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Burnout - Shifting weight.

5 posts by 4 people · 03 May 1998 - 08 May 1998

To avoid Blowovers, I have tried to shift weight to the front. However, the weight shifting option is NOT front vs. rear and/Or Left vs Right. It is vertical vs. horizonal. Can someone explain ? ?. ( i.e. How do I shift weight toward the front?) Tim
Pete 03 May 1998#407317
Tim, there are several ways to avoid blowovers in the game. If you use the horizontal slider and move it right so that it increases the value ie 70 to 71 then you are moving weight to the front of the vehicle. But in doing so you will also be affecting you weight transfer and 60ft times at the other end of the track. Some of the other things that can be used to stop blow- over are your wings, tire growth on the rear tires, height of your front tires, spring rates front and rear and tire stiffness. Unless, your blowovers are happening real early in your run, you may want to try one of the more subtle changes first. Much trial and errror is required to figure out all the nuances. Make small changes, and look at your time card at the end of the run make note of what happened. It may take several passes to see if the change was repeatable. I would then use your telemetry file to see what happened compared to the previous run. You should be trying to get the lowest 60ft times possible and run them consistantly. This will show in the form of high g forces on the graph and will result in the fastest times. Pete
rodneyj12 06 May 1998#407688
Tim, As best as I can make out the 'Horizontal' value is the percent of the weight on the front wheels. So to move the weight forward increase the 'Horizontal' value. The 'Vertical' value seems to be the height of the center of gravity and would affect weight transfer to the rear during acceleration. Increasing it would move weight to the rear under high acceleration but not move it very much during low acceleration (near the end of the race). Of course, I don't know exactly what the programs code is doing but this is my best guess after playing around with the program for a week. Rod (Author of DragRace the Game)
Quoted text (9 lines)>To avoid Blowovers, I have tried to shift weight to the front. >However, the weight shifting option is NOT front vs. rear and/Or Left vs >Right. >It is vertical vs. horizonal. >Can someone explain ? ?. ( i.e. How do I shift weight toward the front?) >Tim
Spif 08 May 1998#407902
I shifted the horizontal weight to the minimum (I think 10?) and the car went nose up while sitting in the burnout box and just stood on it's bumper, without me touching the gas. So I'd say 10 is back :)
Quoted text (9 lines)>>To avoid Blowovers, I have tried to shift weight to the front. >>However, the weight shifting option is NOT front vs. rear and/Or Left vs >>Right. >>It is vertical vs. horizonal. >>Can someone explain ? ?. ( i.e. How do I shift weight toward the front?) >>Tim
rodneyj12 08 May 1998#407903
Yea, that seems to be right. Horizontal = 10 means 10 on the front and 90 on the back. I did a car like that (I forget which body) and I think it not only stood on the rear bumper but flipped over. All while stopped in the bleach box with the brakes on! Rod Author of DragRace the Game >I shifted the horizontal weight to the minimum (I think 10?) and the car went >nose up while sitting in the burnout box and just stood on it's bumper, >without me touching the gas. >So I'd say 10 is back :)

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