Well this update was going to wait until I had appropriately sized tires… but it’s past boring in here, and the tires are a couple weeks away at least. Andrew felt so bad about beating me at auto-x two weeks ago, that he decided to buy me some Toyo R1R’s in 235/40 17 so that I can try for revenge another time.
The Continental DRS’s that I have mounted on the Watanabe’s, are certainly squirmy and soft. They are not up to auto-x. They were entertaining, but tricky. The Toyo’s should give a lot better feel, and make the car a helluva lot faster. My winter car, at autox FWIW was actually pretty fun. You may recall that I autox’ed the WRX once last year, and said that I’d never do it again. The first event of 2014 though, was entirely different. Chalk it up to a lot of extra speed (i.e. not first gear!), and Andrew supplying a measuring stick. I even spun.
Spun? Yah… in a whole winter of driving on the lake I never spun once (my car at least), but 7 minutes on an airport runway and I go backwards. The car is not the monster of understeer that it is supposed to be…
I’m still bitter that I never did get to have wheels like these. Whenever I had an interest in one, back when you were still doing wheels for other people, I practically said, “Shut up and take my mone!” But you ignored me, you snob.
*Money* with a Y. I’m not that terrible of a spellur.