you've been given are good enough for you to play around with and see how each change you make effects your speed test results... just being spoon-fed the absolute best tune will never "teach you" as you will never know how to get there with a new car from scratch.
This is how I tuned my car... run your current set up, say you get 8.930.. then change one of the gears ratio by .0050, do another run, if the time goes to, for eg, 8.935, then you know that change was erroneous. Try changing it 0.050 in the
other direction, do another run, if your run improves to 8.925, then you know you're fixing that gear. Keep doing it until you reach a peak before it declines... then move onto the next gear, do the same with that, etc... till you've peaked all gears to give you the best transmission set up. Ofcourse all of this is assuming you selected a good Final Gear prior to flipping.
It's not an exact science, but I started at 8.972 and got my tune down to 8.908 after 2 or 3 hours. I know that seems alot of time and effort, but it literally took me 50% of that time, just trying to go from 8.9
15 to 8.9
08. You could get from 8.99 to 8.92 in a short space of trial and error time, and that time is still good enough to beat 99% of all GTRs with the best reactions and launch.
Most people would just leave it at 8.915 and not commit any more time to shaving a meaningless 0.007 off there time, I was just wanting to prove to myself if I was capable to tune a car and I was "learning" how to do this along the way. This was the first car I drag tuned, and that was only
one week ago. Thats right, just two weeks ago, my GTR 12 was track tuned and running 9.2s! I've now managed to apply my general understanding of drag tuning to several cars, and while they may not be the best, they're
all better than the slowest leaderboard entries on this site. So they're competitive enough.
But irrespective of that, the tune I provided you with, is currently capable of running 8.925 with a good launch. Dont think shaving 0.010 off your 1/4 will make you instantly beat others who run 8.916-8.925s... reactions count for more than anything, probably up to a massive 0.100 difference in some occasons, especially when
combined with ghost delay lag. IMO.
I'm running an 8.908 now, and Im from the UK, yet at late nights, I'll join a US lobby and lose to some GTRs here and there, to find out they run 8.9
2s... I lose due to a combination of reactions and ghost delay due to the server i'm in... nothing to do with the tune.
I'm telling you this because I just dont want you to think that just because you run, eg, 8.915 vs a guy who runs 8.925, you'll win every time... cause there is too many variables with every run, not to mention that the actual distance 0.005 makes wouldn't even be noticeable in an online game. And another big point is, in my experience, especially with the younger aged players, they simply lie about the times they run and this will delude a newbie drag tuner into thinking he needs even faster tunes than required. The amount of times I see little guys saying they run 8.
8s with their GTR, and get smoked, is unreal. It's as if the general rule is noobs deduct 0.050 off their actual times.
Others may disagree with the above as there is alot in it, but it's just my take on it, from a brand new players perspective.
Basically, Ferarri, your tune is a great starting point for trial and error tuning. But also, your tune at the moment is already a good drag tune in its own right, even if you don't do any tweaking of your own. TH, Even a 8.945 car would be competitive enough for the majority 1/4 tuned GTRs. Besides, many people who may spend literally hours tuning a car from scratch, to a top 10 leaderboard time may not always want to just give this exact tune out, especially to someone whom they may not know. Appreciate that... ?
You'll always get help from me buddy, I accepted your add to the PSN and always willing to point you in the right direction, but honestly, it will feel better if you achieve the times by yourself. The most important thing is tho, that you will actually "learn" how to tune in the process. 👍
Also, lastly, with regards to speed test, you can run the same tune 3 times in a row and get different results every time. Just remember the stats for your best run, and when tweaking, only compare the absolute best time again, post-tweak to evaluate if the tweak worked or not. PM me if you're still confused.
Cheers.
