How To Properly Carve a Canyon
 

Check this out if you wanna see how it's done and what to use. Absolutely incredible. http://www.youtube.com/user/svronin

And these are the photos: http://www.s2ki.com/forums/index.php?showtopic=750477
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Impressive

personally.. i think he took it kinda easy

i used to run that canyon FREQUENTLY in my MR2. i don't know why he refers to it as "on the way to Spunky," because Spunky Cnyn Rd is off of Boquet Canyon Road, a few miles past the end of that road, and personally, the road he's on is MUCH better. spunky is too short and dare i say it, too tight/twisty. i wonder if he was running the same loop i used to run, lol. could run it around in circles, roughly 150 mile loop including all highway connections between canyons.

i would usually run that one in the opposite direction that he's driving it in the video, making it from the In-N-Out burger on the North end to the 7-11 on the South end in roughly 18-20 minutes. :D

and not to nitpick, but he's hardly using the car. also, i don't care for the amount of shuffle steering i'm seeing going on.

anyway, it's a GREAT road, and not as popular as some of the other SoCal roads. at least, not when i ran them, things might have changed since the last time i ran there.

-Mike

See how its done? Its a video showing off the road, if anything. He's not really pushing the car hard at all.

Awesome car and amazing road though! I'd love to check it out someday.

Just noticed that the car in the pictures and the car in the video aren't the same...

Unless he did a RHD conversion after shooting the video.

Both look LHD to me.

damn made me want to get that exige s i test drove few months ago, im still waiting for the FT86 :party0030:

You read my mind. From what I can tell he has never seen track time. One of the first things you learn is to keep your hand's in certain spots depending on how tight the turn is. This maintains consistency through the turns the next time you go around the track.

Ah, you guys found vids of my buddy Frank's car.

That Lotus is now twin charged with a MP62 roots, a huge turbo, and a nice A2W IC.

Actually, my IC build is an adaptation of his old manifold that he was kind enough to part with.

I don't recall exactly what his Lotus is putting down now (I think he recently went with a bigger turbo), but it's well over 400 to the tire if memory serves, with massive low end gunt given the twin charge set-up.

Frank's a cool guy -- head over to moremonkey.com to check out more vids and pics.

This stuff was on s2ki and someone there said he was putting down 500 or so.

it's a fantastic car, don't get me wrong. i just think it's being used improperly... and it's hard for me to tell, but does it seem to you guys like he's heel-toeing or just dragging the revs up with the clutch?

-Mike

no his not doing heel & toe, no commitment & no confidence on the turns tooooo scared to wreak his lotus but he pushes on straight area using all its got, watch the .52 to 58 sec of the video i wonder why he let off the throttle on that turn its a short right, left, right im pretty sure even a stock exige or elise can carry better speed on that area, classic sign of hesitation.

Huh -- I'll have to give him a ring and see what's new. Can't find a recent dyno. I know he picked up a whopping 120+ whp below 4K with the blower/turbo combo.

My poor car would just go sideways with that much torque :bellyroll:

But yeah -- that car is pretty much perfect.

i'd be babying that car too, a slight error and bam your lotus is no longer pretty, or worse with that canyon dropoff...

but yea after seeing that and this:http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AuJEXp-EKso
i pretty much officially want to twincharge my future ft-86