Downgrade car

[buggs1a]

I want to put some cars in the S class to use in the Rivals Track Days nurburgring track. How can I downgrade a car? Or is it even possible?

 

[StoneyNUFC]

Certain mods will lower the PI of a car and if the original pi is close to the bottom end of the class then it will sometimes knock it down a class which is what your after. Not every car will be able to do this but i know you can do it with some of the R3 Lambo's by making them RWD which drops them into S-Class

 

[Wolfe]

I downgraded my Tesla Roadster to B500 by giving it Lexani rims and the Forza spoiler. With stock tires it's not the best, but it's way more competitive than it would be at the bottom of A. The electrics still lack a top end when upgraded anyway.

The AWD -> RWD conversion is definitely one to try, but if you need a few more points there's also DUB/Lexani rims, Forza-brand aero parts, and chassis reinforcement (sometimes it removes a point or two because of weight). Not sure of any others off the top of my head.

 

[bleurabbit7]

Definately DUBS and Lexani wheels and Forza rear wing. Increasing the rims size of the rear wheels will lower a point or two.

 

[buggs1a]

I think in doing a downgrade it is because I want better acceleration. I'm not sure how to give a high s class more acceleration and better handling yet keep it s class still.

 

[bleurabbit7]

You'll have to play with your tune settings. I suck in that department so I wouldn't be of any use.

 

[buggs1a]

Well yeah, if you can tune the cars tranny. Some have to have their tranny upgraded though. I want to see the numbers go up when looking at their rating. So one low end whatever is next after s class has say a 6.7 handling but the s class car has 5.8. Those are the areas I wonder how to improve so I am curious about downgrading to s class.

 

[ChadSpeed]

Also you can sometimes remove the Turbo or Supercharger, for example on the Corvette ZR1.

 

[Doc Savage NDMF]

Heavy rims, wider/widest tires available, tallest rim sizes, the F4 adjustable Aero kits and the Limited Slip Differentials all add weight and drag and lower the number. Converting to 2WD lowers it also in most cases, depends on how much weight you lose vs how much launch/acceleration difference.

However... Adding weight and decreasing power are counter intuitive to my mind.

I can understand why you'd want to do this, but there's more to be gained adding a tunable race trans, race brakes, race suspension, clutch and flywheel and tire compound/tire width to a lower car. Adding the F4 Aero helps too, and the few points it gives back may net you a little hp boost. Having "extra" hp is useless unless you make it useful.

I'd much rather be able to control shift points, add Aero to create down force and be able to adjust brake bias and pressure and chassis settings to use the often more than adequate hp present.

There are some basic tuning changes you can make that will help anyone better use a car that are pretty flexible and cure 90% of what plagues stock setups, basic fundamental type things that can be used on just about any car and then fine tuned from there. If anyone isn't comfortable with tuning a chassis, I can walk through some of them in a separate post.

 

[Forcone]

Well, your question has been answered quite well.

What I usually do is take a car 1 or 2 classes lower to start with and do what Doc Savage said. The tunable parts give you most "bang for your buck" if you know what to do with them!

By the way, big rim size doesn't necessarily lower the PI. It lowers the amount of tire wall flex thus giving more grip = handling, acceleration and launch points in some cases!

 

[Laughlyn]

Usuaully putting the Forza spoiler reduces pi a bit. picking some heavy rims will add a few and also on ocassion putting the roll cage in adds weight and drops PI more. also as previously said, changing to a RWD drive train can drop a lot of PI and also if u have various turbos available the screw type turbo is a lot lower PI than standard and possibly drop it down further. u can get a pretty decent RWD aventador at 700pi think it was terronium-12's (renown tuning)