Cup 240 Report
Discussion
So, I had my first real hit out in the car today. On advise given I ran the car below 4000RPM for 1000kms, and have just done another 800kms at around 6000RPM occassionally going to the Red Line. I have a few observations:
1. The Yokohama A048's work brilliantly. Today I was on snow covered road and thought for sure I would end up in a ditch, but I followed somebody else's tyre tracks and found them to be up to the task although I did keep the speed to 100KPH. Snow gave way to heavy rain with rivers running across the road and again I feared the worst but they simply hung in there - brilliant.
2. I has wide angle side mirros fitted and this has made the car SO MUCH EASIER to drive in traffic, so much so I wonder why they are not standard equipment.
3. I had the windscreen rear view mirror removed and I stuck a small vanity mirror to the roll cage (purely for legal reasons in case I get pulled up - not functional), but the view through the windscreen opened up amazingly and made it so much easier to drive. Again, why dont they do this at the factory.
4. The standard exhaust sounds "tinny" when you push hard
5. There is no really noticable kick in the engine when the cams change, in fact you dont even notice it happening, the car seems to pull pretty much from idle through the range, I was suprised that it accellerates hard, but does not really give you that "push you into the back of the seat" sensation
6. You have to stay on it to keep the revs above 5000RPM through the gears, and it spins so quickly that you also have to be slick on the changes
7. I noticed the front understeering when you push it (dry roads) and so I now think it is time to hit the track and start playing with the dampers and tyre pressures.
8. Absolutely nothing fell off,rattled, or broke. It was rock solid
9. The car gives you amazing confidence in fast corners, and it may be an illusion, but I really did feel that the downforce was really working and helps keep the car glued to the road, quite impressive.
10. I have absolutely no ide why anybody would bother to fit a sound system to these cars, above 5000RPM I could not even hear the radar detector going off at full volume. My guess is that the sound must be like shit when mixed in with the engine, road and air noise but they may just be me.
11. Tokyo has many raised freeways built in sections, what I noticed was that the road joins during cornering really unsettled the car, you could noticable feel it "jump" sideways every time it hit a join when corning fast. My guess is that either the re-bound needs to be hardened for this type of road. I think I can adjust for re-bound so I will experiment.
All things considered, and great day's driving, and now that she has been fully run in, I am finally able to open her up and find some track time to tune up the car and my driving. Cheers Gary
1. The Yokohama A048's work brilliantly. Today I was on snow covered road and thought for sure I would end up in a ditch, but I followed somebody else's tyre tracks and found them to be up to the task although I did keep the speed to 100KPH. Snow gave way to heavy rain with rivers running across the road and again I feared the worst but they simply hung in there - brilliant.
2. I has wide angle side mirros fitted and this has made the car SO MUCH EASIER to drive in traffic, so much so I wonder why they are not standard equipment.
3. I had the windscreen rear view mirror removed and I stuck a small vanity mirror to the roll cage (purely for legal reasons in case I get pulled up - not functional), but the view through the windscreen opened up amazingly and made it so much easier to drive. Again, why dont they do this at the factory.
4. The standard exhaust sounds "tinny" when you push hard
5. There is no really noticable kick in the engine when the cams change, in fact you dont even notice it happening, the car seems to pull pretty much from idle through the range, I was suprised that it accellerates hard, but does not really give you that "push you into the back of the seat" sensation
6. You have to stay on it to keep the revs above 5000RPM through the gears, and it spins so quickly that you also have to be slick on the changes
7. I noticed the front understeering when you push it (dry roads) and so I now think it is time to hit the track and start playing with the dampers and tyre pressures.
8. Absolutely nothing fell off,rattled, or broke. It was rock solid
9. The car gives you amazing confidence in fast corners, and it may be an illusion, but I really did feel that the downforce was really working and helps keep the car glued to the road, quite impressive.
10. I have absolutely no ide why anybody would bother to fit a sound system to these cars, above 5000RPM I could not even hear the radar detector going off at full volume. My guess is that the sound must be like shit when mixed in with the engine, road and air noise but they may just be me.
11. Tokyo has many raised freeways built in sections, what I noticed was that the road joins during cornering really unsettled the car, you could noticable feel it "jump" sideways every time it hit a join when corning fast. My guess is that either the re-bound needs to be hardened for this type of road. I think I can adjust for re-bound so I will experiment.
All things considered, and great day's driving, and now that she has been fully run in, I am finally able to open her up and find some track time to tune up the car and my driving. Cheers Gary
If no one here wants my lovely exige at a dirt cheap price its going to the trade unfortunately....
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_topcat said:
If no one here wants my lovely exige at a dirt cheap price its going to the trade unfortunately....
http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/ws/eBayISAPI.dl
I want...but your steering is on the "wrong" side and I can't px my car...aaaaaaaaaaaaaahhh
Otherwise when your car was in NL and had LHD I would be interested..
Hope you will find a nice home for it.
GTRene
_tc said:
Yeah i know GTRene, but i think you would be fine with right hand drive and i know you would give her a good home.........
RHD? not that fast or soon(have it also in mind though) best will be LHD for me...
And yep, she would get a good home, I would warm her up nicely, and take her out at least twice a year to her home ground the Ring and or a track, occasionaly I would take some curvy B roads and try many others to show her nice ass when they are overtaken
And in her case I listen to her whining SC
Have fun, and good luck selling your "I like one to" car...
GTRene
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