PCARS2 Car Setup Talk

[hkraft300]

How does everyone change their setup (if at all) for wet running? Obviously tyres - but are there many other changes that would be important? I’m assuming lifting the ride height and softening things up?

For a dedicated wet setup, I'd increase cold/setup tyre pressure significantly. You'll get tyres at ~90°c at race start which will quickly fall away to 30-45°c and a corresponding drop in pressure - which may leave your tyres very under-inflated.
Softer suspension, less brake pressure, less camber, increased ride height all help.
Boost or engine tune adjustments might help tame the power in some cars without adversely affecting lap times.

[PowderMonkey540]

Thanks - I was doing the Ginetta thing in Career mode, GT3 at Snet, rain, cold. Softened up the ARBs and lifted height, and dropped pressures to minimum - as I couldn’t keep any heat in them after race start whatsoever! I even had the brake ducts closed to 15 & 5%. They did seem to go through cycles - they came back, went away, came back, and then went away again - all only in 13 laps. I’ll bear in mind the adjustments to camber and other points too.

[hkraft300]

... dropped pressures to minimum - as I couldn’t keep any heat in them after race start whatsoever!... .

I wouldn't recommend minimum pressures on wet tyres. They work fine in temp ranges colder than soft tyres.

[PowderMonkey540]

But shouldn’t dropping the pressures increase the heat...?

[hkraft300]

But shouldn’t dropping the pressures increase the heat...?

Yes, but at a point it becomes ineffective and due to the environment (cold water) the tyres don't get the chance to warm up.
In which case you have under inflated cold tyres.

But you could have correct inflation cold tyres, improving your contact patch and performance.

[bp3000]

Just in case anyone is still out there. I'm having a lot of difficulty with Bentley Race 1 from the manfucaturer drives. It is a Bentley Continental GT3 at Silversone International with Snow/Icy conditions. It seems obvious to me that the front tyres have no grip and whenever the rear tyres push (or even just with rolling inertia if in a corner) they break traction and the car swerves. I've tried dropping the pressure in the tyres, softening the front springs and increasing the front anti-roll bar but that seems to make little to know difference. I also tried reducing the boost pressure, that did help a bit.

On standard stable setup, which defaults to ice tyres, I'm around 1:41 time when I can keep it on the road, without any assists (I heard ABS isn't a good idea on ice - didn't make much difference) on controller. This obviously involves driving around feathering the throttle and generally trying to be as smooth as humanely possible.