this is a question for experience people who race their evos. what does tripod mode feel like?? tripod meaning turning on 3 wheels. correct me if there is another term for it.

when i do hard turns does tripodding feel like wheel hop but in a turn?

 

feels like nothing... it just happens when you turn hard...

 

Yeah, I don't feel it except for some wheelspin when accelerating out of the turn.

 

+1
doesnt really feel any different

 

I don't feel a thing until the rear wheel contacts the ground. then I feel a slight shudder go through the driveline as power gets redistributed to the front wheels causing the inside front to spin...

IMO, the shudder I feel is the viscous coupling in the center diff taking up the power. I have not driven an evo with ACD, so I have no idea what would be considered normal.

 

I don't notice it unless the car snaps sideways and it sits down hard.. other than that it's just "normal." Two wheels.. that I can feel more, mostly because it always sets down a little harder.

 

It's not tri-pod mode, it's called three-wheeling.

 

it feels like youre going slower

 

^ LOL

I'm not so smooth, so I definitely feel it when it sets back down.

I get it on the street sometimes too, when turning into an inclined driveway or whatnot.

 

You feel the car lean and then you feel movement from the rear end of the car. It's a feeling you get in the middle of your shoulder blades. It's hard to describle, you'll know it when it happens. If you want to REALLY get a sense of it go drive an ITR on R-compounds.

 

what is that feeling you get when you are coming out of a turn and it feels like your car is hopping like a rabbit

 

Could be any number of things..

Shocks undervalved for springs
Wheelspin causing wheel hop.
Alignment isssue/Tire pressures wrong/tires with lots of sidewall flex. (I have seen this on strange tires, sometimes with high toe-out settings.. dragging the inside wheel.)

 

it happens at full steering lock when i am full throttle out of a turn or close to full throttle, kinda feels like my car is doing what the evo in this video is doing but without hitting the bump

http://video.google.com/videoplay?do...arch&plindex=3

i'll try to get some vid's of it and i know i have an in car vid somewhere but i dont know if you can tell from the in car vid, maybe pm me because i am not sure that i am going to be coming back to this thread.

thanks

 

Feels sloppy, This is on stock rims with 255-40-17 Falken 615 and compltely stock suspension minus tanabe springs and the most aggressive alignment I could get out of it. Its at exactly -2.0 camber both left and right front, zero toe and -1.2 rear zero toe and tire pressure 44 cold all around. I run SM on street tire but am only about a half second behind similarly prepped Evo's running r comps and slicks

 

Sorry for the small pic