Weekly cleanup has finished. Noticing a lot of duplicating of sheets which is unnecessary, which are the ones i delete out. Color changes are fine, but i will revert back to default if user hasn’t by the time their finished.
Hey Senistr, really appreciate all the time, work and dedication you have sacrificed to create such a useful tool for everyone.
QQ, I started using the calculator with FH4, and with all the recent changes mentioned above, is it beneficial to delete and reload the calculator? Or does it update the changes on it’s own?
Would think it would update, but just wanted to make sure I have the most recent app with the most updated changes.
Thanks, . . .
Thank you! I’ve managed to build some fun driving tunes. Now I seem to be a bit sideways in tire pressures. Any insight on where tires psi should be? Specifically speaking to Cross Country and dirt builds…
Sorry for the delay in responses, it’s been a bit busy for me for the past few weeks, but rest assure, I am here! So let me reply back to yall and give yall a small insight to what’s been going on…
@Serraphimn
""Hey Senistr, really appreciate all the time, work and dedication you have sacrificed to create such a useful tool for everyone.
QQ, I started using the calculator with FH4, and with all the recent changes mentioned above, is it beneficial to delete and reload the calculator? Or does it update the changes on it’s own?
Would think it would update, but just wanted to make sure I have the most recent app with the most updated changes.
Thanks, . . .“”
The calculator updates the information that you provide in it as always, but I do have to clean it up here and there. I ensure that all of the formula’s are correct, change the coloring back to normal as well as get rid of any unknown copies (ones that I haven’t set) as well as things that do not belong on the calculator itself. However, there is a slight difference between FH4 and FH5. Thank you for the kind words and I will keep trying to make this easily usable as well as a nice baseline for tuning adventures.
““Thank you! I’ve managed to build some fun driving tunes. Now I seem to be a bit sideways in tire pressures. Any insight on where tires psi should be? Specifically speaking to Cross Country and dirt builds…””
Very welcome and I am glad you enjoy it so much. Tire pressure is a fickle thing and everyone has their own opinions. As per the guide I linked that this calculator is based off of, I still am a firm believer in the PSI being at around 32PSI while the tires are warmed up and being used. So, for instance, you are driving cross country at breakneck speeds, pull up the Telemetry and watch the PSI on the tires. If the tires are under 32PSI, your tires will be a bit more deflated and you will be driving with a bit more of your sidewall. Airing down tires are usually more for slow, off road trails/crawling since it offers the most grip. Most normal cars have a PSI of around 32-34PSI in their tires for “normal operating procedures” because when you get up to high way speeds, the air in the tires will warm up and expand your tires. So instead of having an even tire tread path for contact, it actually inflates and becomes more of a U shape, lifting up on the sides. If you want to see a good representation of this, look up RC car tires “ballooning” out. You will see as the tires speed up, they warp and expand out. This would be very bad as it gives you less contact to the ground, and thus, less grip.
Now, there is a caveat to this. And that is in the forms of the wheel sizing, and the changing of the tires from a more normal to a “low profile” tire. The reason that you see many, many drift cars with the over size wheels is to keep the deformation of the tires themselves to a minimum. This allows the tires to have less sidewall, meaning less deforming of the tires at higher speeds. Again, if you look at RC cars, you will notice that off road vehicles have much larger tires with giant sidewalls vs a road car which has tires very close to the wheel itself. This is so the tires do not deform as much under higher speeds. The same goes for your car. So the larger wheels will give almost no sidewall and make the tired keep more contact patch to the ground. For an off road vehicle, if you are sliding around a bit too much, I would check to see about this and change accordingly. It would most likely be a bit better to run a smaller wheel with less PSI in the tire, than a oversized wheel with more PSI. I say this because with a bit lower PSI you will have more tire contact to the ground and the changing of surfaces. I hope this helps a bit more.
Now, the reason I have been kind of MIA the past 2 weeks…Since the game has come out, I have actually gotten married and my wife have been doing a lot of things together. Work has picked up so some of my monitoring of this while at work has slowed. Also, in my free time, I have gotten back into RC cars (yeah I know) and started the world of RC drift cars. Right now I have a 180SX shell that i’ve been getting tuned correctly to slide around a track nearby my home here in Texas. However, this doesn’t mean I don’t still enjoy Forza. Because of the game, I had an idea for a body shell that I picked up representing a 2014 BMW M4 with a body kit. I knew I had seen it before but couldn’t remember where. Then I booted back into FH4 and there it was, the 2014 BMW M4 with the Liberty Walk body kit. My original idea looking at this clear, unpainted shell was to make it look like a red M4 with the body kit painted black, so I took one of my spare M4’s and went to the shop, made it into a drift care and slapped the normal red paint job and started marking the car in my thought. Boy am I glad I checked in Forza first because it would have looked ugly. So then I thought to myself, I have Black, White, and Red paint on hand. So I took a few pictures of the car in red with a black duckbill wing, all white, and all black. The RC wheels I have already are 7 spoke white wheels. So I found something close to this and looked at it. Then I asked my wife and she said she would like it all black. A bit boring but I didn’t mind, and then I asked, what if instead of the carbon fiber roof, I painted the roof and the duckbill wing white. She did like that idea and I went back into Forza, painted it all black, threw the white on the duckbill and imagined the roof being white. Needless to say, that’s the scheme I am going with so now I have to finish cutting the body, masking it for the paint and actually painting it.
Enough of that, time to go clean the calculator up some and make it pretty and functional for everyone!
Maintenance has been done to the calculator to ensure smooth operation with easy to read and follow format.
To everyone who still uses this, thank you! I have been monitoring everything for the new FH6 and I cannot wait until it comes out. Rest assure, I will be doing another update to this calculator once I have it figured out for the new game. I don’t think much will change, but you never know!
It might take me a a few days to a week after it releases, but I will get it done as soon as I can! And always, if you see me in the game, come say hi!