Pizza Delivery Car Turned Cone Carver
11-10-2011, 11:59 AM
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Re: Pizza Delivery Car Turned Cone Carver
looks great and looks as if you are having a ball.
only thing i would say since you are starting out. use some "worse" tires and learn from them. you could run st regionally depending on wheel width and what tires, as you should know. with all the interior stripped it isn't a "true" st car, but regionally they would probably let it slide.
only thing i would say since you are starting out. use some "worse" tires and learn from them. you could run st regionally depending on wheel width and what tires, as you should know. with all the interior stripped it isn't a "true" st car, but regionally they would probably let it slide.
11-10-2011, 01:13 PM
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Very nice build and great work! It's really nice to see people doing their own work and it's actually quality work. I'm glad you are having fun autoX'ing.
Some advice would be what others have suggested, get "crappier" tires and learn to drive on those. It's a great driver training tool to learn some patience and throttle control. Secondly, I see that your tires are way too wide. Conventional theory says yes to the widest tire you can fit, however, with R Comps and no engine power, you will be wasting what very little power you have just to get the tires to rotate so you have low acceleration at corner exit. ST civics run very fast and nimble on 205 tires and even some 195's. The widest tire to go on a civic is a 215 which is already way too wide IMO.
Another note, suspension tuning is such a tricky art. However, there are some tricks! for starters, calculate roll center and CG. Get the roll couple for front and back and tune that couple! You will find that once you get a good roll couple, the car will handle amazing. Another tip, after your run, tires should be hot. Take temperature readings for all four wheels and for each wheel, measure inside, middle, and outside tread temperature. Dial in suspension geometry to get even temp across the tire. Your car will handle like a dream!
Obviously, just have fun...but it looks like you already do that!
Some advice would be what others have suggested, get "crappier" tires and learn to drive on those. It's a great driver training tool to learn some patience and throttle control. Secondly, I see that your tires are way too wide. Conventional theory says yes to the widest tire you can fit, however, with R Comps and no engine power, you will be wasting what very little power you have just to get the tires to rotate so you have low acceleration at corner exit. ST civics run very fast and nimble on 205 tires and even some 195's. The widest tire to go on a civic is a 215 which is already way too wide IMO.
Another note, suspension tuning is such a tricky art. However, there are some tricks! for starters, calculate roll center and CG. Get the roll couple for front and back and tune that couple! You will find that once you get a good roll couple, the car will handle amazing. Another tip, after your run, tires should be hot. Take temperature readings for all four wheels and for each wheel, measure inside, middle, and outside tread temperature. Dial in suspension geometry to get even temp across the tire. Your car will handle like a dream!
Obviously, just have fun...but it looks like you already do that!
11-10-2011, 01:37 PM
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Very nice build and great work! It's really nice to see people doing their own work and it's actually quality work. I'm glad you are having fun autoX'ing.
Some advice would be what others have suggested, get "crappier" tires and learn to drive on those. It's a great driver training tool to learn some patience and throttle control. Secondly, I see that your tires are way too wide. Conventional theory says yes to the widest tire you can fit, however, with R Comps and no engine power, you will be wasting what very little power you have just to get the tires to rotate so you have low acceleration at corner exit. ST civics run very fast and nimble on 205 tires and even some 195's. The widest tire to go on a civic is a 215 which is already way too wide IMO.
Another note, suspension tuning is such a tricky art. However, there are some tricks! for starters, calculate roll center and CG. Get the roll couple for front and back and tune that couple! You will find that once you get a good roll couple, the car will handle amazing. Another tip, after your run, tires should be hot. Take temperature readings for all four wheels and for each wheel, measure inside, middle, and outside tread temperature. Dial in suspension geometry to get even temp across the tire. Your car will handle like a dream!
Obviously, just have fun...but it looks like you already do that!
Some advice would be what others have suggested, get "crappier" tires and learn to drive on those. It's a great driver training tool to learn some patience and throttle control. Secondly, I see that your tires are way too wide. Conventional theory says yes to the widest tire you can fit, however, with R Comps and no engine power, you will be wasting what very little power you have just to get the tires to rotate so you have low acceleration at corner exit. ST civics run very fast and nimble on 205 tires and even some 195's. The widest tire to go on a civic is a 215 which is already way too wide IMO.
Another note, suspension tuning is such a tricky art. However, there are some tricks! for starters, calculate roll center and CG. Get the roll couple for front and back and tune that couple! You will find that once you get a good roll couple, the car will handle amazing. Another tip, after your run, tires should be hot. Take temperature readings for all four wheels and for each wheel, measure inside, middle, and outside tread temperature. Dial in suspension geometry to get even temp across the tire. Your car will handle like a dream!
Obviously, just have fun...but it looks like you already do that!
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