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What is the point of going over 300bhp on a front wheel drive?
martziniuk:
4th gear wheel spin makes vcds logging on the wet near impossible. I went for 235 width tyres but it still spins in 4th :fighting:
Don't get me wrong I love the K04 and I mainly wanted it for higher speed acceleration rather than traffic light Grand Prix.
Janner_Sy:
What tyres you running, nankangs ditchfinders? :grin:
Get some Semi Slicks on there and wave bye bye to wheel spin. Awesome in the dry and if you get a decent semi slick they are great in the wet as well. I have ran the 595 RS-Rs in some pretty extreme wet weather trackdays where many cars on road tyres were serverely struggling and was blown away by how well they performed.
If you want big power in a fwd car you have toaccept you need very grippy tyres that wont last a huge amount of time.
ROH ECHT:
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--- Quote from: ROH ECHT on January 04, 2014, 08:04:33 pm ---The throttle is made with a range to be used from zero position to full throttle for a reason...every high hp race car would have trouble as well if the throttle was mashed to the floor at all times, right? :cheeky: :drinking:
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Is it not an On/Off switch?
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For some, yes :happy2:
Back in the seventies we would drive from town to the house with the switch turned on
for the whole route in a 1974 civic and a 1978 golf/rabbit :drinking:
Hurdy:
I wouldn't do over 300bhp again in a fwd. Admittedly it is fun, but over 350bhp the car ends up going slower over a 1/4 mile unless you do a cage and slicks.
rich83:
300-350 is perfectly fine in the dry. In the wet however it's a different story. Mines ONLY running 311 and lights up the tyres for fun in the wet in a straight line. Add a bend into the equation and it gets much worse. Same with everything, you learn to temper your right foot accordingly.
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