Help with a tune? Advice/review appreciated

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First I'd like to give some background: I only got GT5 a week ago, and have only been playing 3 and 4 for about a year and a half, so I am far from the best tuner (or driver). I was looking for a car to use in the Japanese Classics series and found this car in the Used lot so I figured it was fate and plus it looked cool so hey I'll give it a shot, right? I bought it then looked here for a tune for it and only found one, from Sept '11. Knowing a lot has happened since then I was a little worried the tune wouldn't work very well, but I gave it a shot and found that it actually ran pretty well, and then I stopped and thought "Hey, I've been wanting to get into proper, original tuning for a while now, why not use this as an opportunity and a base to work from?"

And so that is what this is, a retune of an Aardvark tune from a year and a half ago, though really the only thing I kept from the original is the transmission.

Nissan Fairlady 240ZG (HS30) '71
Final numbers: 277 HP, 1000 kg, 409 PP.

Purchased from UCD.
Engine and chassis restored at GT Auto.

Fully upgraded sans weight reductions.

Downforce:
0 / 18

Suspension:
-20 / -15
7.5 / 8.5
5 / 6
4 / 5
3 / 3
2.5 / 2.5
-0.20 / +0.10

LSD:
16
7
7

Breaks:
6 / 6

Transmission:
Default
Top Speed to 168
3.500
2.250
1.760
1.380
1.110
1.000
4.000

I used Grand Valley East as my testing track and managed a time of 1‘14.1“ but as I said earlier I know I'm not the best driver so I'm quite sure that time could be improved upon.
 
While that's helpful. You probably want tips for the future. Not just someone handing you a tune. First of all. You want minimum oversteer so you want softer spring rate in the back(only for FR) you want the ride height even. Maybe the back a tiny but lower. Also, the toe, usually what I do is put both at 0.00 then depending on if its over steering(positive rear toe) or understeering(negative front toe) And camber, do what feels right.
 
Adrenaline
Bad tuning advice, is worse that no advice at all.
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Sorry, if I could actually talk to the guy I could explain it better. I should stop giving advice while doing other things. Honestly it depends on the car and do what feels right. You'll end up figuring it out. Not you adrenaline. The outer guy. But then again. What do I know. I'm just a stupid piece of crap.
 
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Girls, girls, you're both pretty.

Thanks, priano, for that tune; I didn't see it on AdrenaTune so now I have a 2.10 tune from a very well-established tuner to test ghosts against mine with today. I did a quick couple laps with it last night and was getting a bit of wheelspin, like the LSD was off, but I can't recall at the moment if it was in or out.
 
After doing some more driving I noticed priano's tune had inside wheelspin in the first corner of GVE if I mashed the accelerator, which meant both our tunes had the LCD set too low, so I went back to mine and got very slight outside wheelspin at 12 so set it to 11 instead of either my original 7 or priano's 10.

Doing lots of vs ghost runs I just wasn't able to catch my tune with priano's, so I'm gonna have to say that, for my driving style and on GVE, my tune works pretty well.

I noticed I forgot to mention tires earlier, so I'll note now that I've been running Sport Soft the whole time.
 

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