One more question I've had concerning brake settings. Why and when would you use higher settings, such as 8/6 vs. 6/4. Since I'm obviously somewhat ignorant of these settings, I typically blindly just use 6/4, unless I'm applying someone else's tuning suggestions. Alternatively, when would you use lower settings, like 4/2. I don't see that suggested often.
BTW - thanks for the advice. I'm learning!
The opposite of what I said above.
When the brakes are standard i.e. 5 fr 5 rr and you brake for a corner, if the front turns in too much and the rear starts to break away (and tries to swap ends with the front), then adjust your front brakes by +1 OR reduce your rear brakes by -1 i.e 5 fr 4 rr.
If you're using 5 fr 5 rr and the tyres are already going red and smoking, then reduce the rear, don't increase the front, it'll make tyres smoke / go red even more. If tyres are not going red or smoking, then it's safe to increase the front.
If your car is 'smoking it's tyres', or the tyres are going very red when you are braking for a corner, but your car is stable and turns in, then try reducing BOTH fr and rr brakes by -1 each, so they'd be 4 fr and 4 rr.
It depends what your car is doing and also the ABS setting aswell, the above examples I have given arre for an ABS seting of +1. If you were to turn off the ABS (i.e. have it at 0), then you would need to either apply less force on the brakes or reduce the brakes so they don't lock up, which many people have found they do if you turn off the ABS and apply 100% braking force.
People who use pedals or analogue sticks on their controllers can (with practice) vary the amount of force for braking i.e. they can brake with 100% force (pedal / analogue full depressed) or at 50% (pedal / analogue halfway depressed).
Different ways of braking and different use of the ABS can mean different settings on the brake adjuster. So if you're braking with 50% force, you might be able to have higher brake settings, whereas if you're braking with 100% force you might need lower brake settings to stop the wheels from locking up.
Generally / roughly though, if the back end comes around under braking, reduce rear brakes, if front doesn't turn in enough, increase rear brakes.
