Brand New: Detailed and easy-to-follw FM7 Tuning Guide!

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Thank you, thank you, and thank you some more!!

Today marks a very special day for both myself as an individual, and for FACR!

On the 26th September 2015, I launched my Forza-based website. It was pretty awful to be honest, but being new to website design, I had to start somewhere. I genuinely remember being excited reaching 100 website hits!

Since that day, both the website and the FACR group have developed and grown onto something truly great! Somewhere where everyone gets along. Everyone is willing to help out, even when the questions asked may appear simple. Nobody is judged on their ability. A true Forza family! All that matters is everyones mentality, both on and off the track!

Well late last night, this once quiet website reached a massive milestone and received it’s 500,000th visit!!!

I’m absolutely overwhelmed with the success of FACR and the popularity of our site! From Racing Events, Hot Lap Seasons, A fantastic Tuning Calculator :wink:, A YouTube channel, and now, to celebrate this phenomenonal 500K hit achievement, I am releasing my brand new tuning guide:

'Tuning: In a Nutshell"

Written to make tuning easy to understand, and covering what each tunable part of the car actually does, before explaining how to tune these components to suit your requirements, ‘Tuning: In a Nutshell’ has got you covered!

Many thanks, and big love to you all!! :ok_hand:

Dave Lacey
FACR DLTuning

Check it out now, at www.dltuning.co.uk/fm7-tuningClick here for “Tuning: In a Nutshell”.

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Resorces like this are fantastic. I’d like to say “thank you” on behalf of all users!

I’ve used this, and a similar but older flow chart to really dial in my tunes, and now I have some cars that I really love to drive. The game wouldnt be half as fun without the level of building and tuning that it has, but tuning is overwhelming, so something like this makes it way more accessible to the average joe. I recommend every tuner to keep a laptop with this bookmarked handy when setting up a new tune!

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Really good to hear you have found this useful, and thanks for taking the time to comment! I genuinely hope it lends a hand to all those who have uncertainties regarding tuning. Thanks again! :grin::+1:

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Is it ok to use a calculator to get a better zero slate or is the default setup workable?

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Good question. I’d probably say either are workable if you’re genuinely going to get to work on a tune. It can take some time even if you’ve got some experience. Saying that, I’d recommend trying my calculator. The reason is because it’s completely interactive in the sense that you can personalise the tune by following flowcharts and moving sliders. The resulting figures get updated as you make adjustments, but you’ll quickly learn what does what. It’s at www.dltuning.co.uk/fm7-tuneityourself. I hope that helps, bro!
Thanks.

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Thanks for the resources.
Both the calculator and the guide are really helpful.

Like your calculator and would recommend it to find a 0 point to work from. The stock homologation settings in the game usually are between rubbish and undrivable.

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Wow, what an excellent guide!!! Very informative and easy to follow for a novice (like me).

Forza 7 is my 5th Forza game and my first with a steering wheel. I have tried multiple times to get into tuning my own cars, however I find it all a bit overwhelming.

The main issue I have really is my understanding of the terminology and this guide has aided me somewhat.
However, I still have trouble with understanding and articulating the exact issues I have with the cars I am trying to tune - I’m not a petrol head, I just love motorsport and racing games. I’m also not entirely sure I am good enough or consistent enough to really nail the issues I have with the cars.
With this is mind I have a few questions (apologies in advance if these have been answered on this forum already).

Does using a wheel require different tuning to the controller?

The best way I can describe my main issue is that I have understeering oversteer on braking for a corner. There are some corners that require me to apply brakes through a corner (trail braking?) and some cars do not like that at all. The first corner at Daytona (not the oval) comes to mind. Currently I am using my right foot for braking. Is it more stable to use my left foot so both accelerating and braking can be applied? Or can this be dialed out with tuning?

Also when watching some of the quick (and not-so-quick) drivers I’ve noticed they turn sharply into corners from a wide entry point. If I try this then I end up losing rear traction, so I have to keep my steering angle lower therefore being later on the power. (I hope I described this clearly enough - as I said my terminology knowledge is really poor). Can tuning help with this or this is just lack of talent?

Thanks in advance!

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Firstly, many thanks for your compliments. I’m really glad you found it useful. Let me try and go through your questions one at a time.

Firstly, yes. I re-tuned all of my cars when changing over to a wheel setup, although the wheel settings you use are CRUCIAL for a successful tune actually feeling right and getting decent lap times. If you’ve not yet seen it, I’ve got a video for wheel settings which (without sounding like an arrogant jerk) may help you get your wheel set up correctly, helping maximise the effectiveness of your tuning. Here’s the link if you wanna have a look…

For your braking issues, it could be a few things. The first thing I’d really like to know would be if your wheels are locking under braking. If so, reduce the brake pressure in the tune. If not, then send the brake balance forwards until the car brakes with control. Getting good with left-foot braking is well worth the agro it will cause when you first try. Don’t give up, and even try it in your real car if you drive. BE CAREFUL the first time and make sure you’re clear of following traffic! :wink::joy: The first time I tried it… Well… It wasn’t the smoothest! Now I do it all the time. My advice is to use left-foot braking if you don’t need to change gear, or heel-toe if you do - another technique worth the pain of learning! All of this will certainly fix your issues.

With your turning point question, you need to be certain of where your apex should be. If when leaving a turn you’re heading onto a long straight, the go deep into the corner, turn sharper and use a late apex to maximise corner exit speed. If you are leaving a turn but entering another, it may be worth considering sacrificing corner exit speed from turn one to gain a better exit speed from turn two.

If you’re getting oversteer during corner entry, then something is seriously wrong. I’d assume you’re not getting the oversteer until mid corner or corner exit. Try using the tuning flowcharts at the very bottom of the guide to fix this. I’d definitely be heading for a softer rear setup to start with (ARBs or Damping, not springs), or lowering the acceleration setting on your differential until the car doesn’t over-rotate. Reducing rear toe (more negative) will also be very effective at stabilising the rear of the car. While these tuning areas are absolutely going to help tune out your problem, good throttle control will still be essential. If you tune a car so much that you can drive it flat-out with absolute ease (particularly if it’s not a slow-ass car :wink:), then you may have tuned the potential out if it. What I mean is, a lower acceleration setting on the rear differential on a RWD car, while making it easier to control, will negativity impact corner exit acceleration. Better throttle control with a higher diff setting will result in better lap times.

I hope all this helps, bro. Feel free to ask any more questions, and enjoy the game!!

Dave.

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Dude , your guide is awesome !

i liked the moment when i reached the 0.96 of the suspension télémétry :slight_smile:

and when I was able to settle , the cambers and the tires pressures with a 103 degrees on the 3 faces of the front tires ,

all that with ur councils ,

this works great , i recommend to use his Guide , ( if u are patient this is for you )

thank you so much .

( plus i tried my car online , after setting it with ur guide , and that was incredible )

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Guys ,

His guide is cool to follow ,

But , how to let the car go , by increasing its Streak ??

I do not think telemetry can help to do this !

for me the bests things to do are :

1 ) put some pressure on the tires, to give them speed ,

2 ) put the anti - roll bars hard , for reactivity between corners ,

3 ) put a small angle of negative camber and , a small caster angle , for maintain the speed ,

4 ) the suspensions close to the minimal , and the ride height , a little more than the middle , for générate the streak ,

5 ) increase the damping to the almost max , and reduce the rebound to the max , also to générate the streak ,

6 ) aérodynamics with little values , to erase the friction

and that’s all after that you have a car cut for the race . thumbs up !

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Finally getting around to thank you for this. The calculator is remarkably close and the tuning guide is spot on.