[8/4/08]
Well, looks like not many people care to look in here, eh?
Anyways, I've finally figured out what I should have been doing to tune out oversteer other than improved technique (although that REALLY helps too!!). Instead of doing more rear toe-out (induces oversteer), I now switched over to add more toe-in to the front tires. This makes the car turn as well as before, but without the side-effect of oversteer.
Obviously, if you think about it, I can't overdo the toe-in/out on the tires ever. Since toe angle of a car's tires refers to the angle the tires are constantly turned at, too much of it will reduce tire life SIGNIFICANTLY. Think of it like this: 2 steering wheels, 1 per wheel. Turn the wheels in opposite directions and drive forward. You'll go straight, but not only is the car unable to accelerate well, you'll probably hear the tires just screeching LOUDLY.
So now I've also figured that the downforce amount I use right now is the optimum amount to keep the car going 165MPH as I cross the start/finish line consistently (other times it goes faster). Even 3lbs more of downforce will cause the car to only go 164 past the line. Seems insignificant for a 1MPH lose, but I don't even gain anything in corner speed with that minimal difference in downforce. Tis useless tuning downforce anymore.
I've slowed down a bit since 2 days ago, but still I run sub 1:30 every lap, even when I screw up (ignoring offcourse penalties obviously). It's now very rare for me to even hit a wall where possible. I'd say only once every... 70 laps. I'm learning the course pretty well!
In non-tuning news: I've started to design a Lucario based car design for the MR2. I have to use a Mini Cooper to actually create Lucario himself, since the Mini's roof is large enough to get a good feel of how to get him in proportion to a ref pic I am using. Painting in FM2 is way harder than trying to draw in some ways, but easier in others.... I don't have to do sucky coloring in FM2 (yay for color wheel!!), and erasers aren't needed (but delete function is!). So far: His head's base shape (plus 2 of the... things sticking out the back of his head (his left side)) are done. I'll probably only need to complete the rest of his head's details and maybe part of his upper torso. Hard, but fun! I'll need to figure what else to do with the car once I'm done with actually adding Lucario on it...
