American Muscle (Week 6): Tsukuba (w / Results)

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Kolyana
How does a copy of GT4 ... die?
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look at the scratches and if you cant find an unscratched spot, the game takes 30 to 60 seconds to load car animations(garage and dealers) then its safe to say it's dead. When it become a little red loading gauge, it's official. I just decided to put down my copy before the red gauge of death! :lol:
 
You couldn't have run a Disc Doctor type thing on it?
 
Kolyana
You couldn't have run a Disc Doctor type thing on it?
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Nope, I've already tried many kinds before and each time the scratches come back even worse... So I've decided to just get a new copy
 
Well, I guess that's good to know for my own record ... take better care of your discs and stop eating lunch off them.
 
Found .4. I know I've can get another .1. But can I get the other .2 that Koly says she can get? Even then I'd only be even at T2....how's she doin' in the final sector? Will "Goix the Impaler" become "Goix the Embalmed"? For these and other stories stay tuned.

T1: 14.000 (-0.506)
T2: 32.102 (-0.409) Koly's only 0.065 ahead

Now ya almost gotta get that extra .2. I think off in the distance I see a fin heading this way.
 
Oh man, good run! I can taste the blood already! The hunt is on!
 
T1: 14.058
T2: 31.993

I've actually been .2 faster at T1 several times, but can't control this a$$ heavy sone of a gun to make it count for the rest of the lap ... but half a dozen times now I've turned in the fastest T1, so I'm looking for another chunk of time here.

Conversely, my ending was solid ... I ran much, much faster than my previous ghost.
 
So I need at least .109 + .2 = .309 at T2? I better get down to business.
 
Disappointment. I think I've hit the wall. This has turned into frustration. After 2 more hours of Tsukuba I haven't been able to budge things. Looks like I'm going down in flames again this week (or I suppose a bloody pool of salt water). On a positive note of sorts I haven't left too much time out there on the track. If I combined my best 3 sectors (which come from 3 different laps) I would only improve my overall time by 0.128. If I added in the best T1 I've seen (on a dirty lap) I would still only leave 0.162 out there. I've never gone to the trouble of looking at things this way before (adding up different sectors from different laps) but I feel like I've put in a pretty solid effort and done about the best I can do. Unfortunately it looks like I'm gonna fall a little short. I might give it final try tomorrow.
 
Goix, you're right on my tail and there's a *HUGE* amount to be gained or lost on the hairpin before the long straight and even the last sweeping right hander ... my .1 does NOT give me any sense of comfort! For now, this shark will keep biting at her prey and maybe hope to knock the stuffing out of it so you don't fight *too* hard come Special Stage :p
 
Maybe i should have asked this a while ago but what new mods can be added to the chelleve? I remember seeing something about this like last week but now I can't find it
 
r8 :)

From this thread:
https://www.gtplanet.net/forum/showthread.php?t=67903

HP$: $5,250
Non-HP$: $19,000

You get $5250 to spend on HP parts - no nitro - and you can leave money left over to add to the non-HP sum. With the $19,000 you can buy any non-HP related upgrades, but not racing tires. This includes suspension, softer sports tires, weight reduction and even a wing if you can install one on the 454.

You can only change out parts once per season or after any week in which you finish in the latter third of the field.

Hope that answered your question.
 
@R8

If you're interested, here's is my current setup that I'm using for the Chevelle 👍

Hp parts
N/A Tuning stage 1
Oil change

Non Hp parts
Sport Tires: Soft
Sports Susp
Twin plate clutch
Racing Flywheel
2-way LSD
Stage 1 Weight Reduction
 
Ok thanks to both of you :)
 
I thought this was supposed to be fun and relaxing? Maybe I should go to work to avoid the stress of this intense competition. I'm giving up for this week and moving on...I'm sure I'll place behind Nat yet again :banghead:
 
Oh man .... I just can't seem to nail this 13.8xx and then finish the lap faster than my ghost!!! Currently running 13.926/31.930 ... I'd love to find .1 on the lap, but I'm really struggling here.
 
Kolyana
Oh man .... I just can't seem to nail this 13.8xx and then finish the lap faster than my ghost!!! Currently running 13.926/31.930 ... I'd love to find .1 on the lap, but I'm really struggling here.
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I think you'll find your .1, right...over.......THERE!....BWA HA HA!!!! lol.

jump_ace
 
Update the drag strip leaderboard :grumpy:
 
I forgot to post my final splits

T1: 14.016 (+0.016...just a smidge slower)
T2: 31.955 (-0.147 👍 )
Final: (-0.290 👍 👍 )

...looks like I might be close enough to make you sweat that final sector? My Shelby final sector was .003 better than my testing in the Z28 so I expect you've got this one.
 
