i was thinking, could i get a 1g on the skidpad, without dropping 1grand on the car?

let me know what you think:

eibach springs, .8 inch drop-$230 (already have)

KYB G-2 shock/struts-$265 (hopefully soon)

Front strut bar-$25

Front anti-sway bar-$50

Rear anti-swar bar-$50

Polyurethane bushings-$100



i will soon have 17" centerline rpm wheels with kumho tires and camber kit to go along with the items above.



total price - $720

skidpad - to be determined

watching cars disapeer in your rearview mirror as you wind through turns-priceless

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if speed kills, honda drivers will live forever

lovely quote



i think you should be able to pass the 1g mark...... get stickier wider tires https://www.nopistons.com/forums/pub...IR#>/smile.png

what kind of sway bars you getting for $50?

The tires are of course the most important thing. I don't think you'd pull 1g with those parts unless you had DOT race tires like V700's but maybe.



If you want damn sticky street tires, try Falken Azenis.

falken azenis sports own all, I had them on my vert, they were sticky enough to scare you. The sports are the ones with the huge tread patches, not the directional looking ones that they use to drift.

Yeah, I'm using those for autocross now, they are great tires.. stickiest street tire I've ever used

out of all the tires I tried, those held the best, and I tried some nice ones



and the price is great. my 215/50/15's were 80 bucks each, and I had them on the stock vert bbs rims.

the sway bars are all over the internet for right around $50, you just have to watch what you buy. how much are some Falken Azenis size 205-40-17? where can you buy them at? im going to autocross my 7 this year and was looking for some good tires.

Ditto. Tire compounds, pavement smoothness and temperature make a bid difference difference in skidpad numbers.

The best price on Azenis sports are at onlinetires.com



I've never seen sway bars for $50, you have a link?

Maybe a dumb question but...



How can you test the skidpad? Are there palces that do it for you at race tracks or whatever? I know you drive in a circle right? Do they have a g-meter in the car?



Is it something you can test on your own in an empty parking lot?



Just some stupid curious questions....

G-tech pro, baby! Although it is just a LITTLE inaccurate.

You don't need a gtech pro to figure it out. All you need to know is the speed you are going (needs to be fairly constant so accelerate slowly) and the radius of the circle you are driving in. Lateral acceleration is just the (v^2/r)/32.2 where v is the velocity you are traveling at in feet per second and r is the radius of the circle in feet. That equation should be right.

That is a good formula for an estimate especially if you are using your own car's speedometer for the velocity and such. How many cars when their speedometer says 60 are really doing exactly 60?



Good for an estimate though.

i used the accelerometer from my high school. we used a ti83 calculator to store the data, then transferred it to the computer, we used the school parking lot.



it improoved by about .1 to .09 g with the addition of the falkens!!!

falkin azenis st-115 are $400 shipping included for 225-40-17 at onlinetire.com. does anyone know where they are cheaper? let me know

I ordered mine from a local shop, 78 a peice, plus installation this was for 215/50/15's

what about a rear strut bar?

The Azenis ST-115 aren't as sticky as the Azenis Sports.

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Is that what you guys are talking about???



If so, I know what kind of tire I'm buying next! That's freakin dirt cheap, and if it hands that well for that little..... wow, is all I can say.

those be da ones!!! I love em to death!!

Yeah, dont get them if you want all season or long tread life but for a high peformance tire, you'll love it.