DA9 Integra POV on Tail of the Dragon
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- Опубликовано: 6 сен 2024
- Hey everyone, here’s a few clips I got from my last visit at TOTD in my 1990 LS Integra. Mostly bone stock except for Function Form Type 2 coilovers, Hawk Blue 9012 pads, Skunk 2 Camber Arms, and 205/50/15 Nitto Neo Gen tires. No, I am no professional driver so there is much improvement to be made in my driving style. I just simply enjoy the drive. Please feel free to critique it. Also, no, the road is not a racetrack. Drive within the law or potentially suffer the consequences, your choice.
These cars are unbelievably slept on
B18C1 swapped 93 db1(4 door) rs
@@loriedugger5783 hell yeah!
Yo thanks for sharing! Brought back some memory's.
My 2nd Honda was a 91 LS, bought for $2,000 back in 2005 and I drove it over 120 miles a day for about 2 years while working my way thru U.T.I. By the end of the 2 years and +38k miles I put on that car I did the LS-V Frankenstein w/ a b16 head and obd0-obd1 conversion for the p28 ecu.
Fast forward to now. I'm on my 8th Honda, a built B17(92 GS-R) swapped 89 Dx CRX that I only drive on the weekends and I daily a manual RD1.
Still miss the Tegg, my crx might be lighter n faster but I do NOT feel near as safe or confidant at higher speeds... something about the longer wheelbase and extra weight makes the DA so much more stable as speeds increase.
Anytime man! I love sharing my passion with others, that being driving my Integra of course 😁 But that’s amazing you drive yours that much! I’ve had mine just over a year and have done 20k miles on it. It was my daily up until recently and i’ve loved every second of it. By far the most fun Honda I’ve owned.
A B17 CRX though? That’s awesome! Love me a little CRX, but I can’t imagine how unstable it must feel at higher speeds, it would be a perfect canyon carver though at the Tail of the Dragon!
I bought this car and the feeling is amazing, i get in love of this Integra Acura
Thank you sm for uploading this. This is exactly what I’m going to do with the da integra I’m going to pick up soon myself.
No problem! I’d love to keep uploading random content here and there with this car, I’ll be doing a walk around here soon with it when it’s swap is 100%, then next month i’ll be uploading some more spirited driving POV, hopefully to make it a more frequent thing thereafter. But hopefully you get that DA! Such fun cars, I can’t see myself without it now
My brother has a 93 db1 rs 4 door b18c1 swapped he is building for 421 the snake
The da9 and cb7 are my favorite chassis
Sheesh. You're a dangerous man 😎
I also noticed you removing and re-placing your hands on the wheel often. That's a bad habit.
Grip at 9 & 3 just like you were. Let's say there's a bend to the right, if you're at all worried about your arms crossing during the turn you should place your left hand in the 6 o clock position and push up with that hand to add the steering angle letting the right hand slide to about the 4 o clock position. On the unwind you simply pull down with the left and slide / place the right back at the original 3 o clock position. If there's an immediate tight left, repeat the same process with the opposite hand. Some people prefer to do it the opposite way where they'll grab at the 12 o clock position with the right hand and pull down, sliding the left hand on turn-in and sliding the right on the unwind. I hope that makes sense, it's not easy to explain this without a visual lol.
That's called push-pull or shuffle steering. You can make long and wide sweeps with the wheel this way. If you get good at it you can move just as fast as the hand-over-hand motion, but you never get that frantic clawing at the wheel some folks do when they're in trouble. That move you made with your hands at 3:03 is exactly how that can happen. If you had to fight for control in that instance you would be completely unprepared, and I'd bet it didn't feel good doing it, right?
It's safer too because if the airbag goes off with your arms crossed on the wheel, you're going to whack yourself hard.
I’ve been trying to work on this actually, I realized just how bad of a habit it was when i switched out to a Momo Steering wheel, now with the decreased diameter of the wheel it was much harder to drive with that style, so now I do similar to what you said, basically positioning my hands for better steering angle before, during, and after the turn. It’s much more fluent, along with not locking my thumbs on the wheel. It really does work, I just haven’t yet put it in practice with major corners like these, only at some of my local spots which are more long sweepers.
i was actually just wondering about the shuffle technique and really its just not letting your hands cross eachother
@@quinton7854 That is the main part of it, but mastering it is an art.
@@ATA_Blake Exactly! Smaller wheel magnifies the issue yeah? What seemed small before is now a HUGE problem. Good! Do what you know you need to do. Force your brain to move your hands where they need to be. You will be there but it takes constant self criticism.
Yes, agree, shuffle steer no bueno! Around a road course you will lose all continuity to the sequence of turns. Re-train your hands to stay at 9 & 3. One thing that will help greatly is to move your seat closer to the steering wheel, or telescope the wheel closer to you. Having more flex in your elbows will give you much more freedom of movement through the tighter turns. Don't give it the gangsta stiff arm!
