Yar Rhys good footage mate - it is great + Clays 2 - I'm in most of it. I have been watching a bit of youtube to workout how to take that corner a bit better - I was going way to wide in the first part (and not hitting the first apex) so there was no room for understeer which was a major problem on it. I think I must have not spun cause I just kept the foot of the gas when it came of. Next time I will try left foot breaking when it is understeering and loosing grip to try and get some more grip on it. Anyway it was heaps of fun and am thinking if doing a general practice session out there soon.
Cheers,
Jim
I was on the grass in that area as I'm sure you all saw - And it was really really rough. Maybe they deliberatly plough it up to slow the cars that area traveling sideways?? ....although in the Gemini's case, he caught the edge of the ripple strip.
My main problem in that corner is "lift of oversteer". Most of the little pugs suffer from it. If we lift of the power into a commited corner - Your toast!
Last edited by PugMonkey; 04-06-2012 at 02:30 PM.
.... now watch a Peugeot turn into a corner !
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You've hit the nail on the head. It's an off camber corner with dirt across the entry, could be due to the direction of the sprint circuit putting dirt across it. Best way to stop that - slow down on corner entry, brake straight, smooth steering and stop winding on lock once you've exceeded front end grip.
Best tip i've learnt is to look beyond the corner, let your peripheral vision pick the apex and corner exit marker of the current corner. As for where to look, be looking at where you want the car to be positioned once you've done the current corner, or as far through the current corner as possible. You'll find by looking through the corner and trusting peripherals, you'll balance the car much better, throttle and steering will be smoother as it's not as reactive. It may feel slower as you'll have more time, but your corner speeds will increase with confidence.
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Yes all tunes increase boost. Thats basically how they get more power, more air + more fuel = mor power. There are a lot of other parameters that come into like timing etc (although factory timing is very good). It doubt its your DV, its more likely to be your wastegate actuator, Ever here is flutter under boost? Its the factory boost controller going nuts trying to control boost. The factory actuators have a very weak spring in them (4psi) although completely different i currently run a 18.85 psi which allows me to control 25psi nicely.
What actuator are you running? I was told the Forge one is crap and the stock ones are more than capable of handling quite a lot of boost.
I've always thought I was losing boost at the top end and did use to hear the flutter, but haven't really noticed it for a while. Maybe I just got use to it.
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The only problem with my slow-in, fast-out was that I think a couple of guys in the 4WD cars (Audi S3 and WRX STI) were getting a little annoyed because whilst I was as quick/quicker than them on the straights, they were able to fly into those corners so they had to slow down for me. Not much I can do about that though, I can't beat the laws of physics So I had to overcome my ego, and slow down on some of the straights to let them past.
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