Impressed with road manners
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Impressed with road manners
If it's not obvious already... I think its kinda stupid to fool around on public roads.. .but I kinda broke my rule tonight.
It should be known I went way out past the boonies into boofee on a deserted road in broad daylight (as in, not at 3 am on a populated highway through downtown) before I did this, but I took the car up to what I would consider "way too fast" (I'll leave it up to you to figure that out).
Once I finally got "movin", I was rather impressed with how well the car remained planted to the road. It didn't seem to quiver or lift at all (aside from feeling the road quite a bit more), but Honda did something damn right and this thing has a pretty good bit of downforce on the nose. Now I can't wait to put this thing on a road course where I can go "way too fast" and not worry about anything at all.
I know most of you have already figured that out... but I was quite surprised to find out how well it stuck. That was the first time in 27000 miles I tried that.
All I'll say is I was somewhere above 3rd gear, but not to 5th yet (playing redline tag of course.)
It should be known I went way out past the boonies into boofee on a deserted road in broad daylight (as in, not at 3 am on a populated highway through downtown) before I did this, but I took the car up to what I would consider "way too fast" (I'll leave it up to you to figure that out).
Once I finally got "movin", I was rather impressed with how well the car remained planted to the road. It didn't seem to quiver or lift at all (aside from feeling the road quite a bit more), but Honda did something damn right and this thing has a pretty good bit of downforce on the nose. Now I can't wait to put this thing on a road course where I can go "way too fast" and not worry about anything at all.
I know most of you have already figured that out... but I was quite surprised to find out how well it stuck. That was the first time in 27000 miles I tried that.
All I'll say is I was somewhere above 3rd gear, but not to 5th yet (playing redline tag of course.)
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with my springs and rims, the car is very stable at high speed, not nervous or twitchy at all. If not for speed limits I would have no problem driving over 100 on the highwat all the time.
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bad justin.....haha just kidding. you need to play with your car a little more to know how it feels. I suggest driving it fast on the shoulder in the middle of traffic...that always works.
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mods wont change your top speed in a gear. You can possibly get to that speed faster but your gears limit your speed.
I know you already know that just clarifying for people who dont
I know you already know that just clarifying for people who dont Thread
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