Car tuning

Nope. Cause in real life an automatic gearbox is significantly heavier than a manual one.
That and with a manual gearbox you can also use engine braking instead of just letting off the gas since you can downshift to a lower gear where you can keep good speed and get a better exit from the corner.

Oh and update about the Porsche 911. If you're feeling that the stiff set up isn't quite working for you don't worry cause you can soften the rear shocks and rebounds all the way and reduce the rear springs by 5.

On 13-Aug-2008 Kenny 2x4 said:

All the more reason for the Steering ratio at -10 lol
@racer123: Here is my set up that can get a Zonda through the quarter mile in about 5.5 seconds.
All Stage 4, but then re-stock the suspension and brakes afterwards.
Suspension:
All soft front
All stiff rear
Ride Height: lowest
F Tyre pressure: + 10
R Tyre pressure: - 10
Leave Camber, Caster, Toe and Steering ratio alone.
Engine:
Everything +10
Gear ratios: (You only need to use 4 gears for this car)
1) + 10
2) +9
3) +9
4) + 10
Final drive ratio: + 10
Brakes: (don't ask why, but having this set up for the brakes work)
Brake pressure: + 10
Handbrake pressure: + 10

Remember to re-stock the suspension and brakes

Body modifications
Stock carbon fibre hood
Widebody kit, but leave at 0%
Spoiler 403, zone 3: 100% (leave the other 2 zones)

is that setup for the 360? it only does 5.9-6.0 and usally my engine blows if i dont shift on 4

are there any setups for a 6 second or faster (drag races) charger, challenger, or supra that dont use clutch cuz im bored of the no clutch 5.6 sec camaro but ive tried the clutch setups for charger and challenger and supra and jus cant get it no matter how much i try, if not dont worry bout it, jus wondering, thx.

On 14-Aug-2008 racer123 said:

is that setup for the 360? it only does 5.9-6.0 and usally my engine blows if i dont shift on 4

The engine shouldn't blow if you've got Stage 4 parts on it. O_o
If you've only got stage 3...keep it as it is and go into practice and see if you can just stay in 5th gear then.

On 14-Aug-2008 Justin85z said:

are there any setups for a 6 second or faster (drag races) charger, challenger, or supra that dont use clutch cuz im bored of the no clutch 5.6 sec camaro but ive tried the clutch setups for charger and challenger and supra and jus cant get it no matter how much i try, if not dont worry bout it, jus wondering, thx.

I have a Charger set up here right now that was on page 11:
Dodge Charger R/T:
All Stage 4 as before, but reduce the suspension to Stage 2 and leave the Brakes at Stage 3 (strangely enough only 3 stages for brakes in drag mode)
Suspension:
All soft front
All stiff rear
Ride Height: highest
F Tyre pressure: + 10
R Tyre pressure: - 10
Leave Camber, Caster, Toe and Steering ratio alone.
Engine:
CAM Timing: + 10
Start Boost: + 10
End Boost: + 10
Nitrous pressure and jetting flow rate: 0
Gear ratios:
1) -10
2) 0
3) +3
4) +7
5) +10
6) 0
Final drive ratio: + 5
Brakes:
Bias: + 6
Pressure: + 6
Handbrake pressure: + 7

Body modifications
Stock carbon fibre hood
Stock widebody kit autosculpt, but leave everything as it is
Spoiler 403, zone 3: 100% (leave the other 2 zones)

We have the Dodge Challenger R/T on the first page.

And as for the Supra, just use the set-up fish man posted. What I do now is I just plain shift up to gear 3 then use the throttle and nitrous at the same time (i.e. similar to the Camaro method) and then obviously shifting up to 4th and 5th.

supra setup seems good, running low 6';s but havent hit good 4th or 5th shift yet or im sure itd b 5;s, does any1 know a good launch for the charger and challenger setups posted?

