How not to drive a 911....as demonstrated by me!!

johnny senna · Mar 8, 2005

As you fellas know, a few of us went to Oulton Park on Saturday. Twas my first outing in my (new for me) 993 RS.

Here is a demonstration of what happens in a 911 if your foot slips off the brake pedal resulting in one entering a 90 degree right-hander way too fast. :yikes:

Incidentally the photographer missed the first part of the drama, basically the tankslapper bit. Crikey. My brother was in the car and he jumped clean out of the car when we got back to the pits because he wanted to throw up.

The only consolation (apart from the fact that I didn't hit anything) was that I knew the cause of the spin.......slippy metal pedals!!

Keith Calder · Mar 8, 2005

watched young graham howells having a few moments there as well, although his tank slapper seemed to throw him in the right direction for the chicane, nice trick if you can master it, talking of tricks how did you manage to post so many photos i only manage one?

johnny senna · Mar 8, 2005

Hi Keith,

Someone asked me the same earlier today on the Oulton thread. This is what I did:

1. Sent the pics from my camera to my PC.
2. Sent the pics into my photo editing program (Adobe Photodeluxe).
3. Used Adobe to convert them to jpeg files so they were smaller in terms of file size, say 120kb each, but not in physical size seen on the screen, they were still bigger than your screen.
4. Sent them to a web hoster (Photobucket) which saves them as full size initially, literally a foot across or more. I then used a function on their website to shrink them to half size so they come out nice and big still on the forum, but not silly.
5. Posted the link to the pics on the forum. I typed:

....but without the space after the the first "

johnny senna · Mar 8, 2005

Incidentally, like Howells Jnr I was thrown in the correct direction for the chicane initially (i.e. tail swings to left) but I corrected.....resulting in the tail snapping back to the right and then continuing to spin 180 degrees as the pics show.....until I end up in the grass.

Andy Tims · Mar 8, 2005

Good sequence of shots Johhny.

Just glad my own minor indescretion on the day wasn't caught on film too.

johnny senna · Mar 8, 2005

Hi Andy,

Spins are what separate the men from the boys. My chest wig grew extra bushy after my spin as I'm sure yours did too.

Guest · Mar 8, 2005

beg to differ Johnny...great shots though![

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Sundeep · Mar 10, 2005

respect that you giving it all in the RS !

from a man in a mere 993 Targa !

johnny senna · Mar 10, 2005

ORIGINAL: Sundeep993

respect that you giving it all in the RS !

from a man in a mere 993 Targa !

Cheers mate!

Sundeep · Mar 10, 2005

no worries... great wheels, hhmmmm and here I am trying to supersize up to mere Turbo's...

RS question, what is the braking set up on yours... different to the Turbo ?

btw.. if you knew how to great animated GIF files, those pics would make a great seqeuence !

Guest · Mar 10, 2005

btw.. if you knew how to great animated GIF files, those pics would make a great seqeuence !

Animated GIFs are real easy - we have the technology - but you would lose some resolution in converting from JPG. And, from experience, possibly end up with one very large (in bytes) file.

johnny senna · Mar 10, 2005

ORIGINAL: John Bellringer

btw.. if you knew how to great animated GIF files, those pics would make a great seqeuence !

Click to expand...

Animated GIFs are real easy - we have the technology - but you would lose some resolution in converting from JPG. And, from experience, possibly end up with one very large (in bytes) file.

John,

Do you think it would be worth doing with the above sequence? Or would it look rubbish?

gordon · Mar 10, 2005

and John metal pedals ? sorry i never got you out in my car see you at SPA ill take you out then cu Gordon

johnny senna · Mar 10, 2005

ORIGINAL: Sundeep993

no worries... great wheels, hhmmmm and here I am trying to supersize up to mere Turbo's...

RS question, what is the braking set up on yours... different to the Turbo ?

btw.. if you knew how to great animated GIF files, those pics would make a great seqeuence !

The rear brakes are standard.

The fronts have standard 993 RS discs which I believe are the same as the 993 Turbo. I am using Pagid Yellow pads with them. I have Castrol SRF brake fluid. I also have a custom made cooling kit for the front brakes which is unconventional in that it doesn't take air from intakes where the foglights should be (like most kits), but instead it takes air from under the car in the middle. However, I reckon this is all over the top. Most 993 RS owners seem to say that they don't get brake fade on the track with standard set ups.

Sundeep · Mar 11, 2005

cheers...

I'm soon to try the ceramic "red stuff" pads (but can't say that too loudly over here !) with Castrol SRF on the OEM discs (keeping the std size) as I've had the techart brake cooling duct kit fitted....

was going to go for Turbo callipes but will just paint the callipers red (as I keep running out of money, damn the slippery slope!)

Sundeep · Mar 11, 2005

ORIGINAL: johnny senna

ORIGINAL: John Bellringer

btw.. if you knew how to great animated GIF files, those pics would make a great seqeuence !

Click to expand...

Animated GIFs are real easy - we have the technology - but you would lose some resolution in converting from JPG. And, from experience, possibly end up with one very large (in bytes) file.

Click to expand...

John,

Do you think it would be worth doing with the above sequence? Or would it look rubbish?

based on John's avatar which is great.. your sequence will be LEGENDARY (prob' have to keep it small in size to keep the end file size small.. and that's all I know) !

Guest · Mar 11, 2005

bt if you put your mouse in the scroll bar and click down really really quickly it has the same effect, especially if its late at night and you size the window really small and your really tired and quite weird![8D]

vic cohen · Mar 11, 2005

1 st serious comment i ve made on ur saga [or question pse Doc] where does the air go to reach discs , have nt seen this one , presume thru grill and couple of pipes then guiding directly onto discs?
Have seen the 'intakes' on lower wishbones , they come straight off in ur scenario
i have the ducts in the puon the whole fleet!
if u dont use the pu intakes, it truly is more aerodynmic at top speed ......a few mph ..........not kidding ..................... Hows it done pse ?

johnny senna · Mar 11, 2005

ORIGINAL: vic cohen

1 st serious comment i ve made on ur saga [or question pse Doc] where does the air go to reach discs , have nt seen this one , presume thru grill and couple of pipes then guiding directly onto discs?
Have seen the 'intakes' on lower wishbones , they come straight off in ur scenario
i have the ducts in the puon the whole fleet!
if u dont use the pu intakes, it truly is more aerodynmic at top speed ......a few mph ..........not kidding ..................... Hows it done pse ?

To be honest Vic, I haven't been able to examine the brake cooling kit close up. I would need the car up on ramps........or deploy the air jacks!!! [8D] I'll try to take some photos one day.