My Diaries

A Lurid Tale of Obsession, Depravity, Wits and Attempted Wit

Sunday August 8, 1999

More Demio Racing

Well, I guess I got bored today.

I put together a max-tuned Demio (weight reduction 3). I used all the most expensive parts, except for no ("normal") rear stabilizer. Sometimes I used a normal flywheel, too, but it does not seem critical to do that with this car. Even at Deep Forest Racing Way ii, it seems to be able to climb the hills without noticeable speed loss with the racing flywheel.

Numbers were:

Although I did fit racing support, I went with the stock gear

settings, since they are nicely spaced out.

It took me a while to realize this car is more sensitive than some to ride height. It's as if the weight reduction is simulated so as to leave most of the remaining weight somewhat high up. Fortunately, it does not seem to give any strange penalties for lowering ride height (excessively bumpy ride, or excessive sliding with no warning), and minimum ride height works very well for it. Along with soft, independent, suspension to keep all four wheels on the ground (most of the time). (I might actually go with softer suspension, but you need non-stock to lower the ride height, and that means you can't set dampers less than 1. Now, one very important thing in GT is to balance springs and dampers, especially with light cars, so I sort of raised the springs to match the damping force).

In the above form, the car was able to sweep all events and poles at both the FF Challenge and the Lightweight Battle Stage, beating a Civic3dr'93si in both cases.

After that, I took my race-modded Demio, gave it identical settings (except for, by chance old 15/12 brake controller settings), plus maximum aero. That car swept both those events, and set a few personal best times in the process. (Actually, due to over-enthusiam on the last corner, I came 2nd at DFRWii the first time through the FF Challenge; I still massacred the tuned version time, but you know how Gran Turismo is... I guess I should take something like an FTO GPversionR back to those events, now that I've learned some of the courses better, courtesy of the Normal and Abnormal series.

Following that, I swept all poles and events in the Clubman Cup with the race-modded Demio. After that I entered it in the GT Cup, and, somewhat to my surprise, won all four events.

(I qualified a "solid" sixth in all events, ie 6th, but only about 2 seconds behind the leader in most cases, as opposed to a "distant sixth").

Gears for the race-modded version are different:

That's how I found them in my garage, and they seemed okay, and so I kept them like that.

So, given the price (free) this car is reasonably worth-while.

You could say it's a "Great Little Car", but, actually, that was a different model Mazda.