Re: twisties

["David Ruby" <dbruby@ainet.com>]

This is correct... I remember hearing the flying rear wheel land; sounding
just like a plane at the airport landing, "rrrt".  Once I put springs and
shocks on the car, though, nevermore.

Dave
'86 8v

-----Original Message-----
From: Owen <rabeys@cadvision.com>
To: Zach Vrooman <zach@discover-net.net>; scirocco mail list
<scirocco-L@scirocco.org>
Date: Mittwoch, 2. Dezember 1998 09:52
Subject: Re: twisties


>
>> Hi all.
>>
>> Just a quick dumb question for you. I had the day off yesterday and got
>> bored and started driving around. I headed to my favorite twisty road and
>> flung it around the corners. Here's my question. How exactly do you tell
>> when you've lifted a back wheel? I think I managed it, but not really
>sure.
>> It sure felt like the side lifted. Kinda cool.
>>
>> zach
>> 86 8v
>> 84 8v
>> 85 GTI
>
>Like frank said, have someone stand at the corner, get them to video tape
>or snap a pic.  When you actually see your own car doing it, you'll pee
>your pants its so damn funny.  But it also depends on your suspension
>setup.  WIth a stock suspension, it will lean and lift quite a lot in a
>hard corner, my car used to be the running joke at our sportscar club
>slaloms.  They said it looked like a dog takin a wiz at a fire hydrant
>(neeles to say, at the time i was the only VW running slaloms.  I think i
>used to be able to actually drive my rear tires over the cones, without
>knocking them over it went so high....well enough stories, but if you are
>running stiffer springs, bars... then you might not get any lift at all.
>Mine no longer amuses anybody at the track since I have dropped the stock
>suspension.
>
> It's very hard to tell when you're actually driving, sometimes i think i
>can feel a slight thud as the wheel comes back down, but it could be my
>imagination.
>
>Enjoy watching your car take a leak.
>
>
>Owen
>87 16v
>http://www.geocities.com/MotorCity/Garage/1571
>
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