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st184 sillycar Forums Junkie Location: Melbourne Registered: June 2004	Re: New found respect for ABS Wed, 23 March 2005 22:44 dimmy77_03 wrote on Wed, 23 March 2005 22:35 i nearly spun my car today when it was raining near the cbd...scary shit. Was doing about 50, coming into the turn i shift to 2nd whilst on the brakes (pressing lightly) and they just lock up or something and the car starts sliding...scared the living shit out of me Thats when you need ABS and traction control...not in an ae82 tho ABS can't help you beyond a certain point when you get shift-lock, as the engine has enough braking power to easily break traction in the wet, even when you aren't on the stoppers. Pretty handy to know when you wanna get turn-in oversteer in a car equipped with overly sensitive ABS ! ! To Me, the usefulness of ABS is entirely dependant on the nuff-nuffs who design and calibrate the system: Some cars I've driven are set to permanently run stability control under brakes - even when you've turned it off ! ! ! - Uber-frustrating. At the other end of the spectrum there's the Lotus Elise and Porsche 911 GT3 ABS systems, both of which stay well out of the way until a wheel is trully locking, and drag the wheel without smoking it. GOLD! [Report message to a moderator]

	Subject	Poster	Date
	New found respect for ABS	Lambolica	Wed, 23 March 2005 01:24
	Re: New found respect for ABS	smt_007	Wed, 23 March 2005 01:41
	Re: New found respect for ABS	bbaacchhyy	Wed, 23 March 2005 01:45
	Re: New found respect for ABS	FWDCelica	Wed, 23 March 2005 04:30
	Re: New found respect for ABS	smt_007	Wed, 23 March 2005 01:48
	Re: New found respect for ABS	Lambolica	Wed, 23 March 2005 01:54
	Re: New found respect for ABS	Corona RT142	Wed, 23 March 2005 02:00
	Re: New found respect for ABS	davedave	Wed, 23 March 2005 02:43
	Re: New found respect for ABS	bbaacchhyy	Wed, 23 March 2005 04:37
	Re: New found respect for ABS	RWDboy	Wed, 23 March 2005 03:46
	Re: New found respect for ABS	Lambolica	Wed, 23 March 2005 03:55
	Re: New found respect for ABS	Corona RT142	Wed, 23 March 2005 03:53
	Re: New found respect for ABS	Corona RT142	Wed, 23 March 2005 03:55
	Re: New found respect for ABS	Corona RT142	Wed, 23 March 2005 04:00
	Re: New found respect for ABS	Corona RT142	Wed, 23 March 2005 04:33
	Re: New found respect for ABS	SIMDOG	Wed, 23 March 2005 04:37
	Re: New found respect for ABS	ae86drift	Wed, 23 March 2005 05:38
	Re: New found respect for ABS	Allan	Wed, 23 March 2005 06:40
	Re: New found respect for ABS	79rollaboy	Wed, 23 March 2005 07:43
	Re: New found respect for ABS	BradW	Wed, 23 March 2005 09:11
	Re: New found respect for ABS	bbaacchhyy	Wed, 23 March 2005 22:31
	Re: New found respect for ABS	bbaacchhyy	Wed, 23 March 2005 22:29
	Re: New found respect for ABS	Corona RT142	Wed, 23 March 2005 23:55
	Re: New found respect for ABS	Allan	Wed, 23 March 2005 09:51
	Re: New found respect for ABS	79rollaboy	Wed, 23 March 2005 09:56
	Re: New found respect for ABS	Toobs	Wed, 23 March 2005 11:15
	Re: New found respect for ABS	dimmy77_03	Wed, 23 March 2005 11:35
	Re: New found respect for ABS	st184 sillycar	Wed, 23 March 2005 22:44
	Re: New found respect for ABS	no_tofu_speed	Wed, 23 March 2005 12:41
	Re: New found respect for ABS	Toobs	Wed, 23 March 2005 16:02
	Re: New found respect for ABS	Toobs	Wed, 23 March 2005 16:05
	Re: New found respect for ABS	Lambolica	Wed, 23 March 2005 20:18
	Re: New found respect for ABS	unforgiven	Thu, 24 March 2005 05:15
	Re: New found respect for ABS	no_tofu_speed	Thu, 24 March 2005 01:30
	Re: New found respect for ABS	st184 sillycar	Thu, 24 March 2005 03:07
	Re: New found respect for ABS	Squid	Thu, 24 March 2005 03:09
	Re: New found respect for ABS	Corona RT142	Thu, 24 March 2005 03:38

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