Posting this just to illustrate what stock suspension does when you take a slight hairpin at 35mph (~56kph). For those slow on the uptake, this kind of movement is not optimal.
FWIW, this is an approximation of the track. It was set up by the local BMWCCA group and rather optimised for the handling characteristics of those cars. You could run it, but you really had to be able to turn. It was kind of a bitch, actually.
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Yah, looking at that picture makes me surprised I didn't roll a tire off the bead. Helps that they have no grip on that track, I guess
Also, that shot was taken during a fun-run, so I was really driving loose and sloppy, just messing around with wagging my tail to see if it'd help. I'm really a much smoother driver than that picture implies
You have no idea how much I want an upgrade at this point. Fortunately I get a big paycheck tomorrow... gonna start sockin' away some dough for suspension and tires. Was looking at wheels last night, actually Makes no sense to me to get really nice rubber for 14" wheels
ha ha... thants awesome man... I did a little something simalar to that last night... it was going into a 90degree turn from a street to a almost never-any-cars interesection, but there was signs and sandbags all over the place, they had just tarr'd the shit outta that road, I fucking power-slid that shit... it was scary and fun... ha ha... at least I didn't hurt my baby, muchless potential kids out on the street...
Chris: I was running at ~42psi for the normal runs, and according to the chalk it was about right. That shot was at the end when I'd probably lost a bunch of pressure. Plus I was breaking really hard at that point. Plus those tires perform like inflated ass.
Originally posted by brink Chris: I was running at ~42psi for the normal runs, and according to the chalk it was about right. That shot was at the end when I'd probably lost a bunch of pressure. Plus I was breaking really hard at that point. Plus those tires perform like inflated ass.
Haha "inflated ass" Right on. 42 psi sounds good, the tires can't be all that bad, my OEM ones had a max psi of 35lbs
Why would you lose pressure towards the end? Shouldn't they be heating up and gaianing pressure if anything??
Come to think of it when I deflated them at the end of the day the front right was around 45 psi, front left was around 43. However, when I first started putting my car through autox this year I noticed that with crazy driving like that my tires would sometimes lose air. I think the rubber briefly pulls away from the rim or something like that. Split-second kind of thing. Best theory I can come up with, anyway.
But you're right on the heatin' up thing. One of my friends sort of burned his fingers deflating the tires on his TT. He started out with 45 and ended up with over 50 psi at the end of the day!
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