RKM Motorsport - Tuned Tuners - May '13
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so i just built and tested my own green meanie (i might would have started elsewhere but I had just bought the Skyline coupe the other day.)
I used millennium Jade from the Mine's Skyline, and the gold prodrives.
everything else is a replica of your car. (although I may go for the body colored hood and smaller wing in the future)
i tested on deep forest.
I thought I was doing quite awful with it. car tends to understeer off throttle, which is tough on my style.
Turns out it beat the Mine's R34 and the amemiya RX7 WITH IT'S FIRST LAP!!
I still am having a bit of a time driving it... so I know I can get better times with more time with the car. (understeer may need to be tuned out to use it with the controller I see you race with a wheel, and I am just not there yet.)
then I thought, "okay time for a real comparison"
so I took my High End Performance G37 around the forest.
your naturally aspirated meanie was faster by a full second and one tenth.
I have to say I am quite pleased and will be using more of your tunes in the future!
I used millennium Jade from the Mine's Skyline, and the gold prodrives.
everything else is a replica of your car. (although I may go for the body colored hood and smaller wing in the future)
i tested on deep forest.
I thought I was doing quite awful with it. car tends to understeer off throttle, which is tough on my style.
Turns out it beat the Mine's R34 and the amemiya RX7 WITH IT'S FIRST LAP!!
I still am having a bit of a time driving it... so I know I can get better times with more time with the car. (understeer may need to be tuned out to use it with the controller I see you race with a wheel, and I am just not there yet.)
then I thought, "okay time for a real comparison"
so I took my High End Performance G37 around the forest.
your naturally aspirated meanie was faster by a full second and one tenth.
I have to say I am quite pleased and will be using more of your tunes in the future!
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Nissan 300ZX review:
Before-
After only 3 laps, I think I’ve pretty much got this car summed up. It looks rather boring, it handles like the Titanic, and it smokes and goes like a battleship. Oh, and a slide in this is both entertaining and murderous at the same time. The rears lose grip with very little warning, but that’s to be expected considering the width of those skinny little unicycle wheels it comes with. And because the tires are so damn thin, it means that it doesn’t really matter what tires you fit it with. Not a particularly big problem with ~280hp (didn’t check, don’t have much time), but with nearly twice that going through the same set of tires, you really do need to start worrying. Then there’s the mid-range punch. Small test, I’m going ~52mph in 4th, the engine is revving at 3000rpm, and let’s see what happens when I give it full throttle and see what speed it reaches by the end of the runway. 52mph, full throttle, 57mph……62mph……70mph…113mph…137mph…145mph……and we’re running out of runway. It’ll actually do 147mph before you have to even consider braking, and even then, you’ll have plenty of space left between you and the barriers. With that type of performance, it would be nice to know that it could go around a corner with a hint of grace. But it can’t! Oversteer is constant, your only option is how much…a lot, a fair amount, or just a little bit of smoke from the massive arse. Laptime? Well, the STi 400 with 400hp (obviously, hence the name) and a little bit less weight, did it in 1:11.978. This did it, with nearly 150hp more, in 1:18.191. The Honda Civic VTi-R is no more than a second behind. I see what RJ means by it being ‘not as fast as it should be’. Because it just isn’t.
After-
It’s grips better, it handles better, it doesn’t roll around like a cross-channel ferry and it’s such a dramatic change it could catch you off guard. I know it caught me off, I was so shocked at the changes that I forget to change up! And the speeds it can get up to are so immense, that you need to remember to brake a bit earlier as well. The brakes aren’t as good, it seems, as they were before. Actually no…it just takes some time to adapt to it. Don’t attack the brakes, brake to about halfway and leave it there at half. It may take some time and it will bite back at you if you forget, but it makes driving this car much easier. As for the rest of this car, well, as said, it doesn’t corner on its door handles anymore, it can contain the power just that bit better and it’s just sooo much more lively to drive. It understeers slightly if you mess up the corner entry, but just use the mid range torque to haul the arse around and it will slide with the best of them, covering the track in bits of rubber and converting its rear tires to smoke. But unlike before, you have some control over it, it’s not slide, slide, slide, exit corner still sideways and finally straighten. It’s more flexible than that, because of something called ‘grip’. Be warned though, although it has it, it doesn’t like it much, so it’ll always find the chance to revert to its oversteery ways if you let it. Especially when the engine is effectively a landmine from 2nd to 3rd gear. In first, it’s a nuclear bomb. You touch the throttle when you’re cornering in first, and it’ll attack the redline with so much fury that it’ll instantly kick the tail out. But just tread carefully, and it won’t bite. It’s faster if you drive carefully too, with a lap of 1:14.635, a 4 second improvement, it’s just slightly off the pace of a Ruf RGT. Not bad for a comfy sofa.
