![]() ![]() With a Sports and Track reduction, you’ll see significant weight loss. Colin Chapman’s mantra remains the backbone of your upgrade path: “Simplify-then add lightness.” Reducing the weight of your car has plenty of benefits: faster top speed, better acceleration, and better handling. Less mass to move around is a universal positive to car performance. Lift:Drag efficiency goes up with these upgrades, but just remember, they don’t come for free, and the cars will see some additional aero drag to pay for the downforce gains. On GT cars, they both add downforce and increase the tuning range. Leaning-up the bodywork for road cars will also add mild amounts of downforce. The top-level suspension upgrade for GT cars, like in road car classes, enables tuning of all aspects of the suspension. ![]() This not only improves handling agility, but also can have significant gains to the car’s aerodynamics a lower car has less drag and more downforce as the underbody becomes more effective. The first stage of suspension upgrade for them removes these BoP restrictions, allowing the cars to run much lower ride-heights. The suspension upgrade is a vital element for race-winning performance.Ĭertain GT cars-especially those in the GT B and GT C classes-use suspension tuning as a balance of performance measure (restricting ride height, camber angles, etc.). Add a full Track Suspension upgrade and you get to tune your ride-height the way you want as well as adding anti-roll bar rates, dampers, ride heights, camber, and toe angles-essential to managing the way your car reacts under brakes, in turns, and when you load up the throttle. With a Sports Suspension, you can get the ride-height lowered-which will improve handling-while also getting some camber thrown in to aid with both turn-in aggression and apex-hugging performance. Your suspension is how you can make the tyres work more efficiently out on-track and that’s key to handling performance. ![]() Sports brakes will give you the cutting edge when you stomp on the middle pedal while Track and Racing brakes will give you even more stopping power with the added benefit of being able to adjust brake pressures, brake balance, and bias. It won’t make you any faster on a straight line, and it may not even help you get more grip through a turn, but braking stability is paramount driver confidence and performance. ![]() One of the first upgrades many drivers and tuning shops will consider when upping performance of any car is the brakes. The wider contact patch not only increases grip, but also changes the slip curve to feel sharper and more agile at the expense of quicker breakaway when driving over the limit. Moving to softer compounds for increased grip will also install wider tyres where beneficial. The softer the compound, the better the grip. Upgrading from the harder default-spec’ Sports tyres to Track tyres (with a medium compound) and finally to full-blown soft compound Race tyres with affect both your grip and, with less rolling resistance, your top speed and acceleration as well. Your tyres (if you’re doing it right!) are the only part of your car that will ever touch the track, and that means all handling upgrades will ultimately affect this one key component of every car. As with power upgrades we covered last week, there’s a balance to be found. Adding an aero’ upgrade will benefit your handling, for example, but the extra drag is going to cut your top-end speed. Handling part upgrades in Project CARS 3 aren’t “fudged”, they work directly with this physics engine, and that results in some interesting choices when it comes to your upgrade path. Replacing just one part can increase the stress and damage other parts and so it is essential to maintain the correct balance when tuning to increase performance safely.Casey Ringley, Vehicle Technical Art and Handling, gives you an inside look at Handling Upgrades in Project CARS 3 Also when increasing engine power at high engine speeds (rpm), if the power at low-mid engine speeds remains the same as before, due to the change in power delivery characteristics the driver can feel the illusion that the vehicle has lost power in low-mid engine speeds. For example, by increasing engine power, inadequacies may be felt in the braking or suspension which were not noticeable before. Overall performance puts "safety first" whilst improving the three basics of vehicle performance, "accelerate, turn, decelerate" with the right balance between the three elements. Here we will explain engine tuning, from light to hard, as simply as possible. For this reason it is important for the user to know "what their target/goal" is and "what parts are needed" to achieve this goal. When tuning, some users may have some incorrect thought which may lead to them fitting the wrong parts for their needs. HKS considers "Tuning" as improvement of vehicle overall performance in response to user needs. What are the factors to consider when tuning? ![]()
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