[QUOTE]Originally posted by CMiS2K
blipping the throttle is rev matching while doing the down shift.

how can you be maximizing the braked with the ball of your foot while on the throttle, that is over working the brakes.

 

I must have a different driving technique to keep the rear end from going all over the place.

 

You are not driving anywhere near the limit, as evidenced by the fact that you are able to downshift without braking. That implies you were not even in VTEC before starting to slow for the corner. It's a lot easier to control a 160hp car than a 240hp one.

 

I have 300 whp with my SC S. Vtec is lowered to 5300. My braking, clutching and shifting techniques maybe different than conventional means that you all are use to doing. I am driving 80-85% of the limit. I am still learning how to push the car to the limits with, powerslot rotors, hawk pads, motul fluid, ss brake lines, jic coil overs, x-brace, 30mm sway bar, toda flywheel, ACT PP, ricks pulley's, stb, upper and lower rear braces, and Vortech SC. My car is never the same at any 2 events due to mods that I continue to add or tweak. Oh and I run on 17/225/45 and 17/255/40 V700's wrapped around ASA FR1's.

Placed 2nd in NTX2000 club auto-x event last weekend, behind a C5, currently 2nd in R-compound class. Place 2nd-3rd in the BMWCCA auto-x events for the last several events out of no less than 50 entry's. I run 3 seconds faster than the best BS S2000 here in the area. I would have taken SM2 on a local level but I will not have participated in enough events to trophy. That is auto-x.

I have had 5 track days at Texas Motor Speedway and have held my ground very well against C5, ZO6's & TT996's.

I think that too much emphasis is put on this subject. It maybe a long term necessary technique to learn, but not so much that it is required. If you use it, you win if you don't you lose?

 

Jeremy, come out to TWS in November(http://forums.s2ki.com/forums/showthread.p...threadid=150406). You will have fun and can test your technique on some faster turns where you might (or might not) need to do some things differently. That TMS infield is nothing more than an auto-x track.

 

I'd like to, traveling with out away to take the tires with me is the problem that I have. I am not going to drive 4 hours on race tires.

 

just because your faster than everyone else at an event doens't mean that you can't improve or that you're doing it right.. if you aren't h/ting you're wasting time. It's as simple as that. Obviously the HP and car make up for it, but that doesn't mean you're a fast driver.

I could show up to the track in a Forumula 1 car and never shift and probably beat everyone. But I never shifted so I wasted tons of time.

If you're coasting into corners you got lots of room for improvement.

Take a fast guy in a stock s2k, put him in your car and see how much he beats you by.

-Rylan

 

[QUOTE]Originally posted by krazik

 

rylans a bitch, but he's right.

 

Yeah, but only if he wears a red dress.


Otherwise he's a PIMP