TigrTracks Garage is run by a vivacious feline with far more enthusiasm than driving ability, and Sparky, his robot driver buddy! Between the two of them they can put a car into every concievable situation and attitude. Sparky does the hot laps, while Jinxtigr specializes in going through corners sideways and upside down. Once a car can maintain its composure when thrashed through a course by Jinx, it's so well balanced that Sparky has an easy time with it.
Human drivers beating Sparky's lap times are heartily encouraged!
First car from the garage can be summed up in six words: "Ariel Atom for all practical purposes"...
The Suzuki GSX-R/4 is the ultimate tiny monster! It can be had by winning the Suzuki Concept Car manufacturer race, and once TigrTracks turns it over to you, it will do this:
9.513 seconds at Las Vegas- driven by Jinxtigr, using the NOS system- and it will also do this:
7'11 at Nurburgring, beating RUFs, Vipers and Cobras- starting from 6th place- driven by Sparky, with R5 qualifying tires and no use of the NOS.
Here's what we do.
Racing Exhaust
Racing Chip
R5 Tires (you can use sport tires or R3 too, without grief)
Nitrous 100 (that's right, 100. The stuff is for the drag strip..)
Port Polish
Engine Balancing
Turbo stage 2
Racing Brakes but no Brake Balance Controller
Triple-Plate Clutch
Racing Flywheel
Lighten 3
Rigidity Refresher, but no roll cage
Wing (the first black one works but isn't too big for the looks of the car)
Full Suspension, Full Transmission
For Suspension front/rear:
Spring Rate 8/8
Ride Height 66/66
Bound 2/3
Rebound 7/5 (no, those aren't typoes- this car claws at the ground like a cornering cat using body moves learned from earlier Chaparral 2J tuning)
Camber 1.5/1.5
Toe 1/0
Stabilizer 6/5
For the transmission: Tranny Trick and adjustments resulting in the following-
3.601
2.869
2.210
1.783
1.474
1.246
final drive, 3.700.
Downforce, 24/30. Not 30/30, 24/30. It's important to have more downforce on the rear so the car will rotate through turns freely at a wide range of speeds, and with full front downforce it cuts the corners too tightly if you get it whirling and then let go the wheel. The idea is that under any condition the car will keep doing what it was doing unless you tell it to do something else, at which point it will leap to do what you asked. Sparky vouches for this and points to his 7'11 Ring time with one robotic finger.
Limited-Slip Differential-
initial torque 5 (can be increased to tighten the car's freedom of motion up)
Acceleration 40 (if it's really important to be able to turn from an absolute standstill, lower this. Better yet, don't, get rolling and THEN turn)
Deceleration 10.
If anyone can beat Sparky's Ring time in this car, we'd be most interested to hear about it! We hope it finds a place in your hearts as it does in ours. It is truly GT4's nearest thing to an Ariel Atom, all the more so because artistic tuning seeks to make it respond to your every whim from low to ludicrous speeds, over any road, rumble strip, or curb.
If we've missed anything, please don't be shy
-jinxtigr and Sparky