Tail happy??
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Tail happy??
Have you guys noticed that the G likes to oversteer with very little provocation? Around here we have some very old back roads (read polished...), and some new construction ones. I can pull onto an old street under trailing throttle at 15 mph or less, and the back end will slide gently around the corner. Even on fast sweepers under throttle (but not punching it), oversteer will happen. Understand, this is without me trying to do so.
Are you seeing the same thing? Not that it's necessarily a problem, and sometimes I'm making it happen; it's just surprising that sometimes it happens for seemingly no reason...?
Are you seeing the same thing? Not that it's necessarily a problem, and sometimes I'm making it happen; it's just surprising that sometimes it happens for seemingly no reason...?
Last edited by G35Now!; Apr 18, 2007 at 03:31 PM.
Although, I would rather oversteer than understeer any day. 
But seriously I have noticed it as well and a tire upgrade is in order when I burn these up.
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Originally Posted by G35Now!
Have you guys noticed that the G likes to oversteer with very little provocation? Around here we have some very old back roads (read polished...), and some new construction ones. I can pull onto an old street under trailing throttle at 15 mph or less, and the back end will slide gently around the corner. Even on fast sweepers under throttle (but not punching it), oversteer will happen. Understand, this is without me trying to do so.
Are you seeing the same thing? Not that it's necessarily a problem, and sometimes I'm making it happen; it's just surprising that sometimes it happens for seemingly no reason...?
Are you seeing the same thing? Not that it's necessarily a problem, and sometimes I'm making it happen; it's just surprising that sometimes it happens for seemingly no reason...?
Originally Posted by usual_suspect
No, he's talking about snap oversteer. He used the right term, and he spelled it the right way.
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I love it- it was one of the deal clinchers for me when I saw how well the S was set up right out of the showroom. The fix? I think that better than more rubber, which will delay and create even more inertial to deal with, take a reputable driver's ed course at a racetrack and learn how to live 300 hp in so capable a car. There is no safer way to learn the car, especially if they have a wet skidpad, and the daily payoff is well worth the cost
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Originally Posted by chuckg35
I love it- it was one of the deal clinchers for me when I saw how well the S was set up right out of the showroom. The fix? I think that better than more rubber, which will delay and create even more inertial to deal with, take a reputable driver's ed course at a racetrack and learn how to live 300 hp in so capable a car. There is no safer way to learn the car, especially if they have a wet skidpad, and the daily payoff is well worth the cost
Last edited by G35Now!; Apr 18, 2007 at 08:24 PM.
I haven't noticed that on the roads around here but they are all mostly new, do you have the VDC on? By "polished" do you mean the slick, non asphalt type? We used to have those in some areas of NYC before the city repaved everything. Those could be fun...
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Originally Posted by shawnost
I haven't noticed that on the roads around here but they are all mostly new, do you have the VDC on? By "polished" do you mean the slick, non asphalt type? We used to have those in some areas of NYC before the city repaved everything. Those could be fun...
). A couple of roads are so slick that even from a straight rolling start in dry weather, when you hit about 5k rpm in 1st the the tires will start to spin and fishtail. BUT, it's not only on those roads that the oversteer occurs.