RKM Motorsport - Tuned Tuners - May '13
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Onboy123
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It was a common issue with this car that it would understeer if you drove it wrong. You need to corner while trail braking, lifting off the brakes gradually to get it to rotate. I've had this tune on my Gallardo and it's been responding fairly well to this kind of driving style. And I'm hardly skilled with a DS3, as Roj can tell you, so it just needs some practice to get right.
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Maybe.
Because you're driving on tight courses, the Evo's 4WD and AYC are a huge advantage, meaning you're on pretty equal terms with the NSX and RX-7, which would normally slaughter an Evo on a normal track.
I'm sure there's something that has happened to the EVO's. I loved racing my EVO IX tuned in prologue against the Clio crew, was waiting for more of that when GT5 came out, only to be seriously dissapointed.
Been running the same 530pp sports soft road car series for a year now, EVO's got slaughtered at first, no matter what was tried or how many guys tried them.
Against the "regular" members, few weeks ago, I got the EVO's first victory in 9 lap race around Deep Forest (power limiter @ 100% & no ballast).
Shortly after we went to Nurb GP/F, there were a number of guys on the pace in EVO's - heheheh RJ came in with his DLC Aston, he was 2 secs a lap slower than the EVO (Sorry RJ - probably good reason for this that has now been rectified but couldn't resist mentioning it!!!!! - sorry).
Racing at Trial Mountain I used a VII RS with custom LSD, again, it seemed so much quicker and competitive than when I last used it...
I usually use the standard EVO VI RS with a full custom LSD, other guys were in standard GSRs with custom LSDs too - w've all ditcheed the AYC for online racing. There was a VIII MR and a III or II GSR - all of us were doing good lap times and race pace for these regulations (530pp S/S) on this track.
There's a few EVO fans in our series, we were all gutted at first (when we started racing them online) - but now, hmmmmmm, they don't get slaughtered anymore, if anything (i.e. you have your EVO dialled in and other guys in other cars haven't got their's dialled in) - the EVO will take them out.
Getting even tyre wear over race distance (normally about 20 miles-ish) can be a bit of work, but if you stick with it and get it about right. then you're not going to be a million miles off the pace in EVO's anymore.
A year ago, we were going backwards.....
Because we've raced the same cars and regulatons on the same tracks, online, for a year now, we have a rough idea of what can be done (lap times) for what track.
Lap times now are generally slower than 1 year ago, it's like all the other cars have slowed (along with the lap times) but the EVO's have stayed still, so they're now alot more competitive.
Weird - but to be honest, I'm LOVIN IT, the EVO's are back - wooohooooooo
Rotary Junkie
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In bold is why, not to mention the car not being correctly set up at the time (still isn't) and being a bit too heavy to turn.
If it was Trial I'd have kicked your arse six ways to Sunday.
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In bold is why, not to mention the car not being correctly set up at the time (still isn't) and being a bit too heavy to turn.
If it was Trial I'd have kicked your arse six ways to Sunday.
Ahem...........cough cough - like you did in the Golf R Vs Scirroco R battle we had
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Lap times now are generally slower than 1 year ago, it's like all the other cars have slowed (along with the lap times) but the EVO's have stayed still, so they're now alot more competitive.
Weird - but to be honest, I'm LOVIN IT, the EVO's are back - wooohooooooo
It just goes to show how much PD have been ninja-patching the online physics this past year and a bit. Officially we've had what? One, maybe two announced fixes to the physics in general. The major one being Spec 2.0 and I believe there was a minor one recently, although I may be wrong. Unofficially though, I think they've must've made countless edits to the online engine, as every time I play, my car feels completely different to what it did before patching the game.
Offline, the Evo's are still off the pace against the leaders. Online though, like you said, they've caught up, albeit because the other cars have gotten slower.
I'm still waiting for the day when both online and offline physics are the same. It's a load of crap that the online engine is so different, when every other game has consistent physics.
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Agree with you 100% - I've lost count how many times we've had to adjust cars after "ghost" changes in the game. It's also played havoc with many of our race series where we use handicaps to equalise cars' performance.
The worst was just before Xmas, after one update all of a sudden the cars seemed to oversteer alot more going into corners. So we changed all our cars, then a couple of months later they all suddenly got horrible understeer going into corners - so we had to change them back.
Not good when you have between 10-30+ cars setup for each series
The EVO's willl still struggle against the best "cheat cars" if driven by the same quality if driver and the car(s) are setup equally i.e. both are setup well for race distance and person's driving style.
