haha, its a 25, but definitely some fun races, I'm getting so used to the car now.

Definitely need that playseat man.

hopefully I'll see you guys on today (last day of vacation, and its snowing so I'll keep the aggressive driving to gt)

Hum, subscription fail. Didn't know this thread was still active :D
This?

Damn I missed the battle! Crap.

I got the drift thing on LOCK so, bring it....lol.

Sport Tire races...hmm..haven't tried much in way of Sport tires. I have all sports and all racing tires purchased though.

Oh still, better than regular controller.

I'll try to log in before & after work.

You missed it, it was fun!

Yeah, sports tire is way harder to drive. Just wanna drift through the corner. lol

I think, I've bought all the tires on one of FT86c, but not all of my FT86c have every tires.

So I was the one new to this game. Gee.. relying on the driving line so much for proper braking. Anyhow, I probably need one extra ft-86 for sport tire and another one for the g sport. Somehow I find that the N/A one seems to be better handling.

Anyway, having too much power on sport tire is not for grip race.

@Ichi, thanks for the one-on-one lesson on tuning the car. I learned a lot about the suspension settings now. Just need to keep on trying.

Black flat surface. No detailing on the undercarriage, and probably for all the cars.

Damn looks like I missed a good session yest! I went on around 10:30ish PST and saw Jay, Ichi and Travis but went to the lounge and nobody was there.

Travis, how do you set it up for driftings? Is is only the brake bias all to the front?

I have the Rocketfish bluetooth bonded and all but I can't hear anything. Its connected to Settigns/Accessories Settings/Manage Blue Tooth Device and I could hear the volume button when I press it but no RX or TX!?! :iono:

#Edit-Found out the issue
{I just fought with mine for about half an hour and found this out, figured id help. When it says in the instructions to go into the Audio device settings page and change the level, below that it says input device and output device. you also have to change that to the RF-QX3. The instructions are a little vague on doing that. Then try talking and u should be able to hear yourself while on that page. good luck with that. hope it works}

^^Yeah I was just about to say, you need to change it in the Device Input/Output part.

Just upgraded the FT86c, now I need to adjust my trans.

Don't feel bad, you are not alone. I suck at braking on Gran Turismo too because I just cannot tell how fast I'm going due of how the camera works on that game. I'm sure I could learn to watch the speedometer, but that's just no fun for me.

I don't need the line for games like Grid and Dirt, but I have to have it on for GT.
Lame. You make me sad once again GT5.

Thanks too! My G's suspension isn't fully setup the way I want, so just having few laps behind you helped to see where need to be fixed.

Did you look in my lounge and not your lounge? Cuz, I know for sure, when you were on, others were on my lounge. O'well maybe we might be do the same.

I should be on same time as yesterday, so message me for race!

You know thats what I did! I looked in my lounge thinking its one community lounge, didn't see anybody and went on to play NBA2K11. :bellyroll:

I did notice a slight glitch. On the Community row, my pic isn't displayed. But when I scroll down till my s/n isn't visible then scroll back up, my s/n pic is there. It does it on ID, A and B tabs every time. Are you guys seeing the same thing?! Weird ish! :iono:

Hm... I don't have that problem

I'll be on playing GT5. Message me if you wanna do some racing.

most of the premium cars have fully modeled undercarriages.

In real life or in GT5? Here's my time lap in GT5 @ Tsukuba
http://i301.photobucket.com/albums/n...5/IMAG0091.jpg

but of course it's not stock. I've tuned it to max w full custom suspension. I'll buy another one & try to see

Update:
K, I just bought another FT86c (yes, I have now 3 FT86c & 2 G's FT86c). I ran 20 times (10 laps, take a break x2) and fastest time I got was 1:05.735 (if I didn't sneeze on last corner, would of shaved 0.2sec). Average time were around 1:05.8xx~06.6xx.

Lol sneezed hahaha
I borrowed a g27 from a friend of myn but quickly realized it's fortunate I didn't buy it cus my tv is in front of my bed lol no way to mount the wheel

Been a little bit busy lately, so haven't had time to jump on. I did put in an hour of practice last night and online races.

Ended my night (or should I say day, since it was like 2:00am), with finally a decent enough lap at the NurBurg. The lap was not 100% and I could shave off another full second or two when I learn the track some more. The first half of the track I have down, it's the Second half I'm learning now.

Nurburg Lap Time
FT-86 GSport 7:18.361

New Sector Section Drift Score for Tsukuba Circuit
FT86c 14,820pts

Hey give sick Jap some break. :bellyroll: I have some cold and sneezing like crazy for few days.

LOL that's funny. You can always change around to make it fit. I made my room to make sure to fit Playseat! Just the buying is different story. btw how different was it w G27 and regular controller?

