Yeah I am not saying that they are always selling the sets from the previous season. But I know that they either go grab their current base, a setup from a similar track, or their setup from last time they were there and start from there. Sometimes there are a some changes because of weather/track condition changes, but sometimes there are no changes needed at all. If you have a setup from last season you can save your money unless for some reason it is way off the pace. Sometimes the builders figure out new ways to get faster and they pretty soon it makes its way into about all the shop setups. The Xfinity cars and the Trucks are pretty flushed out though at this point. Very hard to find "new ways" to make the sets faster at this point.
@@Area51AlienFactory One thing is to offer a set and another thing to offer quality feedback from the setup shop. The vast majority of stores behave in such a way that you have a winning set here and that's the end of it. You will not receive any response, no advice, and you will not receive a set update at all. People looking for miracle sets are simply disappointed after some time when the expected progress does not come.
I have this question. At fixed races like Arca at Phoenix I am running a -9 offset and I am wearing the RF tire unevenly. It is burning the inner and middle more then outside. Why is this? I am a have been Iracing for 2 months now. Is the offset doing this? I am running a 12 to 1 ration -9 offset. I can run 27.7 and low 28's for 20 laps then I lose the RF and start to run high 28's then in to the 29's and 30's by the end of the race. I am now just targeting 28.5's for the race and let the cars burn their stuff. Thanks.
So the offest doesn't really matter its just a preferent to how centered you want you steering wheel. But the steering ratio does help control tire wear. If you are burning the right front too much try running a 14:1 ratio instead. It will help a little bit and then backing up your corners will help with that too. In like a lamb out like a lion.
I make top split Setups, I can tell you they look nothing like what you can get from vrs/pds... they make no logical sense....and take hundreds of hours to finish.... once you know the track/car combo learning what each thing does in the setup will go an extremely long way. You can take something from a setup shop and make it suit your style or take a set fr one track and make it work for another. If you want something that gives you the few tenths a normal setup doesn't, you have to put in the time.
I agree with you. For example, VRS (oval) does not present itself as a setting for top splits. Individual adjustments are key. No one will sell you the settings in the top splits today. People must throw away naivety and understand reality.
I agree with you, too. The only thing I was trying to say is that if you have a setup at whatever level. (RS/PDS/Majors which aren't that fast or something from one of the faster shops like Elite, Ryco, Maconi, Pay2Win, etc, or even something that a good team has built that is realy fast). That setup will be good the next time you are at the same track with either no adjustments or minor ones for changes in track temp, etc.
I recently came to iRacing from ACC and RFactor, have been sim racing for years and have a decent understanding of how to setup a car. IRacing has me at a loss. I make changes and they're invalid, or I change camber and then Toe is effected, etc. Granted, I am working with AMG GT4 since I've only had this for a week and understand GT4 isn't as tunable as GT3 etc. Any insight or help would be appreciated
So yes one adjustment in the garage can affect another. It can get a bit irritating. If you get into setting up cars I have a series on using a program called MoTec and I made a free MoTec workbook you can download and use. MoTec give you all kinds of information on ride heights, rake, downforce, etc to help you setup the car. Also, if you want to get a head start with some decent setups already made check out VRS. It's only $9.99 per month and you can download setups for a pretty huge amount of cars. They upload new setups for each track every week for the cars they support. I did a review on VRS a while back. Here are the links to both videos I mentioned. th-cam.com/video/lp6anerrRdY/w-d-xo.html th-cam.com/video/xa3o14i6-4s/w-d-xo.html
@@Area51AlienFactory Thank you very much for the info. It's definitely irritating that you cannot make standard adjustments to ride height, springs, aero, camber etc without having to spend an indefinite amount of time to actually drive them and pass tech
I've been to several teams and I can actually confirm what was said in the video. It's unbelievable what's going on behind the scenes.
Yeah I am not saying that they are always selling the sets from the previous season. But I know that they either go grab their current base, a setup from a similar track, or their setup from last time they were there and start from there. Sometimes there are a some changes because of weather/track condition changes, but sometimes there are no changes needed at all.
