Hi, My gf got her dad a driving course were you take your own car out and they teach you some simple driving skills then you have a go on the skidpan to see how well your times improve etc.....now he wants me to come with him with my car. He got anoyed becuase his old VE wasnt that quick and my cheap ass datsun with 250rwkw was fast sooo he dumped that and went out and got a brand new clubsport and then from showroom floor straight to walkinsure for a 10k+ cam/exhaust/tune package pumping out 440rwhp and mach truck torque. now i think i can push my car better then he can his simply cause mine is worth 1/8th of his haha. this is a head to head shot i took his has power but it is really heavy like 1800kg plus or something. My mod list allows me for 250rwkw but im gonna go back and try and squize a bit more. now i have soooo much crap to install to get it half decent. 1. tyres: 235 front 265 rear 2. 324 upgrade front slotted and rear slotted 3. 6 point rollcage more for ragidity then safety (has extra bars welded in) 4. front and back carbing brace 5. whiteline adjustable swaybars front and rear with new links 6. 360 locking collars for subframe 7. hicas lockbar 8. rear camber arms forged spherical 9. front tension forged spherical 10. 300 camber plates for eibach 11. Kyb agx and eibach pro .8" lowering (new) 12. hawk pads. im thinking this should be a half decent setup and wont allow me to fall to far behind? now apart from the organic part of the vehicle is there anything else i should be considering?
if you can drive that stuff doesn't matter on a skid pan. small course with lots of cones? as long as you're good with your handbrake turns that's where you're gonna gain time. knowing zeds most of them have a handbrake as loose as a $50 hooker.
pretty much. handbrake is key, get that tightened so you can get the thing quickly round the 180 turns and you'll get better times than the commo doing big (but much cooler) slides.
Put it this way: I turned up at a skid pan event with a bunch of Mazda MX5s on there, I was driving my 1988 Nissan D21 Kingcab. Went out on the course and got the best time of the day on the first run, they told me to piss off back home :rofl: I'm serious the guy with the watch said "that's the best time of the day piss off home ya &^%#" :rofl: The course was altered a little after that and wet down - that was the end of it for the mighty Kingcab and she soon fell down the ranks for time and style. A good driver can make up for a very poor car when it comes to this sort of thing, you should have a least a good chance with the Z32 Vs the taxi no mater how much power the taxi has :zlove:
hmmm now this worrys me as my dad is bringing his saab and he is a VERY good driver as he used to rally when he was younger. If i get beaten by a saab i think i will cry. hmm seems like its gonna be all on the driver then! thanks for the replies guys
yeah i'd put down a bet on the saab. FWDs aren't bad on the skid pan. front tyres smoking with locked rear wheels works. few years ago RZM smoked every single falcon @ a ford day in his magna. tyre smoke pouring off it, was a hell of a sight.
Well if he wins, 1) your car looks better then his standing still, and 2) you're banging his daughter. Win-win.
What he should have done was take the thing straight to a performance suspension centre and had one hell of an aggressive alignment done. These things already have enough power, geez.... *rolls eyes* You can't make a fat bitch run, a concept the ADM folk can't quite grasp it seems.
:rofl::rofl::rofl::thumbup: Love this. Keep the hicas it'll help the corners. More power doesn't mean quicker. Smoother power to the ground works best. The more you powerslide the slower you are. Watch some of the Top Gear laps. The ones that look the slowest are really the quickest.
Which is all the more reason to annihilate it and then rub the price difference in! [TIS] Look at that elegant zed sitting there, sleek, low to the ground and stream-lined. That's a sportscar. There's no question on that one. Nothing needs adding or taking away. People look at it and they know straight off what it was designed for. Then look at that fat thing. No regard for flowing lines, no grace, no defined sense of purpose. Just a big vaguely rounded glob of metal. It has little more finesse than a sumo strapped into a jetpack. On a more serious note though; wonder if it's not worth dropping your boost off a bit on the day if it's wet to keep the power a bit more micromanageable on the sharp turns?
dont worry about that thing on a skidpan IMO, the advantage with the 300 is that we can use the handbrake where as generally the Fords and Holdens struggle with close corner turns, like mikey pointed out, a few years ago at deca we elimated all the fords in the first round in the head to head skidpan event
