Does anybody else just enjoy driving their cars in stock form . Just as they come from the dealer . Don't have anything against tuning at all but with the road cars it just seems to spoil it for me .
I always keep my cars stock except for tires (depending on the race). In some cases, you have to upgrade the cars, so I just use upgrades that I can revert back to stock.
I like to do this with race cars, especially GT300 and GT500 class cars. I give them an oil change only and then "race'em as I got'em" to see how they do. I've been starting to do this more with premium stock cars as well. Especially, the 86 GT '12. A real nice car right out of the gate. 👍
As far if the Road cars 450-550pp'ish go.
Just sport tuning parts To get it to a good pp limit whilst not overdoing it . (exhaust,Intake,lsd ). No weight reduction. No engine tune. No wing.
Suspention only if the car hasnt got sporty setup.
Like the M3 CSL dont change suspention at all.
4x4's Lsd And front rear power changable thingy To make it oversteer
Does anybody else just enjoy driving their cars in stock form . Just as they come from the dealer . Don't have anything against tuning at all but with the road cars it just seems to spoil it for me .
Premium cars, I have all of them tuned, most with carbon hoods, wings and all and stock versions with the first colors they come in, no oil change, no nothing. As a matter of fact, I made a new favorite list, it's now all my stock premium cars, that way, I only use them in arcade or online, thus preserving them from any "useless" mileage.
If I like a car's drive, I'll keep it stock, but sometimes I really get irked by that built-in understeer, and will tune it out; I'm an oversteer kind of guy. The 2005 & 2007 Minis being the pinnacle of my understeer existence, but I'm not alone, because I've seen a lot of forums in which real life Mini owners complain about massive understeer and how to correct. Unfortunately, one of those fixes isn't available in GT5, as it has to do with adjusting tire pressure.
I hope we get a physics update with a more advanced tire modeling.
I like tuning. I also like Recommended Garage 1-make racing, and Shuffle racing. And it's nice to have some races with tuning prohibited so you can spend more time racing, and less time preparing.