More Ebay amusement

[Brett Dikeman]

At 1:32 PM -0700 9/27/02, Mike Veglia wrote:

>I admit, I haven't looked at said evilbay ad in question, but, stock 944s
>broke the 1g barrier some 15+ years ago on tires that make much of today's

The 944 turbo was between .8 and .9.  I couldn't find anything
specific to the 944S.  Those figures were obtained using high
performance tires.


>Lateral 1g cornering should not be a difficult achievement for a
>decent handling car running on modern sticky rubber.

Think about it, folks.  What's 1G of cornering force?  That's
basically the ENTIRE WEIGHT of the car trying to push it to the side.
That is a LOT of force.


>  I wouldn't be at all surprised if a well sorted Ur-Q or 4kq
>could. I would *hope* an A4 could with good rubber and possibly some
>shock/spring mods. 944s I have driven don't handle *that* much better than
>other good handling cars after all (IMO). I would hazard a guess that we got
>very close to 1 g in that ride I took around Watkins Glen with Derek Bell in
>a new 2002 A4q 3.0 (on all season rubber) last year at the ACCNA National
>event--sure felt like we must have anyway.

Car and Driver's test of the '95 A4 yielded .76G, and Road and
Track's test of the 2002 A4 3.0 yielded .84G(C&D, .82)

Neon ACRs with race tires+SCCA prepping...1.02

A very tweaked Miata set a Sport Compact Car Magazine record of 1.1G

The 2001 Corvette... .94

The Coupe GT scores .8G; couldn't (quickly) find anything else.

I stand in full by my original comment.

Brett
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