Suits' Nissan 370Z
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Yeah, do you have boost by gear also ??
I new these sort of systems exitsed in FI cars, but didn't know they did in NA ones.
Airfield day Mavis.
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here you go suits, lets book 40 quid
http://www.carlimits.com/script/viewEvents.php?type=airfieldactivity&month=20130801
http://www.carlimits.com/script/viewEvents.php?type=airfieldactivity&month=20130801
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Romeo Done.
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So yeah, did an airfield day today with Harv at North Weald, it was good.
First time I'd really used the car in anger as planned and the first chance to have the computer aids off and see how it really is.
OFF
Traction is nuts with it off, it just spins and spins but is really satisfying playing with the launches and controlling it so it fly's. 1st, 2nd & 3rd just spin :lol: . This also makes drifting a hell of a lot easier.
The stability programme is kind of pointless anyway, as you'd try to drive it this hard on the normal roads so I can't really describe how it is without it, it's just easier to understeer and oversteer it, but the traction control is an obvious one.
The morning was raining - bad, but it gave a chance to mess about a bit and play around on the little circuit generally sliding and drifting about. The afternoon dried out and gave good levels of grip so we then switched our targets to improving our times on timed areas.
As well as the infield circuit thing they coned out there was a high speed bent and a tight section with a long sprint in the middle, for our cars this was hard, it was meant for Catheram's, Elise's and the such.
We pretty much just stayed on the circuit and tried to get our times down, which pretty much every time we went out we did.
Here you can sort of see where area and circuits from whatever the hell my sat nav was doing, it seemed to plot stuff for some reason.
The car overall was very good, I'm very pleased with it, it grips surprisingly well, when you think you've got no chance it just holds and holds, give it a boot of go and it will slide mind, but generally it's very encouraging.
The brakes were also good, again surprisingly so, I had previously complained that they faded and were soft, but driven that bit harder like you can when you do things like this I didn't get a sniff of anything too bad.
Understeer - A fair bit of this, especially out of bends, but again only if I pushed hard, if I pushed harder the back would step and out and counter it, this in the wet was great fun. A new Geo setting should probably dial a good bit of that out though.
Oversteer - Yeah, loads of it really, whenever you wanted it, so much so it became more fun to try and combat it with the throttle more and get around quick than just sliding around over and over.
We got a couple of vids with the GoPro, we didn't bother in the morning though as it was raining. After lunch it dried out and we started filming our timed runs.
I only got two vids as one didn't record and we just got fed up of swapping them over and fixing the camera, they're all pretty much the same anyway I suppose.
Warning - Wind noise is crazy.
[video=youtube;BadZS66joiw]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BadZS66joiw&feature=share&list=UU8FcMW0UOh v_O3a57wJ3kTg[/video]
First time I'd really used the car in anger as planned and the first chance to have the computer aids off and see how it really is.
OFF
Traction is nuts with it off, it just spins and spins but is really satisfying playing with the launches and controlling it so it fly's. 1st, 2nd & 3rd just spin :lol: . This also makes drifting a hell of a lot easier.
The stability programme is kind of pointless anyway, as you'd try to drive it this hard on the normal roads so I can't really describe how it is without it, it's just easier to understeer and oversteer it, but the traction control is an obvious one.
The morning was raining - bad, but it gave a chance to mess about a bit and play around on the little circuit generally sliding and drifting about. The afternoon dried out and gave good levels of grip so we then switched our targets to improving our times on timed areas.
As well as the infield circuit thing they coned out there was a high speed bent and a tight section with a long sprint in the middle, for our cars this was hard, it was meant for Catheram's, Elise's and the such.
We pretty much just stayed on the circuit and tried to get our times down, which pretty much every time we went out we did.
Here you can sort of see where area and circuits from whatever the hell my sat nav was doing, it seemed to plot stuff for some reason.
The car overall was very good, I'm very pleased with it, it grips surprisingly well, when you think you've got no chance it just holds and holds, give it a boot of go and it will slide mind, but generally it's very encouraging.
The brakes were also good, again surprisingly so, I had previously complained that they faded and were soft, but driven that bit harder like you can when you do things like this I didn't get a sniff of anything too bad.
Understeer - A fair bit of this, especially out of bends, but again only if I pushed hard, if I pushed harder the back would step and out and counter it, this in the wet was great fun. A new Geo setting should probably dial a good bit of that out though.
Oversteer - Yeah, loads of it really, whenever you wanted it, so much so it became more fun to try and combat it with the throttle more and get around quick than just sliding around over and over.
We got a couple of vids with the GoPro, we didn't bother in the morning though as it was raining. After lunch it dried out and we started filming our timed runs.
I only got two vids as one didn't record and we just got fed up of swapping them over and fixing the camera, they're all pretty much the same anyway I suppose.
Warning - Wind noise is crazy.
[video=youtube;BadZS66joiw]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BadZS66joiw&feature=share&list=UU8FcMW0UOh v_O3a57wJ3kTg[/video]
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Nice.
I think i need to do a track day like this to get a good feel for RWD.
I think i need to do a track day like this to get a good feel for RWD.
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