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[larry leung]

Tess, Megan and the 0.5% others (includes me too Huw, anyone else?), 

My $50/ea A4 16" 5-spoke sport rims are scuffed (and one even has a chip!). Not like I'd call myself a bad driver (honest, a few SCCA Solo2 regional and state titles to speak of). But I AM, uh, economical, uh, okay, cheap when I can find straight rims for $50. So, IMHO, the scuffing of rims says nothing about the driver. BTW, in case it hasn't been pointed out to you, or you haven't figured it out yourself, all of that understeer (and who says ALL elephants understeer, they may be offended ;-) ........) is due to too high an entry speed. These essentially front heavy cars demand a slower entry speed  and a late apex, which gives you more time to "ease" the wheel into the direction of the turn. "Quick turn in these cars not!" (okay, bad Star Wars character paraphrase). Give these cars time to turn in and they behave well, and then they don't totally swallow their front tires wholesale either. A stiffer rear bar speeds the turn in thing up a bit, but be careful, trailing throttle oversteer awaits if you have to brake in the middle of the turn (heck, my stock class GTi even has this problem, but thats more of a SWB thing compared to your 80). 

Drive-on,

LL - NY - hoping to see east coasters at the Waterfest
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