Ok, i know that i am new to RWD cars and the Z is just awesome for acceleration and the looks. today, after eating sushi at a local joint, I spun out. yea i was in first gear, redlined while turning, HOLY **** i winded up perpendicular to the direction of traffic!!! luckily there was no one behind me and my friend who was driving his G35C was in the inner left turn lane. I barely missed him. but whoa, what a close call!!! No cops, just a bunch of scared a$$ drivers....

thank gawd nothing happened from this, but i need to get to know my car before doing stup!d stuff like that. where can i find a good track that would let me learn my car that is around the socal area???

 

Empty parking lot would be a good bet if you can find one. Its Sunday so you stand a chance.

 

TCS ON or OFF?

Buy a helmet and take a professional driving class.

Find an empty parking lot (as OrbitalPerform advised) in the rain. Set out two cones. Run figure eights around the cones. Practice under and oversteering.

Have fun and be safe.

 

too much sexy *** Z power

 

TCS was on if you can believe it. I guess it was too much throtle....but yeah not gonna do that **** again.

 

I have done that a few times making a U-turn at a light that I can just squeese by.... Otherwise its a 5 min wait becuase the light is all screwed up...

 

Redlining in first while turning is a recipe for disaster in pretty much any RWD car. Glad you didn't hurt yourself or others. Kudos for admitting your lack of experience. There was a thread here just a few weeks ago with someone bashing the Z for "nearly killing him" by spinning out.

I'd say just a weekend of practicing corrective steering methods while in a slide will arm you well for the future.

 

TCS is a excellent tool, but as you discovered, not foolproof. It takes TCS and second to react to spinning rear tires. And lots of stuff can happen in a second.

 

Been there...almost done that. Instead, my car slapped me around side to side furiously trying to grab pavement. I learned a lot that day.

 

Riverside has a bunch of jacked up lights it seems. One frustrating city to drive around.

 

I like to throw my back out when I take left turns....but the way I usually do it is thru shifting from first to second gear....I'm usually pretty good when when to cut off the gas....once you can do it right....it's pretty badass....

 

make a U-turn in 2nd and you can easily get the same reaction Where i live i exit onto westheimer but can't make a left b/c of the esplinade.. so I always have to go right, hit the light, then u-turn. It's every friggen day i have to do this so I usually have some fun with it.

 

i am also new to driving rwd (im new to driving period) but whenever i give throttle through a turn i am fine but just as i am exiting the turn and shift to 2nd the car goes out of control and the front end starts swaying side to side really fast. this has happened to me twice and the first time i almost ran into the oncomming cars

 

too much gas on the shift to second. Your tires are losing grip because of the extra power you're applying while shifting to 2nd in the turn.

 

TCS won't stop you from spinning out or "yawing". That's what VDC is for. TCS is strictly an anti rear tire spin device. Anti "burnout device"

So don't count on that saving you in the rain if you're getting a little hot in the turns.

 

I just bought a Z on 9/6/05, my first RWD car. I recently owned an Integra, which all of you know is FWD.

When I first bought the car I drove it with VDC off and without a problem. On the way home I just drove the car normal, the next day I pushed the car some and by the third day I was really pushing the car hard, BUT, not crazy. I was just getting the feel for the Z and RWD. In less than 2 weeks I have this car wired and I know I can drive this car under any type of condition and know when and where to push the cars limits.

Bro, redlining your car to flip a u turn is just crazy driving, that's all it is. This has nothing to do with VDC or TCS, it's called driving with common sense. Do yourself and others favor right now, slow down.

Enjoy your Z man --

 

You simply can't floor it DURING the turn in a rear wheel drive car.

1) Know what your car is capable of as well as a few characteristics of rear wheel drive (fish tailing, etc..)
2) Accelerate before the turn
3) Drop to a lower gear (apply gas IF necessary and allowable)
4) Floor it at the apex of the turn (as you are coming out of the turn)


Thats how you hug turns with a RWD...and manage to keep it on the road.

P.S. I really hope you either get used to your car or drive real slow when winter rolls around...the wet season isn't the RWDs favorite time of year

 

Who are you directing this to?

 

To you my man. You need to slow down so you don't hurt yourself and more importantly, others.

Like I said, enjoy your Z, in moderation.

 

Well hitop,

i told you in the beginning of the thread that i didnt know the understeer/oversteer limits of my car. i also know that it wasnt a good choice to push the car like that. that is why i am looking for a track so i will get to know the suspension characteristics of the car. please read up to the original post. thanks for the input that i already know...