Gran Turismo 7 Tuning: the Ultimate Guide

Tuning is a tricky part of Gran Turismo 7, so we put together this guide to help you on your way!

Okay, let’s jump in and take a look!

The Tuning Screen

To access the tuning screen, you’ll have to head to a race of your choice, select ‘Settings’, then ‘Car Settings’, and scroll to the bottom to the tab named ‘Detailed Settings’.

First of all, don’t be afraid by how busy your screen just became! In fact, that left third of the entire screen just shows your car's stats. Each time you make an adjustment, you can see how it will affect your vehicle - just be sure to hit ‘triangle’ to update those numbers!

The rest of the screen is just for swapping out parts and adjusting settings.

Finally, at the top of the screen you can change sheets. This is especially useful for having different, useful tunes for different tracks.

Suspension

Suspension is one of the most important parts of the tuning section, and can make a car incredibly fun (or difficult) to drive.

Starting with ride height, you want to set your ride height as low as possible, without the car bottoming out. This is a rather general rule, and not a one size fits all, but in most tarmac racing scenarios, a low ride height is better.

Lowering this will shift your car's centre of gravity down, which leads to less body sway. As such, you should end up with slightly more grip, and increased stability as well. If you set this up too low, or incorrectly, you’ll see a huge amount of understeer, so watch out!

Next up, we’ve got anti-roll bars. A Lower front value generally leads to oversteer and a lower rear value will generally result in understeer. Once again, however, this isn’t a one size fits all answer.

Much like with ride height, it is easy to set your anti-roll bars too stiff and end up with a loss of grip. So, adjust both at the same time and have a few laps in the car to check that any changes you’ve made are beneficial first.

Damping ratio is the next setting, and adjusts both the compression and expansion. With softer dampers you’ll have an easier time on the curbs and over bumps, or transitioning in tight sections of the course. However, you may end up with a sluggish feeling in the steering.

Likewise, too hard and the car will struggle on the curbs and over any slight bumps, but will feel incredibly responsive.

This setting, if adjusted, is often unique to each circuit. As such, be sure to make use of those tuning sheets for this!

Natural frequency is effectively the spring rate of the car. You’ll want to stiffen this to reduce any body roll.

Like with the anti-roll bars it’s often good to tune these together, and then hone in on a specific front and rear balance.

In addition, the tyre compound can affect the Natural Frequency. So, generally when using a better compound tyre, you’ll want to run stiffer springs. Once again though, do a few laps each time you change this to find what works for you and the car.

Now, the final two settings in suspension can often be treated as a single entity, as they play off each other significantly.

Camber changes the angle of the wheel comparatively to the horizontal edge of the car. What it adjusts is how much of the tyre is in contact with the surface of the track at any time.

Toe is generally not touched. It’s easy to get this setting wrong and end up with masses of tyre wear and unnecessary heat in them as well.

If you do go for anything on the Toe setting, we recommend a little bit of toe-out which can greatly help on corner entry. Only start playing around with the toe once you’ve adjusted the rest of your car's setup.