Cookiemonster
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So heres the back story. I spun my car out about a month after I got it. Humbled me and made it aparent I dont know **** about driving. Sure I could drive but i couldnt drive hard. It also made me realise that driving hard on the street was stupid.
so I saved up and bought a performance driving class. learned alooooot. However all it did was make me want to use these new skills on the street and I already knew that was a bad idea.
I got talking with a freind of mine and he pointed me in the direction of autocross. So far Iv done 2 events. The first one humbled me yet again. I knew the concepts and the ideas but hadnt enough seat time to really put it to the pavement. However by the end of the day my times were becoming consistant. Droped roughly 25 seconds off my first time and found out this car is semi competitive. The top time of the day was 62 seconds (c5 corvette with alot of mods and A6 Hoosiers) My best time of the day was 74 seconds (only mods at the time were CAI n Tune and some 340 tread wear khomo tires running on their last legs). heres the course from the vet that won
My second time out wasnt quite as good even though I had new tires (nitto nt 555s, didnt perform as well as I had hoped). The course was much much MUCH more difficult (2 decreasing radius turns, 2 three cone slolams and a 5 cone slolam on a decreasing radius <- hated that, The back straight was huge for an autocross and it had off set gates down it (rather un nerving going 70 mph and having the back step out after each gate) The course was verry technical to say the least. The best run of the day was 72 seconds by the same guy in the vet. My best was 85 seconds (with the vet guy instructing me) heres the video of the vet guy for this course
By the end of the day my times become semi consistant, however i know i can improve more with more seat time and better instruction so Im going to try and get into a scca driving class but it picked by a lottery.
Now my question is how do i combat the understeer of this car? Other than slowing down more what can i do to the cars suspension to help? Iv tried creating oversteer (and i can but it requires throwing the car into the corner rather agressivly) but id rather have a car thats neutral coming into the corner so i can choose what i want mid corner. Right now i cant do that and its frustrating when i hear the tires scrubing and i start to plow.
I belive the stock suspension is starting to limit me. So where do you guys advise me to go?
so I saved up and bought a performance driving class. learned alooooot. However all it did was make me want to use these new skills on the street and I already knew that was a bad idea.
I got talking with a freind of mine and he pointed me in the direction of autocross. So far Iv done 2 events. The first one humbled me yet again. I knew the concepts and the ideas but hadnt enough seat time to really put it to the pavement. However by the end of the day my times were becoming consistant. Droped roughly 25 seconds off my first time and found out this car is semi competitive. The top time of the day was 62 seconds (c5 corvette with alot of mods and A6 Hoosiers) My best time of the day was 74 seconds (only mods at the time were CAI n Tune and some 340 tread wear khomo tires running on their last legs). heres the course from the vet that won
My second time out wasnt quite as good even though I had new tires (nitto nt 555s, didnt perform as well as I had hoped). The course was much much MUCH more difficult (2 decreasing radius turns, 2 three cone slolams and a 5 cone slolam on a decreasing radius <- hated that, The back straight was huge for an autocross and it had off set gates down it (rather un nerving going 70 mph and having the back step out after each gate) The course was verry technical to say the least. The best run of the day was 72 seconds by the same guy in the vet. My best was 85 seconds (with the vet guy instructing me) heres the video of the vet guy for this course
By the end of the day my times become semi consistant, however i know i can improve more with more seat time and better instruction so Im going to try and get into a scca driving class but it picked by a lottery.
Now my question is how do i combat the understeer of this car? Other than slowing down more what can i do to the cars suspension to help? Iv tried creating oversteer (and i can but it requires throwing the car into the corner rather agressivly) but id rather have a car thats neutral coming into the corner so i can choose what i want mid corner. Right now i cant do that and its frustrating when i hear the tires scrubing and i start to plow.
I belive the stock suspension is starting to limit me. So where do you guys advise me to go?