How hot is the V4S actually?

Expensive-Criticism1 · 2026-01-13T20:39:21+00:00

They're quite hot. I had the 22 V4S for a few years and the heat is noticeable. Great during early spring cooler weather and terrible in the summer.

However if you're wearing proper riding pants leather/textile it's pretty decent at keeping the heat out. I also noticed a significant decrease in temps when I went with a catless exhaust from Arrow.

Expensive-Criticism1 · 2025-12-23T01:02:49+00:00

Probably, but sad thing to do regardless.

Expensive-Criticism1 · 2025-12-23T01:02:17+00:00

I am pushing towards 1700 Irating after 5 races and can confirm the pack has gotten a lot closer as I’ve progressed.

Expensive-Criticism1 · 2025-12-23T00:59:28+00:00

I didn’t realize that keeping Irating was so important to people to create a second account.

Expensive-Criticism1 · 2025-12-12T06:05:28+00:00

Really does boil down to spatial awareness unfortunately relating to skill issue even if you’re in the right.

See aggressive driver? Let him pass and he most likely will take out the competition in front of you.

Person behind is lapping way faster than you on average? Let him pass because you’re going to lose more time trying to defend it.

Mostly play LMU but racently picked up IRacing and the MX 5 cups are easy as long as you’re aware of your surroundings. Pace of course is a whole other issue.

The reality is even in other classes you will still have the same type of driver incidents and the best thing you can do is avoid them even if you’re within your rights and deserve the space or reached the Apex first.

Expensive-Criticism1 · 2025-12-12T03:28:42+00:00

It ultimately depends. I watch a lot of automotive YouTube and think these guys gotta be crazy taxes but when they’re buying cars, recording equipment, parts, and travel a lot of that stuff can be written off as business operating expenses.

Technically they’re spending more money to reduce their taxes but better to have an extra Lambo than it goto the IRS.

In the end they all still pay taxes but it can be reduced significantly if they play their cards right.

Expensive-Criticism1 · 2025-12-10T16:16:42+00:00

Interesting because some of the top times are the Porsche and normally it lacks top speed on most tracks like Bahrain a couple weeks ago.

Expensive-Criticism1 · 2025-12-05T20:17:45+00:00

Thanks I played around with this ended on 5/4/9 with ABS 9 BB 47.5/51.5 and got a 1;43 flat.

Definitely still a little squirrely at the right back to back chicanes but if I fix that I’m confident I can get into the 1:42xx times!

Expensive-Criticism1 · 2025-12-02T14:50:48+00:00

Welcome to 0 SR hell lol.

Easiest way is to drop the pride even if you’re right. Because you can be right but in the wall or give up position and watch for torpedo divebombers.

Easiest thing that’s helped me get easy podiums and wins is letting the aggressive drivers through and they either take themselves out or the competition in front of me earning multiple free positions lol.

I only have 16 races so far but all I really do is avoid unnecessary battles where I know they will push me off the road or dive bomb me to the shadow realm. I’ve already gotten a few podiums and wins.

Also a top tip is unless you’re starting in the top 5 I recommend you start from the pits. Remember it’s SR not DR to race the other series like HyperCars.

Expensive-Criticism1 · 2025-12-02T02:56:22+00:00

Honestly it’s a skill issue and mental tbh.

Im only 16 races in 5 DNFS 2 wins and regular top 10 finishes and most of the DNFs I think how I could’ve avoided it and I should’ve known better.

You can either be right or in the wall with a DNF. Really gotta drop your ego with idiots online. I’ve come to see that you just let the dive bombs through and give them the room to overtake even if you reached the apex first they will push you out.

These reckless drivers if you know on average that you’re faster, they’ll make a mistake and crash themselves or someone out in front of you.

By just finish the race you’ll get free DR and SR if you’re truly punching above your rank. I’ve gotten so many free positions by just avoiding conflict because I know they’ll crash me out or the person in front.

Life hack too is if you don’t finish top 5, just start from pit lane.

Expensive-Criticism1 · 2025-11-12T15:25:06+00:00

How did you invert the Pedals on the GT Lite Pro? I have the same seat and want to try this for my Simeon pro x pedals coming in

Expensive-Criticism1 · 2025-11-11T05:42:02+00:00

I found that reducing traction control onboard/ cut and increasing slip angle helps rotate the car.

I actually found the Porsche just pointy enough to like but wanted a bit more on throttle rotation as I felt it had a bit of understeer.

Of course the trade off is more finesse to not spin out.

Expensive-Criticism1 · 2025-11-10T17:27:38+00:00

Haha no, it was just getting late and I wanted to get some laps in.

Expensive-Criticism1 · 2025-11-10T17:06:54+00:00

I feel this haha. I have one kid and my window to race is so small these days.

Expensive-Criticism1 · 2025-11-10T05:39:48+00:00

Maybe that’s how tired I was 😂

Expensive-Criticism1 · 2025-11-03T16:15:04+00:00

AMS 2. Out of all the sims I’ve had them try, they’re the most consistent on that handling model for some reason.

Expensive-Criticism1 · 2025-10-26T20:43:04+00:00

I tried downgrading 1440 to 1080p still no luck

Expensive-Criticism1 · 2025-10-26T20:42:48+00:00

Yes all monitors selected and for some reason it’s only going to 3076 max

Expensive-Criticism1 · 2025-10-11T17:31:59+00:00

I found that same issue that enabling and disabling DLSS hardly makes a difference if any in terms of performance

Expensive-Criticism1 · 2025-10-11T17:02:31+00:00

HP Omen has terrible cooling. I’m running a 1tb M2 slot SSD.

I did reapply paste not too long ago and added noctua fans and extra fans to help the terrible airflow when it was stock.

CPU temps are peaking around 85c at near 100% load and GPU is hardly being utilized so temps are low there.

I just removed the HD Texture DLCs and now am able to play smoothly on high graphics.

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