Pids independent tuning- [D400] '65 Mini Cooper

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A little while ago I posted some tunes up that didn’t really get much response, I wondered why, so I went and found myself some help and advice. It quickly became apparent that my tunes, although I could drive them reasonably quickly, no one else could. So the long hard slog of finding help with set ups and some quick drivers to try them out. One car stood out from all my tunes, it was quick but needed more fine tuning, enter the guys at PTG. With their help and constant pushing I have ended up with a quick tune on the '65 Mini Cooper.

It was built with hotlapping in mind and all started off with running round Prague short reverse, where PTG Coops and myself were hitting top 100 times which eventually ended up in the top 50

1:06.714 #24 PID1969
1:07.006 #34 PTG Coops

After Prague I went out to see where else it would run quick and found that Yas Marina was another track it did well

Yas Marina South
1:10.155 #35

Yas Marina North
1:23.234 #61

A little while ago PTG Greeksniper offered to run some tunes that the novice tuners had been creating over at PTG forums, so I took that opportunity to get a known fast driver to test the Mini, with his advice and feedback some more fine tuning I am now at a final tune (maybe). TN Eagle then posted his twitch video review, another opportunity to have a fast guy run the car, so into the lions den it goes. The track of choice was Long Beach East. This proved to be a good choice as now, today this tune holds 5 of the top 20 places on Long Beach East and is my first official top 10 tune.

Long Beach East

1:00.404 #2 PTG Greeksniper
1:00.537 #5 BDR Schiwo
1:00.815 #9 PID1969
1:01.067 #17 PTG Coops
1:01.131 #20 V12 TN Eagle

Long Beach Full

1:33.715 #2 PTG Greeksniper
1:34.897 #26 PID1969

Finally a suprise to me, Greek ran the car at Bathurst, not a track I would expect to see it do well, I was wrong in my thoughts…
Bathurst

2:29.208 #9 PTG Greeksniper

My thanks go out to all the guys that ran the car,everyone over at PTG and especially to PTG Greeksniper for laying down some blistering laptimes, I didn’t think it would be this quick.
If you want to give it a try the car is shared under my GT:PID1969 and has the filename D v2. There is also a simple paint that I have done in various colour schemes that is shared if you want to pick that up. Any feedback is welcome and just a little warning, it does understeer a little.

Mini Cooper 1965
GT: PID1969
File: D v2

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Looks good Pid.

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Yep, in my excitement of Greek posting the times, I managed to get it in the wrong section, my bad, could you move it for me :smiley:

Mod edit WSD - Done and done. Good luck.

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Awesome job PID…keep it up señor! I’ve taken this little beast for several drives and it has been a blast. Best of luck on the tunes to come up in the near future.

PRKid

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Cheers. I will give it a whirl and let you know what i think. And by the way these type of cars are meant to.understeer, you shouldnt overdo the tune to create oversteer as this is detrimental to the cars performance.

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Great work on the tune. I will try this out for sure. Thanks for sharing.

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Really happy to see this here, it is a great little car.

PID, would you please tell us wich version to dwnld as i ve seen two under your GT.

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It’s D v2 Rosny, I’ll edit the op as it’s not clear in that.

Thanks everyone for the support, just hope it doesn’t take months to get another tune finished where I’m happy with it

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Well done, and congratulations!

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i thoroughly enjoyed running this car for a couple laps on the review. I definitely want to go back and put some time in with this one!!

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When I first watched the twitch feed, I couldn’t hear properly so was watching the expressions on your face. At one point I thought you hated it, lol. Thanks again for running it

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We’ll done PID great to see your determination pay off for you. Can’t wait it give this a whirl later tonight! Good luck with your other tunes. The times been set for your mini you most certainly have the hang of it we’ll done.