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Morning guys. Nice Dragon vids, k757. Is that the pace we'll be going, slightly spirited? Hard to gauge the speed there.

BTW, name is Jared D:
 
Zulu- said:
Morning guys. Nice Dragon vids, k757. Is that the pace we'll be going, slightly spirited? Hard to gauge the speed there.

BTW, name is Jared D:
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The first few I was going slower, mostly rolling in 3rd (torque = win) I mostly kept the straights to 35 mph, the corners were an unknown as I was watching the road but can say, the car handled what I was doing with ease. I'll say that the W far out handles the '08 Si that I had. The later videos, I got to about 75% of what it will be like following death_roll.... he's a nut
 
k757 said:
The first few I was going slower, mostly rolling in 3rd (torque = win) I mostly kept the straights to 35 mph, the corners were an unknown as I was watching the road but can say, the car handled what I was doing with ease. I'll say that the W far out handles the '08 Si that I had. The later videos, I got to about 75% of what it will be like following death_roll.... he's a nut
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Really? Is it more that it just can pull its way through the mountains that it feels more confident? I can honestly say that I feel for a FWD car the SI is awesome.
 
Zulu- said:
Hopefully I don't puss it too bad on the first run. Should be carving nicely by the end though :D
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I started slow and once I got somewhat comfy I got faster.... I normally keeping the car in 2nd as not to run on the brakes a lot and normally doing no more than 40mph....
 
clevrname said:
Really? Is it more that it just can pull its way through the mountains that it feels more confident? I can honestly say that I feel for a FWD car the SI is awesome.
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this is my perception from owning both.
the WRX doesn't push in the corners like the Si at fast speeds. The W just feels planted and I admit that it took me a long time to really take the corners faster (to trust the car). If you listen to the videos, it is rare that the tires make a noise where the Si would have been screeching. Not to say that they won't ever make noise, but you really gotta be moving in the corners
 
k757 said:
this is my perception from owning both.
the WRX doesn't push in the corners like the Si at fast speeds. The W just feels planted and I admit that it took me a long time to really take the corners faster (to trust the car). If you listen to the videos, it is rare that the tires make a noise where the Si would have been screeching. Not to say that they won't ever make noise, but you really gotta be moving in the corners
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Yeah I'm not a real handling guru but I know exactly what you mean when it's explained like this. Lol
 
clevrname said:
Yeah I'm not a real handling guru but I know exactly what you mean when it's explained like this. Lol
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I think the key differences are the low center of gravity (boxer, woot!) of the subaru and the AWD system

(obviously :D)
 
k757 said:
I think the key differences are the low center of gravity (boxer, woot!) of the subaru and the AWD system

(obviously :D)
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and tires, the 235 dunlops are much better than the stock 215 michelins on the Si

I hit 70mph in the lgt two years ago on the dragon :woot:
 
death_roll said:
and tires, the 235 dunlops are much better than the stock 215 michelins on the Si

I hit 70mph in the lgt two years ago on the dragon :woot:
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LOL It's funny you say that, when I had the 235s on my SI, I felt a major difference. Gonna go with 225s on the new wheelz.
 
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