"PowderHound" (PowderHound)
08/14/2013 at 10:31 • Filed to: None
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"PowderHound" (PowderHound)
08/14/2013 at 10:31 • Filed to: None | 2
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Decided to try it on my drive today after watching the video that Dusty put up yesterday and did surprising well, only pushed it way to hard twice. Definitely need more work to get used to downshifting before and then moving to the brake but I'm not trying to go all out and possibly crash. Needless to say, I got sideways, it was a blast, I'm left foot braking and never looking back.
I could have picked a more appropriate photo for this but this was too good to pass up
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> PowderHound
08/14/2013 at 10:40 |
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DAT ASS.
I always tag Pantera's on tumblr with #DAT ASS
Casper
> PowderHound
08/14/2013 at 10:45 |
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What are you doing it in? It works really well to unbalance RWD or AWD cars when you are playing. If I give my boosted cars a little load into a corner with the left and goose the right. It makes it a lot easier to walk the rear around. I don't get a lot of practice in AWD platforms, but from what I have tried on gravel it seems to work really well too.
Shifting is the hard part. If there is a corner that requires a shift through it, I stick heal-toe and leave the left foot to the clutch. It's a trade, either you shift early to get the left back to the brake or you transition gears after you have started your braking. If there is a shift really close to the middle of the corner or in the corner, I stick to heel to, if I think I can sneak it in or want to slide a bit, I'll use the left. Really I prefer a more combined approach and just alternate feet as needed. Sometimes the left foot is free, sometimes the right foot is free, sometimes I needed a third foot.
cazzyodo
> PowderHound
08/14/2013 at 10:50 |
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I experimented once on my drive yesterday and learned how grippy my brakes are.
Moral of the story, the ease and delicacy of right foot braking is taken for granted. Gotta work on that left...
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PowderHound
> Casper
08/14/2013 at 10:50 |
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It was in an 03 wrx. I am getting the hang of it but having only been the first day I have really tried it I expected it to go a bit worse. Can you explain what you mean by "If I give my boosted cars a little load into a corner with the left and goose the right."
Terminology is not my strong suit
Z_Stig
> PowderHound
08/14/2013 at 11:01 |
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Brakes to load the front end for a corner, while giving it gas to spool the turbo up.
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Casper
> Z_Stig
08/14/2013 at 11:18 |
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Exactly. The same concept when you are about to launch from a dig. Basically load the engine up by "pushing" against the brakes. In the case of corner entry it's a matter of balancing that against still killing speed, so it's an art form of it's own. I'm practicing it a lot more now that I'm going to be spending more time in turbo cars at the track next year... but I still have a lot of practice to go. It's pretty damn hard to do when you are also trying to figure out exactly what gear you want for the corner... because if you are trying to build boost while also trying to slow down, and realize you want a different gear, your shift is going to kill your boost you have been working so hard to keep. Since I'm running RWD there is also the extra challenge of making sure the rear brakes are balanced properly, otherwise too much gas while coming in on the brakes and the back end starts to want to do it's own thing.
Edit: Forgot, I was going to share this link. It has a couple decent videos (people have probably seen), and explains where to transition from left foot braking to right food braking and how combined works.
http://www.trackpedia.com/wiki/Left_foot…
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Z_Stig
> Casper
08/14/2013 at 11:34 |
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Driving a turbo'ed car fast on track while keeping it on boost has got to be one of the hardest things.
Trackpedia is a great site.
Drivingfast.net also has some good info.
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Casper
> Z_Stig
08/14/2013 at 11:47 |
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Yeah, life was easier with a high comp NA car. I'm only going to be doing fun racing (autocross, track days, etc) so I figured I would do something new. I'm going to weekend race my new DD (the SR20DET swapped 240Z we are building) and build a new dedicated track car this Winter hopefully. It will depend what it looks like I have time for. If I end up tracking my 240Z for fun and my Ninja 1000 for fun, I may not have time to actually use another car.
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Z_Stig
> Casper
08/14/2013 at 11:55 |
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SR20DET 240Z? Awesome
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Casper
> Z_Stig
08/14/2013 at 12:07 |
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Yeah, I have been a Z fan for a long time. After having my S2000 in autocross I really wanted to see if I could build a 240Z into something similar for the money. Other than the extra I dumped into body and paint to get the flares blended in perfectly and a paint/under coating, the parts have been selected to get me pretty close. The initial specs should be around 240HP like the S2000, but over 400lbs lighter with more aggressive brakes, a little better weight distribution, and old school looks.
When I'm done playing with it, we are yanking the ECU, turbo, injectors, etc, and moving to a standalone and EFR turbo setup... as soon as I have money anyway. That way I can compare the dyno sheets of a basically stock SR20DET (it has a different intake manifold, FMIC, etc, but the engine is stock) to the same engine with a bigger EFR turbo, good tune, and matching injectors. Either going with a Haltech or AEM v2, but either way this time I'm letting the management system function as the boost controller.
This is a pic from mockup:
