OP, it's just a learning curve. Every time you change a performance characteristic of a car, it requires the driver to pay attention and feel it out. Solid axle cars can be a bear to corner carve in. The difficulty increases with more power. Predictability comes with experimentation. You can gain more traction with better tires, but that doesn't help you overcome the unpredicatible nature of traction loss. Knowing what your car will do at a given speed and power level with little or no traction is important to someone who wants to hug corners. I would suggest low speed drifting in a safe environment (empty parking lot or actual drift track). Find out first where power overcomes traction, lateral G's breaking point, and where the car wants to go when it does break loose. I feel your pain regarding heavy right foot syndrom. Half throttle, maybe 2/3's is about my maximum for 1, 2, and most of 3rd gear on the street. More than that is just a smoke show. Even-so, I've learned to control it enough to keep the car straight and pedal through it, traction eventually catches up, it's important to keep it in the groove when it does hook back up. You don't need balls out WOT in most head 2 head or roll races. And I would certainly rather lose a race because of traction loss than put my ride in a ditch because I couldn't stand to lose to a STI built to the hilt. Win some, lose some. Wider tires will give you more contact patch and improve cornering, taller tires and DR's will improve straight-line traction, but ultimately you'll still need to learn the new performance characteristics of your car, with or without improved traction. The more power you have, the less occasion you'll find WOT has purpose.
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