![]() ![]() They won't even be near you so don't sweat it. ![]() rad/alum heads etc.nothing you HAVE to do initially if funds aren't their. It costs a bit of money to really change it from my initial 52/48 or so to 50/50 but things you can do when you have the funds like an optima batt/alum. My daily driver '80 280ZX 350 sbc w/ 7/8's fuel and me in the seat is 50.0/50.0 in 'autox/roadrace' form (no spare tire or extra crap in the car). Their's a good number of cars here with fine weight distributions. You're at the right place here where hybridz owners tell you the facts and not guesses. But I don't think I could make the weight distribution on the Z as bad as an 64%/36% FWD car (except if used a big block mounted non-setback style). ![]() When I tell people how I'm gathering parts to put a V8 in my 240Z they say I will make it front-heavy and destroy its weight distribution. Īnyway, just wanted to add an opposing viewpoint of sorts - we were starting to sound as one-sided as the Integra guys, and I wouldn't want that.NEVER underestimate the enemy. I had the opportunity to try both at the Bridgestone Winter driving school, and there is no question as to which is faster in this scenario.īecause of this, I would guess that you would be hard pressed to find any competitive RWD-only vehicles competing in Pro Rally today.Īll this suits me just fine, since I'm not even interested in subjecting my Z to snow or gravel - that seems like a perfectly good use for a FWD car to me. In these conditions, the inherent understeer makes the FWD car much more predictable/manageable, and advanced driving techniques, like left foot braking or the 'Scandinavian Flick' pretty much negate the understeer problem. However, for racing on deformable surfaces (i.e., gravel, packed snow, etc.) you will be very hard pressed to beat a FWD car, except with AWD. at the risk of being burned at the stake for heresy, I will have to disagree (a little).įirst off, for dry road performance, I totally agree with everything that's been said so far, and I'm sure that the Integra guys were talking about dry road performance when they said that (most of them probably don't have the balls to try anything else ). Or for a more straight forward answer: if fwd is so great, how come there's not a single dedicated race car (to my knowledge) that's only spinning the front wheels? what are you going to do in a turn at speed, turn the wheel more and hit the brakes, hoping the rear will catch up before the front wheels break loose? the oversteer situation is easy to handle (which is the only safety advantage of fwd that i've found, btw): stomp on the gas. lay off the wheel a bit, and you should get back in your line. you stomp on the gas, the rear end catches up to the front, and you're ok. In a rear drive car, say you're going around a turn. This can be corrected for with suspension design, but in the end, here is what you have to deal with on a track or the street: From what i've been able to gather, the type r guys are only slightly more mature than the rest of the integra guys (who are the same as the civic guys.) ok, now that i've got a sweeping stereotype in place, back to the actual questionĪll else equal, a front drive car will tend to understeer, and a rear drive car will tend to oversteer. ![]()
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