Three Hundred Miles Per Hour

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I almost broke my PS2 today. I hit 307.07mph with my Supra, and I was extremely frustrated:mad:. I also made a promise to myself that, if I break the record, i'll set the Supra as my new av :D. The Chapparal's also at 308.xx, but it's not very consistent :indiff:.

And congrats to Crimson for the new promotion and a child! 👍 I just looked at his photobucket, very cool ultrasounds!

-Macca

Edit: I kept to my promises! Funny how my Chapparal speed gets improved 6 months later, yet all others were improved quickly. I'll tell you what, the Supra seems to be at its very limit compared to all the other records. It took the perfect line and perfect gear shift, and most of the time that wasn't enough.
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Somehow, the Supra speed is not only directly underneath my Vertigo, it's also directly above the previous Supra record! I'll go for a full 20 speeds, 3 to go :D. Probably the S-tune, SRT-10 and (possibly) the R89C. I shall see what I think after my holiday, leaving on Tuesday, coming back on 3rd October. :)
 
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mcsqueegy
I almost broke my PS2 today. I hit 307.07mph with my Supra, and I was extremely frustrated:mad:.
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What is it with the Supra RZ and broken PS2's? Have we uncovered some kind of a curse?

mcsqueegy
I'll tell you what, the Supra seems to be at its very limit compared to all the other records. It took the perfect line and perfect gear shift, and most of the time that wasn't enough.
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I don't think the Supra is at it's limit yet (though it's getting that way). If you really want a car at its limit, that Chaparral 2D is probably the closest; even pulling a 0.01 improvement in that thing can take days of tuning.

Congrats on the 'mini-menace' crimson, and also on the promotion. Good to see both yourself and opendriver making a welcome appearance in here. Hopefully we can tempt you back into the old high speed action. :)

I'm also settling into a new job (though I can't match you with a little MontserStorm), but I had to move here by train and could not carry the Playstation 2 with me. I've now upgraded to a PS3, but apparently it won't play PS2 games. Looks like you won't be seeing any records from me until Christmas probably. I'll of course keep giving my advice and comments here though. :dopey:

Anyhow, congrats to everyone all their progress, both on the track and in life itself. 👍
 
I was wondering where you went MS. Long time, no see :). What was more frustrating about the Supra for me though: I'd overused it, and I was sooo close to getting a better run. Thanfully i'd bought another one without remembering, and I was safe. But my frustration didn't stop me from overturning my PS2 (it was off, of course). Perhaps you'll give it another shot in a few months?? That woulda been horrific, not being able to use your Supra when all other cars were fine. It's definitely a curse, then :dopey:

New progress: 300.61 in the Viper, 304.xx with the S-tune, and i've done a quick 342 in the R89C, but that's had the least effort. When I come back from a tropical holiday (I can't help mentioning it) there shall be new speeds from me. I thoroughly deserved the Supra record, as it's had so much effort. Anyway, have fun...

-Macca

P.S. I found another new car for the leaderboard. Wait till I get back ;)
 
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About a week or so ago, I decided to take a go at 300 MPH with my 6.2 mile special 1995 Mistubishi 3000GT VR-4, modded to a max of 900 HP at the "Get In" menu.
Didn't mess too much with the settings. Here's what I used:
Nitro-max power
Suspension-Racing, lowered maximum amount game permits
Transmission-Autoset 25, Final Drive ration of 2.500 (approximation)
VCD-90% power to rear wheels
Downforce-maximum at rear

NOTES:
-It seems to get a second wind at around 260-270, which caught me offguard the first time I made an attempt at 300.


