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Originally Posted by
AlanBDahl
Autoxed my GXP for the first time yesterday and I too ran into the understeer problem. The only thing that seemed to help was to mash the throttle in places where I could which would counteract the understeer with a bit of power oversteer. However my car is bone stock, has not yet had an alignment (there is almost no camber in it now) and was on old Kumhos so there's obviously a lot more I can do. However I am worried after the absolute pasting Kevin Dietz and Fast Mike gave me in their Z0K's. They were both in the 40.9s and my best was a 43.3. The only good thing is that almost no one else could keep up with them either but it's not a good sign if I get straight-timed by that much. Any ideas?
Yeah - first IGNORE their results. We have a guy named Ron Williams who almost always PAX's 1st in a G/S Mini which means he is clobbering nearly everyone at an event on raw time. ZOK's are some 300-400 pounds light than GXP's have better balance and prove that horsepower isn't everything. Second, Hoosiers help. Third, alignment Helps. Fourth, Evo schools help.
Realistically, if you were only 2.5 seconds back, you actually may be in pretty good shape. I don't know what you were racing before, but GXP/RL's seem to demand the same sort of smoothness that makes Camaros and Corvettes go well. After 7 autocrosses, a couple of test & tunes, and an Evo Challenge school, I am just starting to come to terms with my RL. And yesterday, I took FTD against a 120+ field, and A/Stock by over .5 seeconds in a 12 car class. Part of this came from wildly varying weather, and some people never saw ANY dry pavement. But some of the A/S guys had as much dry pavement as I did. I just managed to hit all my marks on the last run. You, too, will get to where you want to be. It will take some seat time.