traction control

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Why do people set traction control to 0???? When i set it on 0, it takes forever for my car to accelerate on first gear so i set it on 3.
what does setting traction control on 0 do for your car and why does it it screw up my car's acceleration??
 
..Turn it to zero. At 3 you're never going to drift, or at least you're not gunna drift very well. Put the car in manual, then it'll shift up fine.
 
because if it at zero teh TCS wont try to corecte your traction, its usefull for grip, see what it does if ur drifting, it will put torque to one the opposite wheel to make it straiten out, so if its on it defeatrs teh purpose of drifting lol because it will correct it
 
Originally posted by Infored
Why do people set traction control to 0???? When i set it on 0, it takes forever for my car to accelerate on first gear so i set it on 3.
what does setting traction control on 0 do for your car and why does it it screw up my car's acceleration??
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With traction control set to 0, this means the computer AI will do absolutely nothing to keep your tyres in better contact with the ground. Ergo, when you try to accelerate in first gear, you can't just floor it and expect to leap forward. If you try this in a decent RWD car in real life, you'll be sitting there for a few seconds with the tyres spinning like a moron, I think. I'm one of the few idiots I know who hasn't just floored it in 1st, for fear of damaging the car/me :P
 
lol, well it depends see TCS is also used on turns, like i said if your turning and ur rear wheels start slipping the TCS system will put more amount of torque on wheel or the toher to straiten it out...
 
dont put ur car's traction control to zero if u want acceleration. raise it a little bit and u should still be able to drift ur car.
 
most of the cars don't even have traction control in real life...and for any performance in real life, it is always turned off. unless of course you are dealing with less than favorable road conditions...


and to summarize..TCS gives you grip, drift does not require grip. turn it off. :rolleyes:
 
not really..not to THAT extent...... Sim tires are supposed to "simulate" Real tires..I know a 5 speed Rx-7 Fc3S with 300WHP isn't going to spin so bad it's 14 time is damn near 20 seconds....pretty fake
 
300HP isn't "ALOT" considering you canput a 13B-REW and have near that in the Fc3s.....With tweaking you'd get 300HP easily, and the wheels still wouldn't spin for the length of 400m like they do in the game..
 
You can always tell the people who don't know what the hell they are talking about, because Traction control will slow you down in a drift. ass.
 
Originally posted by trd_celica_jdm
because if it at zero teh TCS wont try to corecte your traction, its usefull for grip, see what it does if ur drifting, it will put torque to one the opposite wheel to make it straiten out, so if its on it defeatrs teh purpose of drifting lol because it will correct it
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Actually that's not what TCS does. That's what a Limited Slip Differential does.

TCS limits power to the slipping wheels by applying brake to that wheel. So, in most cars, TCS hurts acceleration because it is working the brakes against the engine. If you can only put the throttle down wide open, and don't know how to feather it, then TCS will help.

For cars under about 450 hp, I usually run TCS at zero. For cars with 450+ hp, I often run TCS at 1, but never higher.
 
For Drifting the most you should ever set the TCS at would be 1, 1 makes the car easier to control and keeps the tires from spinning but allows the car to still preforms semi-good Drifts
 
oh, i use tcs on 1-2 sometimes btw - i lied earlier, bbut only if i ever have the stupidity to use a high powered FF car.
 
ASM is always off for me ... only disabled it recently seeing all the people here talk about not having it.

TCS is always on 1 or 2, no matter what HP for me, the thing is, the better you get with control on the button-sensitive PS2 controller, the lower you can go ... :D
 
DRIFTING IS STUPID...... it may look cool but ur not gonna break ne track records wit it ... it slow........ having traction control ON is good you should set it at 1 or 2
 
Originally posted by neon_duke

TCS limits power to the slipping wheels by applying brake to that wheel.
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That's one way of doing it, and it's by far the worst. Limiting power output (by adjusting ignition timing, throttle etc.) is much more elegant. Whether you actually need TCS depends on power and grip. Some cars are, shall we say, more than a bit tail-happy at 300 hp with any amount of traction control, some need none at 500 hp, and that's just the FR cars.
 

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