Miata Rallying
08-05-2011, 06:24 AM
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Miata Rallying
This is proper original drifting, very few spectators, no big wide safe crash fences, no bling just dirt, trees and dropoffs 
oh yeah, i dont know how to link this video but oh yeah
http://vimeo.com/11594474
oh yeah, i dont know how to link this video but oh yeah
http://vimeo.com/11594474
08-05-2011, 07:01 AM
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Car control is best taught in the dirt, imo. It's too bad there wasn't more video of the car actually working in big sweepers instead of mostly straights and slow turns. I would like to see more.
08-05-2011, 07:30 AM
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yeah running Autronic Sm4, once you have tried ALS you will never go back. probably the best bit is on long sweepers as well as tightish corners(well for me anyway) because of its cool down cycle it idles really high and tends to push a the car a bit. The easiest way to explain it is those times when you are coming over a crest or around a long corner and you tend to back off (for me because of cowardness) only to discover that you should never have backed off, with ALS the car will push and have instant boost when you get back on it.
As to the video of long sweepers unfortunatly Australia is ruled by the laywers and allowing spectators to walk into the stage is just a no -no.
Here is a video of me at the Qld round of the Australian Champion ship and you wont see many spectators for the 18 mile stage. unfortunatley there is no sound. and before you all take the ****, yes I am a very slow 44yr old father of two. Have had a couple of accidents that I didnt enjoy. see the pics at the bottom
and here is another one of us from the outside of the same car
This is the stuff I will be doing with my Maita as soon as its finished, the forests in Queensland (the state closest to the pacific) are very much like those in the Washington, northwest area, just no bears only kangaroos and cows?
getting it wrong
Justin
) only to discover that you should never have backed off, with ALS the car will push and have instant boost when you get back on it.As to the video of long sweepers unfortunatly Australia is ruled by the laywers and allowing spectators to walk into the stage is just a no -no.
Here is a video of me at the Qld round of the Australian Champion ship and you wont see many spectators for the 18 mile stage. unfortunatley there is no sound. and before you all take the ****, yes I am a very slow 44yr old father of two. Have had a couple of accidents that I didnt enjoy. see the pics at the bottom
and here is another one of us from the outside of the same car
This is the stuff I will be doing with my Maita as soon as its finished, the forests in Queensland (the state closest to the pacific) are very much like those in the Washington, northwest area, just no bears only kangaroos and cows?
getting it wrong
Justin
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08-06-2011, 04:38 PM
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The miata is not mine, but it's done on Autonic SM4, so all done via ECU with either a throttle kicker or you just wind the idle/butterfly screw open a heap to allow air through and use rotational idle to pull idle rpm down. The butterfly method is what we used on the Subaru. With rot idle on it idled at about 1500-1800 and if you turned it off but left the idle screw up it idled at 3500rpm. The really fancy ALS have a bypass around the butterfly but that's big$$$$
