To tune cars in Forza Motorsport, you need to know the basics first. There are a lot of options in the tuning menu of this game, just like other racing sims that allow the player to mess around with their cars’ stats. You can boost the acceleration to sacrifice the top speed, balance the settings, or do anything that you think is better for a certain track to race in. Here’s everything you need to know from scratch about car tuning in Forza Motorsport.
Tunning Cars in Forza Motorsport
To tune your cars in Forza Motorsport you need to open the My Cars menu and choose the car you want. You should note that your car must reach a certain level in order to be able to tune it. The car’s levels are determined by how much you race and practice with that vehicle; the more you play, the higher the level of your car gets. Any type of racing applies to this level upgrade, and you need to know that this is all experience-based based and you cannot buy levels for your car using credits, or real-life money.
Now, assuming that you’ve upgraded your car’s level to the point that you’re able to tune it, let’s dive into details about it. First, choose your car, and then select the tuning menu. Here you’ll find 11 tabs for tuning different internal and external parts of your car in Forza Motorsport.
Tires: Tires tuning is an important part of the Forza Motorsport, if you’re playing with the real-life rules of track racing. From the Tires menu of the car tune section in Forza Motorsport, you can increase the tier pressure of your front and back tires to add more acceleration. This will result in faster speed for sure, but you’ll also get to change your tires more often due to their temperature increasing with higher pressure. Remember to always observe the track you’re going to play on, do some practice rounds, and then choose the best tunning option for your tiers.
Gearing: Changing the gear tunning settings of your car will result in faster acceleration or a higher top speed. Depending on the track you’re going to race on, you need to know whether you need to get out of corners faster, or you just need to get to a higher speed to pass the opponents on straight lines. In this menu, you can change the amount of speed you need to get to shift each gear, or you can just change the Final drive slider as the overall setting.
Alignment: The Alignment tune settings in Forza Motorsport is one of the options that is best to be left as neutral. This is directly related to your car’s suspension alignment, and you may ruin the stability of your car while changing it. The first option is Camber, which if you turn its slider toward the negative, will make your tires lean inside. Next is the Toe option, which will change the direction of your front and rear tires. And in the end, the Front Caster is for your front suspension’s angle, which is best not to change.
Anti-roll bars: This car tune option in Forza Motorsport is directly related to increasing and reducing the understeer and oversteer of your car. Tune the front ARB’s settings toward stiff, and you’ll get less understeer while cornering. You can soften the rear Anti-roll bars to reduce the oversteer of your car.
Springs: This is another suspension-related tuning option for your car in the Forza Motorsport. If you tune the Springs settings to the softer direction, you’ll get more stability with your car’s handling. However, you need to keep your eye on the stats you see on the left side of the screen to keep the balance between stability and how much speed you’re losing for it.
Damping: Depending on your car’s weight, this setting can change the amount of time that your suspension takes to rebound after a compression. Just like your Springs car tune settings in Forza Motorsport, turning this option’s sliders on soft will result in more stability of the car, while adding too much to it will reduce some overall stats like the acceleration.
Suspension Geometry: Increasing the options of this setting will add more responsiveness to your car while making turns, leaving negative effects on Braking Distance.
Aero: Do you want more speed or better handling for cornering in each race? This is what the sliders in the Aerodynamics section of the car tune options determine in Forza Motorsport.
Brake: This tuning option is for either adding force or pressure to your brakes. Adding too much force may result in the tiers block, which will then make your car slide on track. This is while having more pressure on the brakes will add more power to stopping the car, with less worry of your tiers being locked.
Differential: As the outside tiers travel more distance while cornering, making changes in the Differential car tune settings will affect the oversteer and understeer in Forza Motorsport.
Remember that changing the car tune settings in Forza Motorsport is a very risky deal. If you want the best results, you would need to spend some time driving with the car you want and upgrade its parts to unlock the tune settings. However, there’s always a reset button to change the settings back to how it was in the first place.
Forza Motorsport is currently available on Xbox Series S|X and PC.
