Im a 61 year old gamer, been playing since Pong in the early 80's. Ive played every GT game since the start but never bothered to learn the intricacies of the gearing. you have opened a major door for me. Now that I fully understand how to, I can race properly against my son who has a big sim setup but he did not (on purpose) show me how to fix gears. He's in for a rude awakening..... Thank you for explaining this very important par of GT. Jerry The beating will continue until morale improves...
Haha, gaming can be fun! Especially when getting into the finer details of Turismos car tuning! Happy to have helped, if you have any other questions - feel free to ask! Go get him and have fun racing! 😁
Cheers for that man, my car knowledge is literally what I picked up from top gear and watching F1 occasionally so always just googled a tune and plumbed it in....I just had a play with a car after watching this and not only did I gain 30mph top speed but the car feels 1000x better to drive it's sooooo nice going around a corner in 1st gear and having the confidence to floor it out of the corner with 0 traction control and the car just drives instead of pirouetting itself into a date with Mr Barry R
Haha, great to hear! Keep on exploring and you will be able to do even further combinations! Some cars make so much power, you have to stretch 2nd and sometimes 3rd further to the right to find some bite! Some cars just don't bite well, but taming that throttle control helps so much. Happy tuning and have fun! 😁
Hope it helps! You will probably have to bog down first gear a good bit on the civic and bog down with a long second gear spread, but it should do good!
Great overview, really distills the concept of gearing and gives people new to it a solid foundation to build from. With this, the understanding why, it’ll be a much quicker leap to adjusting the gear spacing per track as they chase seconds and fractions of seconds. Nice job!
Good guide for the 1st and last gear, but the crucial part for those gears between is not "just" spacing out equaly, but often depends on track layout. as you dont want to be shifting up close to brake zone or even mid corner.
Excellent video mate. This is exactly what I've been looking for. Something that explains the gearing in layman's terms. It's definitely something I'm going to try. Many thanks again.
I personally use a straight line track to figure out what my max speed is then plug that into the auto calc value. That way you only need to change the very first gear as the others are automatically tuned to reach your top speed.
Just want to say that I have always struggled to do anything with the transmission and after following your instructions I cut 7.4 secs off my record lap on Tokyo Expressway East.
@@prtcountersteer I've managed to get by with more predictable cars. But for stuff like my Supra I was struggling to hold it steady in 1st and 2nd accelerating out of corners. Didn't realize I could widen the ratio ranges and it made all the difference!
Thank you for this. It was outstanding and very easy to understand. I thought I had a pretty good grasp on tuning the trans until I watched this…lol. What’s your thoughts on this:? I absolutely love having very close gearing because depending on the car, it can really keep you in that sweet spot in the power curve plus, it just sounds so badass with the racing trans’ lightning fast shifts. I like when the red rpm bar is about half full after each shift engagement.
@TGUNNER777 It's a very simplified way of doing it as a starting point then adjusting to what you need. I like short shifts, but I base a lot of mine off of my torque bands. Sometimes you need a bit longer gear, sometimes shorter. Some cars that have too many gears, I will turn my 7-8 speed into a 5-6 speed. All in all, it's fun to mess with!
It's my simplified way of doing it and it serves me pretty well. I did this so people are not so worried about doing the transmission. Good gears to meet your driving style will knock seconds off your time.
@PRT CounterSteer yes definitely, I tune gears a similar way to you, but I picked up some good tips from your video. There's a lot of people out there in the dark when it comes to tuning gears that will benefit greatly from this video.
Been looking for a gear video. I've always been intimidated by playing with the gears but I think this'll give me the confidence I need to make something like my Wawa 65 Mini a beast on the track
Fantastic. Had no idea, this is great content. Safe to say that you should get a good 1st gear that can take you around a hairpin in most cars, I notice I am taking 2nd with most cars around even the sharpest turns.
Thanks! I go down to first for a lot of hairpins due to how I do my gears. It really helps in putting the power down when you can get them to where you want. Granted, I bog down a lot of my 1st gears quite a bit, so off the line performance suffers at the start of a race, but it more than makes up for it.
