LG John

Well I know your wrong. I don't think there is any thing else to say on the matter.

BTW, a few threads have been going like this on SN of late where the last page hasn't been showing up

TaviaRS

so you have been on a trackday then Kenny? So, who lent you their car? I was only doing 10mph honest guv



PS Nope, I ain't going to preach, its all been said before by me and others. Just glad I don't get up to bonny Scotland that often

LG John

Superunleaded, 55 litres of....

Last tank 295 miles
tank before 325 miles
tank before that 285 miles

The facts speak for themselves, I can't be thrashing it around as much as you think

Don't believe me? Do a search for SN peeps fuel consumption figures and see how I compare

P.S. Seen that Shame about the lambo

Richard Askew

ZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZ

LG John

I agree rich ZZZZZZZZZZz

This is all that gt guys fault anyway for reviving a long dead thread

softwizz

Sorry if you all want to kill the thread, I was just thinking how expensive these low-speed kerbings seem to be in an Impreza.

A year or so back, I was in my Scirocco doing 50-55 accelerating hard on the A39 westward out of Bridgwater in twilight conditions and misjudged the location of the nearside kerb as I exited the street-lighting. As luck would have it my left wheels made side contact with the kerb just as I reached a place where a ramp was built into it (a ramp with *no* reason to exist - the inside edge of the path is an unbroken hedge with a field behind it!) This ramp was edged not with sloping kerbstones (which I'd have ridden up and onto the pavement, fairly safely) but with full-height curves.

Both nearside wheels hit the oncoming curved full-height kerbstone at full speed. The car lifted a foot or so off the ground briefly, and came back down wanting to spin anti-clockwise, but I held it without quite realising yet what had happened, and pulled into a layby just up the road. Both nearside tyres and both nearside alloys were ruined - big notches and twisted lips. There was no change in the car's geometry and no bodywork damage. Cost me just two Pirelli alloys from a scrapyard - about £100 - plus a couple of new tyres.

We hear a lot about how F1 cars have suspension that breaks easily when the load is not in the direction it's designed for, but I'd have thought that a competition-oriented car like the Impreza would have suspension designed to soak up impacts of this magnitude and direction. Any thoughts?

johnfelstead

yeh, the impreza is not a competition oriented car, its a road car. The WRC rally cars have little in common. The GroupN cars are more based on the road car, but they break if you abuse them or put loads into them in the wrong direction.

ozzy

Kenny,

Just how slow were you going when you managed to spin the car?

I was busy chatting away to some passengers about a year ago and went to turn in to the car park when BANG, I didn't notice the big **** off kerb. I drove straight over it (both wheels on the passenger side) at about 15-20mph. Other than a wrecked tyre and badly dented alloy, there was no other damage.

Now how can you push a wheel into bodywork or bend wishbones at 5mph

Are people a little conservative when quoting speeds or are Impreza's that fragile? Sounds like the stuff folk write on insurance claims to me

Stefan

[Edited by ozzy - 2/4/2003 12:07:37 AM]

Fuzz

The incident in my street was a nightmare as I had very little time to react and very little space to play in. I'f I'd gone for more power I could have potentially sorted it but I don't know.

oh and
Thats because space was an issue, its a tight street.


So why were you playing in there then !!!

sorry ken

Andy


[Edited by Fuzz - 2/4/2003 7:37:33 PM]

juan

upping that post count Leslie?

Bash your car up??? Jeepers a 6" curb ram. That has gotta hurt!

Only to some folks amigo!

Like every well respected driver here has said over the last few months open your eyes and go on a course - its not an admission of being cr@p, more an admission that you'd like to improve lots and fast!

cheers


(great thread hijack as was said earlier - I didn't even notice the original post - sorry!!!)


Defence? I'd say that just adds weight to the other side!

[Edited by juan - 2/5/2003 12:10:33 PM]

Planny

Saxo Boy, are you a planner? Me too

[Edited by Planny - 2/5/2003 12:15:59 PM]