Whats the purpose of.....

[KrypticLyfe]

What's the purpose (benefit) of spending $1 million total for the chassis maintenance and engine overhaul if it doesn't improve your HP nor PP?

 

[Danny]

The chassis refresh usually neatens up the handling on high-mileage cars that flop around more than they should. Since it's not really a speed-based upgrade (as opposed to HP gains) it won't really affect the PP.

The engine refresh is more useful for regaining lost HP through mega-high miles. After the running-in period, the engine will eventually lose power, hence why the used cars often have a fair bit to gain from it. Try engine rebuild on something with high miles and you'll see the difference. Also if it's come to $1m, I'll assume you've looked at it on something fast and new, maybe the X1. It's not nearly that expensive for (most) road cars.

 

[KrypticLyfe]

Ok thx. And yeah, I'm looking at it for my X2011 prototype and a few other new cars. Makes sense now. Thx again

 

[XS]

Just be careful. I did the chassis refresh for my Formula GT and was amazed at how much more predictable and stable it was. Maybe it's in my head, but it even felt like there was a lot more forgiveness for on-throttle oversteer too. But, the exact opposite was true for my BMW LMR. The slop in the chassis actually made the car easier to drive. After chassis restore I had to tweak the suspension to get the car back to my liking. So, in my opinion, if you're satisfied with how the car handles then don't change it, after all like was pointed out, chassis restore does not increase performance.

 

[GODfreyGT5]

In an mx-5 TC tuning prohibited series I ran, we had an after-race messabout and things basically turned into a destruction derby. In a session the next day, our cars felt soft, and would roll significantly more in all directions, and the chassis restore solved this!

Makes me want to go and restore some of my favourite cars, they must be in a right state!

 

[Aquarelle]

In an mx-5 TC tuning prohibited series I ran, we had an after-race messabout and things basically turned into a destruction derby. In a session the next day, our cars felt soft, and would roll significantly more in all directions, and the chassis restore solved this!

Makes me want to go and restore some of my favourite cars, they must be in a right state!

Collisions have no effect on chassis rigidity.

 

[ElementRacer]

My mate said his RS6 once got to the point where it wouldn't even track straight, and it veered left slightly. He performed a Chassis restore and it apparently fixed the problem

 

[XS]

Really? My Toyota Sports 800 has 380,000km and drives just fine. My Charger with over 100,000km did handle better after the restore, but I've never seen a car pull to one direction, how many miles/km did it have?

 

[niky]

Moved to Q&A section.

 

[GMHV8]

I must be honest I did notice a difference on one of my premiums I recently done a chassis rebuild on, I don't often do it because I'm lazy but at the time this particular car had 2,000 kms on it so I done a chassis rebuild and it felt a bit better handling..even though 2,000 isn't a great deal.

As for engine rebuilds (or overhauls whatever you prefer to call it) I always do that about every 1,000 kms.

Just like in the real world.. you can't expect to own and run a race car without doing these things, a road car that gets driven around at a steady pace most of its life will take longer to wear out, whereas a car that gets hammered every single Km it gets driven will obviously wear out a lot sooner.


Quite a neat feature to have in the game especially for those who like realism.

 

[ElementRacer]

Really? My Toyota Sports 800 has 380,000km and drives just fine. My Charger with over 100,000km did handle better after the restore, but I've never seen a car pull to one direction, how many miles/km did it have?

I don't know specifically, but he uses it all the time (its his gt5 edition of the Mitsubishi GTO)

He does a lot of Drag and Circuit use in it, but he makes slight mistakes more often than not so it has a lot of experience with walls and barriers

 

[Johnnypenso]

My mate said his RS6 once got to the point where it wouldn't even track straight, and it veered left slightly. He performed a Chassis restore and it apparently fixed the problem

I highly doubt that. I've got a car or two with 300,000+ km on them and they drive fine, they are just a little loose and sloppy. Chassis restore tightens them up a bit.

 

[KrypticLyfe]

He does a lot of Drag and Circuit use in it, but he makes slight mistakes more often than not so it has a lot of experience with walls and barriers

LMBO!!!!! Love ur play on words there!

 

[nickg07]

You can feel the sway of a worn chassis more with a wheel I think. Chassis refresh helps to remove it. I only do it after a car is 40-50k miles. On road cars anyway.

If you are trying an engine rebuild and it shows the bhp and pp not increasing - don't do it!

 

[moolett]

The engine overhaul does improve PP and BHP if you've done quite a lot of miles. The Chassis thing makes the car more rigid.

 

[Harry6784]

The engine overhaul does improve PP and BHP if you've done quite a lot of miles. The Chassis thing makes the car more rigid.

I think over 3000 miles if just oil changes you need an overhaul, might be wrong tho.