Chassis restore your classic

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There's been some debate about this before, but it's worth highlighting for the classics event...if your car handles like a drunken nun, restore the chassis before giving up on it.

Dramatic improvement on my 30,000 mile E-type with no other modifications. The car is now more stable under braking, and hugely more stable powering out of corners.

Yes, the car's overpowered for the event and was an easy win before the restore - but most importantly, it's now a lot more *fun* :D

Time to go lower its horsepower below standard so it's more of a chase...
 
Depends on the car you are restoring and if you plan on using it regularly, but for 20k Cr you are better off purchasing the chassis reinforcement for any car.
 
budious
Depends on the car you are restoring and if you plan on using it regularly, but for 20k Cr you are better off purchasing the chassis reinforcement for any car.
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The OP was talking about chassis restoration not the 20k chassis reinforcement from the tuning shop.

Chassis restoration is super annoying because you are supposed to do it on virtually every car you get from the UCD, effectively doubling the price you pay for it... And there's no proven way of knowing whether it's really necessary or even noticable... :grumpy:
 
It does improve the car. Case in point, grinding a certain track and you start to lose track time. Change the oil and it gets better for a while. After using this time after time it eventually gets to where it doesn't help.
Time for an engine overhaul. This helps but the times are still not up to par (the way they were with a fresh car).
Do the chassis restoration and your times will be better because of 2 reasons. First is your knowledge you gain from grinding, Second is because of the chassis and engine overhauls. Proving in fact that it helps. Doing this to F2007 will cost you a cool million credits but, is worth every penny. Especially after the grinding pays for the car and then some. Adding to this I hope they never get rid of the Ferrari seasonal challenges.
 
Buying chassis restoration is a complete waste of Cr. It was never part of Gt4 idk why they put it in GT5 cause its a waste. you spend 500,000 on super GT car and u race two times and the same amount of money have to be spent again to restore the chassis. A complete waste. Engine overhaul is a better investment. Every 4000 miles you restore you engine.
 
DarkNull
Buying chassis restoration is a complete waste of Cr. It was never part of Gt4 idk why they put it in GT5 cause its a waste. you spend 500,000 on super GT car and u race two times and the same amount of money have to be spent again to restore the chassis. A complete waste. Engine overhaul is a better investment. Every 4000 miles you restore you engine.
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It'll let you buy it again almost immediately, I think you only have to have driven the car once. As you say, drive it 2 miles and you'll get no benefit...but after 10,000 miles (that's a guess!) the cars handling gets sloppier in corners, you can feel the instability as unpredictable/ungainly handling on cars with higher mileages. I've had several cars now that the handling gets much more predictable after the restore.

As budious says, it depends on the price of the car and the handling problems. All I'm saying is don't write off a car for poor handling before doing this, it transformed my e-type...if the restore's expensive, the re-inforcement will probably help as a cheaper test.

Sadly, mileage varies on this one, some cars seem to get worse when you stiffen them...so if you like the handling of the car, don't play about with the chassis stiffness. But if you feel it's unexpectedly letting go at one wheel or more mid-corner, try the restore and stiffness options.
 
Hmm looking at what u said and from your experiences with the e- type there may be some benefit there. But then again maybe only used cars from the UCD/OCD may benefit from the chassis restore- repair. Given the car has already seen it's fair share of use on the track. All in all I think chassis restore should only be used when your car have a substantial amount of miles on it. Be it new or used.. Mostly use cars though. It's still 50/50 in terms of value for your Cr.
 
I'm not sure where you people are getting this chassis deformination thing and it having a relation to aerodynamics, in the North American version of the game the feature in GT Auto is described as rigidity restoration which implies it only strengthens the body of the car.

This was some information I posted in another thread on how I theorized the process worked:

budious
Using natural log would make mileage variations much more realistic. Still theory... if such a formula exists it is probably very similar.

Chassis Condition = (1.00 - (mileage * loge)/100 + (if Chassis Reinforcement add .1, else add .0)

Chassis Condition of 96% at 50 miles:
= 1.00 - (50 loge/100) + .0
= 1.00 - 0.0391202300543 + .0
= 0.960879769946
= ~ 96%

Chassis Condition of 95% at 100 miles:
= 1.00 - (100 loge/100) + .0
= 1.00 - 0.04605170186 + .0
= 0.95394829814
= ~ 95%

Chassis Condition of 93% at 1,000 miles:
= 1.00 - (1000 loge/100) + .0
= 1.00 - 0.06907755279+ .0
= 0.93092244721
= ~ 93%

Chassis Condition of 90% at 20,000 miles:
= 1.00 - (20000 loge/100) + .0
= 1.00 - 0.0990348755254 + .0
= 0.900965124475
= ~ 90%

Chassis Condition of 89% at 40,000 miles:
= 1.00 - (40000 loge/100) + .0
= 1.00 - 0.105966347331 + .0
= 0.894033652669
= ~ 89%

Chassis Condition of 99% at 40,000 miles with Chassis Reinforcement:
= 1.00 - (40000 loge/100) + .1
= 1.00 - 0.105966347331 + .1
= 0.894033652669
= ~ 99%

It's possible the value can be greater than 1.00 because doing both a rigidity refresh and installing chassis reinforcement at the same time produces an incredibly stiff car for a short period of time until the rigidity begins to age again. Rigidity restore probably works like an odometer storage variable, resetting the condition starting from the last time the car had the chassis overhauled at GT Auto.
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BUDIOUS SAID " I'm not sure where you people are getting this chassis deformation thing and it having a relation to aerodynamics, in the North American version of the game the feature in GT Auto is described as rigidity restoration which implies it only strengthens the body of the car. " quote

Wrong.. It's called chassis maintenance in North America which does not strengthen the car only restores it. In other words in straighten out the frame of the car from damage sustain from bumming into walls or other cars. Same as in real life if u hit the fender/ or front end hard against the rail on the high way or another car the repair man will tell you that the car have to go on a chassis machine to straighten back out the frame. Your statement is invalid. And also the the chassis reinforcement upgrade is just strut bars/ tie bars which just prevent chassis flex/ stiffening the suspension. Where the hell did those # came from? Lol..I don't remember seeming them in the game when i perform chassis maintenance/ chassis restore! Please explain? Sir
 
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Access the chassis maintenance on GT Auto then look at the button that actually performs the action; the actual button you press to perform repair refers to it as "restore chassis rigidity"!
 
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