DuranDuran1984
Ok, well it seems no one has done anything to the Charger, eh? Well, I bought the fully customizable suspension and tweaked just a couple things. I lowered the front to 110 and the rear to 115, and changed the rear spring rate to 5.3 (I think), giving it a front rate of 4.4 (what it started at) and rear of 5.3. I also gave it oversteer of 20, understeer of 0, and set the tcs to 1. Everything else I left at the default levels. Now I know that I'm still in the beginner races (just got the game), but in the FR races, I seemed to be cornering as well or better than the other cars like the z4 and whatnot. If anyone has any suggestions on more tweaks that would be great. Other mods to the car are race exhaust and supercharger, putting me at 607hp. On a side note, why is it that you can't increase the displacement on muscle cars? Of all the cars in this game, they should be the ones with that option, but they've never had it in any of the Gran Turismos.
I agree with the up displacement thing totally. These engines in many cases have thick enough cylinder walls to bore or stroke so why it isn't in here I'll never know.
I love driving the charger! It's my favorite car so far and I'm trying to beat as much of the game as I can with it.
I can't give you my suspension settings right now, but you sound very close to what I use. I'm sure my spring rates are at 6 and 5.5, front and rear respectively.
I run a camber at 1 and ride height at 117 and 120 F/R.
Being this old girl is such a torque monster...especially with Super charging, I turn the Limited slip down quite a way. Intial torque to 9 and acceleration slip to 9-15.
Generally on most cars I run a lower front brake setting than the rear except in this car and here's why.
1. First I run lower brake rates in the front because this means more of the wheel's traction can be used steer the car when under heavy braking entering a corner. On bikes this is called trail braking. Your front wheels need to do their precious job of steering, to much braking with them kills this ability. I know this goes against nearly every other members settings I've read but on smaller lighter cars it generally works great!
2. However on the Charger and the old muscle in particular I find this does not work well. The car loses a lot of stability and the rear end will tend to slide out under heavy braking. Now this is perfect for cars I like to drift like the NSX but it's just scary on the older cars.
p.s as a side note of my own, this car sounds so much better with the stock exaust and intake. With a super charging kit and all the other performance mods selected it will still churn out 653 Hp which is very competetive in this car. The full stage N/A tuning without Exhaust mod will yield 689 HP.
I figure that the addition of a racing chip is BS in this game, I mean what computer does a car from 1970 have?? So to slightly make up for the stock exaust settings I run the chip.
If this were real I'd of course replace the exhaust (very restrictive on old muscle cars) and intake but then the car wouldn't sound like a blender if I did. It would sound loud and proud.
This is truly a personal pfreference. I love the sound of this car roaring around the track. Reminds me of the chase scene in Bullit, so I can live the 30 HP cut.