Forza 2 - Sequential geabox setup guide?

[TheJesus]

Is there anywhere that details how you are best to set the 6 spd sequential box's on Forza, as I've had a brief piss around with it and it ends up really long geared or topping out at 6th at like 100mph :S lol

 

[TeZ]

The key to gearing is to stay in the "SWEET SPOT" of your HP curve. Look for where you are withing 80% of the max. Most cars will have about a 2-4000 rpm range where the power and torque are good. Some times not using all your gears isn't a bad thing, if it is a small twisty track (Tsukuba, Laguna Seca) the time you spend shifting gears adds up. As tsukuba as an example most cars will never make it out of 4th gear in most of the lower classes. Trying to gear it to use all 5 or 6 gears will actually slow you down because you have to shift in the middle of a corner and having 10 extra shifts per lap at .1 sec a piece equalls 1 second just in shifting
Try to set individual gears by speed to match certain turns on the track. If your sweet spot on your HP curve is 4000-6000 then start 2nd gear at 3000 and then 3rd at 3500 and then 4th at 4000 and 5th at 4250. Usually 3rd 4th and 5th are the gears you use the most on the track. 6th gear is usually just for the really long tracks and will always be a ratio less than 1.00 (overdrive)
Here is a very basic speed chart for you that I try to stick to in the lower classes like B class
1st 0-35 mph
2nd 35-65
3rd 65-90
4th 90-120
5th 120- top end
if your car has 6 gears then 4th and 5th would be closer. Those speeds match up pretty well to alot of the turns in the game. When you encounter a shorter track (tsukuba) then you can just most your FD ratio higher to shorter the spaces between the gears
P.S. Gearing is the "black arts" of forza

 

[TheJesus]

I'll give this a go as I put a sequential box in my Bruce Lee Poopra (2.0 TT) and it killed the acceleration, was faster without, not it's like it's geared for 500mph lol

I've just been using normal straight cut style boxes for the cars I have them in after that... lol

 

[Ibanezman]

I am a bit confused over the gearing too. I fit the most expensive gear box to my Evo VIII, but it claimed to drop my acceleration loads, anyway I proceeded hehe.

With a little bit of tweaking, the benchmark now shows it quicker 0-60 and 0-100 than the previous box, although the stats still claim the previous one was quicker :S

Anyway I have just made my gears quite long, like 0-45, 45-75, 75-110, something like that anyway, and although doing this makes my 0-60 worse than when it was just snapping through the first 4 gears, it now performs great on the track.

I think a bit thing is making sure 1st and 2nd are long enough so you don't sit there bouncing off the limiter


.....as for the rest of the tuning, it's hard work to get anywhere at the moment