Endurance nascar tune

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You've already asked this in the other thread. No need to start a whole nother thread just to ask the same question.
 
Justin5447
But I haven't found an answer yet. :/
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Thats because most of us don't share our endurance setups. I have put many, many hours into my setup and I just don't feel like giving all my time spent tuning away. Not to sound harsh, but if I can spend the time testing, so can you. Another reason, with NASCAR cars being so equal, everyone is looking for every little advatage they can get. I will help you get pointed in the right direction and give you some tips, but as far as handing you a whole setup that I spent many hours on, no way. Others will no doubt come behind me and flame me for this and thats fine, flame away. I have never had a problem with helping people or even giving them setups for other cars, but when it comes to NASCAR setups, you're on your own, lol. Maybe someone else will come along and spoon feed you a setup, but I'm not. My generosity ends when it comes to NASCAR.
 
https://sites.google.com/site/gt5tune/home
Take a look at that website as there are a ton of NASCAR tunes.
If you want to tune yourself..
A tip I'd recommened when tuning for tire wear is to test using RAIN tires. Rain tires wear out in like 2 minutes so you can get a very good idea of how your tires look after like 2 laps.
The object is to make all four of your tires wear out as EVENLY AS POSSIBLE.
Some of the important aspects that need tuning is Camber Angle, Toe Angle, Anti-Roll bars, and Downforce and even Brake controller. I wouldn't worry too much about LSD when it comes to oval raicng. Setting gear ratios and making your 4th gear run low RPMs is also a good idea.
Anyway good luck.
 
RedPartyhat
https://sites.google.com/site/gt5tune/home
Take a look at that website as there are a ton of NASCAR tunes.
If you want to tune yourself..
A tip I'd recommened when tuning for tire wear is to test using RAIN tires. Rain tires wear out in like 2 minutes so you can get a very good idea of how your tires look after like 2 laps.
The object is to make all four of your tires wear out as EVENLY AS POSSIBLE.
Some of the important aspects that need tuning is Camber Angle, Toe Angle, Anti-Roll bars, and Downforce and even Brake controller. I wouldn't worry too much about LSD when it comes to oval raicng. Setting gear ratios and making your 4th gear run low RPMs is also a good idea.
Anyway good luck.
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I'll have to disagree with you on the LSD. It does more than you might think on the ovals. This often overlooked or just completely misunderstood when it comes to adjusting this for oval racing, especially for endurance setups. I spent many hours testing LSD settings.
 
KB18FAN
I'll have to disagree with you on the LSD. It does more than you might think on the ovals. This often overlooked or just completely misunderstood when it comes to adjusting this for oval racing, especially for endurance setups. I spent many hours testing LSD settings.
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I've tried different LSD settings. 5-5-5, 60-60-60, 60-60-5, 30-30-30.
Noticed absolutely nothing. But I have my Daytona setup just fine so I'm not too woried about it. :sly:
 
RedPartyhat
I've tried different LSD settings. 5-5-5, 60-60-60, 60-60-5, 30-30-30.
Noticed absolutely nothing. But I have my Daytona setup just fine so I'm not too woried about it. :sly:
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You have noticed nothing? Well this has to be the first time I have ever seen a post that says LSD does nothing.If it does nothing then give the man your LSD settings, it shouldn't really matter then should it.After all it does nothing.
 
killerjimbag
You have noticed nothing? Well this has to be the first time I have ever seen a post that says LSD does nothing.If it does nothing then give the man your LSD settings, it shouldn't really matter then should it.After all it does nothing.
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Its 5-5-5..?
 
RedPartyhat
I've tried different LSD settings. 5-5-5, 60-60-60, 60-60-5, 30-30-30.
Noticed absolutely nothing. But I have my Daytona setup just fine so I'm not too woried about it. :sly:
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then what you should do is run 60 60 60 at daytona in the practice area
save your ghost of your best lap
then turn down to 5 5 5 and i assure you
your lap time will be faster

for me daytona i set 5 5 5
indy 60 30 20
 
I agree with KB, the LSD is a important parts on the ovals. The LSD is how I get my car to suck up so well at Daytona. Just the other day I was racing a clean online race with week slupstrem and no boost. I was 10th going through turn 4 and all of a sudden the car was GOING, didn't get a bump, there was no crash ahead. Flew up through the middle and was side by side for 3rd at line. The LSD is how I got it to do that.

