I got a spare Gran Turismo FE from the AH for around 200’000CR and took it out on the Mugello track for a 10 lap race and although it might have been wise to test drive first and check the track out I figured I recall it in careers a while back and recently in the rivals with the Alfa so how bad could it be? The GT is A698 so not far above standard and after the race I noticed I was the only A car in it and the rest were all S7XX but power wasn’t the issue, braking was pretty good, steering etc but the thing was on marbles the whole race and the worst car I have used in the game to date. I can’t think of what the tuner could have done if I take into account the rest of the setup they obviously knew what they were doing. Except the possibility it has drag tires on it. I have never fitted them to a car in the game so I have no clue. I come 11th and made half my CR back but only because the AI behind me was thinking this crazy ***** must be drunk we ain’t going near her. Plus I used the entire track and edges just to make my way around.
Has anyone run a car around the track with drag tires and would this be the problem?
Yes I’ve run tunes with drag tires and they are wicked fast on the first straight, then on marbles in the turn, might even go orange or red from the sliding, and sloppy on the next straight til the tires cool down at least to yellow. If you just got the car and only got the one tune for it, you can take it to the upgrade shop, remove the tune, then see what tire compounds you have in stock - if they went with drag you’ll see them as owned.
Yep, you are describing exactly how it went and not so many straights on Mugello. This was the automotive equivalent of me trying out ice skating as a teenager but at least I didn’t hurt anyone in a car game. It is promising to see you mention “owned” once breaking the tune/upgrade. My first 5 cars from the AH took the parts but one I got recently come with them so it looks like it has been fixed. It has a wicked livery so I don’t mind getting all the parts needed.
Thanks, everybody for the answers I will sort it out and make it usable.
The homologated PI is A650, so it almost certainly had an upgrade on there that breaks PI limits - drag tires often used to be used on speed builds at one point but if it was braking and steering felt alright, probably not drag tires. Might be drift tuned. Drag tires used to lower PI significantly so you could lump on HP and kill it on the straights on tracks like Le Mans - if you lived through the corners, you’d done well lol.
Can’t remember if I’ve driven the car or not - might just be a pretty dire standard tune. I mean the car is running 572 HP on street tires, which is asking a lot to be fair in Homologated form. Would require some pretty serious throttle control I imagine.
No worries - plus at 200k I don’t think you were robbed, sounds pretty reasonable for an FE car to be fair.
T Rex - just tried mine out on Maple Short Reverse - it’s a heavy old hector lol. You feel that in the corners if nothing else.
But saying that, can’t be a terrible car - posted No 1 on there by 1.4 seconds lol. So whilst there’s only 168 people on the board I guess it has some potential if someone who knew what they were doing was driving it.
I don’t think my standard issue one is anything like that and it is not something you could ever forget. Maybe the camber/tire pressure or something as well. This car is so bad on the corners that I would not have put it back thru the AH for fear of hate mail. I will upgrade it all and tune see how it goes.
If you buy at the right time in AH you can get good deals even on FE’s. 200’000 - 1’000’000 is all I spend for a duplicate to have them set up for different races. Might have to put up a little more for the Ford GT FE though I noticed LOL
I have the FE Version and like it a lot. But I want to try tweaking the tuning myself, which would lose the original setup.
So, if you want to get rid of it, throw it up in the AH and let me know. I’ll give you the 200k for it no problem.
Hippie, I just checked and if I install stock parts back on the car and then ask it to homologate again, it basically puts the car back to stock FE set-up. So no reason not to have a play around I’d say.
I have two in my garage anyway as I believe it was a VIP gift car - so could compare set ups between the two and look identical after re- homologation.
That makes sense with the VIP because I went to the garage and I noticed I have another one so 3 of them all up, I unlocked the troublesome one and it showed no parts at all but took a big drop in its AXXX back to the standard even a wheel change so I guess I will never know. Anyway, I fixed the issue with a tweak or two and it is as sure-footed as a 3 legged mountain goat. I knocked about 12 -
14 seconds off the lap time but that would be the 603 extra HP I added while I was there. Slammed a lot closer to the ground so it looks cool. I will have to run a few practice laps because unless someone moved them those corners seem to appear a lot quicker than they were a few hours back.