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Subject Autocross vs road racing
     
Posted by lazer(AK) on May 28, 2008 at 6:44 PM
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In Reply To well i gess my Z is gunna be Slow ass hell posted by 300znick on May 28, 2008 at 05:41 PM
     
Message You don't really need to go very fast to have a competitive car in autocross. Here the important thing is really being able to accelerate from 0-45mph (if that). You are right to run as large a tire as you can since the skidpad and slalom are better performance indicators for that type of driving. What I was alluding to on smaller front tires refers more to road racing where speeds can get up into the 60-100mph range. Here you can fudge a bit and (theoretically) run a narrower front tire. In fact you can tune the understeer/oversteer characteristics by playing around with tire size.

But for autocross I'd run as wide a tire as I could all the way around. I'd also suggest getting the Enkei RPF01 wheel as it's the lightest for the money.






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