i was just wondering how fast can the 7 corner, just regular night driving, not at the track...? not drifting of course

 

question is a bit flawed for lack of an objective means to measure a proper response

i corner so fast i blackout from g-forces interfering with my blood circulation

 

LOL ^^^ +1 when my 7 was running it was all stock i could take on-ramps and off-ramps at about 140 km/h easy

 

haha. depending on the corner. a 45 degree angle i can take going 45 and the tire start to make noise.

totally stock suspension

 

I take corners at 7,500 rpms in 5th gear, just as long as they are banked and hardly turn at all.

 

+1 lol

 

the question is flawed, as stated above. however: What kind of lateral force can you exert on your rx7 before the tires start to lose traction and allow the car to move into a controlled/uncontrolled slide/spin?

that would have been a better way of asking the question.

TR

 

wouldn't this be completely situation dependent. taking one corner at one speed doesn't mean all other corners like it will have the same results, depending on surface and conditions etc

 

I've been wearing out tires my entire driving life from hard cornering. Normally drive Ranger pickups. Every time I go to get new tires, the shop guys all say the same thing, that I have outer wear and "cupping" and what the hell am I doing to the tires?

Driving my first REX7 GTU non-turbo stock suspension, etc., as a nice little change from the Ranger these days, I corner so hard that the coolant and washer fluid warning lights come on briefly then when I straighten out, the lights go out. The radiator, coolant resevoir and washer fluid is mostly FULL and not empty when this happens. Ha.

It's the best cornering car I've ever driven....

 

im over a 1g

 

fast enough to tail my friends evo in corners... (but he ditches me real fast once the road straightens out.... -=(...... !!!)

i dont look at how fast i am going, that is just dangerous and unecessary when you are making a turn...

i would guess the handling quality comes from mostly weight reductions, that's basically what i've done... ac delete, ps delete, carbed, one muffler deleted (really it rotted and fell off..) most under carpeting gone... no spare (triple a card haha), no jack, no tools, just 2 seats steering wheel, sunroof, mostly full interior.. hmm... is my car close to 2500lbs ? lol

 

Maybe the question was comparative? Like how does the RX-7 fare in average cornering compared to other roughly simmilar cars, everywhere?

Like an FD just feels better than a BNR-32, stock, and there's no way around that, even if you love how a awd handles, and hate FR platforms, you (or at least I) would still admit the FD3S would just feel different, in a good way. That's not saying a bnr can't take a corner through, far from it.

EDIT: maybe, these examples are just too different to compare? Well, they ARE of the same "era" and designed to take on the other companies automobile, so that's how i based the example.

 

i dont know about ne 1 else but i can take a fairly sharp off ramp at maybe almost 70 of course i have brand new tires on her tho

 

Would you guys say the DTSS sytem helps highspeed cornering, or at least makes it easier to handle the car at high speed cornering?

 

Kinda hard to compare on backroads since people always call driver which is true in some cases.

I'd say they can do double the suggested speed on ramps while leaving room for hazards.

 

theres a 90 degree angle by my school with a fairly narrow exit that I once pulled off at 35-45 mph while understeering like a **** (because i was dumb then and didnt understand the whole throttle into a corner thing).

 

One time I went extremely fast through a 90 degree corner. I started in the right and ended up in the left, trying to pass an SUV, it was really fun.

however the SUV tried to follow me and the driver looked really angry, lol.

 

Fast.

I remember that Grassroots got a stock suspenion FC to clear 1.0 G just by playing with tire pressures. They were on 60k street tires too.

 

I generally do 60 everywhere unless I'm in a hurry. The common speed limit here is 45. I take 3 90 degree corners and one about 150 degree corner everyday to and from work. I usually slide the 150 at around 40 mph. The 90 get taken at about the same speed due to how tight the corners are. There is this one 90 around my city that my friend took at 90 mph in his built WRX while barely chirping tires through it. I like to take that one at around 70. Speed limit around it is 25.

 

is that even physically possible?? 90 degree means nothing if the road is really wide


there is this 90 degree turn near my neighborhood (small 2 lane road) that i usually take pretty fast, id say around 30mph or so. my 88 SE had perfect balance.. going around that turn the back end would slide out nicely, a little countersteer and throttle, and you were through pretty fast.

my TII has a more understeer, so i cant take it that fast, when pushed it just goes straight.. i guess because its heavier