Think I got the best I can do with my abilities. Time submitted.

T1 ~ 14.847
T2 ~ 33.721
 
Hey, sorry gang. I'v been a little bit addicted to my Madden Tournament. hehe Im going to try to run both but things arent allways easy for me. :crazy: But...Ill work something out...Ill see ya all later :sly: MM16
 
Uck-Fay ukuba-Tsay! I'm over it! I was busy photographing the ALMS and busy with my journalism class this week, I only turned ~11 laps and I'm done. I've kept all the same parts I had from the Seattle event too. Think of me as the control speciman. You know, the one that's not supposed to perform at all and nothing is a surprise.

Here it is 4:00 AM and I can practically feel the electrical impulses going from my brain to my fingers. The thing is... normally you shouldn't feel it-shay! I can tell there's a delay in when the signal leaves my brain and arrives to my fingers. I could drive my real GTi, with a whopping 105 horsepower, around this track faster than I'm going with this Stingray.

T1= 14.446 (quickest was a 14.0somethin-or-other)
T2= 32.564
I probably left a second, maybe as many as two, out on the track. Pfffft. Oh well.

I know what will solve my problems. Can I please upgrade to the 2006 C6 ZO6? It's one Devil of a car if I do say so myself. I'm in an, "I wanna beat the living piss out of Porsche, Ferrari, Lamborghini and all other comers with a stock off the showroom floor car" kinda mood. Oh, and uh, I'll take mine in LeMans Blue Metallic. Oh yeah, it's not in the game. I'll just have to go swipe a real one.
 
MustangManiac16
... MM16
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Oh damn, you said MM16. You had me all excited there for a moment. I was hoping you had said M-16. I miss the one I used in the Army. I'd really like another one someday. I loved shooting all kinds of stuff on the taxpayer's nickel. 3-round burst with tracer rounds is really fun *drools* I'd also like one of these bad-boys: http://www.army.mil/fact_files_site/m-249_saw/
 
I've got a deep admiration for soldiers and a huge chunk of me is actualy somewhat jealous ... not that I'm desperate to throw myself into such a lifestyle and ridiculous bureaucracy, but I really think that everyone should have to experience it once in their life. I feel somewhat inferior having never put my life on the line as they have, experience the comaraderie, seen what they have seen or undergone the rigors they have tackled.

That and they get to shoot the coolest guns.
 
Congratulations to Jet for yet another runaway victory! 👍

Congratulations also to bhawk and Jump, both of whom pulled out great laps to take the final 2 podium positions.

Great run r8'!!! (I could have done with you being 3 hundreths faster! That gap you could have squeezed between Goix and I would have proved really useful!!!!)
 
Congrats Jet, Hawk and Jump. You too Koly. r8man almost cut my throat and really put in a bind in terms of season's final standings. I guess I better work a harder this week.

So Koly...what were your final splits? Did you get the T1 you were looking for? What was your final T2? Did you put even more time on me in the final sector? Just out of curiosity if you summed up the best sectors from your clean laps (Perfect Lap) how much time did you leave on the track? What if you added best sectors from dirty laps? My "Perfect Lap" would've been 59.723, with the best T1 (13.953) I saw (dirty) 59.689. I'm glad I didn't waste the time chasing those...you would've beated me anyway.

When I "heard" the determination in your posts I knew I had no chance of beating you...aside from the fact that I felt I really left it all on the track. No excuses..the cars are equal enough despite the HP difference (but you do seem to have a decided advantage at Las Vegas...but I seem to have a decided advantage at SSR5). Beaten by a superior driver...I can live with that. Hail the victor of our little personal competition :bowdown: .

Now on the shark hunting at Hong Kong.
 
13.926 ... couldn't get and hold the 13.8 I saw many, many times.
31.930

Overall I think I left .2 on the track, there abouts, but I doubt I could have got more.

Great competition and looking forward to Hong Kong ... the odds are against me! 👍
 
So at T2 you were ahead by just 0.025 and put another 0.175 on me in the in the final sector. As the final sector is mostly straight I probably lost most of the time at the final hairpin just after T2?
 
The hairpin is crucial for sure, but ona couple of occassions I was beating my ghost down the straight and he took me on the right sweeper - so time could be lost here also.
 
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