Mercedes sls amg

Can anyone give me some advice on how to make the Mercedes SLS AMG more stable? The car is all over the place with the default setup, and my pathetic skills as a mechanic are not up to the task of sorting it out!!

 

Softer rear springs, harder front springs, bigger - rear camber, bigger rear toe in, more power on differential, bigger rear wing angle, lower pressure of rear tires, etc etc... Choose few of the list, not all at the same time.

 

Thanks for that, but I think that you are referring to the GT3 car? I am talking about the road car.

 

ahh the D1GP spec Mercedes SLS we have in AC you mean?

 

Just fix the toe's and you will be fine, for some reason they are out of whack

 

It felt a bit better with maximum negative camber front and rear with those toe values. Is it worth reducing the tyre pressures, or does that not make much of a difference in this car?

 

Reducing the tyre pressures only seems to slow it down, so that isn't an option. I am starting to get a bit more of a feel for the car now after making those adjustments. It is definitely better for me with maximum negative camber at both ends, but it still needs to be driven with care! I managed to knock four tenths off my PB @ Vallelunga Club in the process. Now I think it's time to drive the Audi R8 V10 Plus for the first time. Yes, you read that right. I have not touched the car yet!

 

SLS is not a car for the laptimes, I love it for different reasons

 

If it's all over the place, you're driving it wrong. Simple as that.

 

Yes, of course. That must be it

 

you can try to not put max negative camber in front to improve your feeling. you have less grip in front tires of course, but because of this less oversteer also and a car more stable in trajectory and braking

 

with the current version of AC its also good to check if the tyres get a decent temp, which is not the case with the SLS, traction control was pretty much the only good solution for me.

 

Thanks for the information. I got the feeling that maximum negative camber at both ends made it more stable, but significantly increasing the rear toe in at the same time may have given me that impression. I will experiment with that.

Yes, it's worth noting that I do not use TC with any of my cars. The McLaren MP4 12C is a twitchy beast without TC enabled, so maybe this Mercedes shares that attribute?

 

At the current point in time, there is simply NO downside to adding Max negative camber, which is of course wrong but by all means use it to your advantage. IRL, you really wouldn't want too much at the rear, as it would be bad for traction, but in AC you don't lose any longitudinal grip, so go for it :/

And yeah as Jos said, temps will be working against you right now, when its gets updated to V6 you should have a better time keeping up good temps.

 

Hmm, so we will need to adjust again when it is updated. I wonder if this is going to be corrected in v1.4?

 

WR setup and replay for Barcelona (moto), if interested

 

This is a road car though. I haven't checked the SLS but surely compared to race cars there's not that much negative camber you can actually set.

 

AC road car default setups usually are on the safe side, but SLS default setup (something got messed up in the latest update) is a death trap, because of the massive negative toe's, especially at the rear.

 

when we ran the car at mugello against the r8 I was about 1.5<2 seconds a lap faster with 22c than 15c ambient. 15c tyres were about 40-50c where over 20 they were 50-60c, it made a huge difference. the car was a joy to drive at mugello. I had a go at barcelona gp the other night but the car wasnt so enjoyable there, maybe because I had been driving the nimble exige v6 for a couple of hours before hand.

I think the exige v6 must have got significantly faster at some point, it can keep up with the r8 and sls now with the same tyres on! in previous builds I had put the sls on street tyres vs exige on semis to balance them.