Your be OK with street tires, you just need to make adjustments.
It's not the break in traction, rather the reacquisition of traction. You can see when he gets off the throttle the rear left tire grabs...
no indication of any mechanical issues. actually at first, once i got it straightened out but before i was off the track, a safety guy came and talked to me and said i kept on the throttle way too long. i already had a feeling i had done this anyways but i also felt like something broke. it almost felt like a flat tire. i knew i did not hit the wall but thought maybe i blew a tire while spinning and got out to look. that's how the car felt to drive, for those 100 feet or so until i spoke with that guy. he must have assumed i thought i blew a tire, and that caused the spin, and kept repeating that i hung on the throttle too long. but i got out and checked and all tires/car was fine. drove off the track and it felt normal again.
yes, i somehow learned what it's like to spin on a track without totaling my car, and for that i cant tell you how grateful i am. but im in no rush to repeat it. maybe ill give the strip another try next year after ensuring im a little better prepared.
i believe this is absolutely correct. i slowed the video down and watched it frame by frame to see how the balance of the car was shifting.
sorry to see this, assuming you were ok at least, obviously not the car. my car could easily have looked pretty messy.Did you have advancetrac completely disabled?
When I was NA I could have just the TCS disabled and spin for hundreds of feet if I wanted to if I stayed straight enough and advancetrac would never kick in. If I was losing it advancetrac would kick in. After I got whippled though for some reason I either have to totally disable advancetrack to run it in drag mode without killing power on shifts, or use Track mode then toggle TCS off (even though TCS light is already illuminated in track mode I still have to toggle it off and it says TCS off when I do.)
Id recommend trying to run with just TCS off in drag mode and see if it kills power on shifts or not, if it doesnt kill power on shifts there is no reason to totally disable advancetrac and it will save you before you lose it if you atleast try to point the car where you want to go.
From what I can tell from the video you stayed in the throttle for too long and also most likely overcorrected when it was spinning.
I learned how to keep it spinning straight for like a solid 1/8th mile while keeping advancetrac on, it would only kick in if you over correct basically .
Ive also lost my shite though but that was only with TCS and stabilitrack(gm version of advancetrac) completely disabled and in a CTS-V , ended up hitting a pole at 45 mph
Mustangs stability control is very unintrusive and wont kick in unless you need it.
They're different animals. Mine spun from a dig but after that it had no issues. I had the 302 so, even with full H/C/I, it didn't build power anywhere like the coyote. Nothing about that car's power band would catch you by surprise. By comparison, torque on the coyote keeps piling on until around 4.5k so if you have a little bit of spin early, and don't correct, it's only going to get worse. Even if I'm not spinning initially, my back end has a tendency to want to swing out around 4.5k because of all the torque that hits. Scared the crap out of me the first time I did it, in 2nd gear, when my back end popped loose and I was going about 40+ mph. Nothing at all like I was used to with my sn95.
mine is a 95, so also 302. now 331. stock it did i think 178 rwhp and over 250 rwtq. instant tq and then just shut down after 4500 rpm or so, definitely above 5k it was over. HCI woke it up a good amount but still very different than coyote 5.0, as you said.
ive had it kick loose before on the street in drag mode and sport mode. i wasnt expecting it to get as loose on the strip as easily because 1) the strip surface compared to street and 2) i did heat up the tires on the strip and not on the street. i did not go crazy with a burnout, as i did not think the street tires would benefit as much from it. i mostly wanted to clean all the shit off of them and get a little heat in them.
yep. i had half a moment of thinking "shit, i blew a tire, now i have to buy new tires..." but this was soon eclipsed by "well shit, at least im driving the car home and not taking it away in a pile of metal on a flat bed..."
Rule number 1 of any type of racing, never race something you are not ok with wrecking and being fine with it.
Ive noticed this in this car for sure. Other day was playing with an Audi TT on the interstate, went to 4th with a goose and it was wet, car nose started going the wrong way. I always instinctively lift, and the car comes right back.
Yep, sure does. Even with all the nannies off. the other week I was going over a wet bridge goosing it a bit, no warning the azz end kicked out. Let off the throttle, no seesawing the steering wheel, everything was right as rain. Pun intended. Haha.
