Again, nice idea, Kerr. Are you going to get rid of the "Tuning Guide" section, now that Fumes' guide is in the "Knowledge Base"?

That makes sense. Leaving it as-is will make the tuning guide more prominent, too, and thus useful to new/visiting people.

I think a good item for the knowledge base would be that someone explaines once and for all what exectly is the GT gear trick. You see explanations verly often in various posts.

I don't use it, so I don't know it but it seems to me a good item to be put up here.

Greetz Zeratul.

The "Tranny Trick" resets the transmission ratios closer together and provides much quicker shifting in the upper rpm ranges. Higher horsepower cars make use of tighter ratios by staying in the "sweet spot" of the horsepwer curve more than with stock ratios. Lower horsepower cars, or cars with more torque than horsepower, are best served with stock or wider ratios and do not benefit from the trans trick.

The "Tranny Trick" goes like this.

1st,........ Reset your transmission ratios by clicking on default setup for transmission tuning if you've messed with them.

2nd,....... Set the Final Drive to 5.500 or max. setting.

3rd,....... Run the Auto Set to 25, and then down to 1, and then leave it there.

Finally,..... Set your Final Drive for each track allowing for max. rpm, (or just before the rev limiter), in top gear at the end of the longest straight section.

therat1989 - Sorry, You know my stance on forums with gtvault. Too many out there already. Frankly, I'm not interested in more traffic. It just costs more money. Memory and bandwidth are two different things, and if you have a host that claims unlimited bandwidth you'll see weird things begin to happen when you really start taxing their pipe to the internet.

If I wanted a forum, there'd already be one set up.

Alright. I understand. If you ever change your mind. E-mail me.

I've just started the 24 hour race and know that it is in real time, I don't expect that I have to sit and play for the 24 hours straight, how do I save the game and restart it later? Or is this a stupid question. Apart from pauisng the game and leaving the PS2 running for a week.

Thanks for any help

"Every car I have in my garage has this kind of seup for each event. I was even at one point going to post some of these setups with explanations for each event."

Post em, not all of us are interested in fast laping or flogging only, competitive racing is what it's all about.

I've posted some of mine with little response though

Vimana - You can post a setup on GTVault for any purpose you see fit. That's why I set up the notes section so one can explain in detail the purpose of their setup. I looked at your posts on the socom site, and it looks like you want a sort of race competition with the ability to use any "detuned" setup. There really isn't an ideal vehicle for posting competition race times, etc. anywhere on the web. I'd thought about programming something of the sort with GTVault. Unfortunately, there is very little demand in comparison with the effort required to program something like this. That said, if you're linking back to your setups here you could create direct links for the readers of your posts instead of instructing them to search for your name, etc.

Hmm, I could be wrong but sounds like another ploy by therat1989 to get traffic to his site -- he's never been shy about this. First the forum offer and now this?