If you have a setup from last season you can save your money unless for some reason it is way off the pace. Sometimes the builders figure out new ways to get faster and they pretty soon it makes its way into about all the shop setups.
The Xfinity cars and the Trucks are pretty flushed out though at this point. Very hard to find "new ways" to make the sets faster at this point.
@@Area51AlienFactory One thing is to offer a set and another thing to offer quality feedback from the setup shop. The vast majority of stores behave in such a way that you have a winning set here and that's the end of it. You will not receive any response, no advice, and you will not receive a set update at all. People looking for miracle sets are simply disappointed after some time when the expected progress does not come.
@@brdg8405 Yeah, I think that is true for the most part but there are some exceptions out there.
I have this question. At fixed races like Arca at Phoenix I am running a -9 offset and I am wearing the RF tire unevenly.
It is burning the inner and middle more then outside.
Why is this?
I am a have been Iracing for 2 months now.
Is the offset doing this?
I am running a 12 to 1 ration -9 offset.
I can run 27.7 and low 28's for 20 laps then I lose the RF and start to run high 28's then in to the 29's and 30's by the end of the race.
I am now just targeting 28.5's for the race and let the cars burn their stuff.
Thanks.
So the offest doesn't really matter its just a preferent to how centered you want you steering wheel. But the steering ratio does help control tire wear. If you are burning the right front too much try running a 14:1 ratio instead. It will help a little bit and then backing up your corners will help with that too. In like a lamb out like a lion.
I make top split Setups, I can tell you they look nothing like what you can get from vrs/pds... they make no logical sense....and take hundreds of hours to finish.... once you know the track/car combo learning what each thing does in the setup will go an extremely long way. You can take something from a setup shop and make it suit your style or take a set fr one track and make it work for another. If you want something that gives you the few tenths a normal setup doesn't, you have to put in the time.
I agree with you. For example, VRS (oval) does not present itself as a setting for top splits. Individual adjustments are key. No one will sell you the settings in the top splits today. People must throw away naivety and understand reality.
I agree with you, too. The only thing I was trying to say is that if you have a setup at whatever level. (RS/PDS/Majors which aren't that fast or something from one of the faster shops like Elite, Ryco, Maconi, Pay2Win, etc, or even something that a good team has built that is realy fast). That setup will be good the next time you are at the same track with either no adjustments or minor ones for changes in track temp, etc.
Wait that t-shirt, are you from WV?
Yes sir, born and raise in WV.
@@Area51AlienFactory that’s cool, I’m from Huntington
I recently came to iRacing from ACC and RFactor, have been sim racing for years and have a decent understanding of how to setup a car.
IRacing has me at a loss. I make changes and they're invalid, or I change camber and then Toe is effected, etc. Granted, I am working with AMG GT4 since I've only had this for a week and understand GT4 isn't as tunable as GT3 etc.
Any insight or help would be appreciated
So yes one adjustment in the garage can affect another. It can get a bit irritating. If you get into setting up cars I have a series on using a program called MoTec and I made a free MoTec workbook you can download and use. MoTec give you all kinds of information on ride heights, rake, downforce, etc to help you setup the car.
Also, if you want to get a head start with some decent setups already made check out VRS. It's only $9.99 per month and you can download setups for a pretty huge amount of cars. They upload new setups for each track every week for the cars they support. I did a review on VRS a while back.
Here are the links to both videos I mentioned.
th-cam.com/video/lp6anerrRdY/w-d-xo.html
th-cam.com/video/xa3o14i6-4s/w-d-xo.html
@@Area51AlienFactory Thank you very much for the info.
It's definitely irritating that you cannot make standard adjustments to ride height, springs, aero, camber etc without having to spend an indefinite amount of time to actually drive them and pass tech
need a truck crew chief?
sure, but I just don't race trucks very much. you can always come do xfinity with us.