Driving Pointers
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Back again for some more advice! Am getting very close now to the purchase of a shiny 5ltr Chim assuming garage report comes back (no doubts it will!)etc What i'm looking for is some driving pointers, does and donts (not donuts). I've driven a fair few TVR's already although not consistantly, and have had rear wheel drive MX-5 before, so obviously not in the same league power wise! Driving in the wet has been the biggest i can pick up at the moment, also coming off roudabouts! I'm definately going to take on an advanced driver course, but any further help would be much appreciated
Set your speed well in advance of the corner so that you can get around it on a neutral throttle, using only MINOR throttle adjustments to bring the nose in (major adjustments will upset the balance and leave you with a back end that wants to become a front end).
Treated with respect, they're surprisingly tractable cars. Just keep your wits about you.
Safe driving
Treated with respect, they're surprisingly tractable cars. Just keep your wits about you.
Safe driving
One further point comparing against MX5 is that you could very effectively use engine braking but in the Chim you should learn teh art of heel & toe for down changes where you match teh engine speed by blipping teh throttle on teh down change. Takes some practice but you can adjust teh brake pedal travel easily on teh chim to match teh level of teh accelerator when braking - which is nice
g frightening, when they break traction they goooooooo!! But apart from playing applied same rules as above and kept 50 mile run on black stuff!!TVRTimH said:
Best advice I have got is easy on the throttle!
Yup. If you press hard on the loud pedal on the way out of corners you *will* put your car in a hedge.
Never floor the acceelerator except in a straight line in the dry...unless you *want* power oversteer - which you will get immediately with no delay...nice!
Take it easy with the right foot in the wet, easy on acceleration around bends and coming out of roundabouts until the car is straight.
Have had my Chim for very nearly a year now and due to careful driving have kept it facing the right way and up the right way on the black stuff.
Glyn.
Have had my Chim for very nearly a year now and due to careful driving have kept it facing the right way and up the right way on the black stuff.
Glyn.
The thing most likely to get you into trouble is engaging the clutch while the revs are too low (sometimes called 'clutch braking') when you change down. The most important skill IMO to get is matching the engine speed to the road speed before you engage the clutch. You can use heel-and-toe to do this if you like, although there are other ways to do it to. But you must do it one way or the other. You also need to get into the rear wheel drive mindset, get your head round steering into an oversteer slide until it becomes second nature.
As everyone else has said, just be sure to take it easy at first... use all of your senses, e.g. if you feel like you are approaching a corner too fast, then you probably are... and of course, you'll find all of the boys in their souped up Renault clio's want to take you on... just make sure to resist.. especially in the wet.
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