hey guys, check out my boost gauge!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cgaUA6m_3IY

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5UwL7HDES4I

my brothers is fail, doesn't have a blue glow like mine

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N5MyqPGzjSY

Quote from Klutch :

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wVa8P6m3fsA

Always looks so much slower on video haha

needs more limiter action, thats why it seems slow :P

Quote from Artis89 :

Why I am touching this topic? I just hate, that now in regular S2 servers, all the guys burn their tyres until they are un-drivable, so that they smoked while drifting, and only then head out on track


Me, personally, even when I really want to drift, it is not fun anymore, because when drifting with cold tyres, you are way way faster than anyone else out there.

people do it so they can do twin drifting easier, most people fail at following on colds because they don't know how to keep drifting when someone is slower in front of them, with hot tyres its pretty much no effort to keep the car sideways

can't wait for the new tyre physics, would like to be able to do more then 1 lap on a track without having to pit

Quote from sabbathian :

I think he said it cause if you have a RWD car with LSD and some normal amount of power... you should be able to drift it, no matter if its on slicks or street tyres...

the cars in iracing are very limited when it comes to drifting, most of the drifts you can do are low angle, its a lot different to hitting full lock around corners

there could be some huge flaws in the physics of iracing that could make it fail for big high angle drifts but because there isnt a car that can do that so nobody can say if it would be any good for drifting

Quote from sabbathian :

If physics engine of a sim does not allow a driver to go into bend, clutch-throttle and go sideways, then there is something terribly wrong with that sim

it can do that just fine, that isnt really drifting tho

Quote from Sueycide_FD :

Can't believe you just typed that ignorance.

good argument you have there, i must be wrong

or maybe you could post why you think i am so ignorant

Quote from Ball Bearing Turbo :

Drifting is easier in LFS because it happens to be one activity that highlights some of LFS' flaws, that's all. Also the setups in LFS are not limited like they are in iRacing and it's easier to make a setup conducive to easy drifting.

even tho LFS has some pretty big flaws its still is the closest thing to real life drifting there is atm, steering techniques in LFS for drifting are pretty much the same as real life

Quote from Matrixi :

Only thing iRacing lacks for proper drifting is either a high power street car with semislicks (Mustang has the power, but it has full slicks afaik), or street tire option for the lower tier cars (MX-5, Solstice). That's the only limiting factor.

The physics are fine for it!

its to hard to tell if the physics are fine for it, there are no cars or tyres that suitable for full on drifting and i doubt it ever will have them, kinda sucks because i only really drift when i play sims and iracing is a great sim

Quote from Scrabby :

Oh, MasterNick. What are you drifting then?

a 180sx, killed the engine (stuffed conrod bearing) 3 months ago at a drift day and only just got it fixed, hope to do another drift day within the next few months or a comp at the start of May

them not letting you drift on a dry track sucks, you can go so much harder when the track is dry

Quote from jibber :

A diff will not simply break from one moment to another (at some point it will eventually, but not after 5 minutes of spinning your wheels). But if you keep spinning your wheels you'll put premature wear on the diff. Which can cause it to break earlier than it should. A diff running too hot is the problem, and if it gets too hot, the oil won't be able to do its job anymore.

if you are worried about some premature wear then you shouldnt be driving your car lol

i know that keeping my wheels spinning will be just fine, more worried about killing my diff by doing a bad clutch kick or gear change mid drift, like trying to change from 2nd to 3rd powering out of a corner, gearbox, clutch,diff and half shafts dont like that kind of stuff

Quote from jibber :

Well, the diff held up fine, until i've abused the living sh*t out of it.

I'm not joking when i say i was sideways the whole day in almost every corner. They even gave me a nickname in the pits... "The drifter".

I will probably not do this again in such an excessive way. I've learned my lession. Spirited driving and some tail out moments here and there are no problem however.

think your diff was already on its way out befor you did a whole day of almost drifting every corner, my shitty diff seems to hold up just fine full on drifting every corner for a whole day and your diff should be just fine doing the same thing

what is wrong with your diff anyway?

Quote from Scrabby :

Last Thursday the first comp. of the driftcup started! I finished 2nd, now doing "Pro-Class" (twinning)
Car handles awsome, just needs some fine tuning

wet track fail, why dont they just run it on a dry track?

also how much steering lock does your car have?

Last edited by masternick, Tue, 29 Mar 2011 19:44.

Quote from jibber :

Driving sideways in almost every corner of a track, for a whole day. Like this: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d3mc3eChIrY (LOL @ 4:45 )

Differentials aren't made to whitstand stuff like that for a long/constant period of time.

i have never seen anybody break a diff because they kept both wheels spinning for a long time, maybe if you run no oil or some really bad oil in it then it will do that but the biggest killer is the shock from launchs, harsh gear changes and clutch kicks

most of the time something else will break befor then tho, like in my 180sx i would break the gearbox or the clutch would slip befor the diff let go

tried all that stuff, tried the stuff posted in that thread, still having the same issue

just bought a new router and having issues with servers not replying, i used to only get maybe 1-2 that didnt reply now im getting 20-30 every time (about half of the servers) , i'll get a reply from servers then when i refresh the list those same servers wont reply

port 63392 is open on my router, are there any other ports i need to open? or is there anything else i need to do?

