About the CLK touring car.....

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PS2 just in case if there is some confusion. I am talking about Gran Turismo 3: A-spec for PS2......but anyways
How do you get the CLK touring car??
:banghead: haha, that smilie is funny
 
I think it's the Silver Arrow race in the Amateur League. :)
 
what do you have to win the silver arrow race in amatear league to get it????
I mean my god i bought the slk compressor and the other two clk cars and i couldn't win any of the races.....maybe im just out of luck.....cause i figured that it would be easiest to get the touring car.....then do the race
 
Use the CLK55 with some power mods and you should comfortably win the races.
 
You can do two things:

1) Add suspension mods to the CL55 so it handles.

2) Add power and suspension mods to the CLK.

Either way should do the trick. And welcome to GTP, Demon!
 
Go to the "Tune Car" In the top right of the screen. There are parts there that you can buy for your car. Are you sure you've never been there before???
 
as gay as the SLK Kompressor is it's the best driving benz in the game, add all the power mods and suspension and you'll have no problem winning
 
The Cl600 is a bit heavy for it, the CLK55 is a nicely suited car for the race.
 
I did mine with the CL600. I bought the stage 2 NA and full racing transmission and won the race. All that I tuned was the auto gearing to 27. Try that.
 
I used a CLK55 with full mods on it.
 
I used a Subaru Impreza 22B. But the game THOUGHT it was a CLK55 AMG.

I love mk... :D
 
Demon00.....did you buy the horsepower upgrades for your mercedes? if you did....there's no way you can loose....unless ofcourse your a horrible driver :lol:
 
I was having trouble with my CLK55 as it didn't handle well after i raised the horsepower, so i put stage 2 lightening on it and soft tires, stuck to the road like glue and won easy.
 
Buy the racing tires, 3rd over from left (Simulation,. Sport, Racing, Dirt). This will bring you to another screen where you can buy T2 through T8 tires. T2s are the hardest and have the least grip (though still way more than the sport or sim tires), but they are also cheapest and last longest (when tire wear is on). T8s are softest and grippiest, but most expensive, and only last a couple laps when tire wear is on.

Usually I use T2s, T3s, and T4s. Anything softer is useless when tire wear is on.
 
Originally posted by neon_duke
Usually I use T2s, T3s, and T4s. Anything softer is useless when tire wear is on.
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You'd think so, wouldn't you? But on a 5-lap tyre wear race, you can get away with softer compounds. In Ganesh's Speed 12 challenge over at the Times, I ran a 5-lap tyre wear race in an 838hp Speed 12 wearing T5s on the front and T8s on the rear - yes, T8s. Almost everyone else used T7s, so it's not just me being mental.

This week's is a 15-lapper, and I think for a no-stop race T3s and T5s are needed - I generally run that for a 1-stop PD Cup race in the 12.

under18carbon - you should run a few qualifying laps on your T2s. You'll see that one axle consistantly heats up quicker, and goes through to red quicker, so you should put softer tyres on the other axle. Generally the front axle heats up the fastest - as with the Speed 12 - but not always. Each tyre grade you go up is worth about 0.5s per axle per lap - so T3s all round is usually 1s a lap quicker than T2s all round.
 
Did you have TCS on in the Speed 12?
 
What kind of question is that?

Like ANYONE is going to consider driving an 838hp FR beastie at under 1000kg WITHOUT Traction Control... :D

I generally have TCS set to 2 on the Speed 12. Anything else I have to launch - for OLR - gets TCS of 1 unless it's low powered. More or less everything else gets 0. And ASM can **** off. :D
 
Originally posted by Famine
You'd think so, wouldn't you? But on a 5-lap tyre wear race, you can get away with softer compounds.
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That is true, on a shorter race. However, I don't like to get in the habit of using soft tires because so many of the later races get longer. I don't want to be used to tons of grip when I can't have it other times.

I do occaisionally run softer tires and pit more just to stay near the AI during a race. However, I find that mixing tires just to keep wear even often changes handling dynamics for the worse; usually accenting whatever the inherent problem is with the chassis.
 
Hmm. I've found the exact opposite... Spook... :D Still, that's one of the things that makes GT3 good - different drivers can use astonishingly different settings and end up within tenths of each other after 20 laps...

For tyre wear races I find the following assumptions helpful:
For each softer grade of tyre, you gain 0.5s per axle per lap.
Each pitstop takes, on average, 22s.

So on a 20 lap race, running T4s all round instead of T3s all round may gain you 20s overall, but if you have to pit once instead of not at all you LOSE 2s overall.
 
Those are good number to know. I had been "SOTP"ing about the same results, but it's nice to see them written down.

Typically I do run the softest tire that will make the race without pitting and without being red at the last lap. If I have to pit no matter what, I run the softest tire that will make it to 1 lap past the halfway mark without being red.
 
Heh. I was thinking that if you didn't use TCS with the Speed 12 it would've been impossible to last 5 laps on T8s, so that's why i asked...:lol:
 

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