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How To Build & Tune in Forza Horizon 6 | Basic Refresher & FH6 Changes Guide

HokiHoshi

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⚠️⚠️THIS VIDEO IS OUTDATED, NEW GUIDE IS IN THE WORKS⚠️⚠️

Welcome to the early Forza Horizon 6 build & tune guide! This is a comprehensive refresher/beginner guide covering everything you need to know to get up speed on making fast cars in FH6, focusing on what has changed and what stayed the same between FH5 & FH6.

This guide is based on information gathered from ~3 weeks of play time in early previews, combined with knowledge from some of the fastest competitive players in the game. That said, over time the meta will change! So consider this video as an "early" guide, with more updated videos coming in time.

0:00 Intro & General Advice
1:10 Build: Body Kits & Conversions
2:58 Build: Aero & Appearance
3:47 Build: Tires & Rims
6:20 Build: Drivetrain
7:05 Build: Platform & Handling
8:14 Build: Engine
8:59 Final Building Tips
9:30 Tune: Tires
9:56 Tune: Gearing
10:30 Tune: Alignment
11:05 Tune: Antiroll Bars
12:46 Tune: Springs
14:10 Tune: Damping
14:36 Tune: Aero
15:56 Tune: Brake
16:48 Tune: Differential
18:12 Final Tips

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20 Comments

@HokiHoshi Creator 4 months ago (edited) Pinned

Working on an updated video now! Keeping this pinned message for the time being

UPDATE: Drag tires were nerfed on 6/15! And no longer viable for road racing. Offroad race tire are (unfortunately) quite viable alongside AWD swaps in the mid-low classes
-Mech. and aero balance will often fall around ~0.6 and ~0.45, but there are quite a lot of exceptions to that rule and as such, these stats should be seen more as general guidelines.
-AWD swaps are very powerful, mostly in the mid/higher classes from A-S2, but also entirely viable in R and B & below in some cases too (like rally/CC)
-Higher speed race transmissions (8-10sp) are good ways to fit more PI into the budget

More stuff will be expanded on in the new video!

@Baldhengarage 4 months ago

Brother, your drivatar has been the bane of my existence on the hardest settings

@akpgaming801 4 months ago

I was playing some of the first horizon races last night and saw Hoki’s driveatar in my race, never seen that before but I thought it was hilarious (bro got slimed)

@realqenuji 4 months ago

i see your driveatar in all of my races lmao

@futurafreeze 4 months ago

Would def appreciate a true beginner-beginner guide to tuning going in depth on diff, antiroll bars etc. Maybe showing how you would build towards drift, race, etc. This def helped overall but it’s still daunting!

@kucukgolem 4 months ago

Finally a good tune guide. I was so done with all those "high rated" tunes that make your car feels like it drives on butter, or turns your car into a beyblade in 1st gear launch.

@Nodnarb518 4 months ago

Hokis driveatar drove me off the road. Menace.

@ornix5761 4 months ago

I don't even have the game yet but seeing people enjoying it makes my day

@codystratton6155 4 months ago

Completely side bar. Your drivatar popped up on my races... He's kind of a dick lol. Love your content and felt like a little Easter egg for launch, got excited.

@Vo1kfang 4 months ago

This should really help me since I've been having to beat the HokiHoshi driveatar in pretty much every race lol

@ang5491 3 months ago

I'm watching this 3 weeks after you posted this video, but just in case you read this comment, 12:01 the value of mech balance corresponds to the rear instead of the front, which aero balance does. so: the higher the value of mech balance, the higher the REAR grip, not front grip. proof #1: when you increased the front ARB, the mech balance drops, proof #2, when you buy thicker tyres on the rear relative to the front, the value increases. hope you verify this in time. good insights as always hoki.

@OmeliGaming 4 months ago

Glad I'm not the only one having to beat his drivatar

@Death_Avenue_YT 3 months ago

A month later and I'm still waiting for tthe in depth guide

@ひうが猛攻型ことねP 1 month ago

貴方だったのか、よく見かけて俺を苦しめてくるDrivatarは…
なるほど、道理で強いわけだ！

@Robbbie 4 months ago

i JUST watched his FH5 guide to get a idea for what to build on, insane timing

@dalzielmotes9815 4 months ago

Hoki’s drivatar was whooping my butt and now I get on YouTube and find this guys YouTube videos about being a master tuner. It makes sense.

@Rapitor 4 months ago

oh hey, your drivatar is in my main roster almost every race!

@kspectre21 4 months ago

Hell yea, glad to see you getting ahead of some of these new changes with a bit of a primer before the full breakdown.

Outside of the brakes which take some time to get used to I'm really liking the small changes they've made to the handling, cars in general just feel more confident to me and RWD on dirt especially feels great in B Class now (and even some A Class cars).

It's a shame the tire performance wasn't adjusted to make Sports more viable on road and Rallies more viable for off-road but it is what it is.

I've also noticed that Front Tire Width is also more expensive now, on most cars I've tuned it almost always takes atleast 1 PI even for the first upgrade.

Also it's great to see Engine Swaps in general mostly getting nerfed, I noticed some old meta cars like the GMC Syclone are actually missing the 6.2L V8 which made them so damn strong in FH4 and 5. The Lambo V10 got buffed though and can get the Centrifugal Supercharger now which makes it even stronger than it was already, it's basically an RV12 now in terms of sheer effectiveness.

@Y2K2PointO 4 months ago

I got into tuning about five years ago, but haven’t really touched it since. I was hoping that this would actually go through the specifics of what each component does regarding turn entry midterm and turn exit. It seems like there’s a lot of well just stick between this number and this number, but that doesn’t really give any insight into how to actually tune and what specifically the settings are doing. Using the general terms of oversteer and understeer is a major oversimplification and it would really be nice to see a video that thoroughly covers all of the components as if it was everyone’s first time doing tuning.