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Originally Posted by spcmafia

What videos do you guys recommend watching in order to understand tire and suspension settings. Or threads to read. I feel like yes, I love cars, and working on them, but suspension, tuning, alignment settings have been areas that I just left to other people to take care of. I'm also amazed on how much knowledge is out there regarding cars.

For example, playing Gran Turismo, I buy the highest level of suspension, all these performance parts, but I have no idea on how to set up a car. I just lower it and stiffen the suspension, but I have no idea on what I'm actually doing. How do you set up a car? Is it depending on its center of gravity? Power? Weight? How do tire alignment and suspension settings work with each other?

There's also things like gear ratios, final drive, etc.



I always tell others that owning a car is more than just doing an oil change and make sure it doesn't run out of gas. I personally like to understand a system that Im working on, or own, same reason of why I decided to build my PC so that I could understand what was going on, now I can easily diagnose issues and make recommendations on parts.



Someone show me the way.

This is a very broad question! The problem you will see is that you will get 100 different answers with each one saying they are right and the rest are crazy. There is no "perfect" setup really. It is all very subjective as to your personal preferences, exactly how you use the car, how much you want to spend, and so on.