Personally, I do something most of you would consider crazy, I turn the front sway bars all the way up, and rear all the way down, I make the front and rear suspension stiff as it’ll go, I turn the front rebound all the way up, and the rear all the way down, I usually just leave the front bump at what ever it’s at, and I turn the rear bump all the way up. I also turn the rear aero down (usually) and pump the rear tires all the way up (usually). What I’ve essentially done is transferred all of the weight to the front outside wheel, without having soft unpredictable suspension. But I’m curious, what do you guys do?
By the way, you should try my set up, it’s interesting to say the least.
That does indeed sound crazy, but I guess if it works… I have not done a ton of FWD tunes, but one that I have spent a lot of time on with some reasonable success is the Integra Type-R. I create my base tune which includes small spring adjustments as well as tire pressure, camber and a few other little tweaks. From there I do about 5-10 laps and make a list of things to correct and go from there. Usually its another minor adjustment to front tire pressure, softening the front springs as well as the sway bar. Occasionally different tire widths on front and back works. Stiffening the rear springs to get a good balance between weight shift and oversteer. A lot depends on what class it is being tuned for also. The lower classes don’t reach speeds high enough to justify certain adjustments like aero. I don’t know that I have ever maxed out any setting, but like I said, if it works for you that’s what matters.
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Lol, you should really try it, all it is taking advantage of the front weight you get with FWD, it improved my Veloster Turbo by 1 whole second on average. If you decrease the rear springs it’ll actually pick the front inside wheel (aka the one that makes you under steer) all the way off the ground, but that’s a but to extreme even for me. I should probably add that I use 100 accel and 0 deccel on the Diff.
I do significantly different adjustments that would also be considered extreme but it works.
I do usually start with a diff setting close to yours, but always end up changing it a bunch and do up the rear tire pressures when they aren’t heating up enough. That’s where the similarities end lol.
I’ll keep this thread in mind though because I can’t seem to get a speed based Kia to hook up exactly how I’d like it.