This is NOT Trueno Boy's challenge.

[Talentless]

Grand valley 2 with an ff car that costs under 25,000. You may spend up to 75,000 on parts.

Fury, how the bleep did you manage a time like yours in der alta's thread about me and his challenge so early?

 

[Talentless]

Originally posted by FuryX21
For some reason, I'm not allowed to view the "Remove the curse" post that you (AE86) made, but I was able to view it before. I did the challenge and am therefore posting it here.

Car Used: Honda CR-X del Sol

Parts/Purchases:
Full Suspension Kit
Semi-Racing Muffler
NA Tune Up Stage 2
Port Polish
CPU Chip
Twin Plate Clutch
Racing Flywheel
Soft Tires
Lightweight Stage 1
Oil Change

Total: $74,550

Grand Valley Speedway II

Best Lap Time (after 6 laps): 2'03.627
Top Speed: 137mph
Low Speed: 39mph
Speed at Start/Finish Line: 123mph

T1: 0'26.208
T2: 0'58.872
T3: 1'26.156

This is probably not the best car to use for this challenge, but I didn't base my car choice on that but rather which was my favorite. The combination of low power (like 262hp) with the soft tires made for some more than capable handling, and the understeer was, for the most part, a non-factor. However, I probably ran the suspension a little too stiff which resulted in the car jumping a bit when i went over the rumble strips at the chicane. With the right car choice and tuning, I expect this time to be beat.



*My 1 year anniversary of being here at GTPlanet! Woohoo!

 

[FuryX21]

Are you talking about the one w/ the NSX?

 

[Talentless]

Yep.

 

[FuryX21]

Well, besides striving for the best time possible, really the key is to analyze your car's strengths and weaknesses and buy the correct parts to compensate. So seeing as how the del Sol is quite underpowered and also FF, my main focus was to improve the power output while also making sure the car could handle well enough to eliminate the understeer. If you check out Loud Music's $150,000 challenge, you can see some tips I was giving to Der Alta on how to improve his time. Besides that, having played the GT series extensively since GT1 sure helps.