My evo has a twitchy rear end in the wet
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My evo has a twitchy rear end in the wet
My evo is very nervous in the wet but superb in the dry
This came to light last night when I spun my evo coming onto the m25 from the m11 juction.
What could be the cause ?
Ive had the car 4 wheel aligned by a company well known for doing evos and the car has been lowered on eibach springs
please help ?
This came to light last night when I spun my evo coming onto the m25 from the m11 juction.
What could be the cause ?
Ive had the car 4 wheel aligned by a company well known for doing evos and the car has been lowered on eibach springs
please help ?
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My evo is very nervous in the wet but superb in the dry
This came to light last night when I spun my evo coming onto the m25 from the m11 juction.
What could be the cause ?
Ive had the car 4 wheel aligned by a company well known for doing evos and the car has been lowered on eibach springs
please help ?
This came to light last night when I spun my evo coming onto the m25 from the m11 juction.
What could be the cause ?
Ive had the car 4 wheel aligned by a company well known for doing evos and the car has been lowered on eibach springs
please help ?
What tyres are you running? The same all round with same tread etc? Often get this with people with mismatched front and rear tyres.
Or too stiff rear end - race drivers basically soften stuff up when its wet (obviously much more complex than that)
Si
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I must admit the last owner fitter cheapish tyres to the car which i havent changed and they differ from front to rear
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u should drive my evo in the wet its still running on the jap spec bridgestones im pretty sure theyre snow tyres pmsl! its disgraceful in the rain at any speed!! Drys a diff matter though with the cusco's top mounts and uprated rear arb.... maybe i should stop being a tight cunt and buy some new tyres :P
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u should drive my evo in the wet its still running on the jap spec bridgestones im pretty sure theyre snow tyres pmsl! its disgraceful in the rain at any speed!! Drys a diff matter though with the cusco's top mounts and uprated rear arb.... maybe i should stop being a tight cunt and buy some new tyres :P
Im fitting evo 5 wheels very soon so ill be putting decent tyres on
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Sounds like job jobbed. Bound to be that plus road conditions as per Rad / Charlie Chalk / thingy me bob.
Tyres translate everything your car does to the ground - accelerating, braking and cornering. Deffo a false economy to have cheap tyres on a performance car.
Just been poking around an M3 with Champiros on the rear, and Super Champs or some other shite on the front.
Recipe for disaster (as I know from experience!)
Try some Goodyear F1s if the car is used 99% road use, should improve the wet drive no end, and at a sensible price.
Si
Tyres translate everything your car does to the ground - accelerating, braking and cornering. Deffo a false economy to have cheap tyres on a performance car.
Just been poking around an M3 with Champiros on the rear, and Super Champs or some other shite on the front.
Recipe for disaster (as I know from experience!)
Try some Goodyear F1s if the car is used 99% road use, should improve the wet drive no end, and at a sensible price.
Si
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u should drive my evo in the wet its still running on the jap spec bridgestones im pretty sure theyre snow tyres pmsl! its disgraceful in the rain at any speed!! Drys a diff matter though with the cusco's top mounts and uprated rear arb.... maybe i should stop being a tight cunt and buy some new tyres :P
I'd had it for ages before I'd driven it in the wet and it was actually the mrs who first discovered it.. she told me it'd gone sideways very easily on a roundabout. I moaned a bit until I actually drove the thing in the wet myself, it was like ice in the wet.
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Sounds like job jobbed. Bound to be that plus road conditions as per Rad / Charlie Chalk / thingy me bob.
Tyres translate everything your car does to the ground - accelerating, braking and cornering. Deffo a false economy to have cheap tyres on a performance car.
Just been poking around an M3 with Champiros on the rear, and Super Champs or some other shite on the front.
Recipe for disaster (as I know from experience!)
Try some Goodyear F1s if the car is used 99% road use, should improve the wet drive no end, and at a sensible price.
Si
Tyres translate everything your car does to the ground - accelerating, braking and cornering. Deffo a false economy to have cheap tyres on a performance car.
Just been poking around an M3 with Champiros on the rear, and Super Champs or some other shite on the front.
Recipe for disaster (as I know from experience!)
Try some Goodyear F1s if the car is used 99% road use, should improve the wet drive no end, and at a sensible price.
Si
deffo be buying these for mine
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Yeah mine had snow tyres on it too!
I'd had it for ages before I'd driven it in the wet and it was actually the mrs who first discovered it.. she told me it'd gone sideways very easily on a roundabout. I moaned a bit until I actually drove the thing in the wet myself, it was like ice in the wet.
I'd had it for ages before I'd driven it in the wet and it was actually the mrs who first discovered it.. she told me it'd gone sideways very easily on a roundabout. I moaned a bit until I actually drove the thing in the wet myself, it was like ice in the wet.
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I spun coming off the slip road and went across all 3 lanes of the m25 and back to the inner verge again
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Any car that doesn't wear the same rubber all round is a bad idea.
If you were in a scooby u would have just understeered straight off the road. A more "pointy" car is great, in that it rarely understeers, however this means u need to be very confident with the throttle and keep the rear end in check.
Get the exact settings that your car was aligned to and get people on the lancer register to check that they are sensible for ur style of driving.
If u get close to toe out at the back, they become MEGA oversteery I believe.
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Driver sounds like a legend if he was getting the arse out
Later on Sunday at Croft I ran slicks on the front and Yoko C Drives on the rear and the slides were comedy
A matched set of tyres on any car will make a huge difference. Sticking Kumhos on the rear of an Evo with Pirellis on the front is deffo the reason for your car's arse out nature!
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I hear hoofing the throttle with cold slicks while in a tight corner can make things even worse, specially if he was being egged on by the equally nutty passenger
Driver sounds like a legend if he was getting the arse out
Later on Sunday at Croft I ran slicks on the front and Yoko C Drives on the rear and the slides were comedy
A matched set of tyres on any car will make a huge difference. Sticking Kumhos on the rear of an Evo with Pirellis on the front is deffo the reason for your car's arse out nature!
Si
Driver sounds like a legend if he was getting the arse out
Later on Sunday at Croft I ran slicks on the front and Yoko C Drives on the rear and the slides were comedy
A matched set of tyres on any car will make a huge difference. Sticking Kumhos on the rear of an Evo with Pirellis on the front is deffo the reason for your car's arse out nature!
Si
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Thanks for the good driver comment, ask Chop what he thought and it may not be the same sentiment
I'll post up a vid and some pics in a mo
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My celica gt4 was a nightmare in the wet when i first got it, it was running jap spec nankangs on the back, and fate-o kwik fit tyres on the front.
I nearly binned it into a police car come round a sweeping bend it was that tail happy.
Now its running Kumhos all round and is so well footed but will let go if you really give it some which is always entertaining.
4wd power slides are entertaining to say the least.
I nearly binned it into a police car come round a sweeping bend it was that tail happy.
Now its running Kumhos all round and is so well footed but will let go if you really give it some which is always entertaining.
4wd power slides are entertaining to say the least.
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My only driving experience of F1s was very good, however everyone seems to really rate them for general use, and particularly when it's wet (so ideal for the UK then!)
Si
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