I test drove one the other day, loved it. Probably going to buy in the next day or so. Now, I keep hearing how squirrely the rear end is at high speeds. If I'm just driving on the freeway around 80-90, am I going to be fearing for my life in terms of stability?

 

I think they mean around corners, it will just want to snap out on you if your not careful....

I can vouch for that

 

Yep, rear end gets 'squirrely' running high speeds in the curves....

Freeway, no problems. Unless its snowing and you have summer tires mounted.

 

What do you mean if I'm not careful? Not on the throttle enough during a corner?

 

Take your time and learn the car and its boundaries. You will be ok

 

You don't have to worry about it really. Just when pushing the car hard around corners it can come out if you are too hard on it or too sudden with the throttle etc. AP1's tend to oversteer a good bit.
It's not gonna like slide out when cruising along or anything.

 

Nothing an anti-bumpersteer kit can't help to aide (a cheap solution, without digging into the suspension much). But to answer your question straightforward, it's not a problem you should encounter in day to day driving unless there's harsh weather conditions. In which case you shouldn't be driving in a fashion that this should occur anyways.

If you're taking a corner really aggressive @ say 50% throttle, lift to say 25%, and then dig back down to 50% with no progression it's going to come out if you're really getting into the corner. Of course most of the time this is correctable with driver skill. If you don't think you have a solid foundation of counter-steering / controlling oversteer with throttle manipulation you should definitely enroll in a AutoX or two (or more ). At 30-40$ generally a day, for a good 5 or so runs you really get to find out how the car acts under hard driving, and learn how to correct from under/oversteer.

There have been accounts of truly random snap oversteer (or at least what appear to be pretty random), but any videos i've seen have been on a track. This however is an extreme exception, and not anywhere near the rule.

 

some of it can be the roads, in my local area there is a high content of seashell, it gets real slick in certains spots when wet, but, most of the time when dry it's a little tougher to break it loose...

 

[QUOTE=berlinablackie,Jun 7 2010, 01:47 PM]Freeway, no problems.

 

I've you've never driven a car with an LSD at close to its limits it'll be a new experience for you. I'd recommend taking it slowly at first. With the LSD, when you let off of the gas and the engine is doing some braking, it is braking both rear wheels. This will noticeably decrease the radious of your turn. Likewise, if you get on the gas, you will have both rear wheels pushing, increasing the radious of your turn.

Like others have said, stay neutral until you are just about to the apex, then get onto the throttle smoothly.