Changed out the burnt rear Bridgestones for a pair of excellent Michelin XM2s, then rotated the crappy but near-new Chinese tyres to the rear for obvious reasons... ( ͡° ͜ʖ ͡°) Lots of motorkhanas, track days, and runs up and down the twisties planned this year!
Does your MX5 have a LSD? I'm not particularly familiar with then. My friend owns a 1.6 2002 model, which I think has an open diff.
Some came with open diffs, most have LSDs afaik. My particular Roadster has an open diff, soon to change. Speaking of diffs, how's the diff in your Megane? I took my mate's RS265 for a spin earlier this week and experienced almost no torque steer which was really impressive considering the power it was putting to the ground. Shitty build quality though.
i was made a true believer in limited slip differentials. i had another civic with a gsr swap and an open diff and it spun bad off the line. luckily the type r trans came with one and it really makes the car. my friend has a low miles 89 miata and i have to say its easily one of the best sports cars ive ever driven. i used to be a porsche mechanic so i drove all kinds of 911s and a few ferraris and on tight twisty backroads none of them are as satisfying as that miata. what a legend.
the thing with the miata on the twisties versus a 911, you're wringing everything out of a miata, its doing all it can, the 911 probably isnt being wrung out. High revs achieved before every corner. That, is fun.
The LSD on my Megane really is awesome. I can't imagine having a powerful FWD car without one. Even with the power I'm putting down it holds a straight line so well. My first car was only putting down 100hp, and had an open diff, yet still torque steered bad.
only the 70s and 80s 911s are slow enough to really push on the street. the miata you can feel like a boss and never go faster than 100.
Its why I loved my bone stock 2000 Focus estate with its wonderful 1.8 zetec. B645 in the UK, I regularly ran the full length of that road, lots of nice little twisties, not a police patrol route, sadly has some villages along the way though. Simple reason for running it so regularly, I lived near one end of it. Have to run a few miles one way to get to St Neots as my nearest town (I was living on a farm prior to moving out for uni), had to run the full length the other way to get to uni (spent my first 2 years of uni driving from home rather than moving). You could rag it out to its absolute limits most of the way down that road. Its limits for a cheap ass estate were remarkably high actually, probably fords fancy control blade rear end at work. I spent ages learning that cars absolute maximum potential, knew the route like the back of my hand, would match cars far outclassing my own. A bone stock focus estate should not match a twin turbo bmw m5, it does. A willingness to drive on the limits of your vehicle on a well rehearsed roads, a) fun, b) seems to do quite a bit for an impromptu unofficial race. Sure those M5s then shoot away from you down the straights, I can only do so much on 113bhp, but they slow for the corners, not knowing them, not knowing their cars limits, they find a beaten up car right on their bumper again. Actually car I am most proud for matching, a mk2 focus RS. Beat up mk1 focus estate that doesnt even have the 2.0 or even the st170 engine versus the next gen with a big old turbo unit and handling upgrades. The RS doesnt get away. The car I had the most fun actually trying to match and also the most difficulty. A Skoda Octavia vRS estate (or wagon in yankee). He pushed the corners harder than I've seen anyone else push them, a full decade newer plus sporty trim etc, he's faster in the straightaway too.
I'm starting to enjoy the Focus somewhat now, it does handle surprisingly well and it can keep up with modern traffic but I still can't get on with the power steering. Still, it beats driving the MG at this time of the year and it can keep up with a transit unlike the MG..
not the best steering feel admittedly, but it wasnt too bad, might be biased coming from the super duper lightweight no feedback pure electronic steering of the corsa though.
Considering I mainly drove something with no power steering, I try and put too much force into steering it. Also, my rear exhaust mount broke today, bungeed it in place (all I had) then I lost all my break fluid. Fun day!
try the corsa then. Its electric power steering, true electric, none of that electronic driven hydraulic stuff. No weight on the front with that 1 litre engine, fairly skinny tyres too so not really much in the way of tyre scrub. Tuned for alot of assistance still. Absolutely no feedback through that thing and can be operated with your pinky.
The snowmobile is getting fixed. "New" used track, old one was torn apart in the middle and with millions of dry cracks and worn out tiny lugs. New one has some of the lugs ripped off, but the lugs are 34mm compared to the old 18mm. Some kind of shaft was shot in the suspension and has been sent to be repaired. New drive belt and slide rails for the suspension has been ordered. And probably some new spark plugs too.
Sitrep: left rear tire exhibited inability to hold air. Closer examination revealed air hissing noise originating from center of tread. After investigation, the cause has been determined to be a single staple of unknown type and origin, not inserted maliciously as far as I know. Total damage: one pair of gloves dirty, one pair of jeans dirty, one coat dirty, one afternoon used up, $15 wasted, one tire weakened an unknown amount (but probably enough to tear in the repaired area as soon as I try to drift).
My super cheap, super ghetto, slightly messy method of tyre repair works 99.5% of the time (pre-emptive pun) for small punctures. Roll 2-3 preferably unused condoms (latex/nitrile gloves probably also work) into a sausage shape and saturate your newly made, totally manky prophylactic rope in windscreen sealant/shoe sole adhesive/anything strong and flexible, then lay the centre on the puncture. Shove 80% of it through the puncture with a small screwdriver, trim the excess flush to the tread, add more glue. Allow to dry, then reinflate. Sorted for a few bucks and 5 minutes of your time. Won't work on sidewalls for obvious reasons. One more thing, drifting on a DIY repaired tyre is asking for trouble....
how much handbrake does it take to break that sunbird loose, because i know you arent powering over with that "v6".
Today I uncovered some filler cover rust.. Then cut the sill out and removed some more filler. I also cut out some of the badly repaired sections. Also took the head off again to get it converted to run on unleaded fuel.
