Adverse Effects by Turbo'ing/ Chass Reinforce?

[fireice22]

If you turbo a car will it make the car's handling worse?
And is it recommended to install the Chassis Reinforcement on all of my cars?

 

[Elkay]

I'm curious on the latter, because it will let you do that on virtually every vehicle in the game it seems, even the Nascars.

 

[EAGLE 5]

Not necessarily worse, the only thing is you'll be traveling faster then normal so you're likely to run into understeer at corner entry because of overspeeding into the corner.

Also if you're not used to the torque the turbo gives you you'll probably skid on corner exit too (worse with FR/MR vehicles of course).

 

[zachsilvey]

Short answer: no, a turbo has no direct effect on handling.

Longer answer: Like others have said, adding a turbo means that you are going to be generally traveling at higher speeds which means if you don't brake sooner and harder into a corner then you are going to see adverse effects like understeer. Also if you are using lower performing tires or limited traction control you are likely to spin out of a corner if you are slamming the gas down.

 

[Sum1s2pid]

For the chassis refresh, I wouldn't worry about it unless the handling is just so bad, you cannot tune around it.

Now for the turbo...long story short, turbo lag from the larger turbos can upset handling. Keep an NA car NA if you can, use a lag-free supercharger when possible, or only use the largest turbo upgrades for speed runs -- with the smaller ones for the track.

A turbo only slightly affects handling, and it mostly depends on how large the turbo is, and how powerful the base engine is before the upgrade. It was very noticeable in GT3 and 4, while it's only slightly less noticeable in GT5 (but still there).

A low power engine with a large turbo will suffer turbo-lag coming out of corners, spinning the drive wheels at maximum boost pressure kicks in, and either understeer (FF, some 4WD, and some RR) into a wall, or oversteer (MR, FR, some RR, and some 4WD) into a wall. More powerful engines can still suffer from the lag, but it's not as bad.

I saw a lot of this in GT4, with EGs and AE86s equipped with Stage 4 turbos and no assists. You get great corner entry speeds, as well as speeds on long straights, but corner exits became a handful.