Laptime: (Tested on TGTT)
1:18.191 (before)
1:14.635 (after)
Before-
After only 3 laps, I think I’ve pretty much got this car summed up. It looks rather boring, it handles like the Titanic, and it smokes and goes like a battleship. Oh, and a slide in this is both entertaining and murderous at the same time. The rears lose grip with very little warning, but that’s to be expected considering the width of those skinny little unicycle wheels it comes with. And because the tires are so damn thin, it means that it doesn’t really matter what tires you fit it with. Not a particularly big problem with ~280hp (didn’t check, don’t have much time), but with nearly twice that going through the same set of tires, you really do need to start worrying. Then there’s the mid-range punch. Small test, I’m going ~52mph in 4th, the engine is revving at 3000rpm, and let’s see what happens when I give it full throttle and see what speed it reaches by the end of the runway. 52mph, full throttle, 57mph……62mph……70mph…113mph…137mph…145mph……and we’re running out of runway. It’ll actually do 147mph before you have to even consider braking, and even then, you’ll have plenty of space left between you and the barriers. With that type of performance, it would be nice to know that it could go around a corner with a hint of grace. But it can’t! Oversteer is constant, your only option is how much…a lot, a fair amount, or just a little bit of smoke from the massive arse. Laptime? Well, the STi 400 with 400hp (obviously, hence the name) and a little bit less weight, did it in 1:11.978. This did it, with nearly 150hp more, in 1:18.191. The Honda Civic VTi-R is no more than a second behind. I see what RJ means by it being ‘not as fast as it should be’. Because it just isn’t.
After-
It’s grips better, it handles better, it doesn’t roll around like a cross-channel ferry and it’s such a dramatic change it could catch you off guard. I know it caught me off, I was so shocked at the changes that I forget to change up! And the speeds it can get up to are so immense, that you need to remember to brake a bit earlier as well. The brakes aren’t as good, it seems, as they were before. Actually no…it just takes some time to adapt to it. Don’t attack the brakes, brake to about halfway and leave it there at half. It may take some time and it will bite back at you if you forget, but it makes driving this car much easier. As for the rest of this car, well, as said, it doesn’t corner on its door handles anymore, it can contain the power just that bit better and it’s just sooo much more lively to drive. It understeers slightly if you mess up the corner entry, but just use the mid range torque to haul the arse around and it will slide with the best of them, covering the track in bits of rubber and converting its rear tires to smoke. But unlike before, you have some control over it, it’s not slide, slide, slide, exit corner still sideways and finally straighten. It’s more flexible than that, because of something called ‘grip’. Be warned though, although it has it, it doesn’t like it much, so it’ll always find the chance to revert to its oversteery ways if you let it. Especially when the engine is effectively a landmine from 2nd to 3rd gear. In first, it’s a nuclear bomb. You touch the throttle when you’re cornering in first, and it’ll attack the redline with so much fury that it’ll instantly kick the tail out. But just tread carefully, and it won’t bite. It’s faster if you drive carefully too, with a lap of 1:14.635, a 4 second improvement, it’s just slightly off the pace of a Ruf RGT. Not bad for a comfy sofa.
Laptime: (Tested on TGTT)
1:18.191 (before)
1:14.635 (after)
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- sean10mm
Here is my review of this tune. I'm a pretty bad GT5 driver so keep that in mind, this is a view from the point of view of a ham-fisted amateur with a DS3.
