2slow2speed,
Wow. Thanks for the info. I’ll add it to my list. I also have a list with turns lock to lock for some cars. I measured them before I designed the rack.
Lock to lock figures aren’t much good though because, as you said quite rightly, it depends on the turning circle. I use 30 degrees (front wheel turned) to compare.
I have a Daihatsu Charade that turns 4.1 turns! The road wheels turn 42 degrees! Amazing. But that works out to about the same ratio as the NSX steering.
Our Ford Mondeo station wagon (I think Concept in the States?) is a real boat. But the steering is way quicker than the NSX. And the Cosworth Escort is 2.5 turns lock to lock and that works out to 2 turns to the NSX’s 3.25 turns
The Cosworth is way quicker than my NSX. Stability is not a problem. But it has power steering, so doesn’t have the same constraints as the NSX. Like parking problems.
It was really hard to decide what ratio to use. I eventually decided to make it not too quick because I drive my NSX everyday to work and have to park it too.
I don’t want to thrash it so I have never tracked it. I regularly go on the Nurburgring though, but that’s no place to be drifting in a corner.
Here in Belgium it rains all the time, slippery leaves on the road, marbles and slippery paint (white lines).
I like the rain. I love to play with the car and I spend a lot of time looking out the side window.:biggrin: The car is so predictable and starts with mild understeer and goes into oversteer smoothly and it’s possible to control it with the throttle. It’s a great car. Don't get wrong idea, I am not getting the back out by hitting the throttle. It's a turn at speed induced slide (in the wet, it's low speed. In the dry, well I don't do that...). Not many other cars can be slid so easily.
Once at the Nurburgring (Nordschlife) it was pissing with rain and I went round slipping and sliding all the way.
This car handles really really well. But in the dry, it needs a quicker rack because if I overcook it, the snap back is too quick to catch. Don't you find that?
If any of you have anymore info or steering ratios of other cars, I’d love to see it. Thanks in advance.
Peter
Ps. I hope you guys that say “stay on the gas” in a slide have the TCS on. I presume so…
If not, staying full on the gas is definitely not what you should do.
2slow2speed said:
…lot's of those people here in the US and more so in areas where it does not rain much or where it does not snow either, they don't know what to do when the car gets sideways or why it happens
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You are right about that. The lack of experience (never rains in Calif…), i guess. Its a pity they are missing the fun…