But if you hvae your EVO dialled in, and others don't have their cars dialled in, then the EVO is alot more competitive. Had immense pleasure hunting down a friend in a '07 GTR at Cape Ring in a VI TM S.P.E evo as he hadn't tuned for tyre wear. He shot of in the distance lap 1, by lap 5 I'd caught him up and had great view of him pushing too hard on the last lap and spinning just before the jump - heheheheh....
"didn't know and EVO was that quick" - he said....
"neither did I" - before the Nelson from Simpsons 'Ha Ha' echoed down the mic at him
There's still some difference between online free run and race too. Plus, some of the tracks feel different. We raced at Daytona Road and it felt like driving on ice in the race, when cars were "planted" in free practice.
Things like the "laptime" bug also plays on your mind - we're constantly thinking has Polyphony repaired one thing but broken another... It's crazy....
I'm guessing they'll adjust the online tyre wear at some point too. It's just as easy to burn out hards in the same race distance as it is softs for some cars.
How on earth we're supposed to keep up with all this is impossible, especially throughout the week we're racing cars that vary from 450pp to 600p and tyres from sports hards to racing softs
Yet Polyphony remain tight-lipped and only tell us maybe 25% of what's really going on.. Pffffffffft - gutted....
Rotary Junkie
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Ahem...........cough cough - like you did in the Golf R Vs Scirroco R battle we had
My Scirroco was ill at the time.
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Just to let anyone interested know, my Trans-Cammer seems to like 630bhp and Sports tyres...it also looks the absolute balls too 
and I have found my super-rare R34 again too, which is good...
and I have found my super-rare R34 again too, which is good...
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Well the green dragon ripped the hell out of the Spa drift trial, and my Forza 3 spec Datsun 510 Skyline 1500 did alright in the Japanese classics one too...shame we don't upload drift setups :3
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I'm really looking forward to the Trans-Cammer tune.
As a side note, I finally got around to spending the money on 3 Muiras, so I now have every RKM and Dragonthing tune in my garage (The extra Muiras were for a stock one and a Mad Finn version). I also went through all my standard RKM tuned cars (painted red, of course) and added the gold rims
As a side note, I finally got around to spending the money on 3 Muiras, so I now have every RKM and Dragonthing tune in my garage (The extra Muiras were for a stock one and a Mad Finn version). I also went through all my standard RKM tuned cars (painted red, of course) and added the gold rims
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I daresay it won't be as spectacular as people expect, but whatever...I'll get it up as soon as I'm home from shopping :3
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the evo decimated on nurb again, cant wait til lots season starts and rkm releases an evo 3 tune.
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Lampuhkapy u take so looooooooooooooooooooong
Because sitting at work waiting for my shift to start...just thinking about that pearl red paint, the matching wheels, that sexy raked suspension setup...the fact that it handles like a true barge
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These new seasonals have reminded me that there are no premium Japanese cars from 1979 or earlier. So much for GT5 having too many Japanese cars eh?
And it reminds me that I've been beaten by you in the drift trials for 2 times already
Eh, I don't care, it's all in the name of good fun, but still
dammit, I'm going to get you this time! 
Hopefully.
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I'm praying that they make the 240Z a premium. I sent a message to Roj but since the rest of you don't know, so far I'm ahead of all of my friends at SPA using a '91 Prelude. Yeah, I got really bored. The score was 19,500, but I beat that offline with a Mitsubishi Colt X and got 19,989.These new seasonals have reminded me that there are no premium Japanese cars from 1979 or earlier. So much for GT5 having too many Japanese cars eh?
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I'm praying that they make the 240Z a premium. I sent a message to Roj but since the rest of you don't know, so far I'm ahead of all of my friends at SPA using a '91 Prelude. Yeah, I got really bored. The score was 19,500, but I beat that offline with a Mitsubishi Colt X and got 19,989.
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try the rkm odyssey on comfort hard tires 👍 good fun
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How on earth did you arse-drag that score? I call hacks!I'm praying that they make the 240Z a premium. I sent a message to Roj but since the rest of you don't know, so far I'm ahead of all of my friends at SPA using a '91 Prelude. Yeah, I got really bored. The score was 19,500, but I beat that offline with a Mitsubishi Colt X and got 19,989.
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Fixed, because the 5 door EP is called an EU and that's what my daily ride is.
Also I bit my lip today, hard. I have a job interview tomorrow. I hope my lip doesn't swell up or anything tonight.
