Anyone know where in Dublin best to practice my powerslides?

unkel

As it says. Rear tyres need replacing soon, so I might as well finish them off

Any location particularly suited? I've no intention to take the car to the track, a large bit of tarmac somewhere will do...

Turner

Private property with permission of owner and your away in a hack.

Dades

A couple of good roundabouts near Monkstown had me changing my cords when I got home...
(So THAT'S what RWD is all about)

:eek:

KdjaCL

Theres an industrial estate in Clondalkin if coming from lucan head over the hump back bridge and turn left just before the Esso garage on your right is a winding road head up to the security hut and throw yer man a tenner


Head on down about 500 yards and theres this grainy flat sanded cobbled type road (why its there i dunno) but k30s have been known to 720 on the surface
So can imagine what a 5 series would do.

kdjac

gabgab

m50 southbound on the kilternan exit, actually 3 roundabouts one after the other, but a lot of Gards about lately..... Definitely worth a quick spin through at some stage

Seth Brundle

Unkel - I have managed to do a couple of nice slides on the road near you - plenty of roundabouts to get you started and this rain will really help!

fletch

Few lovely roundabouts out by Ongar, lovely wide run-off areas too....just be careful I got pulled by the cops there a few weeks ago for takin a roundabout "a bit" too enthusiastically

Interceptor

Can you switch off the traction control on your uber-barge? You could practice figure-of-eights in any large car park but powersliding on public roads can result in messiness/facing-the-wrong-way-ness. Blanchardstown would be a good place to start....

'c

unkel

Interceptor wrote:

You could practice figure-of-eights in any large car park but powersliding on public roads can result in messiness/facing-the-wrong-way-ness

My line of thinking. I would be most reluctant to do anything like that on a public road. A large formation of tarmac with no one else in sight would be the place to go alright

Interceptor wrote:

Can you switch off the traction control on your uber-barge?

Yep. Not much point otherwise, is there?

slade_x

Airport :rolleyes:

ciarsd

bloody joyriders

ando

damn disgraceful at your age

impr0v

I thought you'd need one of those train turntables to get the back end of that barge moving.

whippet

unkel wrote:

Any location particularly suited?

as far away from me a possible please!!!

528i

Roundabouts are alittle easier to control than car-parks because of the natural inclination & camber towards the centre, even small ind. estate ones (the exit can be tricky if its tight and dry though), is there a limited slip diff on those 7-series ? makes it a helluvalot easier to control on the throttle without spinning the inside wheel, although a taut suspension, snappy throttle response and frankly ridiculous rear wheel camber (specifically design by ///M for this sort of messing no doubt helps too).

I know the 740i (with about $80k worth of upgrades) certainly doesn't disgrace itself on Gran Turismo

I must record some uber_antics for posterity sometime

ds20prefecture

The wicklow way - at around 7:00am. Largely deserted roads, pretty scenery, some stretches where you can see for a mile or two. Fairly unforgiving if you over-cook it, though.

I've come home this way a few times after blessington club rallies - it's a great road. I accidentally discovered the behaviour of a DS in extremis on a surprisingly tight right-hander behind the sugar loaf last monday night. Nice, controllable four wheel drift. A couple of nasty bumps in the middle of it did not upset the composure at all. In fairness, the speeds required to do this are not very high - maybe 65kph (it's an 80 zone).

Seth Brundle

BTW unkel - I know you said no to tracking it but the Im organising another day out on Mondello's International Circuit in 4 weeks time - drive it sensibly (i.e. not trying to crash it!) and you will be absolutely fine!

unkel

impr0v wrote:

I thought you'd need one of those train turntables to get the back end of that barge moving.

Oh no, you're mistaken there! Switch off the traction control and even from stationary apply the throttle just a little bit while moving the steering wheel and the back end is like a waggy tail

I still find it amazing that the E38 drives like a car at least a full size smaller

528i wrote:

is there a limited slip diff on those 7-series ?

Nope

ando wrote:

damn disgraceful at your age

I suppose so, I've got to be careful. Jeremy Clarkson (although in fairness he is about 6 times my age) nearly broke his back doing same in another V8 recently

ds20prefecture wrote:

The wicklow way - at around 7:00am. Largely deserted roads, pretty scenery, some stretches where you can see for a mile or two. Fairly unforgiving if you over-cook it, though

Hence not for me. I do not want to risk my lenghty NCB

kbannon wrote:

BTW unkel - I know you said no to tracking it but the Im organising another day out on Mondello's International Circuit in 4 weeks time

Need to change the tyres within a week or so. Is there any point in keeping the old tyres and putting them on just for a track day? What would it cost me to change back to the old (rear) tyres for the day and changing back after? Might be a good plan alright

Seth Brundle

unkel wrote:

Need to change the tyres within a week or so. Is there any point in keeping the old tyres and putting them on just for a track day? What would it cost me to change back to the old (rear) tyres for the day and changing back after? Might be a good plan alright

talk to a local tyre fitter - he might do it for about €40. I got myself a set of rims specially for the track [with nicely worn tyres on and all]!