*Touge tips & tuning*

Hey everyone! So, I had an idea in mind and it's time to set sail.

Touge tips & tuning, here you can ask questions, read up & look into how to run the touge and how to tune & prep for the dangerous hills off the touge.

Touge tips;

Its not all about being the fastest instantly, you want to spend a good enough time learning the corners, the straights and where to power on and off. You will spend a lot off time making mistakes if you just want to jump in the deep end and by doing that, I don't think you will spend any time improving, nor will you learn how to control your car properly for battle.

Pick a car that you enjoy to drive already on Forza, something that has always worked for you either for drifting or time attack, go buy another and just test drive it stock and slowly perform upgrades but don't instantly decided it must be tuned.

Find a partner to run with, they don't have to be good nor bad, someone you can have a general chat with along with all the other touge members into getting a good built car and learning. Although, yes, it is very competitive, please keep in mind it's only a game.

Enjoy you're time here, have simple respect for others and don't be afraid to step up to the line, exceed your limits, by doing it with a team you will see what you need to do to improve but honestly, prepare to loose many times, prepare to realize the differences between all the other tracks to the touge.

To see how to run the touge down hill, check out KraZe's guideline post, although we all have our own techniques into driving and out own racing line, stepping back for 5 minutes to relax and to see where you could possibly improve;
KraZe's Guideline for NDH



Tuning tips;

Once again, we all have our own techniques, I am still in the middle off learning what does what and how to improve, when I first layed my my tires on the touge, I instantly thought it was all about the tuning, its not, its also very much down to the driver.

Upgrading;

You really should not worry about power, all B class cars have the power, it just needs the handling worked on. After general chat's and FAQ's, I found out that;

Don't touch the engine, at all!

What you should upgrade to is pref B500 or as close as possible, I would recommend;

Sport coilovers.
Race ARB's
Race roll cage ( keeps the body nice and stiff )
Race weight reduction
Race brakes ( Well duhh, you want to stop, right )

Race clutch ( Optinal )
Race trans
Race driveline
Race diff


You are also going to want to upgrade your tires to race, and I'd also recommend to go as wide as possible front & rear to keep the grip down on the road, although it dramatically changes your PI, you need a lot off grip! If you still see that you could do with some more upgrading, find some wheels, don't upgrade the sizes as they add more weight to the car, also, you don't need a body kit or any external upgrades as it adds weight ( Unless its a bonnet saving you a small amount etc )

A base tune for all RWD cars by KraZe;

Spoiler:

Also, if you search the forum a lot, you'd see there is a page dedicated to touge tunes, I recommend checking and testing them, however, everyone tunes their own way & everyone has their own skill. the tunes may not work for you, but could also work so well that you decided to stick to it, but, if it don't work there is a Tuning guide also on here that tells you what to adjust to improve, or, simply check out Kraze's spoiler above to decrease over/under steer.

* Other parts to tuning *

PSI - I believe you best overall grip is around 31/33 PSI, however, you will want to set your PSI a bit lower as the tires will take time to warm up, you should test drive the car for a few laps with telemetry up to see where the peak performance off grip stands and how long it takes to reach the 31/33 PSI.


FAQ;

Q: Downhill; What aspirations is best?
A: You will be better off either running N/A or S/C.





*Will update as questions come in, this will be edited frequently and I really hope it helps others out*