Can my GT do what John Wick's 69 did?

[Emt1581]

When John Wick took his 69 to the air field there was some impressive moves shown there. Other than going really fast in a straight line I haven't pushed my car at all. Zero burn outs, I don't take it fast around turns, and no hard braking if I can help it. But I'm curious, with what we see in the movie....can the S550 GT do that? Or did the film's 69 have some heavy mods done to it and/or some fancy camera work? I have Indy 500 Firehawks if that helps.

Thanks!

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[Jimmy G]

Can your GT spin the tires on wet tarmac and get a little squirrely?

Ummm, yeah....even with you drivin'!

 

[ForYourOwnGood]

Have you ever driven your car?

 

[Lime1GT]

You probably don't even need water to do that with your car's stock specs.

 

[SJulian10mm]

Most HPDE Schools will make you do some manuvers similar to these on a skid pad before they let you on the track. They want you to feel/experiance the limits of your car in terms of breaking and grip. In other words they make you force the car into understeer, oversteer and brake lockup/ABS. In my case with HOD it was on a figure 8 layout.

 

[offroadkarter]

if you have to ask these kinds of questions, you're going to end up as another "I totaled my S550" statistic on this board as soon as you try.

 

[jake_zx2]

First things first; PLEASE get some driving instruction before even thinking about doing anything remotely similar to that.

But yes, our cars can do all of that fairly easily

 

[66Bronc1]

Very interesting question. I too wonder the limits of my car. I drive it very easy- as my weekend car and commuter on Fridays. No burn outs, no fast starts, just enjoy the sound of the V8 and crisp handling and being able to keep up or get ahead of traffic. I sometimes wish I got the track performance goodies and could take it to the track to really drive the car. But mine is base and I did not want to spend another 10-12K. I am very happy with mine as a driver car but good to know it can smoke the tires and with handling mods or better suspension and a good driver do some serious figure 8's!

 

[NoVaGT]

.....Other than going really fast in a straight line I haven't pushed my car at all. Zero burn outs, I don't take it fast around turns, and no hard braking if I can help it........

You're really missing the enjoyment of your vehicle. With the 500s, it's got great handling, and the brakes are something to behold.

 

[Dr. Norts]

When John Wick took his 69 to the air field there was some impressive moves shown there. Other than going really fast in a straight line I haven't pushed my car at all. Zero burn outs, I don't take it fast around turns, and no hard braking if I can help it. But I'm curious, with what we see in the movie....can the S550 GT do that? Or did the film's 69 have some heavy mods done to it and/or some fancy camera work? I have Indy 500 Firehawks if that helps.

Thanks!

If you think that's impressive go watch Ken Blocks Pikes Peak Hoonicorn videos.

 

[Norm Peterson]

When John Wick took his 69 to the air field there was some impressive moves shown there. Other than going really fast in a straight line I haven't pushed my car at all. Zero burn outs, I don't take it fast around turns, and no hard braking if I can help it. But I'm curious, with what we see in the movie....can the S550 GT do that?

Even a base S550 GT should be able to duplicate the paths of the turns he was making . . . at faster speeds, without all or maybe any of the sliding. And an S550 will outbrake it badly without getting anywhere near ABS intervention.

Or did the film's 69 have some heavy mods done to it and/or some fancy camera work?

It was mostly driver technique, techniques more related to the show-off sport of drifting than to the serious side of corner-carving (these being the smooth un-flashy skills that are good to have in your street-driving playbook). The only mechanical things I could see that wouldn't have been OE was a set of traction bars to help control that leaf-spring axle and what looked like headers.


Flame not intended, just very bluntly spoken . . . if you aren't comfortable taking corners more briskly than what you see in most other traffic and don't ever use the brakes any harder than necessary, you shouldn't be going really fast in a straight line either.

As already mentioned, get some instruction with respect to at least those items. At least do a little autocrossing, preferably including some instructed runs. Being more comfortable at high cornering and braking g's will take most of the panic away when you have to do them "for real".

On burnouts - once you've done one or two decent ones, there's nothing left to prove. It's been over 50 years since I did my last one of those. It's maybe been 50 hours since the last "fast corner" or "hard braking".


Norm

 

[kz]

When John Wick took his 69 to the air field there was some impressive moves shown there. Other than going really fast in a straight line I haven't pushed my car at all. Zero burn outs, I don't take it fast around turns, and no hard braking if I can help it. But I'm curious, with what we see in the movie....can the S550 GT do that? Or did the film's 69 have some heavy mods done to it and/or some fancy camera work? I have Indy 500 Firehawks if that helps.

Thanks!

Out of curiosity - why did you get a PP car then ?
I second Norm's advice - go take it autocrossing. It's a car, meant to be driven. I took my 8 days old car autocrossing putting 14 runs on it and guess what - it's fine. You will become infinitely better driver and it can at some point actually save your life.

 

[PJR202]

Out of curiosity - why did you get a PP car then ?
I second Norm's advice - go take it autocrossing. It's a car, meant to be driven. I took my 8 days old car autocrossing putting 14 runs on it and guess what - it's fine. You will become infinitely better driver and it can at some point actually save your life.

I've been wanting to try autocross for a long time. How hard is it on a set of tires?

 

[kz]

I've been wanting to try autocross for a long time. How hard is it on a set of tires?

Depends how hard your drive, if you're starting you generally will not be able to put any significant wear on them, especially during one event - but in general if anything sees wear - it's tires.
Not sure where in KY are you, but CKR region has events in Lexington I believe, KY in Louisville and if you're in Northern part - come over to our Cincy SCCA events.

 

[PJR202]

If you think that's impressive go watch Ken Blocks Pikes Peak Hoonicorn videos.

holy crap.

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