Power or Handling

[Morley]

My personal opinion is that if you have got a car with not much power but goes round on rails and stops on a half penny it will be able to brake later and carry more speed into a corner. You also learn to be a smoother driver because carrying momentum into the corner and keeping it there is important because you don't have the power to pull you out of the corner quickly if you cock it up.

On back roads, a good handling car with less power would surely be faster and more fun to drive than something with big power and crap handling.

Just my humble opinion.

I wonder, if you put a good driver in a car with wicked handling and no power and a car with big power and crap handling, which would be quicker around a circuit. I guess it would depend largely upon the circuit!?

[Arched Escy]

Final answer: You need both

[marky4]

My personal opinion is that if you have got a car with not much power but goes round on rails and stops on a half penny it will be able to brake later and carry more speed into a corner. You also learn to be a smoother driver because carrying momentum into the corner and keeping it there is important because you don't have the power to pull you out of the corner quickly if you cock it up.

On back roads, a good handling car with less power would surely be faster and more fun to drive than something with big power and crap handling.

Just my humble opinion.

I wonder, if you put a good driver in a car with wicked handling and no power and a car with big power and crap handling, which would be quicker around a circuit. I guess it would depend largely upon the circuit!?

 

i agree much more fun flying along a country lane in a car that handles great even if it is down on power, fast round corners is more fun than fast in a straight line

[Morley]

Final answer: You need both

 

But... What if you can't afford both?? Is it better to plough your money into one or the other?

[over_head_cam]

It's a tough one. Most people here know I've only got a small one But I reckon it's taught me how to get the best (most) out of it. You can have tons of fun at 50 down the lanes, and get a real sense of satisfaction from getting the braking, turn-in and power-out just right. Luckily mine had the basic upgrades already (2.8 billies, vented discs etc) so all I did was block the axle and I was away.

 

Having sad that, it's sill as slow as fook, and it frustrates the sh1t out of me when I'm driving with faster vehicles as I struggle to keep up due to it's asthmatic properties

 

So I'm spending what little money I have on a new engine

[Guest MK1gaz]

I'd tune the engine first with the money then chop 2 coils off the front springs and buy some lowering blocks for £20 !!!!!!!!!

[X-pack-Glyn]

Chopping front springs shove some blocks on the back id never do that

 

power first then an LSD..... teaches you to be a better driver

[puddy]

POWER!!

 

If you have never been in a BIG hp motor,you won't know why!

 

puddy