miataturbo.net-like debauchery thread (about the ND or something)
10-12-2015, 07:31 PM
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True, you have positive camber on the inside (which is the case with almost all types of double A-arm suspension) but most of the weight and force is on the outside wheel, so the decamber is there to allow the force on the tire to straighten out and stay flat on the ground. In this sense, caster is good because in a straight line, it does not add to the decamber - only in a turn does the outside wheel get decambered (which is important) and the inside wheel adds camber (which is not important since less weight is on it due to the weight transfer to the outside).
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10-13-2015, 08:28 PM
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Unless you live next to the mountains of NC/TN/SC/GA. I find driving hundreds of miles of widely varying corners and massive elevation changes more fun than going around in a circle with the same 10-18 corners every time with maybe double digit elevation changes. Hell I relocated down here from Pittsburgh this year because I wanted to be able to run my Miata through mountains all the time instead of only 3-4 times a year.
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10-13-2015, 09:51 PM
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I didn't drive nearly as much as I did 6 years ago. The street stuff is just gross. I started tracking in 2010 and did Chump stuff starting in 2012.
There wasn't too much dumb **** up there; the girlfriend wanted to see the leaves change and I hadn't been up there in a few years. All I see are places to completely bin it and wind up dead.
I was more excited to leave it in 5th gear basically everywhere and have torque to pull me out of the corner, and 40mpg on the way home averaging 70mph on the interstate. I'm old.
There wasn't too much dumb **** up there; the girlfriend wanted to see the leaves change and I hadn't been up there in a few years. All I see are places to completely bin it and wind up dead.
I was more excited to leave it in 5th gear basically everywhere and have torque to pull me out of the corner, and 40mpg on the way home averaging 70mph on the interstate. I'm old.
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10-13-2015, 10:26 PM
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miataturbo.net-like debauchery thread (about the ND or something)
I've been entirely too stupid on us129 through Blood Mountain and 180 through Wolf Pen Gap and hwy60 from Dahlonega to Morganton and the amazing SR348 over toward Helen multiple times. Once with Doppelganger, Rotornut, and a few others from here. I'm surprised I lived. Gravel, leaves, no runoff room, motorcycles oncoming in my lane, Johnny Law, shear or nearly shear drops with no guardrails, no medical help nearby, wildlife, and long-*** RVs rounding curves in both lanes are just a few of the perils I don't miss.
If you didn't push harder on the track, you should have been. I agree, some tracks aren't as much fun on the surface as others. They take work to get the most out of them and get every little bit every lap consistently, which is a different type of game altogether. I just go fast enough to be interesting, but not consistently enough to race well. Racing takes stamina and focu- SQUIRREL!!!
So I don't race.
If you didn't push harder on the track, you should have been. I agree, some tracks aren't as much fun on the surface as others. They take work to get the most out of them and get every little bit every lap consistently, which is a different type of game altogether. I just go fast enough to be interesting, but not consistently enough to race well. Racing takes stamina and focu- SQUIRREL!!!
So I don't race.
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10-13-2015, 10:31 PM
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I'm awful at tracking tonight; finally figured out where I lost the conversation.
Shuiend is in SC, and the only time I go down there is to hit up CMP in my VVT swapped NA (or the Lexus SC300). I mostly do track driving, some autocross, and mostly commute. :v
Shuiend is in SC, and the only time I go down there is to hit up CMP in my VVT swapped NA (or the Lexus SC300). I mostly do track driving, some autocross, and mostly commute. :v
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10-14-2015, 09:49 AM
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If you are seriously getting 40mpg on the interstate that makes me question keeping my Mazda2.
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10-14-2015, 11:23 AM
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Yeah my 2012 Mazda2 gets about 36-38mpg on the interstate as long as I keep it below 75mph. It is $14800 out the door when I bought it 3 years ago, and I have no desire to have a larger car like a Mazda6. I will say I am a little disappointed that the Mazda2 does not do better, but its better then everything else I own and cheap, so I don't mind.
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