How many people use a tuning calculator? Be honest now. And if you do which ones. How many people tune by feal? I try to i just find it to hard to feel what my adjustments have done. Those damn dampers i dont know whether to adjust them or the springrates or the arbs. Ive studied every tuning guide and watched every video but cant transfer it on to the car on track.
Unfortunately there is no substitute for feel. A tuning calculator can only provide a base tune which then requires adjusting after thorough testing.
The one thing a tuning calculator can’t give you is the build of a car which is quite often more important than the tune itself. A great setup on a crap build won’t get you very far but the right build will be fast with very little tuning. An experienced tuner will turn the right build into something special!
Just my opinion 
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I always tune by feel and use the standard 5 laps at nurburgring to place a tune into any car I tune
Tune by feel.
Tune by feel.
Build is foremost of importance then tune based on how you want the car to handle. The dampers may seem like a black art at first but as long as you initially set it for controlling how the car handles road irregularities and kerbs and then for fine tune going in and out of corners once you have set your Anti Roll bars then you have pretty much got it down.
Worms damping cheat sheet in the tuning guide is a god send for fine tuning corner entry and exit once you have set your overall cornering balance through the Anti Roll Bars.
I tried the tuning calcs when i just started out in forza 4 and then i ditched them once i started to learn essential build principles and how to properly identify and correct car handling issues. (especially specific to certain tracks) No calculator can do that for you.
I use green splits.
I’ll check telemetry to get tire pressure and to see if I’m bottoming out but other than that it’s feel.
When I start a tune I throw in some numbers that generally work and go from there. The more you tune and spend seat time in the car the better you will get at figuring out what needs to be tweaked.
Tune by feel
When I started gaming and FM5 (this year), I tested using the Apps (iPhone FM5, and, Forza 4 old calc spreadsheet, and a couple of other equations) and quickly realized I would learn more and get better tunes by FEEL.
My focus is on the BUILD FIRST, then the Tune by FEEL. I am doing a lot better now. Yet, I am still learning a lot and enjoying the process.
This thread is awesome. It’s nice to see this many newish faces getting it right.
Feel
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Why the hell would you waste the time using a calculator. Calculators don’t know how a car feels or peoples different driving styles. Get in it and drive.
Tune with that butt in the seat.
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+1 …lol, exactly what I learned in days…
I used the calculators to help learn along with my friends advice. Now I tune by the feel and do a decent job I think.
This is my first motorsport game I played and this is my quick process of how I got better at tuning. First I was lucky to have friends give me open source cars so I knew what a good car felt like. I would also print off all of the open source tunes on this forum. Then I crash coursed it. It wasn’t very much fun but I literally spent hours everyday breaking cars by doing extremes with every tuning dial. I did that so I could feel what the car would do differently. After months of doing this one day it just clicked and from that point on tuning became quite simple.
Before you worry about tuning though you need to be able to build the car the correct way. Like stated above a tune will not help out much on a horrible build.