Original tire choices

[unit-one]

I searched really hard for this information, but failed to find it.
Ok, here goes. My English is not the best, but I'll try to make my self clear. PD made a tire (tyre?) list in GT5p, so people can fit corresponding tires to their favorite cars and feel the true experience of driving (or whatever) So, I began to do the same with my GT4 cars. But I don't know what tires to use on some cars. They are: AC Cars 427 S/C (1966) and Shelby Cobra 427 (1967)
In GT5p, Ferrari 512BB (1976) is using N1 tires. So, I should use N1 tires on AC and Shelby too? But I heard that those cars have some kind of racing specs? And their tires are extremely wide, in comparison to Ferrari's.
BTW, N1 tires work good on muscle cars...I think.

 

[Parnelli Bone]

I've informally associated tires choices in GT4 like this:

N1--cheapie tires. The sort of tires that go on cars that have nothing to do with performance. In real-life, they'd be sold for a very cheap price

N2--decent all-season radials. Good highway driving grip, but not racing tires by any means.

N3--decent warm-season radials. The dealer would put these on newer Corvettes, GTis, Civic Type Rs, etc.


Most people disagree with me here, though. Some say N1 tires are the only way to go if you want to truely replicate real-life handling. Wheras I disagree with them. It seems to me (after working on plenty of real-life cars) there are plenty of different grades of tires shod in real-life, fresh from the dealer.

Some cars have tires meant for highway driving, last a very long time, but don't offer such fantastic grip. While other cars (Miata, Audi TT...off the top of my head) have tires which are much softer. Even with mild city & highway driving (I know the customers, they don't push their cars very hard), these sort of tires don't last more than 2 or 3 years on the road.

 

[unit-one]

I had a similar formula before GT5p released. Long time I did not wanted to change it, but looking at Prologues tire choices I began to think, that I was wrong. So I tried to follow this scheme, but ran in to problems =) I hope GT5 cars will be sold with their "native" tires (not sports-medium like in the rest of the games) or, at least I hope, that there would be a similar chart (like in Prologue)

I almost finished my work (I am fitting all of my cars with their "real" tires (IMO)
If someone is interested I can make a chart and post it here?

Some examples, that I have trouble deciding:

Car name------------------------year---T---PS----KG
Sileighty-------------------------1998--N3--206--1170
Mazda Kusabi--------------------2003--N2--150---900
Mitsubishi HSR-II-----------------1989--N2--350--1200
Nissan R390 GT1 Road Car--------1998--N3--357--1180
Suzuki GSX-R/4------------------2001--N3--175---640
Chrysler 300C--------------------2005--N2--345--1878
Shelby Cobra 427----------------1967--N2--492--1068
Shelby Mustang G.T. 350R--------1965--N1--311--1268
Cadillac Cien---------------------2002--S1--760--1450
AC Cars 427 S/C-----------------1966--N2--486--1311
RUF CTR "Yellow Bird"-------------1987--N2--469--1150
RUF BTR-------------------------1986--N1--375--1180

 

[chepe371]

For stock factory production cars i think N2's are ok, for Sport stock cars, N3(try driving a Yellowbird on N1's no easy feat) and for Vintage Cars N1, for tuner cars i usually put N3's and for DTM JGTC gotta go with S1's, only cars i use R tires is for Group C\Prototypes and the Formula GT.

Using a DS2, maybe id use different tires if i had a DFGT.

 

[Austin343]

I generally agree with your assessment, but I would argue that for most road cars, N1 tires are accurate. Only very high-performance cars should get N2s, and N3s probably have too much grip for anything except tuner cars. It's interesting that you prefer S1s for middling race cars; I also think that racing tires usually have too much grip, but comparisons with real-life times surprisingly support using R2s or R3s for JGTC500 cars (S tires, or R1s at most, might be appropriate for DTM and JGTC300).

 

[chepe371]

I generally agree with your assessment, but I would argue that for most road cars, N1 tires are accurate. Only very high-performance cars should get N2s, and N3s probably have too much grip for anything except tuner cars. It's interesting that you prefer S1s for middling race cars; I also think that racing tires usually have too much grip, but comparisons with real-life times surprisingly support using R2s or R3s for JGTC500 cars (S tires, or R1s at most, might be appropriate for DTM and JGTC300).

INteresting, ill give it a shot with all N1's except the Tuners will have N3 and the GT300\DTM and R2 for GT500 and Group C\Prototypes.

But i Am playing with the DS2 using the right analog for throttle brake, we'll see how it goes.

 

[Austin343]

I also use the analog sticks on the DS2, so I don't have the experience of which tires give the most realistic feedback through a wheel and pedals; that might be a major factor for some people in deciding which tires are most realistic.

I also should mention that a few cars are programmed with so much grip that even N1s are excessive. The C1 Corvette is a good example: It should have woeful cornering and braking, but it does both exceptionally well.

 

[unit-one]

Thanks for the tips.
I hope, when GT5 will be released in to the wild. We could find a similar to GT5p manual, where each car is pared with their "native" tyres.