On 14-Aug-2008 Kenny 2x4 said:

The engine shouldn't blow if you've got Stage 4 parts on it. O_o
If you've only got stage 3...keep it as it is and go into practice and see if you can just stay in 5th gear then.

yea, i went back and looked at the race i done and i went on 1/2 instead of 1/4 so thats y it blew. but i still keep getting low 6s on the 1/4 ..

On 15-Aug-2008 Justin85z said:

supra setup seems good, running low 6';s but havent hit good 4th or 5th shift yet or im sure itd b 5;s, does any1 know a good launch for the charger and challenger setups posted?

Try at the start in like 2nd or 3rd gear and obviously also using nitrous as well.

On 15-Aug-2008 racer123 said:

yea, i went back and looked at the race i done and i went on 1/2 instead of 1/4 so thats y it blew. but i still keep getting low 6s on the 1/4 ..

Still shouldn't be blowing because it would've reached the game's top speed of 250 to 251mph.
Unless you got the download patch?

i dont know what i done lol. just managed to get 5.96 there but i dont think it will go any faster because i got max grip and perfect shifts..

Hang on a minute...
Ugh...Just remembered one important detail for the reason why I can pull off the 5.48 seconds with the Zonda.
Pretty much as soon as you do the jump (legally) use the nitrous as well.

how do u do the jump?

The jump as in you start accelerating pretty much as soon as the green light goes so basically a reaction time of almost 0:00.
Just do the Practice and stuff.

On 14-Aug-2008 Kenny 2x4 said:

Nope. Cause in real life an automatic gearbox is significantly heavier than a manual one.
That and with a manual gearbox you can also use engine braking instead of just letting off the gas since you can downshift to a lower gear where you can keep good speed and get a better exit from the corner.

Oh and update about the Porsche 911. If you're feeling that the stiff set up isn't quite working for you don't worry cause you can soften the rear shocks and rebounds all the way and reduce the rear springs by 5.

So the new settings will be as follows:-
SUSPENSION (- means to the left of default, + means right of default)
Front Shock Compression: + 10
Rear Shock Compression: - 10
Front Shock Rebound: + 10
Rear Shock Rebound: - 10
Front Springs: + 10
Rear Springs: + 5
Ride Height: - 8
Front Anti-Roll Bar: + 10
Rear Anti-Roll Bar: + 10
Tyre Pressures: both - 9
Toe: 0
Camber: + 3
Caster: + 10
Steering Ratio: - 10
ENGINE:
CAM Timing: 0
Start and End Boost to maximum
Nitrous pressure and Jetting flow rate: 0
GearBox ratios:
All 0 except for the Final Drive ratio which is + 1
Brakes:
Bias: - 5
Pressure: + 10
Handbrake pressure: 0 (only use it if you've missed the apex by a considerable amount.

Is this right ?...

Awaiting your response.

Yeah you could go for that for sure if you don't like the super stiff suspension.

Well, I was able to control the super stiff settings on the auto. well, but when i switched to manual it was taking me some time.... Will be trying out the new soft settings tonight...

Will keep you posted though

Thanks.

Cool.
In the meantime I will be getting my drag set up for my own Ford Mustang 2006 posted soon hopefully.
My PB with the Mustang is 6.38 and I will get that picture uploaded when I post the set up.

Wanted to ask whether these tunings are useful in all the tracks that i had mentioned or do they need to be modified separately for each track...?

The Porsche 911 set up? Yeah it works on every track. Obviously there will be tracks where the set up seems to be working better than at others, but all the circuits have the common features of quick direction change (hence the stiff front), but because the Porsche 911 understeers a bit the rear can be stiffened to the same extent as well, but if you rather it had a more cleaner exit from slow corners for the mechanical grip then you can have it softened.
As for the others it's pretty much the same story, because no 2 tracks are exactly identical, but they can be very similar.

Well, after trying both the settings out which you had mentioned... i feel that the stiffer is suiting me better :D

I've also started practicing on manual clutch with the gear ratios that you had mentioned. If any more updates please do post.

Thanks for your help till now Kenny.