Average time taken for tuning?

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Hi everyone. I was tuning one of my cars for an upcoming race and a thought came across my head: I wonder how much time good GT5 tuners usually need to take a car and tune it to perfection (or close to it) for a specific track or event?

On average it takes me 2-3 hours per car. I'm not sure if that is normal or above/below average. I have been tuning seriously for only a month now, though. How much time do the experienced tuners on this forum need?
 
Depends on the car by a million miles. I have tuned some cars in like 30min and they work great. Other times it literally takes a month. Depends on so many factors.
 
I spend 2-3hours or more depending on the car. I enjoy it, but i find it frustrating when what i actually want to do is drive in a time trial with a decent tune (especially because i generally only get 2-4hrs per time trial). I tend to find the readily available tunes are not suited to zero driving aids.
 
Well right now I'm tuning a Golf GTI '76 and Accumulated time in-game is probably over 10 hours of tuning at this point. Usually it doesn't take me this long. In a 5-8 hour gaming session i could probably do a start to finish tune near perfection.
 
I tend to take my sweet time tuning a car, especially if it has great potential and is fun to drive.

Generally, I can whip up a basic setup for any car/track combination off the top of my head, and iron out the kinks I about a half hour of driving it.

But the cars I grow attached to I can take months to reach a perfect (by my standards) setup. Like this EG6 I worked on for the Touge Showdown tuner shootout, I had been working on it for about 2 months before the opportunity came to enter it in the shootout. Mostly to make it competitive against other cars in its class of 420PP 1.6L. Since then, I've still worked on it and improved it dramatically and am still working on it to best the competition for season 3. So far, that car has nearly 4 months of tuning invested into it. It's truly a labor of love!
 
I don't think that any of my cars are perfect. The more time you spend with something the more you are going to find little improvements. This is the same with my real world Miata race car. If I were to stop trying new things just because I won a few races, my competitors will probably find more speed before I do.

In GT5, it is time to post the tune in my garage for one of two reasons.
1. A deadline, FITT Challenge or racing series deadline.
2. I want to drive something else.

Everytime I come back to an old tune, I usually find something new that makes it a little bit better.
 
It can be anywhere from 30 minutes to hours of hours tuning and testing. It all depends on my target ( time, handling or how easy to drive ), also the car itself.


citycar
I spend 2-3hours or more depending on the car. I enjoy it, but i find it frustrating when what i actually want to do is drive in a time trial with a decent tune (especially because i generally only get 2-4hrs per time trial). I tend to find the readily available tunes are not suited to zero driving aids.
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Most of the tuners who have tuning garage in GTP uses at least one aid : ABS. So, finding tunes made by no ABS driver like me :D is pretty rare, if not impossible. I have competed in several FITT tuning shootout in GTP, some of the cars entered were tuned without any aids ( no ABS ), some examples are linked on my sig - they are Touge tune.

Tunes are very specific when no aids were used, many of my no ABS tunes were hard to drive by ABS drivers - especially wheel user due to the high BB and tendency to understeer when driven with ABS. My tunes took advantage of no ABS driving techniques, threshold and trail braking, making the cars virtually have less understeer than with ABS on.

Maybe I should open my own tuning garage, taking requests :sly: It would say "Ridox RSR HardCore Tuning Factory", uncompromising tunes, where the car kills the driver in seconds :lol:
 
^^ Only masochists and lunatics need apply. :lol:

As for me? Well, for a car I use in online races, I take 5 minutes to guess a tune, race it, iron out some bigger imperfections with more guess work, drive it more, then refine it, until I achieve something I feel is good enough/get so ticked off by it I refuse to even see it in my garage. This process takes from 30 minutes to several days.
 
citycar
I spend 2-3hours or more depending on the car. I enjoy it, but i find it frustrating when what i actually want to do is drive in a time trial with a decent tune (especially because i generally only get 2-4hrs per time trial).
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I feel the same - I would rather drive than tune but tuning helps a lot in winning quality online competitions!

Thanks for the replies so far everyone. Now I feel better about the time I spend tuning my cars! :cheers:
 
BFBullpup
I feel the same - I would rather drive than tune but tuning helps a lot in winning quality online competitions!

Thanks for the replies so far everyone. Now I feel better about the time I spend tuning my cars! :cheers:
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Haha no problem. We're all a bit crazy with this stuff. But when I have no one to race with my favourite thing is to tune. It's the best when your on a couple hours before a race with your friends and you tune your car then blow them away with an identical car.
 
From literally 5 mins to never. Some cars you just never nail, I've had loads of abandoned projects where no setting changes made it better.
 
As others have said, sometimes it can take ages. In particular I take a long while on suspension. I think a lot of it is down to the driver. If I'm looking for lap time improvements with suspension, I'm well aware that factors like how tired I am and what mood I'm in are > than what the suspension setup can do. On one day I can find a car understeering on corner entry, then the next day with the same settings and same track it feels a lot better. Chances are that I was simply ploughing into the corner too quickly (usually as a result of too much coffee!).

If I'm really keen on tuning a car I'll keep whatever settings I'm currently at in one slot, and put the new proposed settings in another. An hour or two flicking back and forth between them and recording the lap times along with any particular comments usually helps me. Average lap times and variability are what I usually go by rather than my personal best for a given setup.

Cheers,

Bread
 
As was said earlier, it depends on the car. Stock 430 Scuderia requires no tuning and drives extremely well (because Ferrari probably paid PD to make it a godly car in game)
 

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