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Time to send back the new Focus RS

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  • #52
    air
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,830 ✭✭✭air


    Matt Simis wrote: »
    Yeah, they do, to get better traction they bog down the cars. Its a balance between weight for traction and obviously too much weight hindering performance. Weight really hinders acceleration and handling, but its effect on absolute top end speed is far less (and somewhat helpful depending).
    I cant see weight improving traction to be honest, a change in weight distribution might help but ideally a car should be designed with this in mind.
    With regard to trying to attain high speed on a run, a car is not possibly going to loose traction at the upper limits of it's speed range, it should be obvious that if the engine had enough power in reserve to create wheelspin then the car would not be very close to it's top speed (or the tires / wheels are way too small).
    If increased traction was indeed required at high speeds - in a car that's going to face corners for example (as opposed to a land speed record breaker) then this would be achieved far more effectively by using aerodynamic downforce. Multiples of the cars overall weight could be achieved if desired (unlikely to want quite that much).

    Then again maybe I'm talking rubbish & German execs are quietly throwing a few bags of spuds into the boots of their 5 series to eek an extra few kph out of them down the autobahn ...


  • #53
    Sqaull20
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,044 ✭✭✭Sqaull20


    stealthyspeeder wrote: »
    I woulda thought a focus RS and a Boxter S were quite comparable!?

    The remap on the BoxterS would make all the diff though!

    Remap makes very little difference in fairness and was not the decider.They are not turbo charged and only really gain refinement from the remap, not performance.Whats 15bhp extra in a 300bhp 3.4 litre!!


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