Interesting. I ran it yesterday using a suggestion of someone else on the forum and just took the stock model fitted with SS tires. I was significantly slower than you, so I think I'll try it with the turbo and SH tires.
Yeah, I did a 4 lap test run with this setup and then compared it to a 4 lap test run with a sport mediums setup, the amount of horsepower I lost for slightly better grip on the sports medium wasn't worth it. So went with the powerbuild.Interesting. I ran it yesterday using a suggestion of someone else on the forum and just took the stock model fitted with SS tires. I was significantly slower than you, so I think I'll try it with the turbo and SH tires.
Should be fun to run this race in PSVR2!
I am gonna try an IM setup too, but I just don't want to be a snail on the straights though, because you will need to make up the time lost in corners then. I've had my best times with sports hards and power most of the time, using a few other cars. But my Countach 88' I managed to make work with intermediates too, 7-5 was the strat to make sure, that the tires can do a one stopper. Since tires were almost fully dead towards the end of each stint.I like the RA272 best with IMs, racing gearbox and otherwise bone stock. Just feels a bit sacrilegious to tune this when it's so fast as it is. There is a bit of a tendency for snappiness with sharp braking, but very manageable so don't really want to tune it out.
Turbo and ballast seem a bit quicker and might improve more with tuning suspension and LSD, but the forementioned setting is already running 26:45 with relative ease.
In VR, this can only be seen as a grind in the same way how being married to a supermodel might get a bit meh eventually
In general, I'm all for SH, ballast and power myself, but this one I just love keeping it light, nimble and reactive. First few laps you have to play slalom with the traffic, but it keeps up with the Porsche and WRXs on the main straight as long as you get the draft from the hairpin. Again, in VR it's just hilarious how low you are compared to even the Lambo 😮 Not the best way to ensure CRB though.
Well for intermediate tires setup you need the tires themself, race transmission, and also ballast and power restrictor. For sports hard setup buy everything above, but swap the above regarding tires. And I would recommend buying a high rpm turbo for this setup, RA272 is easier to control in corners, when turbo only kicks in at high rpm imo. Not sure what difficulty you run, but that can be possibly adjusted to easier, so that the AI is slower.
OK, @samppa_944 I think you're the winner. Threw SH tires and Medium RPM Turbo on the RA272 and had nearly the same experience as you.
I'm walking back from this a bit. IMs, high RPM turbo and ballast make the Honda a sweetheart. Only had a single try with this setup, but it was about as easy to drive as any car I've tried. Ballast in the front takes care of the tendency to oversteer on heavy braking and also balances the tire wear almost entirely between the front and back. So one doesn't have to worry about either fuel or tires here. Just drive. It was so easy that I don't think I'm gonna bother tuning the suspension or LSD at all. Beautiful machine.
Okay. Gave this car a try tonight. It's great on the back side of the track; Probably the fastest I've driven, but its straight line speed is terrible. 176-179mph on the main straight is not enough speed to pass anyone or keep them behind you. It's way too risky trying to pass the other cars on the backside of the track, so the main straight is where you gain all your positions and get open road ahead of you on the back. I keep trading positions with the GT-R through the hairpin only to have it zip by me into the braking zone of turn 1, then have to hold back behind it all on the back side only to pass it on the hair pin and repeat the process. This last race I did I was on lap 5 only to have him pass me right before the braking zone of turn 1. He cuts right in front of me a brake checks me causing a rear end collision. Goodbye clean race bonus.
So, I promised I would report back.
Tried this one around Tokyo. It's okay. I mean, it wins the race fairly easily but it's not very exciting to drive. It kind of plows through the turns. I would imagine some suspension adjustments could make this car a bit more exciting to drive.
Is there a trick to this Cayman setup? I applied all the same parts and ballast and positioning and it came out at 600.32 PP. The PP calculation does appear to be uh... "weird" about the ballast, shifting it around causes un-intuitive changes to PP and sometimes adding more can increase the PP of the car?
