== D400 ==
- R/A D400 v1.0
- PD: 5.7%
- Character: A little spongy and a little twitchy.
The 356 isn’t an easy car to set up. Give it too much tire and it’ll lift the inside wheels and lurch you into the weeds. Give it too much power and it quickly becomes unmanageable, especially on more conservative tires. On top of that, there seems to be something off about the suspension modeling, as even with the springs set very stiff and ride height set fairly high it’ll still hit the bump stops with alarming frequency and intensity.
Finding a workable balance between all those factors took a lot of build iterations, a lot of work (more than any other car I’ve tuned, I think), and a stubborn determination to make something useful out of the car.
I had hoped that with some clever component selection and some setup wizardry I could get it to exhibit more of the Porsche character (trailing throttle oversteer, power-on understeer), but given the limitations of the platform itself I’m satisfied with getting it to a workable middle ground between mid- and rear-engined character.
Shift point is at 5,500 RPM. You can go beyond that if you need to stretch a gear to avoid a shift, but power starts to drop off pretty quickly.
… Version History …
D400 v1.0 initial release.