Anyone ever experience this!!!!!!!!!!!
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Anyone ever experience this!!!!!!!!!!!
I had my 07 RX-8 for less than a month now. Everyone says it has the best handling. I agree. However, when I make a turn and gas it at the same time. The rear wheels slid really bad, like a snake. I tried it couple times. It still happens. It was even worse when I tried it with DSC off. SO Anyone have ever experience this. I'm thinking maybe I should change the tires but this car has been used only like a year and a half. I don't know what happens here.
Thanks in advance. Please let me know what should I do.
If I should change my tires, can I get lower profile tires. Thanks.
Thanks in advance. Please let me know what should I do.
If I should change my tires, can I get lower profile tires. Thanks.
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Make a turn and gas it at the same time? And wondering what is going on?
This site should have all the information you need:
http://hyperphysics.phy-astr.gsu.edu/Hbase/hph.html
Very educational :-P
This site should have all the information you need:
http://hyperphysics.phy-astr.gsu.edu/Hbase/hph.html
Very educational :-P
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I had my 07 RX-8 for less than a month now. Everyone says it has the best handling. I agree. However, when I make a turn and gas it at the same time. The rear wheels slid really bad, like a snake. I tried it couple times. It still happens. It was even worse when I tried it with DSC off. SO Anyone have ever experience this. I'm thinking maybe I should change the tires but this car has been used only like a year and a half. I don't know what happens here.
Thanks in advance. Please let me know what should I do.
If I should change my tires, can I get lower profile tires. Thanks.
Thanks in advance. Please let me know what should I do.
If I should change my tires, can I get lower profile tires. Thanks.
Sorry... but this sounds really really.... newb for a lack of a better word.
You ARE supposed to accelerated out of turns, in racing anyways.
It just sounds like you're stomping on the gas expecting it to just pull into the turn. Well, it doesn't do that. It takes a little self-control, skill and timing.
In racing, you accelerate out of the apex of the turn, and if done correctly, you can feel your car pulling into the turn. It feels good when you do :]
And don't just stomp on the gas, ease into it. Feel for the car and the limit of it's grip.
And changing to lower profile tires give worse traction if what I'm seeing is correct.
Isn't that why everyone that races or autocrosses generally get 17"s and a higher profile?
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I've had it happen but never with so many exclamation points !!!!!!!!!!! ![Big Grin](https://www.rx8club.com/images/smilies/biggrin.gif)
slow in, fast out. Don't accelerate in the middle of the turn unless you want the rear end completely coming out.
Trust me on this next piece of advice: do not drive with the DSC /TC turned off. It's there to help, you have NO IDEA how many times members here have crashed their cars because they drove with it off.
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slow in, fast out. Don't accelerate in the middle of the turn unless you want the rear end completely coming out.
Trust me on this next piece of advice: do not drive with the DSC /TC turned off. It's there to help, you have NO IDEA how many times members here have crashed their cars because they drove with it off.
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HAHAHA
Sorry... but this sounds really really.... newb for a lack of a better word.
You ARE supposed to accelerated out of turns, in racing anyways.
It just sounds like you're stomping on the gas expecting it to just pull into the turn. Well, it doesn't do that. It takes a little self-control, skill and timing.
In racing, you accelerate out of the apex of the turn, and if done correctly, you can feel your car pulling into the turn. It feels good when you do :]
And don't just stomp on the gas, ease into it. Feel for the car and the limit of it's grip.
And changing to lower profile tires give worse traction if what I'm seeing is correct.
Isn't that why everyone that races or autocrosses generally get 17"s and a higher profile?
Sorry... but this sounds really really.... newb for a lack of a better word.
You ARE supposed to accelerated out of turns, in racing anyways.
It just sounds like you're stomping on the gas expecting it to just pull into the turn. Well, it doesn't do that. It takes a little self-control, skill and timing.
In racing, you accelerate out of the apex of the turn, and if done correctly, you can feel your car pulling into the turn. It feels good when you do :]
And don't just stomp on the gas, ease into it. Feel for the car and the limit of it's grip.
And changing to lower profile tires give worse traction if what I'm seeing is correct.
Isn't that why everyone that races or autocrosses generally get 17"s and a higher profile?
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So now instead of losing your steering, you're oversteering. As others before me have said, practice with it on the track. Then when you get a good controlled oversteer going you'll have entered the world of drifting. Welcome to RWD.
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Well the obvious has been stated above. Spend some time and learn the car, more finesse and less lurching makes for more control. But lets say your technique is no worse than the average Joe, what else? First check your tire pressures, when one end breaks loose unexpectedly that should be the first thing you do in any car, you may be low in one or both rear wheels. Second, you may need an alignment. There's a Sticky https://www.rx8club.com/rx-8-racing-25/alignment-settings-street-track-use-43308/ about track alignments, read it, maybe you need more camber in the rear, it will certainly help. Maybe now would be a good time to get a book on car control and handling dynamics and read it.
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I've had it happen but never with so many exclamation points !!!!!!!!!!! ![Big Grin](https://www.rx8club.com/images/smilies/biggrin.gif)
slow in, fast out. Don't accelerate in the middle of the turn unless you want the rear end completely coming out.
Trust me on this next piece of advice: do not drive with the DSC /TC turned off. It's there to help, you have NO IDEA how many times members here have crashed their cars because they drove with it off.
![Big Grin](https://www.rx8club.com/images/smilies/biggrin.gif)
slow in, fast out. Don't accelerate in the middle of the turn unless you want the rear end completely coming out.
Trust me on this next piece of advice: do not drive with the DSC /TC turned off. It's there to help, you have NO IDEA how many times members here have crashed their cars because they drove with it off.
OP: Yeah also it depends on the location, I was in Cali on stock tires and never slid out, but out here in Nevada the roads are lined in sand and I got some stickier tires. It helped give more grip and better take off.
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your driving skills > OP's
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