Toyota 7 & Turning

[Michael88]

Hi, thats my first post & question here, I know my english isn't very well, but I think its quiet good far a 17 year old GT 1,2 & 4 fan from Europe.

However, here is my problem with the car:

Yesterday I won one of the last missing cars, the Toyota 7 70' (Wow, I hate that mission with the Takata NSX ) and its a great car, great looking, great acceleration and damn bad steering.
I tried nearly everything to get that car withoput any problems around the ring, but its impossible. Toe settings, ride height, softer/harder springs, Ducks(?) settings, nothing helped to get that car around a hard turn....its odd, if Iam going into a turn everything is alright until the end of a longer turn comes, the car is pushing (Whatever Iam doing, emergency breaking,etc) itself into the grass like a 2000kg 30/50 AWD. And iam not a bad driver, I got 5.30' with the 787B at the ring and I know how to drive.

The problem is gone if iam going faster than 200km/h cause the downforce glues thew car on the track.
The steering is even worse at montegi & tsukuba.

I turned the ASR to zero and It helped a bit but not much, without touching grass I got only bad 6:20 at the ring cause I had to reduce the throttle to half.

However, what causes that odd 'pulling'? I never had any car with steering like that and Iam confused. Its not a ''no turner' it just stops the steering at the end of any turn, even with half throttle through the turn.


Thanks for any help.

( I used the forum search, ''Toyota'' and ''7'' are seperate so I only found other toyota threats)

 

[Michael88]

Solved the problem, Oversteer Aids helped a lot.

 

[FormulaGT]

Sounds a little more like an understeer problem, have you tried ASM understeer? ASM Oversteer could make the problem worse. Consider flicking through Scaff's tuning guides aswell in future:tup:

FormulaGT

 

[Michael88]

Sounds a little more like an understeer problem, have you tried ASM understeer? ASM Oversteer could make the problem worse. Consider flicking through Scaff's tuning guides aswell in future:tup:

FormulaGT

Yeah it was understeering, stupid me. I never thought that a racecar like the Toyota understeers...so I thought its bad 70's steering.

However, turned the ASM Oversteer to zero and the ASM understeer to 10 or 12 and the traction controlling system to 3. Helped a lot, now I can do 5:43 at the ring. Soften the rear springs and increasing the tire angles to 3.5 also helped a little bit.

That setting also helped to improve the times of my Audi R8 up to 2 seconds less at most raceways.

And that setting also helped to make the Suzuki Pikes Peak very driveable, of course with RWD only.

Thanks anyway.👍