Gran Turismo 2's 'Ride Height Trick' Explained

Gran Turismo 2 has many well-known bugs, but there's one bug in particular that can be used to your advantage to help cars reach their full potential: the "ride height trick". By angling the car downwards using ride height, you can trick the game into thinking the car is going downhill, boosting acceleration. This video explains the trick in detail and how you can apply it to your cars while tuning for optimal acceleration.

Music used:
Night birds - Yudai Satoh
Bevel Gearing - Yuto Takei
Dark Line - Satoshi Bando

[mrxbas]

So that’s why GT3 never shows a visual difference in ride height when you change it…

[JakeMR]

Those ride height tricks is really similar to how I'm researching into Kaido Battle 3's physics (for PAL KR2) since the ride height has more of a high rake in the front (100mm Front and 80mm in the Rear). Quite a thing that even GT has the same oddness quirks when tuning, maybe it's something that game's have these quirks is on how to show the adjustability well with hiding certain elements from the player I'd assume. It's something I'm trying to note down myself when making a smaller guide for the Kaido series myself when it comes to this, but a large part in that is the car stuff.

Stuff can be really fun once you investigate this stuff under the hood of the game, it can become quite useful. Probably why I like these types of videos explaining game quirks like this.

[HizalMikail]

I have been playing GT for like 20 years now (with GT2 being my first GT) and I never knew about this before…
Thank you for showcasing and explaining it! 🙌

[bitelaserkhalif]

Brazilian truck modification in nutshell

[masakado]

Good video, but the music is too loud

[jdcp]

I think I remember reading this into an old tuning guide for gt2, but not getting it lol. Interesting trick.

[ThrasherDBS]

I found it so hilarious when watching your GT1 & 2 guides about the "game thinks you're driving downhill" thing.

Might have to watch your any% run and see how much of a difference i can make on that route compared to my PB

[Zanarkand_]

I remember seeing some setups for GT3 with complete opposite ride heights back when GTVault was a thing. Omg I completely glossed over those setups because I thought they didn't know what they were doing. Lol

[AlanFormula]

This ride height tutorial is very inspiring.

[Phenom]

Hey! Your Miyoo Mini Themes Rock :D Thank you!

[ComingInHotPink]

Reminds me of the rake "war" in F1 before the nu-ground effect cars

[justajad]

GT essayers are the only ones with such a blessing of BGM for their videos.

[karelpipa]

i tried various ride height setting in my past (didnt know it causes this), i always ended up with low front (not lowest mostly) and added rear height for better turning. Now i will have to redo again

[Normalaatsra]

Would've liked an expansion near the end of the video that explains how rake setups helped out in later games, like from GT5 onwards a high front low rear is beneficial on oval/SSRX runs, and how before GT7's 1.04 physics update, every optimal tune had cars running on stilts with the rear set to max height.

[davesiddons]

This trick was on GT1 as well, me and a few friends being young wanted to see who could make the fastest car on the test track, the supra rz with this setup was easily the fastest car due to this trick.

I honestly didn’t know it was a bug cause I was 10-12 at the time and car setup was just sheer luck 😂

[TallTapper]

the cadillac cien ate my cheese at 3 am

[zoicaras]

thats fuckin wild lmao. i probably missed this but does a-spec still have this or did they implement a fix?

cheers for bringing this to light (again).

[TankSlappr]

Are you going to do a video explaining the "hyper close gear setup trick" that you put in the set-up guide for the JGTC Motul Pitwork Z. I'm confused as to how it works. It works great though.

[MadMax-grth]

While min/max ride height works,
it is not always the optimal for say acceleration on high horsepower cars. Especially at 400m / 1000m & top speed runs.

[mooontheto]

Will you make a video about the GT4 spec II mod? I think they overhaul the tuning