I was running 1:06.XX on all stock except the middle suspension. No anti roll bar adjustment, and I just dropped it and went with -1.5/-1 camber front and rear, dampers 1 softer than max. A very 'stock' setup.

I figure it would represent an medium-ish tuned 'real' car (pessimistically assuming that the real car will be heavier and less powerful than the GT5 version).

Also a better player/driver could probably knock a couple seconds off my time with the same car.

Like I did :) pure stock 1:05.xxx

^^OOhh...I smell some competition...lol

I had to lend my PS3 to a buddy so I only play on the weekends. (weak self control...)

1:05... I'm game. Bone stock, no suspension mods? But will be tough for me...

I believe in good competition, bring each other's spirit up.

Yeah, it was and still is bone stock. haven't change one single thing. Only thing I have done to the car is oil change and washed the car.

let's do a stock car race!!

Well I don't have my ps3 online yet but I'm running similar times to you guys in stock form. Low 1:05.xxx.

What we need to do is have a competition to see who can get the lowest time on the 'ring using any and all mods...

At the Nur, I think Dragon beat me. I can't keep it up w him

I think Ichi has all of us beat at Tsubi track with 55 secs! The fastest I got with my FT on that track was 59 but that is 401hp @ 930 kg

My FT runs 55secs. Some more tuning I think I can get it down lower, as my camber was Zero'ed out all the times I was racing with Ichi.

Side note, my F430 Scuderia turns a 51sec lap time at Tsukuba.


To date, I clocked a 7:18sec. I think I can shave another sec or two off that with some suspension tweaking.

Damn quick. race tires I assume? I've found that tuning wise, the easiest way to lower lap times on the car is to work heavily on the rear suspension setup. A slightly softer rear with the right limited slip and gearing can put the power down out of corners much better. You lose a bit of responsiveness but the corner exit speeds go up so much that it doesn't matter.

930kg? iirc mine was 890kg. I think, you can shave more time (if you're driving the NA ver).

7mins 18secs? Wow that's fast! :bellyroll: You mean 7.18secs, right? :)

True, but that don't be stock car race. If I can upgrade suspensions, lsd & tranny, I can totally pull out 59secs.

but other than that, I do agree with you. Low hp car require a lots of rear suspension tuning.

Same here 890kg. But I think the GSport weighs more if I recall.



LOL...right on. 7min 18sec. Faster than the real world ZR1 lap time...:bellyroll: Soon, I'm going to be attacking it again with some more suspension tweaks to see if I can shave off another sec. I did have one little missed cue during my run.

Actually I was trying to say that HIGH horsepower requires clever rear suspension tuning. When you have enough power to spin the wheels, getting the appropriate suspension geometry and weight transfer becomes even more important when trying to hook up, because that means faster exit speeds, which turn into faster times down the straights and big reduction in lap times.

I was talkin' bout my fully modded up FT-86 in the game ;)

Really? Fully modded ver, it was kinda easy for me to tune the rear. Mid to light tuning, I had hard time tuning the rear suspension.

But in the end, it's all up to how you want to set-up your car. High speed corner car or hairpin corner. Late braking to mid section til corner or brake early, but come out fast... and list just goes all and all. You gotta one or the other. Can't get both. :)

I haven't done the Stage 3 Weight reduction yet... *DOH*

I hate the Nur esp the LeMans Nur track that has the entire layout! Too many turns to memorize. :bonk:

Stage 3 weight loss loses 40kg? That's a ton of weight loss! Wow, I didn't know Stage 3 do that much weight loss. I just maxed out all spec when I got my FT86c and didn't really see which tuning do how much.

Yeah, I did that for the first time yesterday... after doing 2 laps, I almost shoot myself.

The Nur has almost become my favorite track. Nur and Tsukuba. Guess it's the persona behind them. Fantasy tracks are fun, but I'm a World Circuit track guy. They put a lot of detail into the Nur and it's simply a thing of beauty.

I have 12 mil and trying to get to 14.4 mil to buy a Chaparral 2J. I haven't really been driving the FT much since I got spoiled with the other cars. I really like the MB SLS AMG, that thing is super fun to drive!


Yeah, I read an article regarding a pro driver who's been on the Nur track many times. He played GT5's Nur and mentioned how accurate it was.

I'm a fan of Laguna only b/c I've ridden that track before and love the elevation changes. The corkscrew is insane!

hi guys, just want to share what's keeping me busy this week, i finally finished my custom cockpit for my G27, its not neat but effective.. driving became twice as fun!!

http://img64.imageshack.us/img64/9261/cockpitr.jpg

http://img3.imageshack.us/img3/7345/cockpit1j.jpg

Have to add shifter and hand brake lever mounts too but that's enough building for the week :happyanim:

Hate you... Lol