If you really want to understand what all those settings are doing, prepare to read and study. The best basic info is a book (one of a series) by Carroll Smith called "Tune to Win". Tons of great info from basic to details. Some will be worthless to a sim racer, but the basic engineering stuff will allow you to understand what your doing when you fiddle with rebound, roll, and stiffness settings, not to mention caster, camber and brake bias!
Racing engineers work for years to get really good at this. You have several advantages...you don't have to spend millions or wait for the next nice day and/or available track time to test your settings. You also don't have to try and interpret what your driver is telling you!
The book can be dry, but it's exciting the first time you make a change to fix a problem...and it works!
On Amazon: http://www.amazon.com/gp/produ ... 2-1717836-4119328?ie=UTF8
Cheers-
M.Weisman
ID, USA

Quote from Spiffae :

So, I'm a noob in almost every way, other than crashing in turn 1 (i just wait until the pack is through )

I always try to learn a track with the basic setups, and then if someone is helping me usually they send a setup over. The setups always make a huge difference (for the better) but I never feel like I really earned the better times as I'm using someone's hard work. How can I move from borrowed setups to knowing what the hell is going on? I look at the differences between basic setups and the setups I get, I read about the settings, but overall I just am lost. Maybe it's because I'm not a consistent enough driver to test small changes - any tips?

thanks

Last edited by M.Weisman, Wed 9 Aug 2006, 00:45.