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After looking at the list of available engine swaps, I decided today to try the R34 with swapped engine. After trying many different setups I did a blisteringly quick 26:03 with it. I took photos, but am struggling to locate a working card reader to share them! The main points of the setup were:
Wide body with wide wheel offsets and wide rims.
No weight reduction, I tried it and had to buy another car to undo it, as I preferred to do that and still have the lighter car for more handling oriented tracks. It's possible it will be even faster if you add ballast and power, given that weight reduction made it slower, but I haven't tried adding ballast yet.
Manual transmission, think I had it set to max speed 360kph.
Torque vectoring diff set to 80:20 rear:front.
Brake balance controller set all the way to the rear. Together with the diff that keeps front and rear tyre wear fairly even.
Front and rear aero, I think I had front downforce at 100, and rear at whatever was needed to get below 600 PP, it was around 323 IIRC. It might be that it would be even faster with lower front downforce than that, it was about 30 secs quicker when I dropped to 100 from max front downforce.
Reduced the power to get it below 600 PP.
SH tyres.
I think that was it, so nothing too elaborate, but it has no problem with fuel consumption, you can just rev it out with mix 1 all race long, so it would be fine with auto gears unlike the DP100. I used TC 3.
The car might initially feel like it handles badly, but it's just a matter of getting used to the braking points and speeds to take each corner, it's actually easy to drive if you don't push too hard.
Edit: found a working card reader:
Wide body with wide wheel offsets and wide rims.
No weight reduction, I tried it and had to buy another car to undo it, as I preferred to do that and still have the lighter car for more handling oriented tracks. It's possible it will be even faster if you add ballast and power, given that weight reduction made it slower, but I haven't tried adding ballast yet.
Manual transmission, think I had it set to max speed 360kph.
Torque vectoring diff set to 80:20 rear:front.
Brake balance controller set all the way to the rear. Together with the diff that keeps front and rear tyre wear fairly even.
Front and rear aero, I think I had front downforce at 100, and rear at whatever was needed to get below 600 PP, it was around 323 IIRC. It might be that it would be even faster with lower front downforce than that, it was about 30 secs quicker when I dropped to 100 from max front downforce.
Reduced the power to get it below 600 PP.
SH tyres.
I think that was it, so nothing too elaborate, but it has no problem with fuel consumption, you can just rev it out with mix 1 all race long, so it would be fine with auto gears unlike the DP100. I used TC 3.
The car might initially feel like it handles badly, but it's just a matter of getting used to the braking points and speeds to take each corner, it's actually easy to drive if you don't push too hard.
Edit: found a working card reader:
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