well to eliminate the tires, rotate them and run again. sheesh. slacker. 
Oh. and heat them up.
Oh. and heat them up.
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Before your run, do doughnuts.
well, the suspension is stock. if i had adjustable struts, i would have mentioned my settings pressures are 40/38. i run 40/36 on tighter courses, but i haven't had any of those yet this season. i have run these tires before and i found these to be quite successful pressures. granted, that was before the alignment and they may need some tweaking to work with the new alignment, but i need heat to figure that stuff out :curse: anyway, as to where i'm spinning, its always in a transition when the car is unsettled. the first time was in the middle of a slolam with an offset cone, the second time was at the end of a very fast slolam with braking zone to a fast right (the slalom ended on a left). the final time is somewhat hard to explain. it was a tight 90 right, but it was coming at the end of a long sweeping right (sort of). anyway, the car wasn't settled in the braking zone. this one really shocked me though, espeacially since i was trying to just get a clean run. of course, other slaloms (and the same slaloms on other runs) as well as plenty of other unsettled braking zones have not netted a spin.
about the toe. yes, its aggressive, though it is very nice with street tires. the car is much more sensitive to trail-braking and LTO (and left foot braking on gravel) but not to the point of creating large scale rotation. it just changes the yaw of the car a bit and then catches itself. however, the race tires might be responding differently. i don't know. i'm going to have to wait until it gets warm so i can start eliminating some potential confounds.
pressures are 40/38. i run 40/36 on tighter courses, but i haven't had any of those yet this season. i have run these tires before and i found these to be quite successful pressures. granted, that was before the alignment and they may need some tweaking to work with the new alignment, but i need heat to figure that stuff out :curse: anyway, as to where i'm spinning, its always in a transition when the car is unsettled. the first time was in the middle of a slolam with an offset cone, the second time was at the end of a very fast slolam with braking zone to a fast right (the slalom ended on a left). the final time is somewhat hard to explain. it was a tight 90 right, but it was coming at the end of a long sweeping right (sort of). anyway, the car wasn't settled in the braking zone. this one really shocked me though, espeacially since i was trying to just get a clean run. of course, other slaloms (and the same slaloms on other runs) as well as plenty of other unsettled braking zones have not netted a spin.about the toe. yes, its aggressive, though it is very nice with street tires. the car is much more sensitive to trail-braking and LTO (and left foot braking on gravel) but not to the point of creating large scale rotation. it just changes the yaw of the car a bit and then catches itself. however, the race tires might be responding differently. i don't know. i'm going to have to wait until it gets warm so i can start eliminating some potential confounds.
i think the pressures are ok. like i said, i had another used set last year and found they worked well. also, there is another RS guy (not on any BBs) who is damn quick and he used to run the R1s as well at 40/40 and he was damn quick. of course, he had an alignment, but i don't know the specs. as far as me abusing your ex-tires, lets put it this way; when i get a clean run i'm in the top 10 on pax
so it was the tires...there magic
well, about my driving style, i have never spun at an event before, which is why this year has kind of caught me out. besides, ask ryan how well i can go-kart
the rest of the alignment specs are:
-1 degree front camber
0 front toe
back camber is non adjustable, but IIRC its around -1 or -1.5 right now.
i agree with you, its probably a combination of several factors, and with the weather warming up i will hopefully be able to determine what the biggest factor is.
the rest of the alignment specs are:
-1 degree front camber
0 front toe
back camber is non adjustable, but IIRC its around -1 or -1.5 right now.
i agree with you, its probably a combination of several factors, and with the weather warming up i will hopefully be able to determine what the biggest factor is.
Yea I saw your driving style that's why i voted for the loose nut behind the wheel who needs a wrench10th Warrior said:well, about my driving style, i have never spun at an event before, which is why this year has kind of caught me out. besides, ask ryan how well i can go-kart
the rest of the alignment specs are:
-1 degree front camber
0 front toe
back camber is non adjustable, but IIRC its around -1 or -1.5 right now.
i agree with you, its probably a combination of several factors, and with the weather warming up i will hopefully be able to determine what the biggest factor is.
hey, its not my fault those things only have brakes on the back. besides, i was going for my giles panizzi impersonationrpone605 said:
Yea I saw your driving style that's why i voted for the loose nut behind the wheel who needs a wrench
More like the hey that's what the wall impersonation. My hands still get cold thinking about that day.10th Warrior said:
hey, its not my fault those things only have brakes on the back. besides, i was going for my giles panizzi impersonation
updato desu ne
well, it seems two of you were right. we finally had a bright and sunny auto-x so i could start testing theories. i ran my pressures as 40/40 and the car handled quite well. well enough to give me 2nd in GS and 6th out of ~150 on PAX now that the tires have some heat to work with, i'm generating quite a bit of grip with no signs of oversteer what-so-ever.
well, it seems two of you were right. we finally had a bright and sunny auto-x so i could start testing theories. i ran my pressures as 40/40 and the car handled quite well. well enough to give me 2nd in GS and 6th out of ~150 on PAX
now that the tires have some heat to work with, i'm generating quite a bit of grip with no signs of oversteer what-so-ever.Same thing happened to me a couple weeks ago. I'd never spun at an auto-x event, but then all of a sudden, I spun twice in one run.
At my next event, I lowered the pressures in the tires by about 4 pounds front and rear (from what I was running at the first event), and I was doing MUCH better. I moved up two places overall in the standings, and I never lost control of the car (even when I induced a drift at 80mph!)
At my next event, I lowered the pressures in the tires by about 4 pounds front and rear (from what I was running at the first event), and I was doing MUCH better. I moved up two places overall in the standings, and I never lost control of the car (even when I induced a drift at 80mph!)
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