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Gran Turismo 2 Tuning Guide For Mark Martin's NASCAR Car

Gran Turismo 2 Tuning Guide For Mark Martin's NASCAR Car - Gran Turismo 2 is one of my favorite video games. One of the best racing game from Sony Computer Entertainment and Polyphony Digital registered trademark.

Talk about The Gran Turismo 2 features, this game features more than 600 cars 27 tracks hundreds of challenge. This is what I love about this rally racing game. This game also allows you to tune your car, modified the car handling with your own driving style. Adjust the ride height front and rear, changing the rear wheel to get the maximum top speed, and many more.

I also love the rally modes in this game, the rally race tracks are amazing. But before you drive in this Gran Turismo sports game, you should complete the license tests first.

This time I will tell you how to tune Mark Martin's NASCAR race car in Gran Turismo 2 PS1?

If you like drag racing and also NASCAR fans like me, you would love this. The visual of this car is awesome, just like the real car you see in NASCAR. Not the same, but this is cool.

And this guide is not using any cheat or game shark. Let’s get it on.

"Mark Martin is one of the NASCAR drivers, he is known for "the best driver to never win a championship" because standings at the second place five times in the Sprint Cup Series".

Before we obtain the car, you need to prepare at least 120,000 credit on your wallet. This is a bit expensive, but actually, you can get those amounts of credits easily by wining some race and event. After you get the credit, then go to the Ford dealer shop. This dealer is located in South City.

Gran Turismo 2 PS1 South City

Get into Ford dealer, then go to car line up. Check out the lineup car 2, and you will find Ford Taurus Sho '99. This car is a cost 30,980 credit, it’s not that expensive rather than the other car on the Ford dealer like the RS 200 Rally Car.

Ford Line Up 2 Gran Turismo 2 PS1

There is a lot fast car in Grand Turismo 2 PS1 car list. This car is not the fastest, it only has 234 horsepower with 6100 rpm. Here is the full specification of this car;

Ford Taurus Sho Spec Gran Turismo 2 PS1

Ford Taurus Sho '99 colors in Gran Turismo 2 PS1

There are 5 different colors available for this car;
  1. Vibrant White
  2. Silver Frost Clear-coat Metallic
  3. Black Clear-coat
  4. Toreador Red Clear-coat Metallic
  5. Tropic Green Clear-coat Metallic
Choose any color you like, and I prefer the elegant Silver Frost Clear-coat Metallic. But any color is fine. After you purchased the car, then go to tune >> Others >> Racing Modification.

Ford Racing Modification Grand Turismo 2 PS1

Weight reduction for Ford Taurus Sho '99 

This racing modification is a bit expensive, it cost 82,000 credit. But there is some requirement before you can apply it. You need to apply 3 stages of weight reduction.

Weight Reduction

"Weight reduction is a method to lighten and increase the performance of your vehicle by remove unnecessary parts and replace it with the lighter material parts, this method will increase the car performance like acceleration, cornering, braking and increase tire durability".

Go back to others and move into weight reduction, there are 3 stages of weight reduction;
  1. Stage 1 is a cost of 1,200 credit
  2. Weight reduction stage 2 is a cost of 5,500 credit, and
  3. Weight reduction stage 3 is the most expensive one, it cost 22,500 credit
After you purchase all 3 stages of the weight reduction, then go back to racing modification and purchase it.

Gran Turismo 2 PS1 Mark's Martin Nascar Race Car

That is Gran Turismo 2 Tuning Guide For Mark Martin's NASCAR Car we talked about, isn't it cool. If you have more credit, you can also upgrade this car like the engine, turbo, drive-train, and many more to get better performance and use it on the race.