Miss my jasper green da9 also with black interior
Decent driving. Little tip, don't lock your thumbs in the wheel, place them on the edge pointing up. This way you won't break them when you hit something.
Notice how Ferrari steering wheels have the horn in that spot? Because that's where your thumbs should go 👍
How did that heel&toe tutorial work out?
Hey! Sorry I’m just now responding, been a minute lol. Unfortunately I’ve not yet been able to try it out as the car has been falling apart around me 😅 Just got a new motor put in along with traction bar but because the front motor mount wouldn’t fit I ended up blowing the rear motor mount. In the process my synchros went out so now i’m having to double clutch everywhere i take it. I promise i’ll try it whenever the car is in perfect driving condition again!! I did, however, manage to get the car to Classic Hondas on the Dragon in its current state last month. But that was not a very easy or pleasant drive 😂
@@ATA_Blake Well done. Enjoy the struggle!
Your rev matching is pretty accurate. Are you getting some heel & toe in there or was this straight rev matching? Heel & toe is a completely different beast to rev matching, and people struggle with it A LOT. I actually have a quick 3 step process to help you get better at it without doing damage to your clutch or your spine lol.
Also respect for knowing and staying within your skill level, and thank you for staying within your lane.
I've been a track nut my whole life, now a professional tuner. I also used to be a driving instructor and build fast Subaru's professionally. I don't throw compliments out often, so you can be sure that you earned them. You have some good foundation, I would love to see what 6 months of solid work could do.
Thanks a lot for all the comments with constructive feedback! This is exactly what I was hoping to see, honestly. I’m no expert, but I’d like to progress my skills whenever possible and will be applying these to my driving this weekend actually. As far as my driving with rev matching, that’s all I did in the video. I can’t heel & toe to save my life lol. Well actually i’ve never tried it because i’m afraid of the outcome if I did attempt, so so just quickly rev match and hit the brakes just before the corner. Not the safest I know, but I have full confidence in the brakes currently on the car. Those being Stoptech Rotors, Hawk Blue 9012 pads up front, and Hawk HPS pads at the rear. Completely overkill for the setup but great feel overall. If you wouldn’t mind sharing your 3 step process that’d be great!
@@ATA_Blake Any time man. Sure I’ll share. For only 99 easy payments of 19.99!
Step 1: Learning the motion. While stopped and holding the brake with your right foot, practice holding the brake and revving. What ever you need to do to get to the gas pedal. Don’t worry if it doesn’t look like the guys in the videos. They don’t have the same feet you do. Practice targeting a certain RPM too. Rev to 4k, 3k, tiny blips, all of it while holding the brake. Also make sure you can get the e gas pedal to the floor with your foot on the brake. You may need to hold significant pressure on the brake to get it low enough to reach the gas pedal.
Step 2: Do the same thing while coming to a stop at a light or a stop sign. Slow the vehicle with the brakes, and practice blipping the throttle as you’re coming to a stop. Big blips, little blips, and practice getting the tach to hover a bit.
Step 3: Put it all together! Remember your RPM target is moving now because you’re slowing down, so the blip you need is half that of a rev match. If you’re slow on clutch up, you may need to change it to a ‘hover’. The longer you take the lower the target will be. The guys on the race track do really deep heel & toe because they’re keeping it as close to the redline as possible so they’re grabbing the next lowest gear as soon as they can and they’re flooring it to rev match, so it all sounds very dramatic. In reality if you’re not at the top of the RPM range you won’t have to hit the throttle that hard to get it right.
Practice rev matching under hard braking, and under light braking. The harder you’re braking the less of a rev you’ll need because those RPM targets will fall fast. Say second gear goes to 60 right? If you’re in third at 90 and you nail the brakes, you want to go for the clutch when the speedo touches 65, hit the throttle deep, and by the time you get the clutch up it’ll be 55 and falling, and everything will fall in to place nicely.
Good luck.
@@ATA_Blake “but how do I know when I’m ready to move on?”
Easy. When it gets boring, that’s when you move on to the next step.
When rev matching gets boring…. then you can start chasing lap times 😈
Heel&toe, not rev matching lol.
What’s your IG? I have the exact same car, same color same year
My IG is @Da9Blake, I post a lot about the vehicle there lol
I’m sorry, correction, DA9_Blake is my IG
what exhaust
This setup was just an Ebay exhaust with a Magnaflow resonator added. Not very raspy but the exhaust tip did cause it to be tinny on the top end outside the car. Currently i’m running the ebay piping with the Magnaflow resonator and a Vibrant dual tip muffler
Over steer