The Ford GT

[Hitman]

My Black 05' Ford GT is pretty much in stock form except the Full-Racing Suspension, Racing Flywheel, Variable LSD, Racing Brakes, Triple Clutch, Weight Reduction Stages I & 2, Sports Medium tires, Increased rigidity and Full-racing Exhaust. All this cost me 149,880 credits for the car, and 83,800 credits for the upgrades. It totaled me 233,680 Credits. It has 568 HP at the rear wheels. My Best lap on Laguna Seca Raceway is 1:30:100. I know the brakes suck, but after awhile, you will get used to it (I certainly did). Also with this setup, I got over 35 laps (I got bored after 36 laps and let the B-Spec driver take over) of tire wear on Tsukuba Circuit (9-Hour Endurance).

Since the Ford GT has many other things to like about it here is a list of advantages and disadvantages. It has minimal wheelspin and has great cornering capabilities.

Advantages:
1. Top Speed:tup:
2. Acceleration:tup:
3. Handling:tup:

Disadvantages:
1. Braking
2. Whatever you don't like (I can't think of anything else)

 

[Boz Mon]

Try buying a brake balance controller and setting more bias to the back to try and eliminate some understeer while braking.

 

[Fireball27]

You think your Ford GT has bad brakes?? My Toyota Minolta takes half a MILE to stop... from 307mph.... using only the handbrake....

 

[GT4_Rule]

First of all, welcome to GTP!

My Ford GT had horrible brakes. But then, after posting a help on that, I got tips telling me to change the tires to something softer. I was running on Racing Hards, and when I changed the tires to Racing Soft I immediately felt an improvement in braking performance.

Btw Fireball, the Minolta Toyota has to be your setting. Mine sheds speed very nicely.

 

[Mayuri Ootsuka]

Not driven mine in a while and I had "improved it" with various half baked suspension settings that made it quite good to drift but pretty much a handful otherwise.

The All Black Ford GT with a Wing looks quite good, (Along with any other Pure Black car you can slap a wing on and pretend it is a cousin of the Big quartet of Black Beauties.

 

[Scaff]

The Ford GT has nothing at all wrong with the brakes, period.

I've tested the braking figures on a Ford GT in GT4 and comapired the results to the actual figures for a Ford GT and the results on N2 tyres are almost identical.

Besides which brakes don't stop a car, tyres do (as has been quite correctly stated), you want to stop quicker then fit better rubber.

Personally I would also advise against setting a rear brake bias to the Ford GT (you can dial out understeer using suspension settings) as this can increase braking distances. Under hard braking the front tyres do the vast majority of the work, so how is giving them a lower ratio of brake force going to stop you quicker? Quite simply it is not, a front bias (if set correctly) will allow you to get the most out of the tyres and stop as quickly as they allow.

Have a read of this, which covers all of the above (and a lot more) including a large series of tests illustrating the above.

GT4 & Brakes


Regards

Scaff

 

[<_Spike_>]

Good job it doesn't have to worry about it's real life counterparts reliability

 

[jessekatianda]

Good job it doesn't have to worry about it's real life counterparts reliability

Haha! Absolutely. Whole door trim falling off because of low quality adhesive, for a starter.

Anyway, back to the topic.

 

[3-Wheel Drive]

My Black 05' Ford GT is pretty much in stock form except the Full-Racing Suspension, Racing Flywheel, Variable LSD, Racing Brakes, Triple Clutch, Weight Reduction Stages I & 2, Sports Medium tires, Increased rigidity and Full-racing Exhaust.

"Pretty much" stock? At 84 grand, the only think you left stock was the engine .
I'm sorry, I just found that funny.

But the brakes do not suck, as Scaff tested, they are quite accurate. The reason many people tend to think that the brakes of supercars in GT4 (the GT and SLR McLaren especially) are very poor is that there is much less sensation of speed in videogames han real life, thus you eneter turns at higher velocities than you realize, and it takes a while for any car, no matter the brakes, to slow from 150+mph. There's a lot of inertia in a one-ton metal object, and a lots of momentum at high speeds. Besides, the quicker you approach a turn, the more distance you cover each second, so you may travel 60 yards by the time you start braking at 150mph, instead of only 20 yards at 50mph.

 

[Tornado]

Well, their are some cars in the game with brakes that don't seem "right." I point to the Cizeta V16T for cars with brakes that do seem unusually bad, and the Corvette C1 and Nissan BLRA Skyline at cars with unusually good brakes.

 

[Fireball27]

Btw Fireball, the Minolta Toyota has to be your setting. Mine sheds speed very nicely.

Using the handbrake to stop?!?!

Just thought it would be fun to see how long it would take the Toyota to skid to a stop from 300+mph. (I measured it by braking from the startline of the test track.... almost made it past the 800m mark... almost)

 

[FAOLIU05]

The Ford GT... easily a WRX STi Spec-C equal. My Ford GT has 575hp (with everything maxed) and does a 10.2 second ET on sports softs! With super softs it's doing mid 9's. No other car I can think of can come as close to matching/succeeding the Spec-C's acceleration with less than 600hp.

Aside from acceleration and style (most beautiful car in the game), I hardly desire the GT. It's a fun car to play with. Other than my 575 Z06, I'll waste hours of my day on no other car but the GT. The hyper growl off that engine, and the sheer acceleration, and the impeccable styling of the GT is timeless bliss for me. I'll do a bunch of road-based Special Cup races.