http://au.youtube.com/watch?v=QJ6khaD4fx4
Sorry about the sound, got to work that one out.
The black R34 that was one car ahead dropped oil on the last lap, you can see me slide across it. Will add another one tonight.
Sorry about the sound, got to work that one out.
The black R34 that was one car ahead dropped oil on the last lap, you can see me slide across it. Will add another one tonight.
Sorry for the rushed first post, I was rushing to get to work.
My car is a dark green, wouldn't have choosen it if I was buying new, but it has grown on me now that i've had it for a while (except for the fact that it's the only colour that MB no longer sell touchup pens for!)
I have driven the same track when the car was dead stock in setup. I found that it has some mild understeer early in a corner and had too much traction control intervention wheel accelerating through long corners but overall a easy car to have fun.
Since then I have added a Kleemann LSD (see 2nd post) and fitted a set or rear (245/40/17) tyres to the front instead of the 225/45/17.
This time I found the car to have heaps more traction out of corners and much more frontend grip overall, but still some initial understeer.
What I did find VERY surprising was that with the added front end grip the ESP was intervening when it shouldn't have. If you have a look at the video you'll see turns 1 and 3 are very long and higher speeds. When the car was stock I could leave ESP on without it getting in the way, this time i had to have it off. When in the middle of the corner the car would detect understeer and try to correct it even though there much more grip available. With ESP off I could take both corners at about 20kph faster than with it on. I swapped back to my 225/45/17 front tyres and the car drove without oversensitive ESP intervention.
I have always thought that the need for ESP was calculated by comparing yaw/roll/lateral acceleration to the steering angle to detect slip but this was as if it was a predetermined value and the added grip was beyond it so it activated ESP when it wasn't yet required
Anyway, as for comapring the C43 to the W210 E55, we weren't on the track at the same time but compairing the straight line speed and cornering speed the E55 is a much quicker car around the track and much more balanced to drive where the C43 feels more "lively" and go-kart like.
Very interestingly the E55 (270kw) was comfortably pulling away from a brand new 307kw holden (GM, 6.0L V8) down the main straight.......someone is fibbing on the power outputs
My car is a dark green, wouldn't have choosen it if I was buying new, but it has grown on me now that i've had it for a while (except for the fact that it's the only colour that MB no longer sell touchup pens for!)
I have driven the same track when the car was dead stock in setup. I found that it has some mild understeer early in a corner and had too much traction control intervention wheel accelerating through long corners but overall a easy car to have fun.
Since then I have added a Kleemann LSD (see 2nd post) and fitted a set or rear (245/40/17) tyres to the front instead of the 225/45/17.
This time I found the car to have heaps more traction out of corners and much more frontend grip overall, but still some initial understeer.
What I did find VERY surprising was that with the added front end grip the ESP was intervening when it shouldn't have. If you have a look at the video you'll see turns 1 and 3 are very long and higher speeds. When the car was stock I could leave ESP on without it getting in the way, this time i had to have it off. When in the middle of the corner the car would detect understeer and try to correct it even though there much more grip available. With ESP off I could take both corners at about 20kph faster than with it on. I swapped back to my 225/45/17 front tyres and the car drove without oversensitive ESP intervention.
I have always thought that the need for ESP was calculated by comparing yaw/roll/lateral acceleration to the steering angle to detect slip but this was as if it was a predetermined value and the added grip was beyond it so it activated ESP when it wasn't yet requiredAnyway, as for comapring the C43 to the W210 E55, we weren't on the track at the same time but compairing the straight line speed and cornering speed the E55 is a much quicker car around the track and much more balanced to drive where the C43 feels more "lively" and go-kart like.
Very interestingly the E55 (270kw) was comfortably pulling away from a brand new 307kw holden (GM, 6.0L V8) down the main straight.......someone is fibbing on the power outputs
Just a few pics
