Author Topic: GT4 Nürburgring Challenge (Read 1027 times)

SFRT - Frenchy · « **Reply #15 on:** March 14, 2005, 01:00:37 PM »

My Formula ( think 1973 Trans am) is the same, you can throw the rear "way out" in the curves, and yet it will come back by keeping the foot on the accelerator pedal.

I guess it's the lack of the "actual in car feeling" Funked was talking about, combined with a limited "traction modeling".

GtoRA2 · « **Reply #16 on:** March 14, 2005, 02:06:29 PM »

yeah, kinda sucks all the old cars get stuck with narrow tires hehe.

I was running 255s in the back, I new a guy running 295s, all he did was peen the leep of the wheel well over.

Hard to get more teh 245s up front though, unless you go with lower then 60r.

Bee · « **Reply #17 on:** March 14, 2005, 04:39:06 PM »

IRL it feels quite different. Used to love GPL (grand prix legends)... not the easiest of driving sims... but still you don't get no seats of the pants feeling... and you can crash any time without putting your live at risk.

I can tell you... (as will most who have driven there)... going down fuchsrohe (foxhole) at 125 mph (and then taking the hump up to adenauer forst... you feel the g-forces pressing you down.

When you drive it irl you notice that there aren't any straight bits, it goes up and down all the time, you've got blind corners, off-camber corners, etc.

Knowing the track is everything. (Got a nice pick of me in my 115bhp mini going past a ferrari 360 who obviously didn't know the circuit). You've got locals in pumped up VW golfs MKI's and Opel's going past porches.

And then it hits you (hopefully not literaly), I have to quit this. You start to push to far (even in an underpowered little car like I have).

You are never sure... even if you drive with a big margin for error you aren't save. It's a busy place and the speeddifferences are very large. You can come out of Swedenkreuz packing 100+ mph and then you see a tourbus going 30 mph... 200 yards in front of you.

But still it 's one hell of a place to drive ... only not any longer for me.

Cheers!

Bee · « **Reply #18 on:** March 14, 2005, 04:41:43 PM »

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Originally posted by Monk
I drive the ring almost every weekend when it's open. It should be exciting this year with GT4 out now, just think of all the great "It wasn't this hard on my PS2" crashes to be filmed.

Yep Monk... It'll get busier and busier this year... specialy with GT4 coming out.

I'll visit the ring for sure a couple of times... and just take pics... nothing like watching the umpth guy misjudging the final lefthander of Adenauer forst

Saurdaukar · « **Reply #19 on:** March 14, 2005, 07:30:59 PM »

Lemme practice a bit. Ill post a time in the next couple days.

GtoRA2 · « **Reply #20 on:** March 14, 2005, 10:26:20 PM »

Ok so far, with a 64 GTO I was able to sqeek out a 9.05.

Now thats with Race suspension. (changed the spring rate, sway bar, camber, sway bars and ride hight, all stuff I did to my real gto.)

369 HP, (racing exaust, balane, chip and valve job)

the full custom tranny. Set to

First Gear Ratio: 3.28:1
Second Gear Ratio: 2.13:1
Third Gear Ratio: 1.57:1
Fourth Gear Ratio: 1.24:1
Fifth Gear Ratio: 1.00:1
Sixth Gear Ratio: 0.76:1

Rear set to 3.55

This is the exact gear setup my GTO had.

2 way posi.

Sport tires soft. Now I did the tires cause I think when you chose road it sticks you with REALLY crappy tires prolly based on the bias ply redlines it came with in the 60s.

I could get a better time, I spun it three times atleast. lol. No driving aids at all.

I tried witht he regular tires and the car would not stay strait even on a straitaway lol.

Oh thats from a rolling start on practice from Sim mode? Do you start from a stop in arcade?

Was fun, and on the long last strait it topped at 155 I think, not tacked out but out of power.

GtoRA2 · « **Reply #21 on:** March 14, 2005, 11:13:12 PM »

Stock silverado SS on road tires I managed a very sloppy 9.05

lol.

the GTO was more fun.

GtoRA2 · « **Reply #22 on:** March 15, 2005, 02:30:27 PM »

Whats with guys on that board using a camber setting of 1.0? that would suck on any car that has any kind of lean?

Saurdaukar · « **Reply #23 on:** March 15, 2005, 06:45:26 PM »

I dunno... I usually run close to 2.2 front and 1.1 rear on a FR car.

GtoRA2 · « **Reply #24 on:** March 15, 2005, 07:10:55 PM »

hmm I vary it with cars but usualy never less then 2.0 depending on how much the car leans in turns.

I was just noticing lotsof guys in the other forums dial it back to 1.0 and think this helps. It should not help at all, especialy on the older cars.

Do they just have no clue?

Saurdaukar · « **Reply #25 on:** March 15, 2005, 07:43:31 PM »

Probably.

SFRT - Frenchy · « **Reply #26 on:** March 15, 2005, 10:07:24 PM »

Depends on the car

SFRT - Frenchy · « **Reply #27 on:** March 15, 2005, 10:13:27 PM »

GTO, don't start runing your mouth like you the ****znit, cause we are going to cruise by you so fast than your moma is going to loose her boxer shorts, you feeling me homie?.

GtoRA2 · « **Reply #28 on:** March 15, 2005, 10:15:32 PM »

well on the cars in question.

70 charger
71 cuda
AC cobra

I think a camber of one is BAD.

Holly ****! Saur, did you see that Frenchy is hitting on me!

SFRT - Frenchy · « **Reply #29 on:** March 15, 2005, 11:02:39 PM »