Quote from morpha :

You may use it on 42D DriftWars and 42D MultiMod (currently private), other than that a quick look at the serverlist on LFSW shows the following (empty) hosts:

• Powerdrift [SL-MOD]
• ™DB (SL-Mod)DriftBeasts (private)

Cheers for that, solved all my problems

Sorry to bump a long dead thread but what's the deal with the lock-mod servers? I've not had internetzzzz in a couple of months and, now I'm back on, they aren't up at all...

Quote from Mountaindewzilla :

Fair enough.

Yeah, sorry. Just re read that and noticed it looked like a massive ramble. I'll

Been using the mod as a test recently though as I've just picked up a parts sponsor which'll include some mental lock for this season. In reality 55* of lock is more than anyone, anywhere, could ever possibly need before it just becomes silly. That's the aim for me this season just with a jig'd up steering crossmember and custom knuckles inspired by Powered By Max stuff. Total cost <£100.

Quote from Mountaindewzilla :

While this is neat, it strikes me that the allowed angle is 47-57...
The most I know of is from that GP Sports Super Knuckle, and a pair of those will set you back around 1000USD. They'll get you to about 50 degrees out of a 240sx...
If I recall correctly, most of the cars in D1 run around 41-48 (I don't remember how old the Drift Tengoku that I saw that in is though).

I guess what I'm saying is, if you're going mess with the realism, or change the car with a bunch of lock, why not give it a sixth gear and a couple hundred more bhp? Maybe a standard D1 car for the LFS drifting community?

I'm inclined to agree with Morpha et al regarding modding dedis being a slippery slope, but I figure there should be some consistency in the way the car(s) is/are modified.

What do you guys think of that?

Driftworks GeoMaster Knuckles + offset rack spacers, tein rods and ends and a few spacers would give you that much lock at a push. Probably nearer 55* mind. That's all off the shelf, relatively cheap stuff. In reality the XRT has so much on it that's custom tuneable that simply isn't on a standard SX, for example, that the ability to run to that much lock makes very little difference in my eyes. To have a Silvia of any kind as adjustable as the XRT is in game you'd be looking at between £6-10,000 (depending on parts quality) if bought new before you even look at extra power so I don't see the lock being unrealistic in that sense.

At the moment, however, from a drifters point of view the tyre physics are so unrealistic that they're seriously hot with the lockmod by the end of one lap of Aston Club rev. If you link the whole track from lap 2 onwards then you pop the tyres half way through lap 5. Add another 100bhp on to the current setup and that time would half. It'd make the game almost unplayable with the current physics and certainly, in this instance, less realistic. I know there's a large portion of the community who pre-heat before doing a run and then say 'it's what they do in real life'. It's not. In real life I've preheated tyres to get them MORE grippy, not less, and I certainly wouldn't be expecting to have that level of traction loss, or speed of tyre heating, in an actual competition - even in 30-40*c heat.

Just to say I've only just tried out this mod and it's fantastic. One can only hope they include this level of lock as an option in S3 when it eventually rears it's ugly head.

That said, I've just tried to go online with it and kept on dropping off the server with OOS issues.

Last edited by Van Hoof, Thu 11 Feb 2010, 21:37.

Cheers dude, that's a lot like what I'm after.

Anyone else got any others before I start skinning this?

Thanks

Ben

Right guys, before anyone says anything I've searched, and I mean REALLY searched (3 hours plus) to find a working link to, or a copy of, a FZ5 style widebody skin (AKA Shadow skin, ectype skin).

I know there's some out there as there's elements of it in one of the skins I use regularly. I just can't, for the life of me, find it.

Any help gratefully appreciated.

Ben

I'm in as long as I can get my wheel sorted by then.

If not I don't mind judging.

I've got a few setups that I'll share when I have more time but just a quick question:

Has anyone managed to get a setup for the GT cars? I've done everything I can think of and they're still rubbish.

Oh, and with regards to the positive camber thing the only one there's a point for is the FZ5 as even with +1 positive it's still comfortably negative live camber. Just my two-penneth. Anyone who has positive camber to make it 'drift better' when it's obviously positive in live camber aswell needs to be shot.