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Max power is made at higher RPM...adjusting the gearing to keep the revs up makes it accelerate like a stabbed rat.
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- put on the gas when the tires had moved over some clean pavement, corrected back to my passing lane
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Tinkering with the gearing is cheaper than power adders, and transmission changes don't stress the engine in the same way that a blower, nitrous, etc do.
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Tinkering with the gearing is cheaper than power adders, and transmission changes don't stress the engine in the same way that a blower, nitrous, etc do.
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The only real fun I get going to work is turning on to the on-ramp and giving it the beans. In doing this I may seem like a butthead while passing people but whatever it's my only real moment of joy.
So I turn into the two lane on-ramp and in front of me in the left lane there is this contractors van going slow, and on the right there are these two cars going a little faster (normal speed). I get in the right lane to go around the van, and on my way back into the left lane I hit some loose gravel and the rear starts to move around.
That's a lot of fun! Rear didn't get too far out of line, let off the gas, applied the gas, let off again, and back on. So much fun!
I'm with a few others here and that it may be a hoot to put smaller rears on it and just burn them up.
I threw a half eaten 6" subway sandwhich at a car for blatantly pulling out in front me. Then I sped out of there. Not my proudest moment as I was hungry later.
Lost traction, so keeping on the power wouldn't have really done much or may have made things worse.
It's really hard to explain, went really quick, but I think it went along like this.
- noticed the rear end loose and tires spinning
- corrected the car so I wouldn't spin it around, let off the gas
- put on the gas when the tires had moved over some clean pavement, corrected back to my passing lane
It's really like driving anything rear wheeled, although with other cars there is less weight which can make things just as bad if the rear decides it wants to be in the front.
Well, most of my commute is going around 50 (if I'm very lucky) for about 20 miles. So it's nice to give it the beans now and then when I have the chance.
Going around corners sideways is FUN - but do be careful, as the 911 secretly wants to kill us all.
In case anyone is interested, my secret recipe for going around corners sideways in a controlled manner involves my '96 Corvette (automatic transmission), line locks, and a differential swap (original D33 gearing was 2.59:1; post-surgery ratio from the beefy D44 is 3.73:1). Top speed is slashed from 170 down to about 130. The car makes just slightly less torque than an M1A1. It does third-gear chirps. 30 seconds of burnout in that car results in instant mullet growth and an insatiable Van Halen jones.
It eats rear tires faster and gets much worse mileage than the 996. It is also a STUPID amount of fun for the price (a good-condition '96 LT1-powered Corvette will set you back a whopping $8-9 grand, although finding one that is not manky will probably drive the price up closer to $10K. And if you blow the engine (but you won't), you can buy a crate replacement for $2,900. You can also buy yourself a stage V supercharger for $6-8K and push the HP from 300 to 550-600. If you are REALLY motivated to do some bargain shopping and buy someone else's preowned kit, you can build yourself a 600HP Corvette for $13-14K.
Oh this wasn't in a corner, just going around some cars in a straight line. Sorry about any confusion.
Corners would be a bit different if the rear goes.
Maybe not to own one, but that would be fun to make a friend with one and drive it sometimes.
Just a dumb sidetracked question, but if it burns easily in low gears what's the point to gearing it like that, or is that the point?
What kind of sandwich ? What was in it?
Makes a difference.
Id guess it sucks more to be hit by Tuna/meatball type sandwiches as opposed to veggie/blt.
And I remember flinging my 986 Boxster around many a corner with the rear end sliding out - such a fun car! The 996 is much more of a beast. Love it, but the only place I'll get the rear end loose is on the track.
The automatic has fewer gears than a manual, and the limited gearing means that in stock form the revs drop off precipitously, especially in the topmost gear. Max power is made at higher RPM...adjusting the gearing to keep the revs up makes it accelerate like a stabbed rat.
Maybe you've seen ads in Panorama ads for GBox...they can do the same thing for Boxsters to optimize the gearing for acceleration,sacrificing a bit of top-end speed for the ability to rip through the gears quickly without adding more power. Tinkering with the gearing is cheaper than power adders, and transmission changes don't stress the engine in the same way that a blower, nitrous, etc do.
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