Before -
Eh, not as bad as I feared for an old lump of American cast iron that isn't even worshiped as a drag racer. It understeered less than I thought and was surprisingly stable in corners, I guess because it's low and wide to start with. I could tell right away that it had a lot more potential than you'd expect, but it still suffered from feeling soft and heavy, which of course it is.
After -
Hoooooly smokes this is a good tune. It consistently shaved 1.5 seconds off my Trial Mountain lap times. More importantly for this sort of car it's extremely FUN to drive now. Its handling is really neutral and it's just a blast to drive. It doesn't feel like the butt-end of the musclecar era at all, which is a real achievement I think. I need to do some head-to-head comparisons at equal PP but I'm almost starting to suspect it could be better on a technical track than the non-RM '69 Z/28 at equal PP - at least until you do a tune of that car.
💡
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Oi, Roj, Xj13 setting! Now!!! 
Edit: You said if I review all of RJ's street tuned cars before you release a tune I'd get a reward right? Well that's just win-win for me! If I make it, I'll get a reward of sorts and a garage full of fantastic cars. If not, I'll still get a bunch of cars that have razor sharp teeth behind their normal bodies
Just to keep track though…RJ has done 28 tunes, I've reviewed 12…
So 28-12=16
so 16 left to go…which means if I do 1 review a day, I'll be done 10 days after you'll have released a tune! -.-
Edit: You said if I review all of RJ's street tuned cars before you release a tune I'd get a reward right? Well that's just win-win for me! If I make it, I'll get a reward of sorts and a garage full of fantastic cars. If not, I'll still get a bunch of cars that have razor sharp teeth behind their normal bodies
Just to keep track though…RJ has done 28 tunes, I've reviewed 12…
So 28-12=16
so 16 left to go…which means if I do 1 review a day, I'll be done 10 days after you'll have released a tune! -.-
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Oi, Roj, Xj13 setting! Now!!!
Edit: You said if I review all of RJ's street tuned cars before you release a tune I'd get a reward right? Well that's just win-win for me! If I make it, I'll get a reward of sorts and a garage full of fantastic cars. If not, I'll still get a bunch of cars that have razor sharp teeth behind their normal bodies
Just to keep track though RJ has done 28 tunes, I've reviewed 12
So 28-12=16
so 16 left to go which means if I do 1 review a day, I'll be done 10 days after you'll have released a tune! -.-
Mwahahahaha.
I dont have XJ13 settings yet and it'll take a while seeing as it's a race car and I just got my Xbox this morning so I'm just playing on that now.
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LOL! Well I kinda agree, but how did you get it for free? Did you pick it up from the crapheap somewhere?
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Hey. I have a very quick question. Is there anyway you can re tune the Enzo's transmission again to gain it's full power?
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It's not the console's fault though.
I dont totally understand. Do you mean tune it so it'll have a higher top speed or...?
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Yes, since currently is is just set to max gear and your done. It is lacking the individual gear changing
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Oh! Now I understand. It was never updated after the gearbox patch. I'll see what I can do. 👍
Edit: Updated gear ratios should be up shortly.
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I think what he means is that he wants the Enzo's 'box retuned to make it more efficient (?) at getting the power to the road
And Roj, I'm not banned from reviewing your tunes right? and I just started on quite a big review with only 1 car involved, so don't be surprised if my reviews for RJ's cars will be shorter or not done at all
And Roj, I'm not banned from reviewing your tunes right? and I just started on quite a big review with only 1 car involved, so don't be surprised if my reviews for RJ's cars will be shorter or not done at all
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There, I fixed it. Well really I just yelled at Roj to do as I told him and we got another MPH out of it + better use of the powerband. And a first gear that's actually useable... Kinda.
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Alright, I thought about what to request. Came up with the F40. Preferably set up with racing softs.
Cheers!
Cheers!
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Do that and I'll buy the F40 again.
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I'm not sure. But I just noticed the 908 Killer Whale is the same way as the Enzo was. This is making it touch to review cars when I know it has more potential. >_<
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Many of my tunes will be that way... If you don't see a PP rating or the split final drive it's not been updated.
