Thanks for the great info. I'll make good use when apply the tunes forward.
Thanks for the feedback, I need all I can get You've hit the 240RS on the head. You've got to be fairly precise with the steering and entry speed to get everything out of it. I had to strike a balance with it because if you made the front end too sharp you'd lose the back end more often and it was punishing with so much power and so little weight, there was a big delay getting back on the throttle if the back end got too out of shape....feedback...
PD has done a bang up job with the older cars and you can really feel the difference between them and the stuff from the last 10 years or so. Newer is easier to drive and tune, older is just as fast (unlike GT5 IME) but more on the edge and less forgiving making them more fun to drive but still competitive.
Did you try turning down the BB? Maybe something like 5/2 or 4/1. No racing brakes? Maybe some more Decel LSD? It can be tricky trail braking on some corners but it's one of the advantages of the G27 with the GTEYE brake mod, it's easy to apply low brake pressure and compensate for a little squirreliness under braking.I expected it to be a bit tricky so went to Trial Mountain as I do a lot of testing here and is one of my most consistent tracks. I didn't adjust the FD, but the RS200 is still fast, carrying good speed through the corner, and with the 4wd comes the grip and superb exits.
I actually found the RS stable and mostly friendly, with corner entry being the maker or breaker. This is somewhat of a precise art: a balancing act between a slight 4WD understeer (eg the final left-right onto the S/F straight) and Midship oversteer under braking. The braking instability was the only real problem for me and is summed up by the entry into the first tunnel.
I normally brake late from the outside and trail brake to the inside at the tunnel mouth and then get back on the gas. With the mid-engine RS, I lost the back end several times here before hitting the brakes earlier and lighter, keeping some gas helps stabilise of course. I haven't spent much time with mid-engine cars, so I suppose it's a technique that takes some honing.
Need to check my time - but it was competitive even with suboptimal gearing and some twitchy corners.
A bit of a mixed bag for me this one. I did enjoy the drive, and I could see it's potential with the right driver, but I'm not sure if I'll have the time to practice enough to get the best out of it. And I don't think I should go near the Nordschleife in it .
Did you try turning down the BB? Maybe something like 5/2 or 4/1. No racing brakes? Maybe some more Decel LSD? It can be tricky trail braking on some corners but it's one of the advantages of the G27 with the GTEYE brake mod, it's easy to apply low brake pressure and compensate for a little squirreliness under braking.
Which track(s) did you try it on? As with a lot of these older cars, they don't quite do what the newer cars do. Not as stable, don't have the same feel and so I end up compromising a lot. The key to each of them I think is knowing what the car will do and using it to your advantage. If you know a little flick of the wheel will bring the back end around a little, you do that when you need to, especially on a corner where you might normally feel some understeer. I tend to run weight in the back of a lot of cars to get them to rotate but it sometimes results in that snap oversteer if you enter a corner a little too quickly or hit the brakes a little too late. A small amount of throttle in anticipation of this usually works wonders, especially on the 4wds like this car and the RS200. A little throttle on entry also helps to control the oversteer, so it's on demand when you need it, but controllable at the same time.Can't wait to try it out!
Edit: Gave the Gallant a try unfortunately it didn't put a smile on my face like your RS200 did. It's probably my driving style and not the car though for me it felt like the car had like 50 gallons of water in the back sloshing around. A lot of the time it would come through as a sensation of understeer, but sometimes it would result in snap oversteer. I'm thinking that with a lot of seat time in this car you can really chuck it around and get the weight transfer to work to your advantage (trail braking probably helps as well) but for me unfortunately I was unable to get a good feel for that and as a result the car felt kinda slow. Any driving tips for me to get more out of this car?
Which track(s) did you try it on?
A small amount of throttle in anticipation of this usually works wonders, especially on the 4wds like this car and the RS200. A little throttle on entry also helps to control the oversteer, so it's on demand when you need it, but controllable at the same time.
Maybe give it another chance at Brands Hatch or Bathurst and see how it feels. Both tracks are hard to tune for but I did have some great success there. Thanks for trying it out too