Final result of 302.07 MPH (I can do a lot better, I know that, but I just wanted to see if I could go 300 MPH):
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First thing I saw on this page was Opendriver's new avatar.. Nehalem, anyone? Apparently it's stable at well over 4.0GHz. Excessive or what.. :cool:

Anyway. Great work in both the Supra and the Chaparral, Macca, I know neither of those came easily! The Chaparral in particular is a massive improvement, excellent job. I also know I'm shockingly late to wish you happy holidays, but, have a great time! :D

Hi there SecretAgentZero, nice to see another new tuner using a road car to start with! Just a formality I have to deal with with all new members, I need you to confirm that you've read all of the rules outlined in Post #1, and followed them all when making your run. 👍

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Dark Elite
Hi there SecretAgentZero, nice to see another new tuner using a road car to start with! Just a formality I have to deal with with all new members, I need you to confirm that you've read all of the rules outlined in Post #1, and followed them all when making your run. 👍
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I read them all (too many times to count) and they've been followed.
 
with people saying manual is better as you can hold gears longer try running an auto but hold down R2 the car wont change gear let go it will chage gear .... get what im saying? its helped me alot :sly::sly:
 
But that method isn't perfect and some of us short-shift the first couple of gears to minimise wheelspin if we don't have TCS set on the car, something you CANNOT do with an auto. ;)
 
I seem to remember saying that three years ago, actually :) let's read back and see if I'm senile or not :p
EDIT - Nope, post number six :cool:

Oh, and Mafs - some of us use our right foot (made out of something other than lead) to control the old wheelspin :sly:

Hehe. Couldn't resist. I know plenty of high-speed setups really do want short-shifting in the low gears, and you're probably better at controlling it than me too, but the standard knee-jerk response to anyone complaining of wheelspin is "throttle is not digital input" ;)

DE
 
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I broke 300mph for the first time today!

Having never really tried before i was given the perfect oppertunity to have a go after i won the toyota minolta 88-cv race car. I strapped on a lanet sized turbo and an oil change (aswell as nitrous) and headed for the track, without touching any settings i managed 267.2 on my first try, already faster then all of my cars apart from my skyline and viper (both high 280's), after lengthening the gears and lowering the ride height, aswell as adjusting suspension to be slightly softer to stop the car going everywhere in the corners (new controller is very lively so its either really left on in the wall;)) i hit 297.3 mph.

I went for the retry and turned the car around and drove to the end of the corner behind the start line, 0-60 in 2.8 secs dead and hitting 200mph in under 10 seconds meant that i hit the first corner at 262 mph, i held tight and went for the straight, by the time i came out of the bridge the speedo already read 297 mph, a few seconds later i was there! 313.6 mph!!!!!!!!!!

I know this is no major achievment in the eyes of you high speed veterans, but this was the first real attempt i had ever had, so i had almost no knowledge of high speed tuning.

I know that much more can be achieved, but i really cant be bothered to try ;)
 
Dark Elite
I seem to remember saying that three years ago, actually :) let's read back and see if I'm senile or not :p
EDIT - Nope, post number six :cool:

Oh, and Mafs - some of us use our right foot (made out of something other than lead) to control the old wheelspin :sly:

Hehe. Couldn't resist. I know plenty of high-speed setups really do want short-shifting in the low gears, and you're probably better at controlling it than me too, but the standard knee-jerk response to anyone complaining of wheelspin is "throttle is not digital input" ;)

DE
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:lol: I know mate, I'm usually the first with the "learn how to throttle control" comment, especially with using the DS2 (take that G25 drivers!! :p). :sly: I'm thinking outside the box to help the new guys that's all. :dopey:

BTW.....woohoo, 7300 posts!! Congrats DE. 👍
 
Congratulations, Fluke! Nice to see a little report too, so many people just wander in, post a photo and say "put me on the Leaderboard", so this is a nice change ;)

Should we expect any more from you, or can you terminally not be bothered to tune further? :p

mafia_boy
:lol: I know mate, I'm usually the first with the "learn how to throttle control" comment, especially with using the DS2 (take that G25 drivers!! :p). :sly: I'm thinking outside the box to help the new guys that's all. :dopey:

BTW.....woohoo, 7300 posts!! Congrats DE. 👍
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Hehe, yeah, I was always a DS2 user as well. And people say you don't get the fine control with it.. :sly:

Haha, thanks - suppose it's lucky we haven't had a congratulation message for every hundred posts, or we'd be nearing 7400 purely from those :dopey:

I was thinking more that, if you were to read a page of this thread every day to try and catch up with it all, you wouldn't be done within the year ;)

Sam
 
im going to have another go, which is why i havent yet posted a picture, despite never tuning a car for high speed seriously before i expect to aim for about 330mph, im going to keep toggling everything until i get faster and faster!

