(20-09-2013, 01:19 PM)Ed Doe Wrote:(20-09-2013, 12:15 PM)Piggy Wrote: shuffling...as in your hands on the wheel!!
but I understand what ya saying...the 306s are obviously ace with lift off oversteer...but I find left brake is one of the best ways to control that with a fwd...no matter how its set up. Gets the nose right in there and with brake/throttle control with left and right feet you can have the back end just where you want.
But fair play, is a good season considering its your true first...coz you said of your experience with karting before I assumed you had a lot of track time under ya belt too! soz!
(left foot brake with matched throttle blips also allows for clutchless gear changes into the braking/turn in...brave stuff tho)
Sorry, but why left foot brake when you can heel & toe with an identical effect (ie trail braking into the corner to get the nose in whilst rev-matching downshifts)?
Left foot braking is different to heel toe, heel toe is for smooth downshifting. It's to make the car steady when braking, whereas left foot braking digs the nose in, not anything to do with gearing (to my not very extensive knowledge)
So long as you get through the corner with the car pointing the right way on the exit, you've had a good day !
I only heel toe to save my gearbox, because rev matching means when you jam it in to gear on a downshift everything is going the same speed so you don't hack apart the teeth in the box
(20-09-2013, 01:43 PM)Ruan Wrote:(20-09-2013, 01:19 PM)Ed Doe Wrote:(20-09-2013, 12:15 PM)Piggy Wrote: shuffling...as in your hands on the wheel!!
but I understand what ya saying...the 306s are obviously ace with lift off oversteer...but I find left brake is one of the best ways to control that with a fwd...no matter how its set up. Gets the nose right in there and with brake/throttle control with left and right feet you can have the back end just where you want.
But fair play, is a good season considering its your true first...coz you said of your experience with karting before I assumed you had a lot of track time under ya belt too! soz!
(left foot brake with matched throttle blips also allows for clutchless gear changes into the braking/turn in...brave stuff tho)
Sorry, but why left foot brake when you can heel & toe with an identical effect (ie trail braking into the corner to get the nose in whilst rev-matching downshifts)?
Faster transition between getting off the brakes and onto the throttle... More control over the brakes and throttle at all times.
Though you can tell that Polo just wants a set of cams and a raised rev limiter with that gearbox - it seems like a revvy motor but being strangled by the cams!
Its a VVT engine, it's pretty spot on at 4k revs, pulls for days.
To be honest I upshifted early a lot of the time to preserve the car.. Just don't really want to rag the shit out of it.
I spose when I overtook the MX5 is the time I really pushed, bwaaaaaarrrppp !
It definately needs more grunt, a set of iTBs wouldn't go a miss
That's the idea of left foot braking I beleive