Class Car Setup* Level 1 Mazda RX-8 0-1-1-4-1-2 Level 2 Honda s2000 0-1-1-5-4-5 Level 3 Nissan Skyline 5-5-5-5-5-5

Level 4 BMW M3 5-5-5-5-5-5 Level 5 Lamborghini G 0-1-1-4-5-1 Level 6 Lamborghini G 4-3-3-5-5-5 Level 7 Audi R8 MTM 1-1-2-5-5-5 Level 8 CM F1 1-5-1-5-5-5 Level 9 Ferrari FXX 2-4-1-5-5-5 or 2-3-5-5-5-5 Level 10 Bugatti Veyron 5-5-5-5-5-5 Half Mile Cars Class Car Setup* Level 1 Mazda RX-8 0-1-1-4-1-2 Level 1 Honda s2000 0-1-1-0-1-0 Level 2 Honda s2000 0-1-1-5-4-5 Level 3 Honda s2000 5-5-5-5-5-5 Level 4 BMW M3 5-5-5-5-5-5 Level 5 Aston Martin 1-1-1-0-1-2 Level 6 Aston Martin 1-4-2-4-5-5 Level 7 Novitec Rosso 5-5-5-5-5-5 Level 8 Pagani Zonda 4-4-3-4-5-5 Level 9 SSC Ultimate Aero 2-5-2-4-5-5 Level 10 Hennessey Venom 5-5-5-5-5-5 *Numbers indicate upgrade levels for Engine, Turbo, Intake/Exhaust, Nitro, Weight and Wheels respectively

Overview The rough flow you should follow is: 1. Set your Final Drive, First Gear and Second Gear figures for a 2nd gear launch start. Take note of the rpm and the amount of wheelspin. 2. Identify if youre going for a quarter, half or mile long race. 1. The longer your race, the more important your top speed is, and therefore your highest gear ratio needs to be as low as possible. 2. If youre in a short race, then your top speed may not even be reached and therefore the rpm for perfect transitioning is more important. In otherwords there may be very little time between the gear changes. 3. If in doubt, then just aim to tune so that the rpm is quite high between each gear change. rd 3. 3 gear is when youre using the nitrous, so you need to understand the forces, and basically watch/listen for wheelspin. 4. Finish adjusting the remaining gears (4 6 or 7).

5. If youre losing the long distance races, then read point 2), and reduce all numbers from 4th gear downwards. 6. If you were aiming to get a really fast time, then tweak your final drive first i.e. the assumption is that the gears are in what you think are roughly the best setup for the current final drive amount. Then adjust your gears if you feel you can squeeze an inkling more ability out of them. Tuning method for a second gear launch 1. Load up the car stock settings and set the Final Drive to 1.000 2. Then do a second gear launch in a test drive. Take note of where the red needle is on the rpm counter. This is where the needle will jump to when you gear up if your final drive wasnt 1.000 3. Now change your 2nd gear and test drive until you get the red pointer is roughly where the red bar on the speedometer starts. (Engine details above help explain this if the rpm is too low, then bring the numbers closer together. If the rpm is too high, then increase the difference between the two). 4. Now begin raising the final drive until you start getting some wheel spin. You can see the wheel spin from the lit up icon on your dashboard when you drive. 5. Now continue to raise the final drive, but keep an eye on the speedometer needle. Your aim is to get as high a FD as possible, without the red needle falling. If its stationary and then it increases in rpm, then thats good. If the rpms fall before it increases, thats bad and you want to reduce your FD. Once youve done this then youll have the optimum launch start setup (for your current gear 1 and 2 ratios). So the FD is not too low so that it wastes time when you start, and not too high to cause you to lose traction with wheel spins. 6. Before I go any further, I should make it clear that its possible to have a different FD with different gear 1 and 2 ratios. But your FD has an amplifying effect on all your gears so herein lies the problem what FD is perfect for your car overall? Unfortunately, you dont know, and its largely trial and error if youre a pro tuner, then you want this low so that you can adjust your gears in the thousandths. If in any doubt here, then just start with the stock gear 1 setting, and tune from there. 7. Third gear is slightly different as youre using your Nitrous. This third gear and Nitrous act as a pair. Increasing the duration time is the same as reducing the third gear ratio because both reduce the force applied. 8. Set the NOS to around about 2.5 to start off with. Increase your 3rd gear ratio until you see the wheel spinning happening when you gear to 3rd and activate the NOS. Take note of what rpm is seen when you change to third. If the setup is such that the resultant rpm is really low, then youll need to increase your 3rd gear ratio so the resultant rpm is acceptable whilst increasing your NOS duration time. The reason for not letting the rpm fall too low is because you want the engine to be in its active rpm region as explained earlier. Getting this right takes practise and guess work, but its similar to how you adjusted the [FD, 1st and 2nd gear] set. 9. The next thing to do is alter the remaining gear ratios. They should be handled in a group where the higher gears are affected by the lower ones: so as you change a 4th gear, youll alter the 5th and 6th gears at the same time. If you change a 5th gear, youll change a 6th gear too. 10. If this is your initial tune, then do a few trial runs and look at where the rpm needle falls for each gear change. Alter each of the ratios such that the rpm needle is pretty high almost at the red section.

11. Now youll find that you may be gearing really fast, or the engine and rpm is maxed out so the needle bounces at the top or is at the maximum limit for a period during the race. This is no good for us as it wastes valuable race power and speed. So start reducing your 4th, 5th and 6th gears together in small increments such that you reach the max rpm just before the finish of the race. Youre effectively spreading your transitions across the gears any making full use of the engine. Right thats a huge brain dump and enough information which should help guide you on how to tune your car for a second gear start. You can apply the same logic to first gear start too ( have a think about it). In my next post Ill gather some acceptable tunes which should help you get a low race time, and put some tips together about how to take your tuning to the next level.
Nitrious: 2.88s Final Drive: 5.000 (so full multiplier effect!) 1st Gear: 4.950 2nd Gear: 3.675 3rd Gear: 2.010 4th Gear: 1.510 5th Gear: 1.130 6th Gear 0.940