It's been a bit frustrating: the weather here has been up and down and I haven't had a chance to take the FS out on the back roads where I get to ring out the GTO regularly. TODAY, I finally had that chance...
First off, I've got to work on shifting. To finesse corner to corner, I need to know where I can coax it into shifting down, when to shift up and so on. It's not nearly as intuitive as the manual, but I think it's got potential. I'd love the shift points to be harder, but that's going to have to wait for tuning.
I turned off traction control (otherwise it'll pull horsepower as soon as you start to slide a bit) and put it in sport. Control thru the corners seems good-bumps don't unbalance it and I'm getting real world cornering at the same speeds as the GTO. Braking is great from fast to slow on a real world road (I know the 70-0 on paper looks unremarkable, but in the real world it's working great). The car doesn't feel heavy in this context.
I guess bottom line is that it's going to take more work to get this to a satisfying level of speed on the back roads, but I think it's going to put a smile on my face like the GTO has. Just have to decide if I'm gonna tune, or more likely, WHEN I'm gonna tune.
First off, I've got to work on shifting. To finesse corner to corner, I need to know where I can coax it into shifting down, when to shift up and so on. It's not nearly as intuitive as the manual, but I think it's got potential. I'd love the shift points to be harder, but that's going to have to wait for tuning.
I turned off traction control (otherwise it'll pull horsepower as soon as you start to slide a bit) and put it in sport. Control thru the corners seems good-bumps don't unbalance it and I'm getting real world cornering at the same speeds as the GTO. Braking is great from fast to slow on a real world road (I know the 70-0 on paper looks unremarkable, but in the real world it's working great). The car doesn't feel heavy in this context.
I guess bottom line is that it's going to take more work to get this to a satisfying level of speed on the back roads, but I think it's going to put a smile on my face like the GTO has. Just have to decide if I'm gonna tune, or more likely, WHEN I'm gonna tune.