Its a real challenge too, with drift tuning you make an adjustment here and there and have a quick go, you know after a couple of corners where you stand, but with this you have to do an entire run before you know wether it made a difference or not. Very challenging.

currently at 320.49 - thought it was good until i realised that i had spent 4 hours improving my speed by only 7mph! I really dont know how i can improve my speed, i have no clue about suspension tuning for top speed! I just mess with the gearing.
 
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DE, If they started reading the thread that way on January 1st this year they might still have a chance, it being a leap year and all. :p
 
Fluke, you're absolutely right as far as the time required is concerned.. This certainly can get a bit frustrating, when it takes at least two or three runs to get an idea of what a particular setup change has made. With loading times as well, that gives about five minutes for every single little tweak.. And there are a lot to make!

The best thing for you to do is put in random, extreme suspension settings and see what happens. Then, once you've got a general idea, you can start to fine-tune it..

Mafs, you assume we won't have left this page by the end of the year ;)

DE
 
Sorry for not doing much about this thread lately... but now I hold six speeds! Four which i'll put up now, the other two (Gillet Vertigo and Audi RS4) at another time.
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Hopefully they're all readable...

-Macca
 
It's much easier if you put the whole lot up at once, you know ;)

But, seriously, it's nice to see some more speeds from you. The Viper and the Merc are jumping into strong positions, and the Chaparral is inching ever closer to the top spot :p
Well done for increasing your lead in the Ford by such an amount, too :cool:

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DE
 
Drat! I got 250mph with the Spyker, but that was only in 5th gear, I'm sure if I found a way to utilize all 6 gears, the Spyker would hit 300mph.
 
To be honest, I don't think it can do 300 . It has less then 700bhp, doesn't it?? Anyways, I found another car that can do 300, and it's one of the JGTC Supras. (I don't get how the racing ones have 100bhp nitrous and the road one has only 70) . There's anothe one that does 298, too. And I didn't put up the Audi RS4 and Gillet, because they both can be improved by more than 0.01mph this time ;)

-Macca
 
the Spyker C8 has an Audi V8 in it boasting 400bhp. tuned it is about 640 or so. But the Subaru has less than 700hp and I've seen it on the 300mpg list. Anyways, I don't think it can either. I think 250mph is it's top speed.
 
The number of cylinders doesn't actually matter, as far as I know, it's the displacement - ask MasterStorm, I think it was him that came up with the exact figures that decide how powerful the nitrous systems are for given displacements. Although I wouldn't call the number a brake horsepower increase, more like a percentage increase :p

The Spec.C Impreza is a well-known oddity, as are (not as much, but still to an extent) all four-wheel-drive cars. The Spyker has neither of those benefits, and has never really been considered as a 300mph hopeful.

Nice work with the Viper, though, Shouden! 👍

DE
 
Building on what DE said, all cylinder count really changes is engine smoothness (with exceptions). A V12 is no more efficient than a V8 by default.
The exceptions refer to valve count, inertia and friction.
 
Getting slightly off topic here - you've intrigued me a bit. Assuming the engines are made in the same way with the same components, giving equal intertia and friction, and to equal total capacities - is a 32-valve V8 more or less efficient than a 48-valve V12? Both four valves per cylinder, but does the higher actual number of valves make the twelve a 'better' engine? I'm guessing so, and that you'd actually need 48 valves in your V8 to make it equal - six valves per cylinder, there's a nice concept :p - but I'm not certain. In practice, of course, it's a lot more complex, but I'm thinking just in theory here.

DE
 

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