5EAT Pride! - Page 23

**ean611** · #**331:** 11-06-2009, 02:03 PM

sweet run!!!

I've gotta get better at Auto-X....I wish I could drive like that.

Leonardo, what tires do you run?

**Leonardo** · #**332:** 11-06-2009, 02:04 PM

Thanks!!!

RT-615 Azenis in 245-45-17

Next season I expect to have real tires!

**Seth1784** · #**333:** 11-06-2009, 02:47 PM

very nice run indeed, i still don't understand how the hell you people know where to drive there. seems just like a jumble of cones in your way lol

**Leonardo** · #**334:** 11-06-2009, 03:02 PM

easy, when a cone is on the side pointing to the standing one, that is the way to go, when there is one like that on the left and another to the right, it's a gate. When... you know what? here:

YouTube- Anatomy Of An Autocross

**Seth1784** · #**335:** 11-06-2009, 04:24 PM

lol yea i know the basics just when you drive it i'm like wtf hahahahah! i road with a friend of mine running his heat once and i i just looked was like wtf cones all over how the hell do you know which you drive through lol. he said the walk through is normally what helps most. (which i didn't see)

i guess i need myself some lines

**darkfox1** · #**336:** 11-06-2009, 06:06 PM

leonardo that looks like a blast!

but I hve no experience with that. Where could you go to practice?

**fishbone** · #**337:** 11-06-2009, 06:11 PM

Lol @ Mini comments. I think that driver was running on the stock runflat tires. Ask me how I know

**Leonardo** · #**338:** 11-06-2009, 10:48 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by darkfox1

leonardo that looks like a blast!

but I hve no experience with that. Where could you go to practice?

Go to scca.org and find your region, ( never mind, I did it for you: http://www.soloatlanta.com/ ), join SCCA and get to as many events as you can. whenever possible, ask to get a ride with an instructor and listen to his points.

**ClimberD** · #**339:** 11-09-2009, 01:50 AM

Well... I can't fall asleep these days. So I thought I would read the factory manual. Well I'm officially an idiot. It was right under my nose. Factory spec on the 2.5L Turbo 5eat's STALL SPEED is 3100-3500rpms! YAY!!!!!!!!!!!!!

BTW on the non turbo model Legacy AT, the TC stall speed spec is 2400-2800rpms.

**fishbone** · #**340:** 11-09-2009, 06:58 AM

I re-read the procedure to test the stall speed myself, which basically outlines how to torque brake the car. I noticed that they say you should do it in 2nd gear, not 1st. Isn't that worse than 1st gear? Sure, you probably hit those revs faster, but ...

**Seth1784** · #**341:** 11-09-2009, 09:10 AM

lol and here i am scared to push past 1500 rpms on a launch

**Habitual Line Stepper** · #**342:** 11-09-2009, 09:25 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Seth1784

lol and here i am scared to push past 1500 rpms on a launch

+1, I launched at 2.9k, i scared myself, but it was a good kind of fear.

**fishbone** · #**343:** 11-09-2009, 09:27 AM

+1. I launched at 3200 and I could hear everything that was not bolted down in the car jerk around. It was awesome, kinda like shooting a gun for the first time. It scares you but it's still awesome

**Seth1784** · #**344:** 11-09-2009, 09:34 AM

lol well hell come spring time when the track opens back up and i get some new tires i'll have to give that a go for my first time. how the hell do you get your car not to try to creep forward though? lol just mash the bajesus outta the brakes? it seemed like if you kept trying to push higher that it just wanted to try to inch forward.

**Habitual Line Stepper** · #**345:** 11-09-2009, 09:41 AM

Seth you got some sort of BBK going on?