Tuner Challenge Championship ~ April McLaren MP4

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Basilea: I was under the impression your lobby shouldn't be visible to anyone who isn't on your friends list. Are you going through your community tab, or through the 'online lobby' -> 'create new' option? The pausing issue is annoying, I agree.

Hami: Yes the 28th 11:59pm PST as stated in the email.
 
I go open lobby and create one... because when I tried to enter my loung the last time it didn't work but now I see it's no problem at all. Weird!

I just counted together my 2nd results (all today only 10 laps a tune) and they are very much the opposite of the 1st results (25 laps a tune, 4 tune on day 1 and 2 on the second day) I got last time...
 
Hi, I've tried the first 4 setups but I still have an huge problem with oversteer on corner exit, as I accellerate at 10% of the power the car go with the nose on the inside wall.

All helps off but ABS on 1. Race Soft tires.

Tried on Deep Forest Raceway.

Please help me.

Luigi
 
Despite the advice to tune in My Lobby, I did mine in offline practice mode. So today, I got around to testing it in My Lobby with tire wear/fuel consumption off and to be honest, I can not distinguish any difference in the physics. Now, I'll admit, I have been online and there have been occasions when physics did appear to take on different characteristics, but none of these oddball scenarios seem to be present on single player server side hosting.
 
budious
Despite the advice to tune in My Lobby, I did mine in offline practice mode. So today, I got around to testing it in My Lobby with tire wear/fuel consumption off and to be honest, I can not distinguish any difference in the physics. Now, I'll admit, I have been online and there have been occasions when physics did appear to take on different characteristics, but none of these oddball scenarios seem to be present on single player server side hosting.
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I concur. With this car, I didn't see any difference in my lounge and offline. I did see a slight difference for one or two laps when I raced with it in online rooms, but I am attributing it to cold tires.
 
Basilea
I test on Tsukuba which is a short track where I can run more tests and therefore this track. Also are the differences very small and one day tune B is faster than tune C or what ever tune.
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I love Tsukuba too (my favorite), but I urge you try them out on Tokyo or Suzuka as well (or some other "medium-length" course). On Tsukuba, I think you get a good feeling of how well the LSD and suspension is tuned, but that track favors tunes with max down-force on front and rear. How well the aero settings mesh with the rest of the tune will be clearer on a somewhat longer, higher-speed track.

Just my two cents...and I do realize this is driver's choice, so Have Fun :)
 
mosstang
I love Tsukuba too (my favorite), but I urge you try them out on Tokyo or Suzuka as well (or some other "medium-length" course). On Tsukuba, I think you get a good feeling of how well the LSD and suspension is tuned, but that track favors tunes with max down-force on front and rear. How well the aero settings mesh with the rest of the tune will be clearer on a somewhat longer, higher-speed track.

Just my two cents...and I do realize this is driver's choice, so Have Fun :)
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I'm a firm believer that every track except Daytona Speedway favors max downforce. Even Indy and High Speed Ring. SS7 might be another story, but I don't think I've ever actually raced that track.
 
But he has a piont as in my overall ranking where I took all driving sessions the 2 tunes without maxed downforce are 5th and 6th.

I hope I can run all tunes on highspeed ring to see what results I get there.
 
I've done 3 tunes in London so far and it's pretty good except It's really hard to keep the ass from sliding out on the exit of most turns. Just have to slightly tough the throttle, as you lose the rear end very easily.

This would be so much easier with a wheel.
 
Riggins
I've done 3 tunes in London so far and it's pretty good except It's really hard to keep the ass from sliding out on the exit of most turns. Just have to slightly tough the throttle, as you lose the rear end very easily.

This would be so much easier with a wheel.
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Buy a set of these analog stick extenders. They will really smooth out your driving and take away a little of the wheel advantage. For $10, you really can't go wrong. http://www.amazon.com/dp/B002R2JCNK/?tag=gtplanet-20
 
Feedback like this is good to hear. Adrenaline, do the tuners give you comments about each tune or just lap times. Would be interesting to hear where they felt they had difficulties with a tune (i.e., really hard to keep the ass from sliding out on the exit of most turns). Also, would be good to know what track they used and which controller they have.

