Fun2Drive Ice Driving setup: READY!

"Flavien Vidal" (flyingfrenchy) 02/09/2018 at 05:31 • Filed to: None

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Finally upgraded my 1997 Michelin Ice Radial tires to something else! Yeah, better later than never! Next week I’ll be meeting in Nagano with a friend you guys might already know, Derek Weldon from Pacific Coast Auto in Yokohama, for some winter driving shenanigans on a frozen lake! He bought a VW Golf 4 R32 for the occasion and... well, I bought new (used!) winter tires haha.

I haven’t gone for 3 years now as last year’s event fell on my wife’s birthday and the year before that I went all the way to Nagano, all that to figure out that it was too hot to drive on the lake and the event was canceled!

Here is a quick video of the car he’ll be driving and that I’ll happily play with too!

Hopefully my own car doesn’t get too annoying as the right rear handbrake piston is seized and the LSD REALLY needs a rebuild. Not ideal to go sideways for days on a frozen lake! Oh well, if needed I’ll knock him down, store him in his boot for the day and play with his golf instead! It’s gonna be fun! He also bought some brand new Michelin X-Ice 4 which will be grippy as hell on a car like the R32 Golf... The tires I bought? 2013 Dunlop Winter Max WM01, which I paid about 70$ for, shipping to my place included :D

Getting exited again!!

vondon302 > Flavien Vidal 02/09/2018 at 05:48

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The ice is so fun if conditions are good.

Enjoy and take some pics .

Flavien Vidal > vondon302 02/09/2018 at 05:52

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Hoping for a bit of warmth to get grip out of the melted ice... Studded tires sadly aren’t allowed.

Conditions were perfect last time I went...

RallyDarkstrike - Fan of 2-cyl FIATs, Eastern Bloc & Kei cars > Flavien Vidal 02/09/2018 at 06:15

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Coolness! I’ve watched Derek’s videos for a few years now! Didn’t know you knew him! Why not take the Integrale? :P

pip bip - choose Corrour > Flavien Vidal 02/09/2018 at 06:27

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enjoy!

Flavien Vidal > RallyDarkstrike - Fan of 2-cyl FIATs, Eastern Bloc & Kei cars 02/09/2018 at 06:43

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Because the Integrale needs parts which are the slowest to arrive in Japan EVER!!! Still waiting for shit, pretty much nothing was done to it since last time I posted a video of the damn thing lol

RallyDarkstrike - Fan of 2-cyl FIATs, Eastern Bloc & Kei cars > Flavien Vidal 02/09/2018 at 06:53

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EXCUSES! :P

I expect WRC clone levels of Integrale here! :P

Flavien Vidal > RallyDarkstrike - Fan of 2-cyl FIATs, Eastern Bloc & Kei cars 02/09/2018 at 07:04

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haha, nah, it will most likely stay exactly the way it is, just like every single cars I get... I just drive them and fix what breaks but never really make upgrades or modifications.

RallyDarkstrike - Fan of 2-cyl FIATs, Eastern Bloc & Kei cars > Flavien Vidal 02/09/2018 at 07:26

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Good call. :)

I was being silly anyway! :P

I forgot your RX7 had an Oppo sticker! Also, I thought you had to sell your RX7? :(

Flavien Vidal > RallyDarkstrike - Fan of 2-cyl FIATs, Eastern Bloc & Kei cars 02/09/2018 at 07:44

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I won’t sell it until the Lancia is ready... well, I might sell it a bit earlier than that and use it as an excuse to get another car along with the Lancia instead :D

We’ll see...

HFV has no HFV. But somehow has 2 motorcycles > Flavien Vidal 02/09/2018 at 09:18

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Yesterday I got my car to do some AWD donuts, like prefect circle sitting still, but spinning donuts. It was awesome

Flavien Vidal > HFV has no HFV. But somehow has 2 motorcycles 02/09/2018 at 09:43

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Only once have I driven an AWD car in the snow before... It was actually on that same frozen lake, 3 year ago (boring Subary Legacy). I hope I get to try snow donuts with the R32 VW haha

HFV has no HFV. But somehow has 2 motorcycles > Flavien Vidal 02/09/2018 at 10:21

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I wish I had more experience with RWD cars on snow and ice.

I did fail to mention that these AWD donuts were on a frozen lake.