Could someone explain this to me please.

The value in the LFS slider says toe-in. So positive is in and negative is out. I get that no problem.

Toe out helps turn in, yes I know that as well; crystal clear in that regards.

But why is it that when I set the fronts having toe-in, the car is WAYYY easier to point into a corner? I thought toe-in is for directional stability. It's boggled my mind for months and especially on south city, I can't ever drive any setup having a front toe-out or even neutral toe.

someone please explain what I'm feeling.

chk the parallel steer first and foremost before you play with anything else.

i don't know why, but from all the sets i've seen, they're ALL 100% parallel steer; which makes absolutely no sense to me anyway.

try lowering that to something like 10-15% and see if it gets rid of it.

It really doens't bother me at all with people spamming hte blue flag since I ca'nt hear the message sounds anyway.

It does get under my skin a little bit when people use the blueflag spam during qualifying.

Gimme a break, if I'm on my outlap and you're on your hotlap, I'll be a monkey's uncle before I move over for you. That's part of the beauty of time-restricted qualifying, you find a gap that gives you clear air, and you go balls to the wall. Keyword there being FINDING, not having people giving you clear air.

Quote from SamH :

This stuff is STILL alien to me.

Serious question: Am I falling short, as a driver, if I don't understand this stuff and can't get my head around the effect these settings have on the car handling, or is it reasonable for me to turn around to the Bob Smiths of the LFS community and say stuff like "that was great, but I turned the wheel in T3 and it just didn't GO where I pointed it.. FIX IT!"?

From what I've seen/read, Schumaker is seriously on the ball regarding setup and effect. Are all F1 drivers like that? Do they need to be? Does Schumy even NEED a race engineer? If so, does he just take orders from Schumy? Are GTR-class drivers this hands-on "granular" when it comes to setting up their cars? I could really do with an idea of what's "expected" from me, as a "fast" driver.

Like kartracer, I race karts
but i also am a mech eng student and a FSAE participant.

personally, feel is important, but understanding is even more so IMO. if you can't communicate articulately to the engineer what the car is doing, then it makes it much harder for the two of you to come up with a setup together IMO.

all the great ones have a very in-depth knowledge on the mechanical side of things: MS, Senna, Prost, Mika and so on.

Quote from WGooden :

Cool thanks, was looking for decent pics.

kubica's helmet is indeed in the game already

that is true

but then most race cars have dampers that you can adjust for fast and slow bound/rebound (not possible here)

even on something as simple as the formula bmw cars, you can theoretically adjust the anti squat (tho the rules do not permit that); and let's not get into bump-steer lol

granted from the sets i've seen floating around (the wr) set, most people don't even know what parallel steer and caster does (6 degrees in a city track! *faint*)..but it'd be nice to have that available so those of us who do want to experiment, can

I remember these two parameters being tunable in S1, along with track width.

how come this was removed? been wanting to ask this for a long time

everytime someone says a FSAE car is a kart makes me wanna punch em in the noggin

Quote from WGooden :

Can anyone do a design like on the sauber test drivers helmet, you know with the cool lines and shaded color.

for those needing references, go here

http://www.motorsport.com/phot ... ivers&Y=2006&O=12

btw WG, nice lap

never drove it much to tell you the truth.

still can't get rid of my obsession with the FOX.

Quote from JJ72 :

That'll be me.

he's the mate i was referring to

thanks JJ

i know u'r busy, so i threw it up here instead.

and i didn't even know there was a lfs forum..ppl always say it and i always thought they meant rsc illepall

Could someone please make a BF1 skin out of the F08 skin i've attached?

thanks :clapclap:

i think it's just me then

my old set gained me one whole second after the new patch on south city long.

but of course i went faster still after some tweaks :P

if i post my f08 skin a mate did for me, could someone please be so kind as to do a BF1 version for it please?

thanks

My friend has a dedicated host, and i'm certain he's updated to version s at the very least.

after the patch, i couldn't connect to the server. the server's up 24/7 and from my screen, it's not even on the list.

if i click "join specific game", after typing in the name and pw and clicked go, it'll say connecting to server

5 seconds later, it'll go back to the prev screen where you enter the server name info, etc.

i don't think i'm on his ban list (tho i've left him a msg to chk)...any other reasons why this could be happening?

thanks

prob solved

thanks

Last edited by Borbor, Wed 26 Apr 2006, 07:38.