What were your specs for the tune (Silvia)? I was about half a second off the fastest lap time, maybe a little more, and was getting drafted and passed quite easily by chuyler and grenade but wasn't ever really able to draft until the very end of the straight. It didn't matter if I had multiple car lengths on them.
I would be curious to know what everyone's hp/weight ratio was.
On a side note, I purchased an HDCP compliant graphics card, as well as an HDMI capture card, and will try to record some replays. Here's my pov from GVE-R in the Silvia. I built my desktop in late 2006 so the quality isn't going to be HD but it's clear enough to see. Don't really understand why the quality is so bad when the .avi I made is over 1GB in size and looks great before it goes up to Youtube.
Guys, a lot of your acceleration problems were for 2 reasons.
If you are not geared short enough for a track like GVE-R, then you lose quite a bit of acceleration because of that. Secondly, if you are on a fast track like Suzuka and you didn't short shift in your top gears, you probably lost time.
Depending on your tune, the Sylvia HP/TQ graph fell off hard after 7500 RPMs. So much so, that in my testing, I was better off shifting at 7500 then waiting for the redline.
This 100% depends on whether you are max tuning the car or detuning for a broader power band. I ended up detuning my car a bit to exploit what I saw was a way to run super short gearing and still keep up on the straights. I ran my gears for suzuka like I had a 145 mph top speed, but used my final gear to drop it way back and get my top speed back up where I needed it to be.
Since I detuned my engine significantly, when I shifted into top gear, I was at like 5700 RPMs which my engine was nearly making full power out. Had, I been with the stock engine max tuned, I couldn't have used this strategy.
I am not saying that is the best strategy as sometimes I prefer max tuning regardless. An example of this being the Green Goblin. There is very little detuning in that car.
On one lap of daytona (circle track). I was able to gain nearly 2 seconds by short shifting with a non detuned car. This is very important to note and try to take into consideration when racing. Remember this though. Short shifting really only does you good in gears where you don't already have high multipliers (transmission ratios). Short shifting in 1st-3rd gear is generally not beneficial.
Only once you get into gears where the amount of torque being sent to the wheels is similar to the engine output that short shifting shows its benefits.
