New battery, worse handling

[humfrz]

Originally Posted by Ultramaroon

C'mon, guys. He noticed the difference.

Y'all are just jealous of our high-precision butt dynos.

This calls for an experiment ......


humfrz

[Dejecteddevil]

Originally Posted by guybo

Sounds heavy.

???

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[radroach]

[QUOTE=humfrz;2937936]This calls for an experiment ...... /QUOTE]

Easy just strap a ~12 lb kettlebell to your stock battery.

[humfrz]

[quote=radroach;2937949]

Originally Posted by humfrz

This calls for an experiment ...... /QUOTE]

Easy just strap a ~12 lb kettlebell to your stock battery.

No, to YOUR battery. Next time you go to a car meet, take that 12 pound weight with you and get 3 volunteers. One to attach (or detach) the weight; one to blindfold you when they are adding or removing the weight and one to record your response.

You drive the same route 8 times, four will be with the weight, 4 without the weight. Record your observations.

Meanwhile, @soulreapersteve and I are going to sneak a weight into the area of the battery on @Ultramaroon 's car ....... just to see if he can REALLY notice the difference .......


humfrz

[Ultramaroon]

Originally Posted by humfrz

Meanwhile, @soulreapersteve and I are going to sneak a weight into the area of the battery on @Ultramaroon 's car ....... just to see if he can REALLY notice the difference .......

I don't think that's how a double blind test is supposed to work. Is it?

I'm going to fill my washer bottle with deuterium and see how it affects my lap times.

[Tcoat]

Originally Posted by radroach

So, stock battery wouldn't crank today, got a jump and ran to autozone and put in a Duralast Platinum 35-AGM and now the car's handling is terrible! Left turns are wide and right turns sink like a stone. I think it was a 13lb increase in weight and I can definitely feel it.



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Originally Posted by Ultramaroon

C'mon, guys. He noticed the difference.

Y'all are just jealous of our high-precision butt dynos.

I could accept a "I notice a slight difference". That is NOT what he claimed.

By this standard a passenger should destroy the car's handling completely and you should fly off the road at every turn.
It is 10 pounds difference and set back behind the wheel. It is not making the car sink like a stone or make left turns wide and you know it. I doubt you could measure the impact that 10 pounds had with anything less than NASA grade equipment.

[Ultramaroon]

Originally Posted by Tcoat

I could accept a "I notice a slight difference". That is NOT what he claimed.

By this standard a passenger should destroy the car's handling completely and you should fly off the road at every turn.
It is 10 pounds difference and set back behind the wheel. It is not making the car sink like a stone or make left turns wide and you know it. I doubt you could measure the impact that 10 pounds had with anything less than NASA grade equipment.

I know. I was just trying to be supportive. Remember, I did limit my agreement to "noticing a minor change."


Don't be jelly of my NASA grade ass.

[Tcoat]

Originally Posted by Ultramaroon

I know. I was just trying to be supportive. Remember, I did limit my agreement to "noticing a minor change."


Don't be jelly of my NASA grade ass.

[Reamer]

This is why I have a strict "no fat chicks" rule...

...this is also why I touch myself at night, but I make sure it is the same amount of time before getting in my car again so the weight is the same. Same goes for my morning glory.

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[radroach]

I guess i could take the opportunity to talk about it further.

My front tires are old and need replacing, but have been serviceable thus far through 3rd gear redlines on a backroad and cornering ok in dry weather. My struts have almost 85,000 miles on them and might need replacing soon as well.

The explanation, I was swinging wide on left hand turns probably because I was compensating for the extra weight feeling while coming through a turn. Compensating for the lack of grip I might perceive and swinging wide based on how my car responded through the corner, and not wanting to upset the front end. So MAYBE a fresh set of tires might make it all better. Maybe on my set of tires I could have turned more aggressively, at the sake of MORE body roll (don't deny this, cmon) but didn't want to upset my driving balance.

The left hand turns though was the kicker for me though. I have a banked uphill curve coming into my apartment which I enter in 2nd gear, go up and downshift to 1st to enter the lot. The car absolutely felt like a rock coming through it and the added 10-15lbs is the only explanation I have for it other than muh throttle response, which I still don't think it was.

[humfrz]

Originally Posted by Ultramaroon

I don't think that's how a double blind test is supposed to work. Is it?

I'm going to fill my washer bottle with deuterium and see how it affects my lap times.

@soulreapersteve and I working on your car, is pretty much ..... double blind .....


humfrz

[humfrz]

Originally Posted by Ultramaroon

I don't think that's how a double blind test is supposed to work. Is it?

I'm going to fill my washer bottle with deuterium and see how it affects my lap times.

I'll believe that, when I see the pink glow coming from under your car's hood ....


humfrz

[nikitopo]

Originally Posted by Tcoat

I could accept a "I notice a slight difference". That is NOT what he claimed.

When I changed my battery to a lighter one, I felt once a very small difference. It was strange, because I wasn't looking to see a difference. I thought that the weight gain was too small (-10lbs). Of course, I might be wrong and it was just my idea.

[Ultramaroon]

Originally Posted by humfrz

I'll believe that, when I see the pink glow coming from under your car's hood ....

I blew the joke. I should've referred to heavy water, not deuterium.

Not that it really changes anything but hey, this shit's free.