Friday, July 14, 2023

Sim 2 IRL - First Run!

So did the countless hours in the SIM pay off IRL. Absolutely. !!


My friends I had met online with Real Cars were as interested as my SIM friends to see the result. 


 The car was an LS Swapped Toyota Cressida with welded Diff and Knuckles. Pretty simple. 

The Assetto Corsa SIM experience takes all the natural car control elements and allows you to know what will happen. 

The safety component and cost component is the only limitation.

No Skid pan. No other testing. Straight to Real Layout at QR Skid Control event.

It was really quite simple with this level of power (300+hp ) to translate the skills from SIM to IRL.  

After Just 3 laps to become accustomed to the car and with one or two spins to find the limits. That was now embedded in the driving experience. 

So lets try to link it all. 


Does SIM help. Yes it does indeed.

Friday, February 10, 2023

New Year New Mode

 Welcome to 2023

The first thing we tried this year is PURE. Yes it's a filter and yes it's just whatever personal preference you like. 


Combine this with the photo mode app and you can get some nice results. 


We have a few real drift friends, that like a bit more grip feel in the SIM... Initially that meant running these gravy garage cars with insane levels of competition drift tyres, But as you become accustomed to what in reality is simply not correct. You need the feel but not the translatable speed of grip in the sim. 

In order to generate force feedback in the SIM especially on a logitec G920. You need to increase tyre grip more and more and more.    

What you end up with is a car that is underpowered and over tyred. in sim you can't link 5th gear corners in these cars with 400 hp , but in reality, you aren't actually running this much grip to generate the same steering "Feel".

This is where SIM doesn't match. 

While I started to modify some gravy Garage Cars at Super Happy Drift. These guys need a modding tutorials so they can build what they feel is a good Real life experience. 


For .RSG. we simply lower the available grip to reduced tyres until everyone can cope with insanely snappy high grip setups that don't allow for good tandem unless you are on drugs that enhange your reflexes. 

In what is a compromise between .RSG./ADC/Tando and the Comp/WDT spec super grip machines. 

We are getting doors on doors.


I still like ripping long hand brake entries. So I sometimes go back to low grip on the rear to allow that. I am a fan of the 2002 spec machines that ran with 17" fronts and 18inch high pressure rear tyres. Nothing I hate more more than having to be on throttle when I want to be on Handbrake.  

That's the point in about 2008 when drift became more about Performance, Speed and Grip than about Style, Looking low and Insanely going deep and ripping a big entry. When you would see the rear wheels locked for ages. 

 


Saturday, December 31, 2022

DECEMBER

 

How Fast? 300+

2JZ Swap everything.

Rotor NA... Still awesome fun.

Vert Life. Feel the breeze, smell the smoke. 



R33LM and R34 Shilouette = Very Fast. 

Wednesday, November 30, 2022

NOVEMBER 2023

 

Don't forget to Daily Drift!


Zak's Turbo Mini


It's all about extremes.


800hp Suzukis - LA Grip Style


Revisiting the first few .RSG. mods. 

Saturday, October 1, 2022

OCTOBER MADNESS

 

Gunsai Touge... madness at speed



Barcelona Feels



Shuto battles are unavoidable




Rip Okayama a new one

Tuesday, September 13, 2022

Cranking up the fun

 

Gold Coast - The Spit Update. Looking more professional. 

Amaroo park... Fun History

RSG Deep Coast. Looking good at dusk


Canyon Smashing


Tsukuba fruitiness



Who rules the Osaka streets.

Futo Futo !  Oi Oi Oi! 



Happy Valley, still a legendary track for doors. 

Wednesday, August 10, 2022

August it's a Must

 

More classic action

from the Russell Ford Clinic


Finishing up some cars I had in the works. 


Adding the Details to the configs


But we don't forget to drive. At Ugase there is a great run... you just have to remember which one. 


Riga is always a great run!!!


New GR90 Supra and GR86 work very well. Thanks to all the guys who still believe in community shares.  


I'd love to share more but the reality is negative. I love just adding wheels and liveries and small details. 



Just makes Stock more cool.  


I can never call them my own work and you can never find the original creators so unfortunately they stay private.  


Kunos + My own mods are however sharable. But out of 280 cars. only a few are possible. 

Doesn't stop the few of us from enjoying.