i searched around a bit, but couldn’t find exactly what i was looking for or maybe i just wasn’t using the right keywords lol. i’m not near my console right now to try this, so i figured i’d ask on here real quick. i was getting bored las’night with the cars i usually run and started looking around for something else to try. found the VW Bora VR6 and i’m liking it very much. it’s AWD with no RWD conversion, so today i was thinking i could throw all the power to the rear through the diffs and then i’d basicly have a RWD. now will it be like a true RWD or will there still be some input to the front even though there would be no power going to the front?
I tried this when I first started playing FM4. It won’t feel like a true RWD. If you do try it, your gonna wanna open up the front diff. all the way. You are still gonna have to deal with the AWD PI handicap, only without the full benefit of AWD.
i’m not worried about the PI rating since this is just a “have fun” car for myself, but i think your right. after i got home and tried it, it doesn’t feel like the regular RWD’s i’m used to. seems like it’s wanting to pull me back straight when getting it sideways instead of wanting to loop out like a RWD usually does. still though, i like it and i’m having fun with it even if it’s not a true RWD.
i have just tried this and yes opening the front diff, locking the rear and sending all power to rear diff still feels like the front end is pulling, so i tweaked a few other bits.
tyre pressures - front 32psi, rear 36psi
camber - front -1.0, rear -1.2
toe - front +1.2 rear -0.5
caster 6.2
ARB - front 30.00 rear 35.00 - max
springs - front 800.00 rear 900.00
damping - rebound - front 8, rear 11.5
bump - front 8 rear 11.5
front diff - accel 0%
decel 0%
rear diff - accel 75%
decel 85%
torque - rear 100%
by stiffening the rear, adding toe out on the rear and increased tyre pressures made it feel a little more RWD, however this still needs refining. hope it’s a good base for you though
actually i have the Bora tuned close to most of those settings already. still learning the suspension tuning right now, but will give those settings a go.
unfortunately it doesn’t work like that because the diff splits the torque not the HP so you’ll light the rears, but still have a 50/50 WHP split you’ll have a car that understeers like a pig on turn in, over steers mid corner (lift off) and understeers like a pig on acceleration back out of the corner.
word of advice if its a VW and AWD leave it in AWD they work best like that though i don’t like AWD, VW seem to work extremely well in that set up.
on a side note the Renault Twingo is fantastic fun to drive in both FWD and RWD, brings out the yobbo in everyone haha
yeah, it does split from what i can tell. it drives pretty good like that too IMO. infact it still has alot of grip (sport tire), but can get a little squirrelly if i want. makes it quite a hoot to drive. got it set up basicly like this, full race on everything except for street exhaust, sport weight reduction, flywheel, tires and reinforcement. still fiddling with the tune, but been keeping it close to stock. it’s just something to play around with when i get a little tired of racing.
I’m the kind of heretic who usually throws AWD conversions into the Ferrari’s, and I have a decently quick R3 Ferrari F458 with a 90/10 split on the differential, if I recall. Fairly sure that I also ran an engine swap in it. Either way, the thing is wickedly quick off the line, and accelerates like a rocket. It does (like all AWD cars) “push” a little bit in the turns, but the one thing that I like about the car is that it doesn’t oversteer even when you mash down on the throttle, because the front wheels pull you back straight. It was originally painted and tuned for my little sister to drive, so I wanted it to be pretty “noob friendly”. Turns out that it’s also pretty fast, grabbing top 5% in the open Rivals event that they had on the 'Ring a while back. It’s top 1% for R3 on the track as well, I think.
Tell me if im wrong … but I believe this is how some dirty drifting happens as well … its shunned apon in the league stuff and looked down on in most drift lobbies …if you drift an AWD … but I believe throwing all the power in the back is how its done.
And yeah as u noted its not gonna feel like a true RWD … it is a video game so … you are gonna get some imput from the front
well i wouldn’t say it’s tuned, but i have built to class S666. i only use it offline. infact i don’t even have online at the moment, waiting till after taxes to renew.
as for drifting i know it would be considered a shady vehicle in the drift lobbies, but i already have a few RWD’s built for drifting though. this is built for me to just have some fun with, mostly for the Nordschleife. lol
