quote: Originally posted by v8what?
Well, I don’t see how it would help this 'discussion' to list all of my friends in family who are involved in motor sports, but whatever.
My background: Lets first start with my dad, who used to Auto-X and road race a Porsche 914/6 (FYI, the one with the six cylinder). I pretty much grew up on Go-Karts and Jet-Skis, taking a few trophies home at local events. I now Auto-x a mildly modified DSM regularly.
I have a cousin who participates in the SCCA ProRally and is racing in Rim Of The World next month in a Lancer Evo 5. I have countless other friends who do both Auto-Xing and track racing, none of which on a professional level but have been in a few magazines.
After all this, I think it’s only fair that you do the same.
As to the remark about my use of punctuation: Copy and paste my last post into Microsoft Word and see if any errors pop up. I did and I think you will be pleasantly surprised.
As to the real discussion at hand: Do you even know what an Auto-x is? Doesn’t seem like it. It takes ridiculous amounts of skill in order to pilot a car in such small room. Do you know anything about mass, gravity, or momentum? How about heel-toe shifting or left foot breaking? Then we can talk about setting up the proper suspension, tires, proper power levels, etc, etc, all day long.
Now for drag racing: Now I admit, as I did in my previous post, that building an engine for maximum horsepower use does take skill, especially when you’re working with small displacement. Blasting down the 1320, however, does not. I’m willing to bet I could take anyone with a basic knowledge of transmissions and teach them how drag race in a day or two.
-Cheers
mass, gravity, momentum, heel-toe shifting, left foot breaking?
Btw, in microsoft word, I could, use commas, like this, and I bet, that you wouldnt, get a single, punctuation error?
"heel toe shifting" is done while downshifting, because when you downshift, you're shifting to a smaller gear, your RPM's jump. when cornering hard, this can cause your tires to exceed their maximum traction and break loose. So instead of just downshifting, or easing out the clutch slowly.. you match engine speed and the lower gears speed.
Do you want me to tell you exactly how it is done? I can do that too.
"left foot braking" is done most often by FWD cars when they enter a corner faster than they probably should.
Heel toe to downshift while entering the corner, and apply throttle while braking with the left foot. This causes the rear tires in a FWD car to lock, giving the front tires more traction than the rear. This is oversteer, and so you correct for oversteer in the only way possible. Accelerate out of it.
wow that was incredibly hard to explain driftmaster2000.
setting up the proper suspension? Do you know anyone with the equipment to tune a cars suspension for maximum tire traction while cornering? adjusting toe and camber so you have more tire on the asphalt?
Tires. lol are you serious? I'd buy swampers for the mud, paddle tires for the sand.
Btw: Mass, Gravity and Momentum?
Do you mean inertia? or perhaps, PMI?
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