So thaaaats what the top of the gear bars mean. In all my years of GT, I've never heard that before. Thanks for this video. I definitely have a great thing to do to my cars now! Sweet
Glad it helped! I had decided to do this video after I watched several others post similar and they over complicate it. I think this is a very simplified way to do it, that works great!
I’m heavy and fast too, I wheel spin too… I thought tight gears were best and faster? I’m disabled so I always use automatic gears…. On the Trail Mountain track I know to make the transmission to hit the maximum speed in the tunnel just before you it the brakes. But I need help on the gear speed to work in any car ?
This is a very loaded question! Everything is really based off the cars torque band. You usually want to gear it for that. But, you don't have to know much about it to do it this way. You already understand the top speed of things. Getting your first gear long enough to become manageable is more important because you will be putting power down. After 1st gear, you find out your top speed and adjust your last gear. Afterwards, it's just a matter of evening them up between 1st and last gear. After that, you technically have 'Tight gears' as your rpm drop will be minimal. Keep making the gears longer until you can safely manage the wheel spin and you will find you will be faster. I use automatic as well as I am severely Arthritic.
Depends the car. Every car is different. Set your final as low as it goes, then set automatic top speed to 800, then set 1st gear around 100-160, try in increments of 10 KPH until 1st has manageable traction. Then go make your last gear around 330-420 KPH depending how much power you have. 360 KPH is decent for a lot of cars. Then even out all the other gears in between like in the video.
I’m done I give up I’ve been trying to manually gear tune a Lamborghini Murcielago LP 640 for the past 10 ish hours and getting nowhere and my brain hurts 😂 Could you please write down the gear numbers on here for me so I’m good to go please? Thank you so much… I’m hoping once one Lamborghini is tuned I can slightly modify it for the other Lamborghini’s
@@prtcountersteer if i manage to get the gearing nearly perfectly I think “just a tad more” but it throws everything out then I forget what it wrote as a number on the box as I can’t undo so I keep starting over… Would it be possible for you to write down or even email me the gearing number to start from please so I have don’t have to spend 10 hours trying to figure it out 😂 for years I know absolutely nothing about cars at all then a month ago i found GT7 and fell i love with it and now it’s very slowly teaching me about cars in ways I never knew, however for me gearing goes over my head for now at least
@@KainsTorment I will see what I can do when I have a chance. I don't go by the main number, I go by the second number after the "/". It's easier to remember. For an All Wheel Drive, your first gear it going to be between 90-110.
@@prtcountersteer don’t worry Dad has actually helped me out with this one as he is the Car God :) I’ve not got the faintest idea what Roll Cage Hight (you can’t adjust it normally as a roll cage is usually made out of solid metal) - Toe Angle - wheel slope etc fuck knows about any of that but Dad helped. Basically I put my foot down and win ha ha
Im a 61 year old gamer, been playing since Pong in the early 80's. Ive played every GT game since the start but never bothered to learn the intricacies of the gearing. you have opened a major door for me. Now that I fully understand how to, I can race properly against my son who has a big sim setup but he did not (on purpose) show me how to fix gears. He's in for a rude awakening..... Thank you for explaining this very important par of GT. Jerry The beating will continue until morale improves...
Haha, gaming can be fun! Especially when getting into the finer details of Turismos car tuning!
Happy to have helped, if you have any other questions - feel free to ask!
Go get him and have fun racing! 😁
Cheers for that man, my car knowledge is literally what I picked up from top gear and watching F1 occasionally so always just googled a tune and plumbed it in....I just had a play with a car after watching this and not only did I gain 30mph top speed but the car feels 1000x better to drive it's sooooo nice going around a corner in 1st gear and having the confidence to floor it out of the corner with 0 traction control and the car just drives instead of pirouetting itself into a date with Mr Barry R
Haha, great to hear! Keep on exploring and you will be able to do even further combinations! Some cars make so much power, you have to stretch 2nd and sometimes 3rd further to the right to find some bite!
