Hyde's turning radius has been made a 1/3 tighter ...

[JekylandHyde]

After we pass the finish line on a hillclimb run, we continue on the road until we get to the designated "turn around" spot and then head back from where we just came from to stop in a line. Once everyone from a run group is in line, we head back down the hill.

The turn around spots tend to be very tight. With today's hillclimb, if I pulled all the way over to the right, stopped, turned the wheel to complete lock for a left turn and slowly pulled out I could just barely make the complete turn around without edging off the road. It would be fair to say that "turn around" was exactly Hyde's turning radius.

So ... I decided to see if we could improve on that a bit

The blue line below indicates Hyde's turning radius on my first time through "turn around." The red line indicates Hyde's turning radius on my last time through turnaround.



In short, I spun the car around and ended up back against the curb I started from! Generally I would have ended up on the other side of the road (obivously) from doing the normal, slow turn around.


... what? Just a photo?



... no video?



.. no proof?



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[CompanyFlow]

How did you manage that?

[clem]

i have a question? did u turn the boost up or down on your boost controller?

[MR2Jedi]

Iwas wondering if you had to lay some rubber to do that... too cool Doc...very smooth!

[JekylandHyde]

Originally Posted by CompanyFlow

How did you manage that?

Stop car. Turn wheel fully clocked to the left.
Rev engine up failry high and dump the clutch.
Slightly moist pavement helps

Originally Posted by clem

i have a question? did u turn the boost up or down on your boost controller?

Neither. I have the Blitz DSBC which has a peak hold on it. I reset the peak hold to see how much boost I hit while doing that spin. On that spin it made just over 15 psi. For whatever reason, I am almost obessive compulsive about resetting that thing.

Originally Posted by MR2BAD

Iwas wondering if you had to lay some rubber to do that... too cool Doc...very smooth!

No need to lay rubber, in fact that would most likely have made it harder as I would have had more traction. To do this, you do not want traction.

Thanks ... and it was smooth, but there is a reason I did not video my first 3 attempts
I was not as "confident" with the clutch & gas and flubbed the first couple of turn arounds.

On the last run of the day, I pulled up to "turnaround" and there was a whole family of people under that tree in front of the car and I figured I really needed to nail it this time

[Gairloch]

Nothing like spectators to really up the ante when trying something new.

[-SCWEET1-]

Hyde is sooo Yummy!!!

[WhiteRabbit]

awesome awesome