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| Cars - How They work and what does all the jargon mean? | |||||||||||||||||||
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| BHP, torque and VTEC | |||||||||||||||||||
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| Dispelling car myths | |||||||||||||||||||
| Weight Transfer and Maneovres e.g. Handbrake Turns, 360 degree spins | |||||||||||||||||||
| Maneovres are very different depending on whether you car is front wheel drive, rear wheel drive or 4 wheel drive. Front wheel-Drive First thing to remember is that accelerating hard will make ur front wheels skid, meaning that you will experience understeer, boring understeer. Handbrake Turn You can be in any gear, best is first if your car can rev that high. You will require two lanes to do this. First you need to scandinavian flick. So wrong way then right way. Take off gas and brake if u want to ensure you turn best. Then as you flick the wheel the right way. Yank the handbrake up to lock the back wheels. As you turn suddenly the back end will loose traction and slide out suddenly. As you are doing this push the clutch in to prevent stalling. Select first gear release handbrake then accelerate out. Simple. Too low a speed and you the back end will not slide. Too high a speed and the car will understeer then possibly oversteer very quickly. 90 ' handbrake turn Approach corner at right speed this will take practice. Then just before you turn nip the handbrake. Too little handbrake and you will understeer, too much and you will spin. Once done right the back end will slide out, correct it by turning into it and accelerating to help the front wheels lose a bit of traction and the back wheels to gain some. A difficult maneovre at first but very impressive. 360 ' turn 70mph approach requiring a lot of space either side. Scandinavian flick. Handbrake when turning the right way to get the rear wheels to lock and spin the car. As the car spins through 90' reverse the lock of the steering to help swing the front back round and also hammer the brakes to lock the front wheels to help it round. Select a lower gear and accelerate out. Lots of practice required for this mission. |
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