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10-02-2008, 01:03 PM
|  | Ooma-mow-mow, papa-ooma-mow-mow | | Join Date: Apr 2006 Location: The arctic North Coast
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| | | An aside, for 2009, Mini will optionally move the manual shift stick from the center console to the middle of the drivers seat
...just sayin'
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10-02-2008, 01:16 PM
|  | m00tini! | | Join Date: Nov 2003 Location: Some Hotel Somewhere
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Originally Posted by DennyCrane  | only in a rear wheel drive car |
10-02-2008, 01:20 PM
| | Ooma-mow-mow, papa-ooma-mow-mow | | Join Date: Apr 2006 Location: The arctic North Coast
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| | | Negative. You power through the curve no matter where the drive wheels are. Braking beforehand puts you in a much safer position to control the vehicle than trying to brake while turning. It's easier to stop accelerating than to slow a vehicle.
Newtons laws, inertia, etc.
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10-02-2008, 01:22 PM
|  | OMFG!!!! | | Join Date: Apr 2004 Location: some western town
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| | | agreed, always power through the end of the turn, gives you more control.
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10-02-2008, 01:26 PM
| | m00tini! | | Join Date: Nov 2003 Location: Some Hotel Somewhere
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: 78 th | | | well, not totally correct...
i took racing classes and they told us to keep speed through corners on a front wheel drive, not power through them like a rear wheel.
with too much front wheel power you pull the car off of its track and the back wheels can fishtail. |
10-02-2008, 01:28 PM
|  | Coffee Goferr | | Join Date: Aug 2006 Location: Fort Lauderdale, Florida
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| | | I'm going to say this right now; Need for Speed: Hot Pursuit and before that Cruisin' the USA taught me how to drive...
I didn't get a chance to really practice between my learners permit test and my actual licensee exam; my parents never allowed me to...
These games not only helped me learn to drive, they have made me a better driver, and I've gotten out of some really bad potential accidents because of it...
PS: my 240sx is one of the last RWD coopes of the 90's era...
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10-02-2008, 01:33 PM
| | Ooma-mow-mow, papa-ooma-mow-mow | | Join Date: Apr 2006 Location: The arctic North Coast
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Originally Posted by Craig
i took racing classes and they told us to keep speed through corners on a front wheel drive, not power through them like a rear wheel.
with too much front wheel power you pull the car off of its track and the back wheels can fishtail.
| Well, we're basically saying the same thing with different terms. By "powering through", it means on the throttle. This can be either accelerating or maintaining speed. There's more than a few vehicles out there that will instantly send you into a spin if you lift off the throttle in a decreasing radius turn.
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10-02-2008, 01:40 PM
| | OMFG!!!! | | Join Date: Apr 2004 Location: some western town
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| | | I don't mean punch the gas on the out-turn, any more than I would say to brake on the beginning.
and not meant for racing, just for every day driving. Let off the gas on the front, push on the gas on the back end.
I didn't know we were talking about racing...
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10-02-2008, 01:48 PM
|  | Hollow Ichigo | | Join Date: Apr 2007 Location: England/Barbados/Japan
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| | | That's what I do on the highway onramps! Brake on the straight, turn in, hit the apex, accelerate so your car pulls to the outside of the track, i mean road, but not so much that you lose traction, then you can easily be going the same speed as traffic before you even get onto the highway! I can say now that driving school did not teach me that.
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10-02-2008, 01:52 PM
| | m00tini! | | Join Date: Nov 2003 Location: Some Hotel Somewhere
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Originally Posted by CoffeeShark
I didn't know we were talking about racing...
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