Some cars just don't bite well, but taming that throttle control helps so much.
Happy tuning and have fun! 😁
Dude thank you man ! I always wanted to build a tuned civic I just never knew how I think I have a better idea now !
Hope it helps! You will probably have to bog down first gear a good bit on the civic and bog down with a long second gear spread, but it should do good!
Great overview, really distills the concept of gearing and gives people new to it a solid foundation to build from. With this, the understanding why, it’ll be a much quicker leap to adjusting the gear spacing per track as they chase seconds and fractions of seconds. Nice job!
Thanks! It's a pretty simple way to do it. After a few tries, it becomes quick!
Good guide for the 1st and last gear, but the crucial part for those gears between is not "just" spacing out equaly, but often depends on track layout. as you dont want to be shifting up close to brake zone or even mid corner.
True, this will get you close and you can make finer adjustments from there. 😁
Excellent video mate. This is exactly what I've been looking for. Something that explains the gearing in layman's terms. It's definitely something I'm going to try. Many thanks again.
Thanks! Simplified it as mich as I could. It's a pretty good way to go about it!
Thanks bro...that's a lot of the help I need for getting off the line have been getting better with tuning...good work bro
Thanks! You'll do great! This is a pretty decent way for tuning gears.
HP Wars is back in the works so more info' should be out soon.
I personally use a straight line track to figure out what my max speed is then plug that into the auto calc value. That way you only need to change the very first gear as the others are automatically tuned to reach your top speed.
That's a good way to do it. During this time, I was tuning for a race on Grand Valley Highway. 😁
Just want to say that I have always struggled to do anything with the transmission and after following your instructions I cut 7.4 secs off my record lap on Tokyo Expressway East.
Happy to hear. It's not a perfect way to do it, but it will get you close!
@@prtcountersteer I've managed to get by with more predictable cars. But for stuff like my Supra I was struggling to hold it steady in 1st and 2nd accelerating out of corners. Didn't realize I could widen the ratio ranges and it made all the difference!
@E.G.1005 Hell yeah, make it more manageable with longer gears. I think people underestimate gears a lot of time.
Thank you for this. It was outstanding and very easy to understand. I thought I had a pretty good grasp on tuning the trans until I watched this…lol. What’s your thoughts on this:? I absolutely love having very close gearing because depending on the car, it can really keep you in that sweet spot in the power curve plus, it just sounds so badass with the racing trans’ lightning fast shifts. I like when the red rpm bar is about half full after each shift engagement.
@TGUNNER777 It's a very simplified way of doing it as a starting point then adjusting to what you need. I like short shifts, but I base a lot of mine off of my torque bands. Sometimes you need a bit longer gear, sometimes shorter. Some cars that have too many gears, I will turn my 7-8 speed into a 5-6 speed. All in all, it's fun to mess with!
Tuning the first and final gears up front and then tuning the middle gears after seems like a good strategy thanks ill try it out here now! Cheers!
It's my simplified way of doing it and it serves me pretty well. I did this so people are not so worried about doing the transmission. Good gears to meet your driving style will knock seconds off your time.
@@prtcountersteer Agree 100% I usually tune from bottom up but finding top speed first seems to be a better baseline!
This actually helped me so much and it was for tuning my Rx-7 so lucky me
I'm glad! Kick butt!
Thanks for this video. You have a very good voice for YT videos.
Thanks. Hope the explanation made gearing much easier for those who want to do it, to now be able to delve into it.
@PRT CounterSteer yes definitely, I tune gears a similar way to you, but I picked up some good tips from your video. There's a lot of people out there in the dark when it comes to tuning gears that will benefit greatly from this video.
Been looking for a gear video. I've always been intimidated by playing with the gears but I think this'll give me the confidence I need to make something like my Wawa 65 Mini a beast on the track
Give it a whirl and let me know how it turns out! I simplified it as much as I could. 😃
Brilliant mate thank you! Clear instructions, easy to follow, and not speaking in jargon - this is exactly what I have been looking for
Thank you! It's a good starting point to make your gear manageable. After you get used to it, you will fly through it!
