Hardest FR car to drive?

[AE86Driver]

*sighs* oh well...I'll just put this then!ah,frustrating!


AE86Driver

P.S. why you ask? don't... lol

 

[Zero]

No the Toyota GT-1 Racecar is MR.

The Speed 12 is not THAT hard to drive. I used it for the Polyphony Digital Cup everytime I ran it. I think the worst FR to drive is the V8 Vantage.

 

[12sec. Civic]

OK, Halfrace you are nuts. The Veritigo is maybe the best Race Car in the game, it handles like a clumsy F1 with full NA tune to 760hp.

The AM V12 Vanquish is one of my top 20 fave cars in GT3 and mine has over 500miles. I love that car, and if you cant drive it, then so help me god! It is one of the few Supercars in GT3 along the same lines as a Diablo or 550Marranello, these cars are rare in GT3, because most are run of the mill sports cars on the more frugal side of the spectrum.

Anyways, the WORST FR cars are: Aston Martin V8 Vantage, Shelby Cobra

Has anyone held the brakes on the V8 Vantage after a long straight away until you come to a dead stop?


DO this: Take the V8 Vantage to a long straight away, build up a decent amount of speed, then get on the brakes until you come to a complete stop. The brakes or tires overload with weight and they lock up pretty bad right as you come to a stop. Is this meant to be? Is this the only car in GT3 that does this?

 

[halfracedrift]

Hey that was before my restart... now i just love the vert.... lol
ps: and why am i nuts?

 

[mayorbill11]

Originally posted by Race Idiot
Have you ever heard of not ramming your foot to the floor when your in first gear?

have you ever heard of a controller?

 

[Sage]

The Vertigo's a piece of cake to drive.

I used to think that the TVR Speed 12 was a beast to behold, but actually, once you get used to the pudding brakes and learn proper throttle modulation, it's relatively easy to control. (Relatively...)

I've never gotten used to the V8 Vantage though... the other two Astons (Vanquish and DB7) are okay to drive except that they are a lil' hefty, but the V8 Vantage needs to lose some serious weight... and I hate how the rear end gets squiggly under heavy braking (which is what you're doing most of the time, since it's so darn heavy!). I imagine that a little practice on it would make it fairly tamable. (Is that a word?)

The Shebly Cobra gets my vote for a true beast... a small one at that. It's much like a miniature TVR Speed 12, but has the major disadvantage of a squishy suspension, which often causes the tires to lose valuable traction. I've tried running a stock Cobra without TCS and ASM on Laguna Seca, and, unless you don't mind going really slow, you're practically gauranteed to spin out. However, I also tried stiffening the suspension substantionally, and that helped a lot.

Anybody ever tried using a stock Mercedes CL600? Gawd, that thing rolls!

 

[ving]

Originally posted by halfracedrift
Hey that was before my restart... now i just love the vert.... lol
ps: and why am i nuts?

cause it says so in your signature...



































made you look

 

[-Fred-]

i'm surprised no one mentionned the Toyota Supra... it's a pain when tuned, but it's also very "bad" when stock. Power oversteer out of every turn, etc...

suspension and tires are the most important mods on that car.

 

[ving]

nah the supra is ok... not as good as the rx7 rz tho, but still ok

 

[halfracedrift]

It sez it in my signature? well i'm reaaly confused now...

 

[WhiteCharisma85]

If not said already, pretty mad but...

The Dodge Viper GTS-R Concept

 

[GT40racer]

Fully modded Mustang, Vanquish, Viper, mostly any road going cars that can have high hp but don't start with that much.

 

[Vasco]

Fully bhped out Viper Concept!

 

[halfracedrift]

How come people refer to the horsepower as BHP instead of HP.....
i thought BHP was the STOCK hp that a car has..... ( i think the B stands for base?)

 

[Vasco]

Brake Horsepower...

 

[GT40racer]

brake meaning at the flywheel not at the wheels

 

[12sec. Civic]

It is called brake horsepower. What they do is hook the engine up to a cylindrical object that gets spun around by the engine. They take the engine to each rpm and slowly apply brakes to this spinning cylinder until the engine starts to lose rpm, then the computer measures how many foot-lbs of torque the engine had at that rpm, and they know how much torque it was because the computer knows how much torque it would take to keep spinning at that certain amount of braking.


Then when they get the torque figures for each rpm they multiply the torque by the rpm it was produced at and then divide by 5,252. This formula is written as TorqueXRPM/5252 this formula is the formula for Horsepower.


If a diesel truck is creating lets say 500ft-lbs TQ at 3,500rpm and that is close to its redline then take 500X3,500/5252= 333hp which isnt much.

Or lets say you have some high revving rotary or VTEC motor. Lets say this engine is making 150ft-lbs TQ at 10,500rpm so that is 150 X 10,500 / 5252= 300hp


It is easy to see that you could have a small little VTEC 4 cyl or rotary that is actually more powerful than some stump pulling diesel truck engine. Power is how much work the engine can do, and work is how much weight can be moved a certain distance over a certain amount of time.

 

[halfracedrift]

Now we can all see that 12 sec civic has a wide range of car knowledge, agreed?