WDWBen
Subaru Killer
www.turninconcept.com
My favorite site when I was a Subaru guy. Screw power; handling was where it's at!
My favorite site when I was a Subaru guy. Screw power; handling was where it's at!
Do eet!So I got an offer from a friend for a private track day at Thunderhill in February. 15-20 people, open pit lane so run as much as you want, and cost is around $300.
I would kill to get the WRX out there and see what it can do.
Do eet!
"Not in this car" was his answer.
"Not in this car" was his answer.
You know what a win means...time to drop the "N."
The turbo's only really noticeable to me if it gets under about 3,000rpm, or under about 25mph in second. Unfortunately, that happens a lot on my way to work, so I'm constantly reminded "laggy turbo, laggy turbo, laggy turbo" as I go to work. With the 1/2 gap, going down to first isn't really worthwhile for 20 to 25mph, either. *sigh*In fact, if I didn't know the car was turbocharged, I would not guess it was. It behaves like an NA.
I've never met a stability/traction control system that was compatible with autocross. Even sport mode on the Porsche interferes too much. It's great for futzing around on the street and for track, but at autocross it just kills things.I had hopes that the stability program would be like the one found on Porsches - only helping the car along, not acting like a parachute when I simply try to accelerate out of a corner. I wanted the torque vectoring. But there's heavy TCS in addition to the vectoring and braking it does. The braking makes the car unpredictable. It reacted with entirely too much gusto during my 2nd run. So I turned it off and it just works so much better. The 50/50 torque split really isn't that bad because the front tires are the same size as the rears and the weight distribution is pretty good. It's understeery but not horribly so.
These pics show how immense the weight transfer is in the car. It feels like it does a kind of hoppity-skip jig from corner to corner.