Fantastic. Had no idea, this is great content. Safe to say that you should get a good 1st gear that can take you around a hairpin in most cars, I notice I am taking 2nd with most cars around even the sharpest turns.
Thanks! I go down to first for a lot of hairpins due to how I do my gears. It really helps in putting the power down when you can get them to where you want.
Granted, I bog down a lot of my 1st gears quite a bit, so off the line performance suffers at the start of a race, but it more than makes up for it.
This is great! Thank you! 🙂
Happy to help!
This is the way
Hope it helps.
@PRT CounterSteer s tier
So thaaaats what the top of the gear bars mean. In all my years of GT, I've never heard that before.
Thanks for this video. I definitely have a great thing to do to my cars now! Sweet
Yup! Once you see what you are looking at and know what to look for, all those numbers do not mean so much.
This, this makes sense!
Glad it helped! I had decided to do this video after I watched several others post similar and they over complicate it. I think this is a very simplified way to do it, that works great!
Excellent. thanks.
Anytime. 😅
I need a dumbed down roll bar, spring compression, neutral thingy explanation video.
Hmm'kai. I'll see what I can do!
You just got a sub
Thanks! Think I should do more tuning videos for suspension?
I’m heavy and fast too, I wheel spin too… I thought tight gears were best and faster? I’m disabled so I always use automatic gears…. On the Trail Mountain track I know to make the transmission to hit the maximum speed in the tunnel just before you it the brakes. But I need help on the gear speed to work in any car ?
This is a very loaded question! Everything is really based off the cars torque band. You usually want to gear it for that.
But, you don't have to know much about it to do it this way. You already understand the top speed of things. Getting your first gear long enough to become manageable is more important because you will be putting power down.
After 1st gear, you find out your top speed and adjust your last gear. Afterwards, it's just a matter of evening them up between 1st and last gear. After that, you technically have 'Tight gears' as your rpm drop will be minimal.
Keep making the gears longer until you can safely manage the wheel spin and you will find you will be faster.
I use automatic as well as I am severely Arthritic.
@@prtcountersteer ok thanks I’ll try this
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What’s the best gearing for Automatic?
Depends the car. Every car is different. Set your final as low as it goes, then set automatic top speed to 800, then set 1st gear around 100-160, try in increments of 10 KPH until 1st has manageable traction. Then go make your last gear around 330-420 KPH depending how much power you have. 360 KPH is decent for a lot of cars. Then even out all the other gears in between like in the video.
I’m done I give up I’ve been trying to manually gear tune a Lamborghini Murcielago LP 640 for the past 10 ish hours and getting nowhere and my brain hurts 😂
Could you please write down the gear numbers on here for me so I’m good to go please? Thank you so much… I’m hoping once one Lamborghini is tuned I can slightly modify it for the other Lamborghini’s
What's the problem with the Lambo?
@@prtcountersteer if i manage to get the gearing nearly perfectly I think “just a tad more” but it throws everything out then I forget what it wrote as a number on the box as I can’t undo so I keep starting over… Would it be possible for you to write down or even email me the gearing number to start from please so I have don’t have to spend 10 hours trying to figure it out 😂 for years I know absolutely nothing about cars at all then a month ago i found GT7 and fell i love with it and now it’s very slowly teaching me about cars in ways I never knew, however for me gearing goes over my head for now at least
@@KainsTorment I will see what I can do when I have a chance. I don't go by the main number, I go by the second number after the "/". It's easier to remember. For an All Wheel Drive, your first gear it going to be between 90-110.
@@prtcountersteer thank you
@@prtcountersteer don’t worry Dad has actually helped me out with this one as he is the Car God :) I’ve not got the faintest idea what Roll Cage Hight (you can’t adjust it normally as a roll cage is usually made out of solid metal) - Toe Angle - wheel slope etc fuck knows about any of that but Dad helped. Basically I put my foot down and win ha ha
TCS OFF
Yes, you cannot properly do gear ratios with it on.
I better then that
Happy it helped!