Quote from Turner89 :

Ye mate that sounds great will definitely use it! Where did you find the samples for this one?

Most of the engine sound is made from a video of a Honda S2000.

Quote from Galthar :

PUt this set to ftp or mirror please ....

Mirror now available

Here is another sound set to use with Yamakawa's Car Sound ReMixer.

To install:
Unzip into your CSR folder,
Run CSR and tick the User checkbox,
Run LFS and select the UF GTR,
Enjoy the new realistic sounds!

Download (FileFront)
Mirror (RSC forum)

Quote from Boris Lozac :

It's good, but there is TOO much whine in the background.. can you lower that a bit?? The engine itself sounds nice..

I could lower the volume of the transmission but then it wouldn't sound like a WTCC car, which I believe the XF GTR resembles in some ways.

Maybe in next version

Here is my second soundset release for LFS, the XF GTR Soundset. This addon is to be used in conjunction with Yamakawa's Car Sound ReMixer.

To install:
Unzip the file into your CSR folder,
Run CSR and tick the User checkbox,
Run LFS and enjoy a realistic sounding XF GTR!

Download (FileFront)
Mirror (RSC forum)

Last edited by jamesgp2viper, Fri, 13 Oct 2006 20:47. Reason : Added alternate download location

I've seen Formula Renault races many times and they make a lot of whining noise from their gearboxes, and they are very similar in terms of looks and performance to the Formula XR in LFS.

However I don't consider this soundset to be 'final' and I will improve them in future. If anyone has decent quality gear whine sounds that are not just from GTR/GTL please send me them!

Both links work, I just checked them.

And no the car is not supposed to sound turbo charged, but maybe you think the straight cut gearbox noise sounds similar to a turbo?

This is what the FOX sounds like in LFS with the new sound set:

I've submitted it to BH Motorsports, I don't know how long it will take them to add it. The file is too big to attach on this forum

This is the first soundset of many I intend to release to be compatible with Yamakawa's excellent Car Sound ReMixer.

Download (FileFront)
Mirror (RSC forum)

To install:
Unzip into your CSR folder,
Run CSR and tick the User checkbox,
Run LFS and enjoy a realistic sounding Formula XR!

Last edited by jamesgp2viper, Thu, 12 Oct 2006 12:10.

Quote from Gimpster :

It think tire loading plays a big part as well. I never really noticed this until I gotmy miata, which has a lot of negitive camber and some toe out on the front. Under acceleration the car will pull tot he left as the torque from the motor loads more weight on the right tire and it does the oppisite under engine braking.

I have a Eunos Roadster (Jap version of Miata) and it does not do this at all.

Quote from Gimpster :

In LFS when you are cornering at 100% nearly all the load is transfered to the outside tires. Since LFS seems to place to place grip as a multiple or percent based on loading nearly all the grip is also on the oursie tire. If the diff is more open you wodul spin your inside tire, and thus lose power and speed. As a result it seems to work to cancle out the understeer effect that should be there. This is only compounded by the tendancy of the FWD cars uncany ability to roll under hard cornering.

Very good point.

It may well be that weight transfer is exaggerated a bit and this would certainly account for why locked diffs work so well in LFS. If this apparent weight transfer 'bug' was fixed we would be able to use the clutch pack diff to get the fastest lap times and also the cars would not keep flipping over all the time.

Anything on wheels could mean a lot of things. Bikes, gokarts, buggies etc

Limitless = maybe Dakar rally style racing?

Quote from Gimpster :

The only time you would get understeer is when you have both front tires on the tarmak and are trying to turn.

So about 99% of the time then?

'GT Touring' is right, in real life if you fit a locked diff on a FWD car you get TONS of understeer so no real FWD race cars racing use a locked diff. Most FWD touring cars in reality use clutch pack or torsen diffs, providing no more than about 50% locking under max torque.

Even an open diff is better than a locked one for racing

Before any race (at least in the UK) each car has to pass a noise test which involves holding the engine revs at half of max RPM for 5-10 seconds in neutral.

If it was damaging to the engine, competitors surely wouldn't be required to do this test when stationary and with no gear selected.

But LFS should have rev limits changed.

Last edited by jamesgp2viper, Mon, 25 Sep 2006 19:53. Reason : Old thread, didnt realise

If the engines rev too high and we can adjust much more things than you can on a standard road car like spring rate, brake torque, differential etc, it seems strange that you cannot remove the passenger seat and add a rollcage. I'm pretty sure that the most important thing when it comes to preparing a car for the track is to fit a rollcage!

I would race in this series.

I saw a video of a Mini driving around an autocross course and then at the end it braked hard and the backend lifted high in the air.

So I wondered if this was possible to do in LFS. I picked the car with the most forward weight distribution, the UF GTR. I then did everything I could to promote weight shifting to the front wheels so that there would be enough front end grip to handle extremely forward brake bias without locking up.

The result is pretty interesting. You can flip the car completely over if you brake suddenly, or you can do other things as shown in the replay attached

Try the setup and see if you can invent a unique stunt of your own