Hello,
I've been racing with Nascar 2 for about 3 months. I'm lost when it
comes to setiing up the car.
I usually just take one of the pre-set setups but I know it can be
better.
It seems when I touch anything in the setup my car becomes
uncontrollable. I tweak things, but I can't tell if it worked or not.
When you start with a setup, where do you start?
How can you tell if you need to adjust the wheels, wedge, or shocks?
hoping to get faster,
--Mike
Try looking at one of the set-up/ track guide sites. They will give you
a good idea of how everything works in conjunction w/ everything else.
Also don't try to make a bunch of changes at once or you'll never know
what effect each change has.
Here's a couple of sites to get you started!
http://ebusch.akorn.net/setups.html
http://www.ivga.com/pjfnas2.htm
http://www.traction.git.net/snrc/school.htm
http://members.aol.com/g24fan6734/school.htm
http://www.geocities.com/MotorCity/9783/trackguide.html
I'm not an expert by any means, but here's how I got some pretty good
setups at a few tracks.
First - everyone has a different driving style. What works well for
me may not work for you. You can get setups from www.theuspits.com to
try, but it's probably better to do your own.
Second - change only ONE thing at a time. Make small changes, one
step at a time, WRITE DOWN what you change, see what it does, then
change it more & see what happens.
If you make only one small change at a time and write down what you
changed, it's easy to see what happens. This takes time, but you can
really learn a lot about car setups. Keep trying and document your
changes. Printing the settings is a nice feature: you can write your
change on the setup sheet and have a good record of what you did.
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Dave Starr
Professional Shop Rat - 32 years in an Auto Plant
try to adjust your driving style to the car
>I usually just take one of the pre-set setups but I know it can be
>better.
>It seems when I touch anything in the setup my car becomes
>uncontrollable. I tweak things, but I can't tell if it worked or not.
>When you start with a setup, where do you start?
>How can you tell if you need to adjust the wheels, wedge, or shocks?
Take a look at my setup tutorial at:
http://www.sequoia-dev.com/Hawaii/Features/setupguide.html
There should be enough information there to get you started.
Dave Sparks
IWCCCARS Project: http://www.theuspits.com/iwcccars/index.html-ssi
Late Night Series: http://www.sequoia-dev.com/Hawaii/latenite.html
