Finally got to have a spirited drive
06-05-2012 | 09:12 PM
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Finally got to have a spirited drive
...So some of you may have read that I have a long commute to my client site. It's 75 miles each way. Some of it through some very fun, rural farmland. Today I got to take this "alternate route" home and really had some time to focus on driving the car, matching revs, heel-toe shifting, and making the car work in the rev range.
This car is AMAZING. Above 3K rpms, it really does haul the mail. The lack of weight, and the lack of front drive on the steering was very evident when pushing the car through both tight off camber corners and fast sweepers. The car is just planted and really squirts through corners.
There are a couple things I'll need to change, for sure... The alignment is "tire friendly", and not "driver" friendly. The tires are already on order to replace the NT01s for street use. And I have ordered the Dension 500.
I did notice a sort of Whirring or almost a light growling sound in the rear drivetrain after driving the car the last couple days. It only makes itself evident at the end of a long drive (1 hour plus) and only at slow speeds in 1st or 2nd. A search got me no hits... Ideas?
This car is AMAZING. Above 3K rpms, it really does haul the mail. The lack of weight, and the lack of front drive on the steering was very evident when pushing the car through both tight off camber corners and fast sweepers. The car is just planted and really squirts through corners.
There are a couple things I'll need to change, for sure... The alignment is "tire friendly", and not "driver" friendly. The tires are already on order to replace the NT01s for street use. And I have ordered the Dension 500.
I did notice a sort of Whirring or almost a light growling sound in the rear drivetrain after driving the car the last couple days. It only makes itself evident at the end of a long drive (1 hour plus) and only at slow speeds in 1st or 2nd. A search got me no hits... Ideas?
06-05-2012 | 10:09 PM
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...So some of you may have read that I have a long commute to my client site. It's 75 miles each way. Some of it through some very fun, rural farmland. Today I got to take this "alternate route" home and really had some time to focus on driving the car, matching revs, heel-toe shifting, and making the car work in the rev range.
This car is AMAZING. Above 3K rpms, it really does haul the mail. The lack of weight, and the lack of front drive on the steering was very evident when pushing the car through both tight off camber corners and fast sweepers. The car is just planted and really squirts through corners.
There are a couple things I'll need to change, for sure... The alignment is "tire friendly", and not "driver" friendly. The tires are already on order to replace the NT01s for street use. And I have ordered the Dension 500.
I did notice a sort of Whirring or almost a light growling sound in the rear drivetrain after driving the car the last couple days. It only makes itself evident at the end of a long drive (1 hour plus) and only at slow speeds in 1st or 2nd. A search got me no hits... Ideas?
This car is AMAZING. Above 3K rpms, it really does haul the mail. The lack of weight, and the lack of front drive on the steering was very evident when pushing the car through both tight off camber corners and fast sweepers. The car is just planted and really squirts through corners.
There are a couple things I'll need to change, for sure... The alignment is "tire friendly", and not "driver" friendly. The tires are already on order to replace the NT01s for street use. And I have ordered the Dension 500.
I did notice a sort of Whirring or almost a light growling sound in the rear drivetrain after driving the car the last couple days. It only makes itself evident at the end of a long drive (1 hour plus) and only at slow speeds in 1st or 2nd. A search got me no hits... Ideas?
