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5 hours ago, Kinkstaah said:

Watching some handheld video of my car at sandown (which is painful to watch) I noticed some oily looking smoke down the left side of the car.. where my catch can... wasn't... really catching anything.

Funnily enough, the left rear was the culprit all day.... and this was after turning the boost down to about ~300rwkw, after almost faceplanting the LEFT barrier on the back straight getting onto the fun pedal with the wheels facing straight...

hmmm..

Potential self-oil slicking my own tyres aside, WOT under 100 kmh isn't really possible in my car though. This is more of a "too much everything for 2WD" as opposed to anything else.

I wasn't able to even go WOT comfortably until the start line at Sandown from the last corner, which I doubt most people have to deal with when they are making 300kw, so that lends a bit of suspicion on just what that oily looking smoke was doing down the left side of the car.



You make me cringe and shudder so damn often

6 hours ago, Kinkstaah said:

Potential self-oil slicking my own tyres aside, WOT under 100 kmh isn't really possible in my car though. This is more of a "too much everything for 2WD" as opposed to anything else.

you know there are plenty of 2WD cars with more power than yours that can get traction right?

8 minutes ago, joeyjoejoejuniorshabadoo said:

you know there are plenty of 2WD cars with more power than yours that can get traction right?

Yes? Everyone's idea of what 'traction' is varies though, and varies a lot on what they're trying to do really. I was referring to my own setup, not a 1000HP drag car on drag slicks with a solid rear axle on the drag strip.

Besides the myriad of problems Greg faces on the daily, a beginner (I assume) trying to throw a non-linear 400rwkw auto around a track is probably not a good starting point for sussing out vehicle dynamics..just assuming here!

Considering that for all of the morning my car (currently on about 265rwkw (super smooth and responsive, with a few degrees of timing pulled out across the whole rev range for track safety)) was losing traction at 140+ in coming onto boost in 4th... The issue was the track surface being covered in h2o... In the afternoon though, if you were losing traction on the straight, then you you need to do something about your car.... Because grip in the arvo was quite nice... Perhaps ease into the power until it's being put down properly (converted into forward motion)

9 hours ago, Odium said:

Considering that for all of the morning my car (currently on about 265rwkw (super smooth and responsive, with a few degrees of timing pulled out across the whole rev range for track safety)) was losing traction at 140+ in coming onto boost in 4th... The issue was the track surface being covered in h2o... In the afternoon though, if you were losing traction on the straight, then you you need to do something about your car.... Because grip in the arvo was quite nice... Perhaps ease into the power until it's being put down properly (converted into forward motion)

 

6 hours ago, Mohsen said:

Greg, don't be a bitch. FOOT. BURIED. EVERYWHERE

Kind of what I was referring to before.. it depends on your definition of "traction"
One man's "linear" is another man's "laggy" etc.

I don't think it's realistic to expect to go WOT and have 0% traction loss when you make peak power at 4000rpm, I too turned down the boost as much as possible so I was running about ~300 and had to really feed it in. I would have loved to literally go 100% throttle as soon as exiting the last corner onto the straight and hold that all the way to turn 1 but that isn't happening. At least for me. If there is something to fix I'd love to know about it!

Funnily enough, I seem to have to feed it in a lot less on the road which is also what I noticed when I went to Heathcote.

See that's what I said about Jasons before, I think he makes about 360hubwkw and gripped it fine down the straight from the last corner, really caught me by surprise that it continued to hold over that big bump out of the last turn with a bit of steering angle added. A bump seems to unsettle my rear end into traction lost usually, probably my Achilles heel.

My hunt for tyres / wheels really confirms that these business's / people have no idea how to deal with people over email / messages / interwebs its sad and annoying af.

"Give us a call to discuss options" is a popular one liner response to a comprehensive email or 'contact us' button, m8 what if I'm busy and don't want to call f*kn 10 diff places to find out what they DONT have so I email instead. Why have the contact us form in the first place.

Then there's the no reply for about a week from a popular SAU sponsor, then I get this " I'm getting smashed with pointless messages here and I'm struggling to sort through and find the real messages - if you can email, this won't get lost amongst the spam " what, email and wait another week for response - nothxjeff

/rant

 

Edited by UNR33L

Phone is still king when you want to buy stuff quickly. You could of made the call and got the answer in almost the time it took you to write the email. Not to mention your email being ignored because some lazy prick thinking your a potential time waster. I made 2 phone calls to two tyre shops, got a price I couldn't believe and secured the last available set of the tyres I wanted. Id still be waiting for the email response I reckon. Sometimes the old ways are the good ways. What size tyres are you after btw?

Kind of what I was referring to before.. it depends on your definition of "traction"
One man's "linear" is another man's "laggy" etc.
I don't think it's realistic to expect to go WOT and have 0% traction loss when you make peak power at 4000rpm, I too turned down the boost as much as possible so I was running about ~300 and had to really feed it in. I would have loved to literally go 100% throttle as soon as exiting the last corner onto the straight and hold that all the way to turn 1 but that isn't happening. At least for me. If there is something to fix I'd love to know about it!
Funnily enough, I seem to have to feed it in a lot less on the road which is also what I noticed when I went to Heathcote.


So you were running about the same power as my car which would have 0% traction loss with 8kg rears and less suspension work...
12 minutes ago, admS15 said:

Phone is still king when you want to buy stuff quickly. You could of made the call and got the answer in almost the time it took you to write the email. Not to mention your email being ignored because some lazy prick thinking your a potential time waster. I made 2 phone calls to two tyre shops, got a price I couldn't believe and secured the last available set of the tyres I wanted. Id still be waiting for the email response I reckon. Sometimes the old ways are the good ways. What size tyres are you after btw?

True, I mean I just copied pasted the emails but yeah. Finding sticky tyres in 19s with the right sized sidewalls, a lot of makes just make them big sidewalls which I don't really want (like a 245 / 40 as oppose to a 245 / 35) Invos / RS3 / NT05s / AD08s much harder to find them in the sizes I want, and if I do sometimes the prices are just stupidly high compared to the 'thick side wall' of the same tyre. Anyway seems st george are probably my best bet

Edited by UNR33L
1 minute ago, UNR33L said:

True, I mean I just copied pasted the emails but yeah. Finding sticky tyres in 19s with the right sized sidewalls, a lot of makes just make them big sidewalls which I don't really want (like a 245 / 40 as oppose to a 245 / 35) Invos / RS3 / NT05s / AD08s much harder to find them in the sizes I want, and if I do sometimes the prices are just stupidly high. Anyway seems st george are probably my best bet

Now it makes sense. Im not really familiar with 19" sizing but obviously a 245/35 isn't considered a 'common' size. St Gorge does seem very well priced for the invos in that size. I'd be buying, job done.

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