Please post more about driving techniques

[overrev]

If you want to improve your driving skills. I think the best way is to purchase a book call "Going Faster! Mastering the Art of Race Driving. It give out alot of information. Such as, shifting techniques, racing lines, braking, driving in the rain, tires, etc.

Amazon

Amazon

[666fast]

Books and videos can help, but nothing will beat actually driving. If you can, get yourself out to a track and have at it.

[jon_s]

Cheers for all the links.....they have been useful! Especially since I am going for a track day driving EVO's around all day for ,y B-day next month. www.udrivecars.com

[novass]

Originally Posted by jon_s Cheers for all the links.....they have been useful! Especially since I am going for a track day driving EVO's around all day for ,y B-day next month. www.udrivecars.com

that looks like it will be fun! you gonna drive the STi too?

[WhiteP]

thanks for the book and the page
too bad I don't have money to buy the book at the moment

[666fast]

Go here, lots and lots of good stuff to read.
http://autozine.kyul.net/technical_s...tech_index.htm

It gets updated fairly often, so you might want to bookmark it and check in every now and then.

[rp]

uhh lots of good material, thanks

[Copso]

Originally Posted by PaulGT2164 the S4 is my best friends, i work on it and race it for him tho. i should have some video saturday of it obliterating a 385 HP camaro Z28 among some other cars =) i just installed new diverter valves, throttle body boot, tranny brace, snumb mount, and APR stage 1 ECU we are putting a new suspension under it soon =) its around 380-390hp and 400-410 ft/lbs =D

My dear friend paul, I hink you're completely wrong, your friends' S4 could never put out 390 HP with just the Stage I mods. The chip only raises boost presure to about 1.3 Bar (19 Psi) but that's only worth to about 300 Hp at the crank (std S4 is 260 Hp for the US version). To get more out of the S4 you MUST do a lot of other mods.

I know because I owned a '00 S4 (european version) and after installing the APR Stage III kit (APR software, K04 turbos, RS4 intake manifold, MAF housing, modded intercoolers, FPR, gas pump and fuel injectors, Milltek downpipes, sports high-flow cats and free-flowing dual exhaust, Unorthodox Racing aluminum flywheel, AWE S-flo intake -among other things-) all it did was 412 Hp and 430 Lb-Ft of torque, but that figures were an estimate of how much the engine put out AT THE CRANKSHAFT, the real Hp figures at the wheels was down to about to 290 Hp (287.73Hp to be exact, measured in the only 4-wheel dynamometer in Mexico).

So all in all, with just a chip you would never, NEVER even close to 400 HP, believe me.

[PaulGT2164]

well considering itran low to mid 12s we have no dyno so we have to guestimate, and we where talking at the flywheel which would translate to about 330 or less at the wheels, which is about right...and if you read the post,. it had alot more than what was listed, idg intake, miltek exhaust/downpipes/cats...and we have a vagcom to monitor the engine, and it was welled tuned, so i stand by my claim at 390hp at the crank....the chip has 3 levels too, and we have a endles supply ov over 100 octane fuel...

[graywolf624]

Drive to win by Carrol Smith.
Simply the best road racing book ever.

[Sciby]

Just a quick note on heel-&-toe'ing... if you've never done it before, it can be a little frustrating/scary, especially when you get it wrong and give it too much throttle. Practice definitely makes perfect, and do it without the stereo. I've been doing it for a couple of years now and 50% of getting it right is feeling what the engine is doing. Once you get it right, you'll *feel* it more than anything. There's no surge forward from too much throttle, there's no lurch from too little, it's just right, and it feels even better when you start coming out of the corner and think "Wow, I'm right in the middle bit of my powerband!" and mash the throttle.

[Copso]

Originally Posted by PaulGT2164 well considering itran low to mid 12s we have no dyno so we have to guestimate, and we where talking at the flywheel which would translate to about 330 or less at the wheels, which is about right...and if you read the post,. it had alot more than what was listed, idg intake, miltek exhaust/downpipes/cats...and we have a vagcom to monitor the engine, and it was welled tuned, so i stand by my claim at 390hp at the crank....the chip has 3 levels too, and we have a endles supply ov over 100 octane fuel...

Not that I don't believe you, just that with just a chip mod is IMPOSIBLE to achieve such evels of performance, I'm sure the S4 you ran has a lot more mods (bigger turbos, FRP, fuel injectors, etc.)... Trust me

[SamuraiGti]

Only here that they don't do Track Days ...

With a circuit like Estoril, and they don't open it to public in general =\

[ChrisAW11]

For heel and toeing, I still find it difficult at normal driving situations and normal braking decelerations to keep the braking constant... The throttle is just so much deeper in the foot room than the brake pedal in my car (MR2 Mk1), so I have to move almost the complete foot off the brake in order to blip the throttle. Is there any workaround you guys know about, like a special technique for such pedal constellations, or is it possible to adjust the throttle position in an 86 MR2 (haven't bothered looking for the necessary bolts or nuts yet ) ? For harsher braking, the position is actually alright I guess... Any suggestions?

[PaulGT2164]

well its not just a chip mod....miltek downpipes, cats, and exhaust, intake, 104+ octane gas, spec stage 2 clutch...and well tuned..i know what it ran, i was the one driving it considering its 260-270 hp stock at the flywheel, and with the chip, downpipes, intake, and all new o2 sensors, i can see 80-100 more hp outta that quiet easily...i dont really car if you belive me or not, me and about 200 other people all seen it, and considering some of the cars it has easy made quick work of its all good, i even have some video of the races i may post later