It can take a while because of all the testing you have to do to make sure everything is gonna work plus the time to make the adjustments and fix the stuff that changes along with the change your making. the testing is gonna depend on the size of the track your at.. Pocono for example 1 lap takes about a minute smaller tracks of course wont take as long but on average i give myself a good day to get a setup built before i plan to race it. i usually race trucks on Friday Nights and ill start the beginning of my next build either after my race for the current week is over or sometime on Saturday usually have it pretty much dialed other than a few minor adjustments by Monday or Tuesday I would say overall allow yourself a abouta good 8 to 10 hours to get the setup built just to be safe also keep in mind if some thing does pan out as expected or if you doing experimental stuff looking for new ideas to go faster yet that can add time as well.. luckily you will get plenty of track practice as you build the setup with all the test driving you need to do. figure for Pocono any way each test run in my sheet is a 20 minute driving run plus the 5 or 10 minutes of making adjustments and logging the lap and tire data.. it can be monotonous but to compete against these setup shops you gotta be on you game with doing a better job of doing your homework than they did, But this is really the only way to know you'll get a setup thats gonna be able to run with them. and it beats paying for a monthly subscription or spending 10 bucks every week for a setup that can become some serious coin over time. The good news is as you become more expirience and start seeing how different changes affect thing syou'll eventuallly find short cuts to save time..
I also forgot before making any big changes to your setup. save your setup so if you break it you can go back to where it was. i cant count how many times i had gotten it pretty good thought i could get better and ended up breaking it it and made it worse and couldn't get it back how it was... so save often to you don't have to start over if you mess up somewhere!! That's my Free Tip for Thursday :)
Thank you my friend for doing this for the iracing family.
How long does it normally take to obtain all this information and get your setup ?
It can take a while because of all the testing you have to do to make sure everything is gonna work plus the time to make the adjustments and fix the stuff that changes along with the change your making. the testing is gonna depend on the size of the track your at.. Pocono for example 1 lap takes about a minute smaller tracks of course wont take as long but on average i give myself a good day to get a setup built before i plan to race it. i usually race trucks on Friday Nights and ill start the beginning of my next build either after my race for the current week is over or sometime on Saturday usually have it pretty much dialed other than a few minor adjustments by Monday or Tuesday I would say overall allow yourself a abouta good 8 to 10 hours to get the setup built just to be safe also keep in mind if some thing does pan out as expected or if you doing experimental stuff looking for new ideas to go faster yet that can add time as well.. luckily you will get plenty of track practice as you build the setup with all the test driving you need to do. figure for Pocono any way each test run in my sheet is a 20 minute driving run plus the 5 or 10 minutes of making adjustments and logging the lap and tire data.. it can be monotonous but to compete against these setup shops you gotta be on you game with doing a better job of doing your homework than they did, But this is really the only way to know you'll get a setup thats gonna be able to run with them. and it beats paying for a monthly subscription or spending 10 bucks every week for a setup that can become some serious coin over time. The good news is as you become more expirience and start seeing how different changes affect thing syou'll eventuallly find short cuts to save time..
I also forgot before making any big changes to your setup. save your setup so if you break it you can go back to where it was. i cant count how many times i had gotten it pretty good thought i could get better and ended up breaking it it and made it worse and couldn't get it back how it was... so save often to you don't have to start over if you mess up somewhere!! That's my Free Tip for Thursday :)