General Chit-Chat

I only bought the FSR because it was €100 CHEAPER than GS (both new item, of course).
It was a hell of a deal... but I don't even look at the LCD...
If only I could use custom displays... as it is, is worthless to me.

 

Greetings! I'm not sure if this is the right place to discuss this topic, but I'd like to talk about the engine used in the Mercedes CLK-LM. As far as I know, there have been serious discussions online regarding the engine used in the car during the 1998 GT1 season. It is already known that the car was powered by an engine based on the M119, which was also used in the Sauber C9. However, there are videos of the car that clearly indicate the engine had a flat-plane crankshaft (unlike the cross-plane crankshaft in the C9). Despite this, both in Project Cars and AMS2 (and also in Gran Turismo 7), the CLK-LM is depicted with a cross-plane crankshaft. However, this [link] explains that the CLK-LM's engine actually had a 180-degree (flat-plane) crankshaft.
Mercedes-Benz CLK-GTR: A Race Car You Can Drive on the Street

 

GT7 is a car encyclopedia and Polyphony/Kaz are perfectionists when it comes to car detail and info, so I doubt they could get that info wrong, but it can happen to the best of us.

But with a short read about engines, a cross plane crankshaft would make more sense for an endurance racecar, due to producing more torque at lower RPMs and having more durability.

 

These CLK-LMs (you can tell they are not CLK GTRs, because of the "misaligned" headlights) sound different from the Goodwood one, for what it's worth

 

I guess the CLK-LM was powered by a cross-plane V8 engine for the 24 Hours of Le Mans, and the crankshaft configuration may have been changed during the GT1 Championship.

 

Think everyone has given up hope that 1.6 is anytime soon and gone back to playing other games instead of F5ing the forums waiting for updates.
I have (mostly)

 

I really like my DIY load cell brake. Was a fun project. Was supposed to be a short term filler thing while I talked myself into justifying the $ for a "proper" loadcell pedal upgrade, but after the tweaks I'm super happy with it. A few generational mods along the way but has been going strong well over a year now. A cheap Arduino pro micro, four 25kg loadcells (100kg total), a bit of massaged online code a few hacked together brackets/woodworking/mounting solutions. Total parts cost $18 haha. Works like a dream and feels awesome. Love it cause it looks like crap, but works great. Dollarstore Motorsport at it's best.

 

This has nothing to do with any of the topics here... But I've been playing TOCA Race Driver 3 recently and this has been a massive reality check about how good sims are today because frankly it's an amazing game absolutely ruined by bad physics. Not only unrealistic, but just down-right frustrating.

The game is understeer city, the only way you can turn is by accelerating it's so frustrating. If you're coasting all the car will want to do is go straight in just about everything you can drive. It's so hard to be smooth in the game too, I limited the rotation of my wheel to 540 degrees and still feel like I have to constantly use extreme steering movements just to simply make a corner. Such a shame because it genuinely has one of the best car/track lists of any racing game out there, but actually playing the game is a chore.

 

You should play it with a controller, its more bearable that way, but its still pretty bad driving wise. Plus the AI had some rather nasty rubberbanding, which made it a very frustrating experience overall. The Grid games were better IMHO, but also did suffer from bullsh!t AI on the fastest classes.

 

Just enable ABS in the assists menu when you drive the CLK-LM

 

Surprisingly, cruising around in my dream cars in Forza Horizon 5 is quite good fun. Also been getting back into rally sims.

 

Marcas touring cars in AMS1...surprisingly lairy for being FWD. Unfortunately if they are ever planned to be in AMS2, they would be queueing in line for quite a while, as IMSA, USA & Adrenaline 2 DLCs would have to come first

 

And historic Le Mans

 

Ah yes, that, the accompanying cars, and possibly the 2025 Stock Car Brasil as well...

 

Any version with Les Hunaudières without chicanes would be quite something now the low-downforce versions of the group C cars got sorted out, gonna be quick when at 100% boost

 

What? Is there a 1.6 version coming? OMG