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The human body is a strange thing though. To a amatueur like me on the ractrack, despite many SCCA titles, is very different from men like Scott Pruitt or Ayrton Senna. What I can feel may be 100 times more sensitive than your mom at the wheel that didn't partake in 1000+ laps at your local raceway, diving into apexes under full braking or 5 degree neutral steer drifts. I can judge where a car will slide and end up by margins of 6 feet, and Senna can probably do this to 3 inches (while he was still with us), and your mom can do it to only 50 yards (reason she will fear going near the limits on the raceway).
What I am trying to say is that most enthusiastic of drivers can only feel so much at the pedal. The FRS is made in such ways, like the best of German cars, where things can be truly tactile and easy to read, and predict. This is what makes a true performance car great.
To modify a totally nice car is what I mean by very difficult. You can easily make it go faster, but will that single element you just imporved work accordingly and balance with the rest of the 500 components and 1000 different intrisic nature of the vehicle that will allow the driver to go faster? or feel better? have more fun?
This is what I an talking about... And this is also what Mr.Tada was hoping to relay to you all who embrace the FRS. The driving pleasure of a finely balanced, tactile car, that only comes a few times in a lifetime, because this is something of a value that isn't quantified by catalogs and the one element Marketing and Sales teams of automobile manufacturers just can't translate to common folks who buy the cars that provide the financial analysis and returns to investors.
Come out to play with the core driving fans, who all aspire and welcome others to try the same, and ENJOY the REAL passion that the FRS has intrinsically. It's not easy, nor obvious to many. But this is what makes a Porsche 911 great, and cars like AE86 stand the test of time. It is not about shallow instant gratification, but more a 10 year relationship with an excellent car, that will keep you in the long and enjoyable learning curve, as an owner, and a driver.
Brake Master Stopper, Strut Brace, and 50 other things... Its all dependent on your skills, and the ability to quantify a car's behaviors at such minute levels, and see if any of these make a difference for YOU as an owner/driver. If not, you don't need it as much as more track time and proper fiends and mentors to help you understand and improve. If you can feel it and are able to adjust for this, then all of these tuner parts may have a goal that has meaning to you.
Last edited by Moto-P; 05-13-2012 at 03:01 AM.
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