I to am struggling with tire wear however. The car runs great and is fast but the tires are done on about lap 9, and since the most popular distance is 11 laps it's a problem for me. It's confussing me because the camber and toe angle are all at 0 which I thought was traditionally good for tire wear. I'm wondering if it's my downforce, which is currently at the lowest possible setting, and/or maybe ride height, which is 15/15. Anybody know if I should be running higher downforce and/or lower ride height?
 
Higher downforce helps tire wear, but slows your lap times down. We had a kind of cool time trial session in a room last night with some of the bigger late night names. We all got to qualify and had the lineup based on fastest first. Was a nice change. As for ride.height it appears to be personal preference, I have quite a few other guys set ups and a handful of them are really fast guys and there appears to be quite a range of what you can get away with to suit your driving style and still be juat as fast as the guy next to you.
 
I'm gonna play with the downforce, see what I can do. Ride height always bothers me because I feel like it should work like downforce but it doesn't. Normally in really life you want to be the closest to the ground you can get without bottoming out. However today I was testing at the Motegi oval and I dropped the ride height down and lost about 4 tenths average. It's wasn't bottoming out but it felt rugged.

The lack of steering wheel may be contributing to my tire wear problems, though I guess I'm pretty stable with the joystick after a year and a half.
 
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I've been using a controller since GT1, I dont have Motegi track and not sure if your talking 30 there or Daytona. Regardless A higher ride height = higher top speed. Now I tested this on various tracks. (raiseing ride height.) So far this DOES NOT benefit on normal courses. Dropping height = higher corner speed, but lower top end. My personal ride height I prefer is 15 front 10 rear. The lower rear increased top speed slightly. Also with the front higher it creates understeer, which for controller users is great. Many factors come into play for saving tires. But by far toe and camber and downforce play a critical part. Ride height is just for handling really which can help tires.
 
Amac500
I agree with KB, the LSD is a important parts on the ovals. The LSD is how I get my car to suck up so well at Daytona. Just the other day I was racing a clean online race with week slupstrem and no boost. I was 10th going through turn 4 and all of a sudden the car was GOING, didn't get a bump, there was no crash ahead. Flew up through the middle and was side by side for 3rd at line. The LSD is how I got it to do that.

Finally, someone that understands how the LSD works on ovals. People always wondered why my car was so good in the draft, lol. Well, there's your answer.
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Way back, but w/o my understeer I wouldnt b able to hold a line. when tires low, id take the understeer before oversteer. Also when I say understeer I dont mean I cant turn, more like I just hold my analog w/ the same pressure to hold a consistent line.
 
Same as my online, hot lap setup, this was when PSN was down so it was only option, no aids except ABS 1, tire wear on and real grip. This was also during the 50 lap setups before they updated tire wear, when tires used to start wearing around lap 5 to lap 7.
 
Amac500
I agree with KB, the LSD is a important parts on the ovals. The LSD is how I get my car to suck up so well at Daytona. Just the other day I was racing a clean online race with week slupstrem and no boost. I was 10th going through turn 4 and all of a sudden the car was GOING, didn't get a bump, there was no crash ahead. Flew up through the middle and was side by side for 3rd at line. The LSD is how I got it to do that.
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KB18FAN
Finally, someone that understands how the LSD works on ovals. People always wondered why my car was so good in the draft, lol. Well, there's your answer.
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Could you guys help me to tune LSD correctly? Actually I confess I can't "feel" difference in car behavior when I chnge LSD yet. Currently I'm using the extreme max. 60/60/60 just copied from someone's tune here on GTP.

It seems it is doing well. My best lap at Daytona is 41.7. offline running solo.

If you can, pleas take a look in my thread opened few days ago about a 80 laps Dayonta race.
https://www.gtplanet.net/forum/showthread.php?t=259672
 
I once saw this guy have a tune that his tires and fuel wouldn't run out for 100 laps... and no he's not a hacker.
 

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