Without tracks, where do you tune?

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Hey guy’s,
I picked this game up about a month ago and I’m really loving it. The tuning on the fly is really helpful and there is a lot of useful information and tools online. Lately I’ve been using a tuning calculator app that gives me a solid base tune for about 80% of my set ups. From there I just drive around and fine tune. As I’m getting better at tuning I would really like to find a way to run a circuit with elevation changes, tight turns, sweeping turns, etc. (a track that you can test all suspension settings on) to dial everything in. I thought about doing rivals, but you can’t tune on the fly, you have to quit the event. And when I find a nice little circuit in free roam the traffic always ruins my tests, also without the circuit on my map i tend to miss a corner here or there and get off track. Is there anyway to make a lobby with no traffic all to yourself and set coordinates for a course to follow on your map?

Thanks!

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If you are looking for the perfect car that goes around the streets like a slot car, then pick a different game. Understand that the cars they throw at you and put in your way are to challenge your diving skills. Car builds and tunes are somewhat of a personal preference. When you find that there is something you can make better by tweaking the tune, try it, play with it and see how good you can get it for a particular car. If you want to play with the tune without the game getting in your way, switch to Forza 5, select the same car, apply the same build and tune. Then take what you learned back to the game.

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I drive around the map to tune. I have some preset courses I use to pick out the handling of a car - sometimes I run them from memory in solo and sometimes I run them as a rivals event.

If you’d like to get rid of Drivatars (the AI cars) you can go into private free roam but you will never get rid of the traffic cars unless it’s a rivals event. Street Races are the only exception to this.

As you drive around you will find where you like to tune.

Sometimes, I also do cars that do fairly well on a certain set of races with like features and I will tune those specifically for that race or event. ← Like Monthly Rivals cars that then end up being good all over the place.

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I basically do this:
High speed slalom on the freeway from the festival to Sisteron as many times as I need to tune the sway bars…ish*
*depends on if I’m making a “roll” or “pitch” car.

run the switchbacks and “Citadel Circuit” route in Sisteron a couple times

Then run the northern freeway to San Giovanni tuning the springs, high speed/high stress saloming again.

Then from there to Montellino, to Castelletto. Basically working again on sway bars, springs, etc.

II always pay attention to the lane lines, staying.In one lane, or keeping a consistent speed while going through traffic, basically checking oversteer and understeer using the line as a guide.

I then at the Castelletto hub, pick four tracks in rivals. I always go to Castelletto just because it’s Purdy… no other reason…
10 laps each
Followed by another 10 for each adjustment

I run Citadel Circuit (Sisteron) first
Then High Speed Circuit (Castelletto)
Then D’Orcia circuit (Castelletto)
Then Circuit Grandiose (Nice)

My priorities are:
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Consistency -first and foremost. It’s easy to adjust times on ten laps to an overall average lap time, with a comparison to the best lap time.

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Is it any good? Basically a tune can be “sweet” but slow. And it can and does happen. I pick a friend as my rival, something quick, but not necessarily 1% yet… then I try to run with them for those 10 laps.

If the car can do both of those, bingo On to the next track.

Then I usually run a couple finales with friends.

This is for my base tune. After that, I’ll adjust the car again, only alignment and shocks, based on the track.

For the record, I only also have 5 cars I’m at the base tune happiness with and only one of those has gotten custom tunes based for specific types of courses.

To put it plainly, nothing beats seat time And patience. Best part - mad xp for wheels pins and good amount of $$ for running those rivals races. All for just tuning a car lol

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Thanks Guys,
Cudafish, That’s exactly the kind of advise I was looking for, you da man. I tuned a ford sierra last night for like 3 hours, amazing drift car. Still need to dial in a few other things!