track car suggestions / discussion
#841
Interesting note on the BRZ motor. With it requiring 5K+ in the RPMs, did that translate to you as having to be in a lower gear in each turn or carry more corner speed to maintain that high of a RPM?
Did it affect the way you entered/exit corners and taking different lines? How did it affect your own driving style?
Did it affect the way you entered/exit corners and taking different lines? How did it affect your own driving style?
the different shift points threw me off a few times too, I kept trying to shift where I'd shift with my Miata and that didn't work.. then trying to shift where the brz needs to shift and somehow it was always at the apex of a turn, haha... but thats me needing to adjust, not the cars fault
I hear a couple bolt on's and tune help a lot with mid range torque though, I'm pretty sure my power band comments only apply to stock
#844
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Hard to beat a Miata if you can fit and can live with the power limitations.
You can seriously beat the living daylights out of it, perform semi-regular service, and it'll still keep on trucking. If it does break just about everything is cheap.
You can seriously beat the living daylights out of it, perform semi-regular service, and it'll still keep on trucking. If it does break just about everything is cheap.
#847
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#848
Pick up an 85-91 BMW 325i/s with an engine swap. much better looking than a miata and handling to match. a stock car can be found for under 4k and a seriously nice swapped track car shouldn't cost you over 11k. for the money you can't find a more fun car and performance parts are ridiculously cheap. I daily a 1991 supercharged 318is E30 and its a blast. Plenty of waves and head turns for such a classic looking car and nothing can touch me in curves save for a bike.
#850
my buddy has a turbo mazdaspeed miata (2004 I believe) on coilovers and in a straight line he's faster due to twice the boost I'm running but he can't keep up with me in quick corners. I do have an extremely quick rate steering rack and coilovers as well, but I can put a pretty good gap on the turbo miata after a set of twisties. both of us run the same tires and similar brakes, could be the driver but my neighbor has pulled several miatas in corners in his E30 as well.
#852
Pick up an 85-91 BMW 325i/s with an engine swap. much better looking than a miata and handling to match. a stock car can be found for under 4k and a seriously nice swapped track car shouldn't cost you over 11k. for the money you can't find a more fun car and performance parts are ridiculously cheap. I daily a 1991 supercharged 318is E30 and its a blast. Plenty of waves and head turns for such a classic looking car and nothing can touch me in curves save for a bike.
#853
my buddy has a turbo mazdaspeed miata (2004 I believe) on coilovers and in a straight line he's faster due to twice the boost I'm running but he can't keep up with me in quick corners. I do have an extremely quick rate steering rack and coilovers as well, but I can put a pretty good gap on the turbo miata after a set of twisties. both of us run the same tires and similar brakes, could be the driver but my neighbor has pulled several miatas in corners in his E30 as well.
#855
that really sounds like driver... I pass tons of cars that should be faster than my miata, corners or straight. This last track day I actually got asked if I have a turbo under the hood. and I'm not even the fastest miata out there, there's a guy with an NC, same coilovers as me (Ohlins), 200tw tires, bone stock power (10-15hp down from me), and he's running 4 seconds per lap faster