Quiet in here, trust everyone's got their heads down.

Just my rant for the day...

Damn these Falken Ziex tyres. I'm even sliding around on the straights!!! If I was any less experienced I'd have crashed my S2K by now for sure. I'm loving the 2K but come rainy time it's farking scary shiat!

Can't wait to get my new wheels + new Potenza Adrenaline's. Trust it'll be a whole new world on them!

 

Mine sits largely idle in Perth these days.

I've developed a complex about letting it get wet and dirty. So its a sunshine only car now!

 

LOL. Specialised!

 

more like spoilt b....

 

what wheels are you gettin Justin? this is fly from jdmst btw

 

two things.

1. can I have your R32 GTR ?
2. I used to have some other rear tires, like Potenza 9000 or something (on stock rims), and then i reverted back to the stock S02's, and the handling in the wet is much better. To me, the S02's are also alot less snappy then the Potenza's were.
Although I find I understeer abit, i have a feeling the front tires are the cause of it, they're Firenza or something.

 

OEM S02s are great tyres but not known for their wet handling characteristics. Still they are probably better than most tyres

The car also isn't known for understeer so those fronts must be awful.

 

if your punching it around like the clappers try to get some new tyres on there as soon as possible. I've become undone from crappy worn tyres before. I put some adrenalines on for $900 on stock rims. They grip well; i wouldn't put any other tyres onto the s2k unless they were better tyres. Running crap tyres you loose out on so much of the cars great handling characteristics/potential.

 

the firenza/potenza couple i got with the car, when the firenza's are abit lower, and i am will get s02 fronts.

I'm happy with the s02's, the only thing is when i'm coming out of a corner (in the wet), they usually jitter a tiny bit before finding traction.
I used to also have a snap-turn-in problem, that have gone away since changing tires; when i would turn a corner, the backend would snap just before i straightened up.

I think my driving style may account for part if not all of the understeer; I noticed when a friend that regularly tracked his 180sx had a drive in my car, he would turn in much later, and almost intentionally get the car to come around aggressively, also noticed he would still have the steering wheel facing the corner most of the way out of the corner, whilst comparatively, I would have been straightening up

 

Wheels are a secret!