RED MX5

[QUOTE=YellowStarS2k,Jan 25 2008, 07:41 PM]... immature pleasures like powersliding through a turn.

jimbogxp

The Miata and S2000 are different animals. The S2000 if for going fast. The Miata is for feeling like you are going fast. This is why the Miata is so wildly popular. A lot of lower skilled drivers feel like Schumacher behind the wheel of a Miata because it is easier and more forgiving to drive than an S2000 or a Corvette, and the limts are lower.

The S2000 is not really intended for swinging the tail out in a curve, so much as staying planted in a curve. That is the faster way through a curve anyway. The Miata is intended for swinging away at those lower limits to be "fun".

TailSlide

[QUOTE=RED MX5,Jan 25 2008, 10:03 AM]It doesn't take a god to drift an AE86.

ATOice

I am sure I could do it, but I try to practice safety. I am sure it wouldn't be hard.

plokivos

http://myspacetv.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=...ideoid=23701555

RedHead

It's too easy to get the tail out. Especially when your OE S02 tires are cold.

zeiss

I want to add my voice to those suggesting that if the initiator of this thread wants to test the limits of the S2000, he not do it on public roads. One other caveat I'd like to add is that the S2K is remarkably sensitive to changes in the surface quality of a road, to water, oil or temperature differences. I made this discovery when enthusiastically going through a turn from my place of work onto a main street, at the same location, speed and turning radius that I had used scores of times before, and hit a little wet patch that hadn't been there before. The car did a very tight 180 degree turn, and I found myself facing oncoming traffic. Luckily, no harm was done, but it made the point that the car's limits can vary dramatically according to conditions.

Zeiss

RED MX5

The reason it's so funny is becasue it always comes from someone who wants others to think that they know what they're talking about. They're trying to impress others, and they do, but not in the way they intended. It's like watching Wylie Coyote trying to catch Road Runner. Wylie always thinks he's being so smart, but what he's doing is so obviously stupid that it makes us laugh.

Another drift myth that cracks me up is "drift racing."

trinis2001

it has so much mechanical grip in a corner that when something makes it let go, the true amount of grip makes itself apparent by running you round.

afwfjustin

I have a hard time NOT getting the back to get loose, and that's with 275 rears and 30mm front anti-sway