First of all Hello i'm Chris, And welcome me im you latest Newbie GT5 Player.
I've been following this thread for the #54 Time trial even, and i must say its been a real eye opener. Reading into the different styles and set-ups has learned me a lot, So i would just like to say thanks for the help. Its improved my performance no end.
I play with a PS3 controller and with the help of Stottys setup tips. I managed to pull out a 1:19 time which im very pleased with, I think i an get another .500 of a sec out of it yet in the coming weeks, Providing i put a good run together, which is my downfall on this controller its so easy to make a mistake and when you lapping at this speed you cant make any.
Which don't make my experience any less i love the challenge.
I must say i did change a few things to Stottys setup, As for a controller gamer i found it too loose on the back so i lower'd the camber on the rear tire's to give me more grip on acceleration and i took out the positive tow and made a negative one and this made her more stable.
While i do agree with Stotty his set-up probably is faster, in the right hands, But for people who are struggling with consistency i would recommend you sacrifice some of you overall speed for a little more stability.
Also on the start when i was making my set-up i turned the power right down to get used too the techniques and learn my way around the track feeling all the bumps and humps, this will stop you getting frustrated so fast and its more rewarding improving rather then doing a fast time and then spinning out for 20 laps in a row.
Hi Chris,
Well done with the DS3... 650bhp FR road cars on sports hard tyres are always going to be a challenge with the pad... well, unless your name is Doodle
I drive with the pad quite a bit for just driving around and drifting, but if I'm posting a tune for a Seasonal it's going to built with my wheel... as such, it's not going to be optimised for a pad user. There are a few easy things you could try on to my tune to make it more stable, depending on where it's difficult...
If the rear is too loose on corner entry, move the ballast forward and/or give the brakes a more front bias and/or add some LSD decel.
If it's exit traction you're looking for then the 1st thing I'd do is reduce the LSD accel setting. The car is already running pretty low rear camber, and reducing this further will reduce lateral grip - meaning you need to reduce front camber as well to retain the balance of grip front to rear. The car will always be struggling for traction due to it's power and tyres.
You could also try changing up to a higher gear before you get back on the throttle... the C6 has loads of torque and the time penalty for using 1 gear higher isn't major most of the time as the gears are very closely stacked.
Also i must say i am kinda disappointed at the top players all using the Active steering help in the game, I didn't notice for a while that this was even allowed in the time trial event. The whole idea of this time trial is to learn how to handle a very powerful rear wheel drive car on a very demanding technical race circuit. And the challenge of this car is kind of taken away when you turn this on, and it makes the rear wheel drive monster all the more tame in comparison to its true nature
I use AS pretty much all the time as I prefer the way it feels (the feedback though the steering wheel give
ME more feel for how the car is behaving). I have friends I've been racing against for years who I know I'm very closely matched with on lap times (across Prologue and GT5). Some of these don't use AS yet are just as fast, or faster than I am.
I don't see the issue with it to be honest. The car doesn't miraculously become easy to drive with AS on - you still have to drive it using the same techniques.
Watch Bandit's 1'16.5 replay. it's an amazingly smooth and controlled lap. Now take his car (his settings are posted), put on AS and see if you can repeat it... of course you won't have much chance with a DS3, but you'll not find the car is somehow 1-2s a lap faster with AS on.
I dropped my time to a 1:17.499. The only adjustment I made this time round was brake balance. Now 5-6 front/rear. But then who am I kidding, its not the setup that's holding me back.
I should know, I've been trying to go faster all day today 
Eiger Nordwand W Trail actually kind of reminds me a good bit of the Cathedral Rocks courses from GT4. You have a bunch of high-speed off road portions along with crossing the bridges. Once you understand the rhythm of Eiger Nordwand W Trail, you really want to race this track faster and harder than usual. But since it's off-road, you want to have a certain amount of finesse while racing this course in anger. This was still a good challenge to use rally cars from before 1989.
Chris, hope you find this place as friendly, enlightening and helpful as I have.
It felt like my car was getting a bit loose just from having run in this event, even though damage is off, pp is still same and it won't allow you to restore the chassis in GT auto. So I bought a new car, did exactly the same with the setup and it has exactly the same PP and everything, the ONLY thing different is this one is painted gold chrome. So, when I try it on the track, the handling seems better, it's more controllable at the rear but when I go over the start finish line the maximum speed I reach at the line is 142mph, however well I do the last corner. This is particularly odd as in my previous car I could almost always reach 143 before the start/finish line coming out of the last corner. I did a back to back test to check it wasn't my driving as well 
Obviously the Atomic Orange paint is MAGIC 
