Hi,

Caveat: there is no way to recover from oversteer on a Calibra.

If the back breaks away, that's it. All you can do is steer into the skid and hope that tree is further away that it appears.

Manfred

Actually, also, removing the spare tyre will not increase grip at the front, but will reduce grip at the rear, moving the balance toward a more neutral handling car.

Hi,

> Is that the voice of experience talking there Manfred?

It most certainly is.

I have passed many motorcycles on the outside bend with screaming tyres driving my V6 (used to be my party piece), but that would be lethal without the extra weight in the trunk because without that extra weight, as soon as you lift the throttle to keep the front in check the rear would break away and you'd be in real trouble.

I would not hurl a calibra in corners kamikaze style, trying to pass bikers hanging off their 600cc supersports without at least 60Kg worth of ICE in the trunk. Preferably more.

I would *never* do it with anything other than the stock suspention. I've seen to many 'tuned' lowered cars skid and spin out trying to keep up with me (and on two occasions hit the guardrail tail-first) to know that it's a bad idea to tinker with the suspension if you don't have the equipment to measure what you're doing.

Manfred

Hi,

Caveat: there is no way to recover from oversteer on a Calibra.

If the back breaks away, that's it. All you can do is steer into the skid and hope that tree is further away that it appears.

Manfred

not strictly true....

you apply throttle and the car will pull itself straight

you can recover from liftoff oversteer in a calibra, theres a nice big island by me which is fun in the wet (in 2wd by the way)

exactly!!

the only time you ever get oversteer in a calibra is due to diesel spills or a bad driver who does not know where to apply power on corners (or when to release power)

hitting WOT on FWD oversteer is a age old technique to recover from lift off oversteer

if you kbnow what you are doing you would never loose the back end of the cally......you would just understeer into a kerb if you was just over the limit

I took my V6 to a track day once, our friend has a kit car and I often go along as we used to race against eachother in karts. I couldn't resist, chucked my helmet on and lit up the front tyres, half way round the second or third lap a sapphire cosworth come past me, so I nailed it and round the corners he couldn't get away, the straights were adifferent matter but then I was back on his exhaust into the next corner. this has been the same case with many different cars on roads and country lanes.

I've driven many cars fast and slow on race tracks and roads!!! This car is still the one that shocks me the most on standard suspension. Pottering about it leans alot, going round a corner fast it understeers, push it in a bit harsher and it gives you very controlable oversteer, when you feel the back go and mess your pants!!!....some how...it still stays under control!!!!!! Stunning car

Hi ALL

have to agree with the comments on the V6, bizarrely, I can push mine fairly hard in the dry, but the body roll compared to my 8v is proper scary, it is so vague in feedback, I think someone somewhere got the calculations wrong badly!!
How can 2 cars, so similar, perform so differently, my 8v performs just like my bro's on the road, I've replaced nearly all the suspension parts, convinced something was w*nkered somewhere, but i just can't improve the way it handles, dispite having the car tracked, and checked on a jig, it still want's to break away more readily in left handers than rights.......

Very Wierd

Gaffer