Hooning Advice Requested

"Future Heap Owner" (aperiodic) 02/09/2019 at 15:25 • Filed to: for a guy who grew up in Minnesota he sure doesn't know much about what to do when you lose traction in snow, snow-nuts, donuts, hooning

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Less than a week after the last snow (in which !!!error: Indecipherable SUB-paragraph formatting!!! ), we got another inch or two in Portland last night. So, I went out first thing in the morning to try to find some untouched parking lots and give it another crack.

Unfortunately, there were a decent amount of people on the roads , and security was out and about everywhere , so I only managed to do a couple. But I wanted to ask y’all for some advice on technique.

The first time out, I would just turn the wheel left and keep it there even after I started sliding . This pretty much only let me spin the back around while the front end rotated in place. This time, I tried to get the wheels pointing in the same direction I’m going so the front end would actually move so I could do some donuts with some radius to them.

I did this by letting go of the wheel after traction broke, and then grabbing it once it had rotated to where it wanted to. My thinking is it would rotate to the point where friction against travel would be minimized, but I’m not sure about that because I still couldn’t keep the front end moving. Pretty shortly, it would stop, and then I would just be swinging the back around again. It probably doesn’t help either that I couldn’t find a lot with more than ~50ft between raised islands, so I couldn’t build up much momentum.

Is there a trick for figuring out where to point the wheel to keep the front end turning? Or do I just need to practice until I can get the hang of it?

Hopefully everything freezes up nicely later today, we get a little more snow, and I can go back out at night when everything will be closed and security won’t be on the prowl.

G_Body_Man: Sponsored by the number 3 > Future Heap Owner 02/09/2019 at 15:32

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Usually the caster angle catches the slide and then you just finesse the throttle and steering and guide it out from there. Try finding a spot where you can do big counter steering donuts. Then one you get the hang of that, move onto figure 8s.

farscythe - makin da cawfee! > Future Heap Owner 02/09/2019 at 15:37

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in case of lost grip its get off the throttle and on the clutch and countersteer till grip happens

in case of snownuts its stay on the throttle and counter steer to enlarge your snownut

(this mostly aplies to rwd)

vondon302 > Future Heap Owner 02/09/2019 at 15:39

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More speed on entry.

Future Heap Owner > G_Body_Man: Sponsored by the number 3 02/09/2019 at 15:42

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Finding a large, open spot has been difficult

sony1492 > Future Heap Owner 02/09/2019 at 15:54

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Clutch kicking will help, go into it, turn, once the weight is transferred(or as it transfers), let the clutch in quickly, stan the throttle, let the clutch out and this will break the rear wheels loose before the car is overwhelmed like it would be if you were just using power to oversteer.(runonsentancewithtoomanycommasIknow)

Letting the car steer itself initially is a valid technique but you will have to push the wheel a bit to start it and stop.

W atch out for overcorrection because it is typically much more frightening to suddenly be sliding the wrong direction. It is better to spin out then overco rrect trying to save it.

Future Heap Owner > sony1492 02/09/2019 at 16:28

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Thanks for the tips! The steering on this old truck is fairly sloppy so I should probably help the countersteer along a little.

NKato > Future Heap Owner 02/09/2019 at 18:19

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Try finding a public marina boat launch — they often have a massive parking lot for all the trailers. The one I was at today had two other people doing donuts — and we were keeping safe distance from each other (very easy to do on a massive lot like this).

Video is coming.