RKM Motorsport - Tuned Tuners - May '13
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GfxJGBTW, do I get a tune for my Lolvo review? If I need to add something: The understeer largely dissapeared when switching to Manual. Yes, I learnt driving MT in under an hour, I'm impressed with myself
Pfft I learnt manual in under 20 minutes
and he owes you two tunes, one from before He left, and this one.
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Pfft I learnt manual in under 20 minutes
Oh yeah, thanks for reminding me about that XD But were you comfortable enough with MT to go online with it after 20 minutes? And win?
Anyways, since Roj owes me a minimum of 1 tune, I'd like... a McLaren Typewriter. You know which one it is if you watch Top Gear, or just have common sense. Tune it to whatever level you like.
and anyways, pick 50 cars out of 1000+? Easy.
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HKS CT230RR review (Cut ver.)-
The HKS CT230RR, or rather, my HKS CT230RR. I’ve driven it for over 3000 miles, and had loved every moment in it. It was the car that cemented RKM in my mind as the ‘go to’ tuner for GT5 cars. It was also the car that made me think ‘yes, I like this reviewing task, especially if the rewards were like this!’. So, you have this car to thank for putting me on here in the first place. Still, enough history. Time for some driving. And this is a special drive. With just over 3000 miles under its belt, I’m planning on retiring it from online racing. It’s had its moments in the spotlight, but its time now to move on.
It was requested to be tuned with a slight bias to the Top Gear Test Track. And though I’m sure RJ completely ignored that part of my request, it has, over the course of the many months I’ve had it until the PSN downtime, proven to be as reliable as a wood burning stove in terms of consistency. In both online and offline conditions, both racing against time and against others, it has rarely ever let me down. But don’t think it fitted like a glove from day 1.
It was always a tricky brute to handle in this form. Twitchy, fast, very unforgiving, these were its new trademarks. I remember ending my very first lap in it, with this tune, backwards, as I had clipped a blade of grass. It never understood ‘forgive and forget’. It only knew the phrase ‘bite hard and bark’. But I grew to love it for this. Back in my noob days, a CT230R was a symbol of grip and stablity. Any CT230 that didn’t follow in this track was a bad one. Now, 5 months on, if when I drive a CT230R that doesn’t snap around and try to kill me, I instantly don’t like it.
I love its aggression, how it needs you to manhandle it. It’s different in this respect to most Japanese cars. There isn’t a box of electrics to save you, there’s 4WD, but it needs a driver. Not a useless, talentless 5 year old who can’t drive. There’s miles of lift off oversteer when you push it, and a lot of understeer to show that you still aren’t pushing quite hard enough. It’s nearly an impossible task to get this around the track as fast as possible for more than 3 consecutive laps. But when you really knuckle down and focus, and drive it as it was tuned to be driven, it comes alive. The back end will break loose on entry to a corner, don’t correct it though, let it help you through the corner. Throttle modulation is, as with all 4WD cars, a must. Fail to do so will result in horrendous understeer. Get it right, and the lap records will tumble.
It managed a 1:03.765 on the Top Gear Test Track, only 0.160 seconds slower than the fastest recorded time set by the AdrenaTune CT230R. It’s come a long way in the last few months. The lap times have dropped from a low 1:06 to a 1:04 online. And now, on its final outing as my ‘flagship’ car, it breaks all my previous online records. It’s done me proud.
Lap Times-Top Gear Test Track
1:03.765
*This is an extract from an up coming review, it has been cut as this I want to keep this review focused on this car. As such, it probably won't make much sense as it is
**Pictures were to be part of it, but I can't be arsed just yet
The HKS CT230RR, or rather, my HKS CT230RR. I’ve driven it for over 3000 miles, and had loved every moment in it. It was the car that cemented RKM in my mind as the ‘go to’ tuner for GT5 cars. It was also the car that made me think ‘yes, I like this reviewing task, especially if the rewards were like this!’. So, you have this car to thank for putting me on here in the first place. Still, enough history. Time for some driving. And this is a special drive. With just over 3000 miles under its belt, I’m planning on retiring it from online racing. It’s had its moments in the spotlight, but its time now to move on.
It was requested to be tuned with a slight bias to the Top Gear Test Track. And though I’m sure RJ completely ignored that part of my request, it has, over the course of the many months I’ve had it until the PSN downtime, proven to be as reliable as a wood burning stove in terms of consistency. In both online and offline conditions, both racing against time and against others, it has rarely ever let me down. But don’t think it fitted like a glove from day 1.
