Just bought a 85 GSL SE!
The only good thing about it is that with experience, that oversteer point becomes extremely predictable, once you develop a 'calibrated butt.' You get to know right where it'll show up after a while.
First time I ran into it, about a week after I bought the car, I was hotfooting it up the s-shaped ramp onto the 405 north from Sherman Way in Van Nuys, one morning after a light drizzle. Must have really impressed the guy behind me as he dropped back several car lengths as I went fishtailing up that ramp swinging 60 degrees either way. Then it occurred to me to back off the throttle a bit. Was rather proud later that I never lost my forward line.
The first gen's are interesting in part because the driver's position feels to be close to the center of rotation when the rear end lets go, or even when making a real tight turn, or a bootlegger - - you don't feel lateral G's as much as you feel a kind of rotation of the whole car around you.
Unique feeling.
First time I ran into it, about a week after I bought the car, I was hotfooting it up the s-shaped ramp onto the 405 north from Sherman Way in Van Nuys, one morning after a light drizzle. Must have really impressed the guy behind me as he dropped back several car lengths as I went fishtailing up that ramp swinging 60 degrees either way. Then it occurred to me to back off the throttle a bit. Was rather proud later that I never lost my forward line.
The first gen's are interesting in part because the driver's position feels to be close to the center of rotation when the rear end lets go, or even when making a real tight turn, or a bootlegger - - you don't feel lateral G's as much as you feel a kind of rotation of the whole car around you.
Unique feeling.
The only good thing about it is that with experience, that oversteer point becomes extremely predictable, once you develop a 'calibrated butt.' You get to know right where it'll show up after a while.
First time I ran into it, about a week after I bought the car, I was hotfooting it up the s-shaped ramp onto the 405 north from Sherman Way in Van Nuys, one morning after a light drizzle. Must have really impressed the guy behind me as he dropped back several car lengths as I went fishtailing up that ramp swinging 60 degrees either way. Then it occurred to me to back off the throttle a bit. Was rather proud later that I never lost my forward line.
The first gen's are interesting in part because the driver's position feels to be close to the center of rotation when the rear end lets go, or even when making a real tight turn, or a bootlegger - - you don't feel lateral G's as much as you feel a kind of rotation of the whole car around you.
Unique feeling.
First time I ran into it, about a week after I bought the car, I was hotfooting it up the s-shaped ramp onto the 405 north from Sherman Way in Van Nuys, one morning after a light drizzle. Must have really impressed the guy behind me as he dropped back several car lengths as I went fishtailing up that ramp swinging 60 degrees either way. Then it occurred to me to back off the throttle a bit. Was rather proud later that I never lost my forward line.
The first gen's are interesting in part because the driver's position feels to be close to the center of rotation when the rear end lets go, or even when making a real tight turn, or a bootlegger - - you don't feel lateral G's as much as you feel a kind of rotation of the whole car around you.
Unique feeling.
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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ceuhrxK24wE&t=2m30s
For everyone who was messaging me wanting to hear it run and whatnot. You can skip ahead if you dont wanna hear me blab.
For everyone who was messaging me wanting to hear it run and whatnot. You can skip ahead if you dont wanna hear me blab.
Last edited by Directfreak; Oct 25, 2011 at 05:45 PM. Reason: FAST FORWARD TO 2:30 seconds
That is one sweet sounding SE. The stock condition is to die for.
I love my GSL's and it's hard to imagine like without a Nikki, but that video makes me wish the GSL's had an SE stablemate.
White or silver. Preferably with the red leather interior.
Nice find!
I love my GSL's and it's hard to imagine like without a Nikki, but that video makes me wish the GSL's had an SE stablemate.
White or silver. Preferably with the red leather interior.
Nice find!
