I am pi**ed off. I just got hammerd off the lights by a pug 406 estate. I am driving a leon fr tdi revo. I just cudnt get any traction and at all. Does anyone have any decent driving styles in the wet to get power down better.
I hate the wet
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I got done by a Diesel Focus the other day, 
bucketing it down it was !! My fault, should have feathered it more.... it does work doing that!!
bucketing it down it was !! My fault, should have feathered it more.... it does work doing that!!
I was watching a re-run of a Top Gear episode where they race a BMW M6, a baby Aston and a Porsche 911 Carrera S along a wet road in the Isle of Man.
The Porker was 100bhp down on the other two cars but due to the way it could transfer its power down through the chassis it was 10 seconds quicker in the wet over the same distance.
If you have too much torque, average tyres and driver aids on a wet day if you try and go off from standing start in anger youre basically going nowhere. Best to be humble on very wet days.
The Porker was 100bhp down on the other two cars but due to the way it could transfer its power down through the chassis it was 10 seconds quicker in the wet over the same distance.
If you have too much torque, average tyres and driver aids on a wet day if you try and go off from standing start in anger youre basically going nowhere. Best to be humble on very wet days.
philtdi said:
Have raced in ff cars previously on track and if you can get it right then it is intensely satisfying, especially if you smoke a rear drive.
There is no real short cut on this, it takes practise and time to get to know your car, plus a few sets of front tyres. The basic principle is not to do anything that if forced, sudden or over enthusiastic.
General rule of thumb in the dry is 4k-5k rpm feed clutch in smoothly untill you have full throttle and 0 clutch. However in the wet the process is a little more complicated. Lower the revs and feed the clutch in slower, your aim is to obtain momentum without breaking the traction point of the tyres, this means ease it in slowly at first to get motion then build it so you feed in power on off clutch at the same time. But be prepared it takes practise to nail it.
Good luck!!
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Try driving a 928 with 430Nm of torque to the rear wheels in the wet. It is bad enough in the dry. I have to be very careful or the rear will try to overtake the front.
i dont find gettin traction in the wet in my lcr wit revo tht hard just takes alot of practise i usually never drive wit the t/c on, then i have revs around 2.5k clutch just b4 bittin and handbrake up dump the handbrake feather the revs as it just starts rolling dump the clutch and lash it from 4k thn bosh straight into second and im gone woohoo, (prob all the yrs i practised in my rst which for a light lil car had monster torque and torque steered like a b1tch) im not up myself thts how it works for me just dont dump th clutch an lash the acc pedal or ull be spinnin all over th shop
I either set off in 2nd or change from 1st to 2nd gear at 3k as fast as I can, you have to rev it to about 4k when setting off in 2nd or it bogs down. Thats what I do anyway.
awelch said:
In the LCR I had to feed the power in slowly in first and boot it more in second although that still span the wheels.
In the Chim I just dont boot it at all in the wet! Once bitten and all that.
Thats the problem with turbo'd and big engine cars the torque arrives in one big lump low down the rev range which makes for traction problems in the wet.
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