It would help us all to make "all around tunes." I am looking to buy a wheel so that I would be able to post tunes for both DS3 and wheel.
 
Adrenaline
I'm a firm believer that every track except Daytona Speedway favors max downforce. Even Indy and High Speed Ring. SS7 might be another story, but I don't think I've ever actually raced that track.
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Interesting. Do you use a wheel or the PS3 controller? I use the DFGT wheel, which is great BTW (Ebay for $50 back during GT5P). I don't have a lot of experience testing tunes (but this section of the forum has me fascinated). I have done a comparison between max rear-downforce and "medium" rear-downforce on Tokyo before that produced different results for me. The max rear-downforce setting required much more accurate braking so as not to allow the car to sling out away from the apex, where the medium rear-downforce setting allowed me to correct any minor mistakes in braking with a little throttle-steer (couldn't effectively throttle-steer with max-df) and I was able to put up lower and more consistent lap times. Just relaying my experience. What works for one of us possibly doesn't for the other. I just really feel that max-df is necessary on the short, low speed tracks like Tsukuba or Autumn Ring mini, etc. - where you need to drive extremely accurate to beat lap times. However, I seem to be more consistent backing off of the rear-downforce on something like Tokyo where I can throttle-steer out of a turn to maintain a little higher overall speed throughout the entire turn...
 
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Basilea
Is anyone tuning the Raybrigs by the way? It's not that obvious that there is a new car to work on...
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I can't even get my requests done right now (pedals = broken), not gonna simply put my Takata tune in as I don't know the extent of differences, and yeah...

Oh and there's the entire bit where we've not heard anything at all about any of the testing.
 
Rotary Junkie
I can't even get my requests done right now (pedals = broken), not gonna simply put my Takata tune in as I don't know the extent of differences, and yeah...

Oh and there's the entire bit where we've not heard anything at all about any of the testing.
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About the testing, for me it's very or better to close on tsukuba (all tunes within half a second and all faster than stock) and I still hope I can get some laps done on high speed ring... I wrote down some points on every tune tough and will post them as soon as possible!
 
Basilea
Is anyone tuning the Raybrigs by the way? It's not that obvious that there is a new car to work on...
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Well, I couldn't find any time to work on it yet. So I'm considering just not entering one.

That and my GT5 credit count is dwindling, went from 9mil down to 4mil in less then a week (and it shows no sign of going up). Would be nice if we could go to something a bit cheaper to purchase and tune next month.
 
No drivers have yet to submit their times.
All tuners know of the NSX, because it was in the email.
My internet is up in the air at the moment, because AT&T suspended my data services, because I broke 21Gigs of Data Usage last month. Currently looking for an alternate form of service.
I use the DFGT.
If time is an issue, we can change the deadline to the 31st for the NSX tunes and Z driver times as well.
 
Yeah I apologize but this month is kinda important for me in and I didnt expected to have so much stuff to do so I didnt really had my mind on GT5. 31.03 as deadline would be cool for me.
 
Adrenaline
If time is an issue, we can change the deadline to the 31st for the NSX tunes and Z driver times as well.
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That would be fine for me, in this case I can run tests on an other track and give times for both (Tsukuba and a faster one, probably High Speed Ring or a City track). Any suggestions?
 
budious
High Speed Ring is... well, too high speed. Rome Circuit would be a good choice.
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Haha well, yeah but Tsukuba is too slow... but I will take a look at the laptimes on both to make a choice. I like Rome the best from the city courses so it is a option!
 
Basilea
That would be fine for me, in this case I can run tests on an other track and give times for both (Tsukuba and a faster one, probably High Speed Ring or a City track). Any suggestions?
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Tokyo is a fine test of machines. Is that a real track and do these cars race there?
 
I like R246, but always struggle on the last sector, that left bend down the narrow street, just before the last hairpin! Either I brake too much or hit the sidewall...
 

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