Forza 2 Advice?

I've been playing a bit of Forza 2 lately. I grabbed the Honda CRX and won the first race series in it.

Now it's time for the upgrades. Credit for credit, what are the best mods to do first in Forza 2?

And does anyone have any advice on adjusting the tuning? I was going to leave all that tire pressure/camber/sway bar link adjustment stuff alone. Seems too much like work. But if anyone's got a proven setup for a CRX in FM2 I'd love to hear it.

It depends a lot on what your going for. A lot of times doing a series of small stuff (like street level exhaust, intake, etc) will gain a better car overall than one big upgrade (engine block, turbo, etc). Tires also make a big difference.

http://www.ondaground.net/flash/fm2/

This is a pretty good online suspension tuner. It's good for getting a car in the ballpark, then you just need to play with it a little to get it right where you want it.

Rear sway bar and tires. Get the race sway bar and you will see huge benefits.

Full suspension, swaybars, and weight reduction will transform the car. Expect to fiddle with it if you want to tune out the understeer. I'm a fan of the rear-stiff setup.

The turbo upgrades are kinda meh, but I think that the cam upgrades offer good bang-for-your-buck with a good power increase and an increased redline.

Thanks! I'll go for that then.

I just wanted some quick ideas for a competitive car to play with. Spending all my credits and time on tweaking stuff in a videogame is not my idea of a good time. I want to play with the car! Sounds like tires and suspension should be my first picks. I'll also stiffen up the rear a bit.

Nothing says "good times" like a tight rear!

3Door4G wrote: Nothing says "good times" like a tight rear!

The possible commentary here is endless and not at all in good taste.

She likes what stiffer in the rear?

Back OT: With the full race suspension, on a fwd car, I rarely find it necessary to increase the front spring rate, but instead just increase the rear (although it will depend on the track). I usually use a rule of thumb that the front is 4/5ths the rate of the rear. You might also want to do a mild rear damping increase as well.

With swaybars, I've have liked the front softer than the stock settings (for the full race bars). I'm not a fan of huge swaybars in life or apparently the digital realm. Use as little as you can get away with, and the suspension stays more independent.

I wouldn't spend a ton of time on alignment, but some more camber up front is going to help out. Maybe someone else can chime in here, but I usually don't go above 2.5 on the front of a fwd car since they obviously have to get the power to the ground as well. With a rear-stiff setup, you might want 1-1.5 degrees of rear camber as well, depending on how tail-happy the car becomes. Obviously, all these settings effect each other, so a little bit of fiddling is necessary to get it all into a sweet spot.

I finish fast with a tight rear!

Thanks. That's exactly what I'm going to do.

Usually, the lightweight FWD cars like weight reduction and slicks better than anything else. They'll corner so fast, that power isn't needed that much. Their exit speed makes up for a lot.

I had a lot of success with my CRX and Rabbit with 'real world' settings. Usually in the top 100 with my Rabbit at several tracks. Most of the guys that ran them went with extremem settings. Like Max hardness on the rear bar, and full soft on the front bar. Settings like those made the car fast for one lap, but really hard to control over the course of several laps. With my settings, the car would get better as the laps wore on.

Fink - your comment on extreme settings reminded me a of an important lesson in humility. I spent hours tuning my EG hatch's suspension in GT4, fiddling, constantly decreasing lap times, etc. It became a fun but unstable beast and I thought it was badass . . . until I swapped it back to "stock" settings and lost another 2 seconds on El Capitan (doh!)

Cool cool, I'll remember this.

Weight reduction. It helps handling, braking and acceleration.