Fast cars that stick to the road like Glue ?

[theVenerable]

Sorry, I already posted this question, but I posted in the wrong forum, So I'll try again.

I've been trying out a few different cars, and tunings.

Quite a few are good fun to drive, but so far I've only found two that are fast-ish, yet stick to the road like glue.
The Dodge Challenger R/T Race Car '70 - This is fairly fast after tuning, breaks well, & doesn't skid much
And the Tesla Model S Signature Performance '12 - Not as fast but handles so well again.

Does anyone know of any faster cars that handle as good as these?
I don't mind having to tune them- as long as I can find a suitable thread on said car ! I wouldn't know how to manually tune.

Someone suggested I use racing soft tyres on any car, they surely help, but they don't always work miracles. Also in some races I'm not allowed to use racing softs.

My dodge challenger I mentioned seems to perform well in any race.
Thanks to one of the tunes I found in this forum.

Thanks

 

[Sick Cylinder]

Sorry, I already posted this question, but I posted in the wrong forum, So I'll try again.

I've been trying out a few different cars, and tunings.

Quite a few are good fun to drive, but so far I've only found two that are fast-ish, yet stick to the road like glue.
The Dodge Challenger R/T Race Car '70 - This is fairly fast after tuning, breaks well, & doesn't skid much
And the Tesla Model S Signature Performance '12 - Not as fast but handles so well again.

Does anyone know of any faster cars that handle as good as these?
I don't mind having to tune them- as long as I can find a suitable thread on said car ! I wouldn't know how to manually tune.

Someone suggested I use racing soft tyres on any car, they surely help, but they don't always work miracles. Also in some races I'm not allowed to use racing softs.

My dodge challenger I mentioned seems to perform well in any race.
Thanks to one of the tunes I found in this forum.

Thanks

The Camaro Z28 1969 race car laps faster than the Dodge Challenger 1970 - about 1 second for an average 90 second lap at the same PP.

Personally I would try to avoid race soft tyres unless you are after an unrealistic Need For Speed type experience. Race hard tyres can be fun on high power race cars, but most race cars handle well enough on standard settings that sports tyres will be fine.

The LCC Rocket probably has the best handling in the game and has incredible levels of grip so it can be raced on comfort hard tyres on standard settings or if you raise the power a slightly grippier tyre.

The Alfa Romeo TZ2 - very expensive - has incredible grip levels for amazing corner speed.

 

[theVenerable]

The Camaro Z28 1969 race car laps faster than the Dodge Challenger 1970 - about 1 second for an average 90 second lap at the same PP.

Personally I would try to avoid race soft tyres unless you are after an unrealistic Need For Speed type experience. Race hard tyres can be fun on high power race cars, but most race cars handle well enough on standard settings that sports tyres will be fine.

The LCC Rocket probably has the best handling in the game and has incredible levels of grip so it can be raced on comfort hard tyres on standard settings or if you raise the power a slightly grippier tyre.

The Alfa Romeo TZ2 - very expensive - has incredible grip levels for amazing corner speed.

Thanks, the Camaro is great.
I was trying to follow someones tuning settings, and once again can't get the same ratio numbers they recoomend.
I don't see how I can set the speed he reccomends, without having to use different gear ratios.
I keep getting this problem:


[QUOTE="Transmission

Max. Speed:
112 mph
1st Gear:
2.882
2nd Gear:
2.058
3rd Gear:
1.516
4th Gear:
1.158
5th Gear:
0.955
Final Gear:
2.981
Special Instructions:
this trany has a trick name flip all u do is take max speed to 112 then move final gear to the top speed u want[/QUOTE]

If I do as he says, and set the speed to 112mph its not possible to get his ratios.
Can't get my head around this.

 

[eran0004]

Thanks, the Camaro is great.
I was trying to follow someones tuning settings, and once again can't get the same ratio numbers they recoomend.
I don't see how I can set the speed he reccomends, without having to use different gear ratios.
I keep getting this problem:


Max. Speed:
112 mph
1st Gear:
2.882
2nd Gear:
2.058
3rd Gear:
1.516
4th Gear:
1.158
5th Gear:
0.955
Final Gear:
2.981
Special Instructions:
this trany has a trick name flip all u do is take max speed to 112 then move final gear to the top speed u want

If I do as he says, and set the speed to 112mph its not possible to get his ratios.
Can't get my head around this.

If it's the flip trick you need to set final drive to max before you set the speed. Then set the ratios, and in the end you set the final drive.

In any case, I don't think it really matters that much with the Camaro, because it has such a flat power curve (especially if you use the supercharger) that it will do just fine with the standard gear ratios.

 

[TT92]

Personally I would try to avoid race soft tyres unless you are after an unrealistic Need For Speed type experience. Race hard tyres can be fun on high power race cars, but most race cars handle well enough on standard settings that sports tyres will be fine.

It is always pleasant to read comments like this from people who have a proper understanding about the tyres in this game.

My rough rule of thumb is:
All race cars SS
All street cars over 500PP SH
Street cars 400-500PP CS
All low powered stuff CM

I would like to use CH BUT the tyre squeal is too much to bear ;-)

BTW my friends and I regularly race Rockets on CS tyres with a gentlemen's agreement to leave them stock BUT allow the gearbox to be altered for each track. This is about as much fun as you can have in this game :-) You would be surprised at how many corners 3 rockets wide will fit around :-) :-) :-)

Lastly I did read on here once someone posted a tyre guide something like this:

RS = arcade type grip
RH = real life qualifying slicks
SS = normal race slicks
SH = track only sports tyres
CS = very grippy street/track tyres
CM = high performance street tyres

 

[theVenerable]

You'll be pleased to know that while I ask for cars that stick to the road like glue, I don't want to 'cheat' too much.

I tried the Camaro sports, tuned it, and even on racing hards it sticks like glue.
I shaved off about 2.5 seconds per lap compared to my beloved tuned Dodge Challenger Race '70
Almost feels like I'm still cheating!
Can't imagine what racing softs would be like - driving through molasses perhaps.

Awesome tips, thanks guys

So..
I have my Teslo Model S for 500pp races.
My Dodge and Camaro for 600pp

Any recommendations for the 700 + races?