It was always a tricky brute to handle in this form. Twitchy, fast, very unforgiving, these were its new trademarks. I remember ending my very first lap in it, with this tune, backwards, as I had clipped a blade of grass. It never understood ‘forgive and forget’. It only knew the phrase ‘bite hard and bark’. But I grew to love it for this. Back in my noob days, a CT230R was a symbol of grip and stablity. Any CT230 that didn’t follow in this track was a bad one. Now, 5 months on, if when I drive a CT230R that doesn’t snap around and try to kill me, I instantly don’t like it.
I love its aggression, how it needs you to manhandle it. It’s different in this respect to most Japanese cars. There isn’t a box of electrics to save you, there’s 4WD, but it needs a driver. Not a useless, talentless 5 year old who can’t drive. There’s miles of lift off oversteer when you push it, and a lot of understeer to show that you still aren’t pushing quite hard enough. It’s nearly an impossible task to get this around the track as fast as possible for more than 3 consecutive laps. But when you really knuckle down and focus, and drive it as it was tuned to be driven, it comes alive. The back end will break loose on entry to a corner, don’t correct it though, let it help you through the corner. Throttle modulation is, as with all 4WD cars, a must. Fail to do so will result in horrendous understeer. Get it right, and the lap records will tumble.
It managed a 1:03.765 on the Top Gear Test Track, only 0.160 seconds slower than the fastest recorded time set by the AdrenaTune CT230R. It’s come a long way in the last few months. The lap times have dropped from a low 1:06 to a 1:04 online. And now, on its final outing as my ‘flagship’ car, it breaks all my previous online records. It’s done me proud.
Lap Times-Top Gear Test Track
1:03.765
*This is an extract from an up coming review, it has been cut as this I want to keep this review focused on this car. As such, it probably won't make much sense as it is
**Pictures were to be part of it, but I can't be arsed just yet
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Alright Mr. Knowitall, I'm gonna make a list of cars I want tuned (In no particular order... Yet), you tell me if they've been requested already:
Ferrari 512BB
BMW M5
BMW M3 GTR
Mercedes SL65 (The premium cabriolet)
A Nascar
Toyota WedsSport Celica
FGT
Toyota Supra RZ
Toyota Supra SZ-R
Ferrari 512BB
BMW M5
BMW M3 GTR
Mercedes SL65 (The premium cabriolet)
A Nascar
Toyota WedsSport Celica
FGT
Toyota Supra RZ
Toyota Supra SZ-R
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This.
Yes, although aren't you a tuner yourself?BTW, do I get a tune for my Lolvo review? If I need to add something: The understeer largely dissapeared when switching to Manual. Yes, I learnt driving MT in under an hour, I'm impressed with myself
And see! 
Ferrari 512BB - Nope.
BMW M5 - RJ did one.
BMW M3 GTR - Nope, wouldn't take long to do with the CSL's settings as a base anyway.
Mercedes SL65 (The premium cabriolet) - Nope.
A Nascar - Nope. I'd suggest using MFT's one though.
Toyota WedsSport Celica - Nope.
FGT - Nope, but I cant drive the FGT properly to begin with.
Toyota Supra RZ - Yep.
Toyota Supra SZ-R - Nope.
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This.
Yes, although aren't you a tuner yourself?
Ferrari 512BB - Nope.
BMW M5 - RJ did one.
BMW M3 GTR - Nope, wouldn't take long to do with the CSL's settings as a base anyway.
Mercedes SL65 (The premium cabriolet) - Nope.
A Nascar - Nope. I'd suggest using MFT's one though.
Toyota WedsSport Celica - Nope. <--- Cheap little man, he tuned one himself already
FGT - Nope, but I cant drive the FGT properly to begin with.
Toyota Supra RZ - Yep.
Toyota Supra SZ-R - Nope.
And the Vette has been fed some steroids, now go tame it Roj.
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Lol Roj, yeah I am a tuner myself, but it happens I get too lazy to do tunes, or with cars that I just can't agree with (McLaren Typewriter is prime example >.<) And I never noticed the M5 tune, lol... Anyways, my requests will be the SL65 and 512BB. Do them when you have time ;D
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I'm gonna be doing a review or 3 soon,
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My laptop is broken tho so I will have to post using my iPhone :/
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My laptop is broken tho so I will have to post using my iPhone :/
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Oh so how much do they pay? Cuz our government decided that anyone who was over the age of 18, regardless of whether they had a job or not, would get paid 6000HKDBut they then tax my dad and take 1,500,000+ from us
And has the rioting died down yet over there?
Minimum £50 a week. I'm apparently entitled to £60 though. It's 12 HKD to the £ so that's still a lot of money they're taxing from you. Sheesh!
It's died down now. No more shops to loot I guess. They didn't riot in Blackpool, but Manchester had some trouble.
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