Do you Chirp????
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From: Dana Point, CA
Pran hit the nail on the head.
I could chirp the tires on my 1996 Civic Ex all day long. Simple physics of weight transfer and hard compound tires. I guarantee that if Honda had taken the wrong route and give us a front drive car (no offense to the ITR, Prelude and other front drive afficionados in here because they are great autos in their own right) we could spin our tires all day long.
We have better weight transfer for acceleration and braking with the f/r set up and therefore you have to work much harder to break the tires loose (chirp) when shifting.
I could chirp the tires on my 1996 Civic Ex all day long. Simple physics of weight transfer and hard compound tires. I guarantee that if Honda had taken the wrong route and give us a front drive car (no offense to the ITR, Prelude and other front drive afficionados in here because they are great autos in their own right) we could spin our tires all day long.
We have better weight transfer for acceleration and braking with the f/r set up and therefore you have to work much harder to break the tires loose (chirp) when shifting.
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Chirping in a FWD is all to easy my old 82' Civic hatch back would even chirp in third gear.
Forget chirping you want to "Bark" why chirp when a "Bark is that much better, meaner. Oh yeah I remember those days, 1980 - 1981, a newly licensed youngster driving a 1972 Original Chevy Chevelle SS 396 with Original Cowl induction and a Hurst 4 speed stick. Chirp? NOT! I could "bark
Forget chirping you want to "Bark" why chirp when a "Bark is that much better, meaner. Oh yeah I remember those days, 1980 - 1981, a newly licensed youngster driving a 1972 Original Chevy Chevelle SS 396 with Original Cowl induction and a Hurst 4 speed stick. Chirp? NOT! I could "bark
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Think of this when you chirp, bark, yelp or otherwise induce noise from the tires. Each time you make a sound with your tires, you also wear a little bit of life off of them. Practice chirping and power slide around a lot of corners and you can cut the life of your S-02's in half or more. Don't ask how I know.
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For me the difficulty is that it's so ingrained in me to let off slightly on the throttle when shifting to a higher gear. If I can force myself to stay on the throttle, the 'bark' is there.
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From: Palm Springs
Originally posted by DavidM
My S2000 does it ... though the road condition and the temperature/weather has a lot more to do with it than anything else. Usually it's just a small 'chirp' which sounds good but does not really lose me any speed. Though, when I was 'racing' my friends WRX my car virtually went into wheelspin when I changed from 1st to 2nd ... a rally big 'chirp'. That lost me time each time - at the 1st to 2nd change I lost a good 1/2 a car lenght just because I could not get enough traction to the rear wheels.
My S2000 does it ... though the road condition and the temperature/weather has a lot more to do with it than anything else. Usually it's just a small 'chirp' which sounds good but does not really lose me any speed. Though, when I was 'racing' my friends WRX my car virtually went into wheelspin when I changed from 1st to 2nd ... a rally big 'chirp'. That lost me time each time - at the 1st to 2nd change I lost a good 1/2 a car lenght just because I could not get enough traction to the rear wheels.