Generic Porsche 911 GT3 R 2016 Setup

The reason I want to make this thread is because I see a lot of suggestions for what to do with this car, and most of them seem to have the same concept and direction, which is to soften the dampers, and raise the ride height. The thing is, for me, stiffening the damping helped me much more than softening them. I can understand why most people would soften it. It makes the car much more manageable because of how bouncy it is. When softening it though, it actually becomes slightly more bouncy, but more manageable so a lot of people seem to think that's better.

For me though, I wanted to eliminate the oscillation as much as possible, so I decided to try the other direction, stiffening it. And that's when I sort of had an epiphany moment and the car started coming together for me. So I just wanted to post what I've come up with so far, which helped me a lot. I know it seems like it's too stiff, but it's very drive-able for me and makes the car much better. I think setup has a lot to do with personal preferences and evolves over time.




So the main things to take from this would be the damper settings, the spring rate, and ride height. These three things are the things that makes the biggest impact on the car for me. I raised the car a little to prevent it from bottoming out. The "raise the ride height" direction seems to be a good one. As far as the rest of the setting, I'm still testing and tweaking. Gearing, aero and pressures would depend on the track. Also the travel range helped a little too. Again, preference has a lot to do with setup, so this might not be exactly to your taste, but I feel this direction is a good one. I hope this helps because this car has been quite complicated to find a good balance and setup for me, so I hope this makes it easier for anyone else.

Let me know if you use this and how this effected your drive, also any suggestions/comments are welcome as well.

EDIT - Also to clarify, even though I mentioned it before, this is not a final setup. I'm still going to test this out quite a bit and see what else I can do, but for a starting point, I think it's good.

 

I tried this setup and it works fine for me ->

 

Very interesting! I actually run my ride height even higher at 83 around the car. It seems to help out a lot with little negative effect. I still run very quick times even though it is much higher.

 

I think the setup for the Nordshleife would be unique from most GP circuits. I tested my setup at Spa and Barcelona, my setup has GP circuits in mind.

Ride height also depends on your spring rate. The harder you run, the lower you can go without bottoming out. This car does require a little extra height though because it was bottoming out at stock height. I personally don't like the feel of a car too high. I personally prefer cars to be as low and as stiff without bottoming out or causing the car to over/understeer.

 

Pretty similar to what I came up with for this car. Obviously thinking differently on bump and ride height.. You're also running a stiffer front ARB, I found running it a bit lower helps with stability over any curbs a lot, and you still have a very reactive front end if you balance the aero out.

 

Fantastic lap... awesome to watch

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I tried these settings. And got my times down significantly.
Problem is they won't save. Is there still a problem with saving settings!!?!

 

Glad the setup worked for you!

I haven't had any issues saving setups, and I have a lot of setups saved now. I know someone that had the same problem and he deleted the game save data on both the console and cloud and this solved the issue for him. If you are on the Xbox this is how you do this, in the games and apps screen highlight Assetto Corsa, press the start button, this should bring up the following options, Pin, Game Hub, Manage game, Quit. Select Manage game, go down to "Saved data" and click the file that has the title of your gamertag and select delete everywhere. This will delete all of your saved data unfortunately, which means FFB settings, sound settings, and any Career, or Special Events you have completed so it is not an ideal solution, but it does fix the setup save problem.

 

Thanks. But I'm on PS4 !

 

1. In the XrossMedia Bar, go to Settings.
2. Choose "Application Saved Data Management".
3. Select "Saved Data in System Storage."
4. Choose "Delete".
5. Select the saved data for the game you would like to delete and follow the on-screen prompts.

I haven't tried this, the PS4 I use from time to time isn't mine. This is what I found on google, might be worth a try.

 

Great thread this, handy to collect and compare setup tips. Need more of these for individual cars or tracks.

On the PS the part that i find a bit clunky and may be stopping your save is, after you enter the name for the save file and press done, done is not done, you then have to press x on save, or it won't save. No general setup save either, each is for only that track.

 

Also worth noting on saving setups, if I don't back out of the game all the way back to the screen with the FXX K before quitting it does not save the setups.

 

That seems to have done the trick!
Many thanks again.

PS. Still can't get below 2.21 at Spa!!

 

Great thread below is my video which doesn't have any details of setup ( which i like ) but i am looking for a little help with trying to dial out the rear bounce out which you can see best coming out of chapel corner , any advise would be appreciated ..

 

base setup made on Barcelona GP circuit, PS4 version

 

So I made some tweaks to my original setup. I loosened the the springs up a little, raised the car a little more, and adjusted the dampers slightly. I think it helped more. I think this is a better base. I was also able to switch to softs and get them not to overheat by increasing the pressure.






EDIT -

Oh and I forgot to add, I also adjusted to the rear fast bump a little bit and it felt better initially, going to test it out more. But if anyone's interesting, I have the rear fast bump set to 12 instead of 13.

 

Be careful how far you adjust your tire pressure. Optimum tire pressure for GT3 race cars is 26psi HOT. While it may keep the tires cooler, you could be loosing more grip with higher pressures than you could be loosing with hotter temperatures. The PC guys have all of this data if y'all are interested.

 

you where saying

 

Yea that'd be helpful. I personally didn't feel any lack of grip with the tire pressure like this... but some more data would always be welcome.

 

Hopefully I don't sound dumb but I'm not quite sure what you mean by this response.

You may not feel it but it is technically there. It's in the ini files in the game, however you can not extract that information on console. I cannot remember exactly where to find it but if you dig around searching for Assetto Corsa tire pressure ini, I'm sure you'll come up with something. I've been meaning to find it again, and once I do, I'll be sure to post where to get it.