Last edited by masternick, Fri, 19 Nov 2010 14:10.

setup my wheel to race the mx-5 and iracing went down

Quote from amp88 :

What force do you have set in LFS and what are your settings in Logitech Profiler? Does this happen with all cars and with all different setups?

force in LFS is set to 60, 115 in Logitech Profiler, does it with every car, even lowered the force in LFS and it didnt fix it

have had this issue for awhile, when driving straight the wheel wants to seasaw left and right and doesnt stop in the center (like a real car would), i have to hold the wheel pretty firm to stop it from happening, its super annoying

it does it in both LFS and iracing tho it is alot worse in iracing because i run stronger FFB in it

anybody know how to fix this?

Quote from Matrixi :

Is this what people really think these days? Extremely low offset = über performance yo? Heard of a thing called scrub radius?

Anyone who thinks there's no downside to running massively lower offset wheels than designed by factory, do yourself a favor and watch this: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BEXrEbfbzLw#t=6m55s

The lower the offset of the wheel you are running compared to factory spec, the worse your steering becomes, unless you change the whole suspension geometry, which I'm sure 99,99% of the people who simply bolt on some -30 offset wheels on their cars don't. I agree that wide and low offset (up to a degree) wheels look very cool but "improving performance" is not what I'd call it.

running a lower offset rim on a drift car = being able to run more steering lock without the tyres hitting the chassis, seems like that is improving performance to me, i havent have any bump steer issues befor running lower offset rims tho the lower ive run is 0 (or at least i couldnt notice it)

i'll agree that most people that put low offset rims on there car dont care about performance and that isnt why they are putting them on there car, they put them on it because it looks 1000x better then rims that dont fill the guards

Quote from jibber :

It is. Rice = Mods on your car that don't help performance. Huge offset with stretched tires doesn't improve performance, it ruins it... therefor, it's the newest fad/rice of the car scene.

should say low offset, you want your offset to be low running low offset rims means u can have wider rims or more steering lock without the rim hitting the chassis, so not only does it look better when your guards are filled with some decent rims but it improves performance

stretched tires are pro for drifting, it stiffens the sidewall, less sidewall flex feels so much better in my experience + it allows you to run wider rims without the tyre hitting the guard if you dont want to run overfenders or bolt or flares

Quote from Klutch :

Again, a good track will certainly demolish street tyres.

sif, i did a whole drift day last weekend on 2nd hand tyres and im still driving on them now :P will use them again next track day

doing stuff on the track is so much more fun then it is on the streets, you can push so much harder and learn so much more about driving, sif care about it causing extra wear to your car

i just got my key, time to start downloading

played the demo in PC, sucks there is no wheel support in the demo and really hope there is in the full game, driving seems decent with the keyboard and i love the smoke, cant wait to get some better cars:P

Quote from Luke.S :

Good glad to hear. No more idiotic driving on public roads.

people in Australia cry because the sound of a race track 40km away is to loud (tracks have been closed down because of it)

doesnt matter how he drives down his street, anybody here driving any kind of sports car or modded car is looked at like they are about to kill someone

Klutch u better hope there car people lol

traded my AE86 that wasnt running for a 180sx that runs:P

ca18det manual
k sport coil overs
bosch 040 fuel pump
gtr frount mount
gtr injectors
full orgin body kit
30mm rear orgin quaters

only pic i have atm http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v488/masternick/180sx.jpg

plan on painting it white because the paint atm is pretty bad, havent driven it yet, need to put the lights back on it and raise the car abit because the exhaust is pretty much on the ground

Quote from STF :

What happened to the good old "It`s rear wheel drive officer, and my first time driving it" ?

that doesnt work here, instead they take your car away for anything from 48 hours to 3 months and maybe arrest you

cant spin the wheels for a sec off the lights without being treated like you just killed someone in Australia

Quote from RevengeR :

The biggest problems in TDU1 were the 3 polygon bumps on the road which made impossible to race the cars in hardcore mode..

+1 if they fix the terrible roads then this game will be really good, the off roading could be really good to if done right and i really hope that hardcore mode is unlocked right away:P

hope they make muscle cars abit better, they just feel so slow in the 1st

trying to us my G25 shifter and peddals with my Fanatec Porsche 911 Turbo wheel, i plug both wheels into my computer and can get everything working together but there is no force feedback

anybody know how to fix this?

Quote from Mazink :

can you direct me by PM please?

me to if u can, cant find a working version of tweak