Skidding Advice
- Thread starter zcacogp
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Osi is right it's the salt that kills your car.My car has lived it's whole life in central scotland ,and up here they salt the roads every time it gets down to 3 degrees c.The net result was the sill etc were rotten.I could not belive how good Osi's sons car was underneath,I only wish mine had been as good. Then I wouldn't have had to remake the whole bottom of the car.
They use salt here only when it is really needed. Mostly in the southern part of the country (where i live) because cars are mainly here and most of the people without "hands" are also located. I mean un-skilled drivers are located here. Nordic citizen's are not automatically WRC level drivers ..... Up north they use salt hardly at all.
My son's project 951 started it's life in Swizerland, don't know was it in all year use there. Then it moved to Sweden where it was used only as a "summer vechile". It was imported to Finland in 2005, but has never been used at all, because some bad luck previous owner had (engine failure and engine fire with rebuilt engine), so it has been sat in warm garage last 7-years [
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My son's project 951 started it's life in Swizerland, don't know was it in all year use there. Then it moved to Sweden where it was used only as a "summer vechile". It was imported to Finland in 2005, but has never been used at all, because some bad luck previous owner had (engine failure and engine fire with rebuilt engine), so it has been sat in warm garage last 7-years [
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TTM
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For a few years the Swiss have been experimenting with sugar-based chemicals to limit soil pollution caused by intensive use of salt.
http://www.20minutes.fr/article/606107/planete-du-sucre-routes-suisses
As the chemical reacts with salt the mixture turns into some sort of brine that isn't too difficult to drive on. Well, at least it's more desirable to drive on this than on snow.
But then obviously Switzerland can afford such costly alternatives to salt...!
http://www.20minutes.fr/article/606107/planete-du-sucre-routes-suisses
As the chemical reacts with salt the mixture turns into some sort of brine that isn't too difficult to drive on. Well, at least it's more desirable to drive on this than on snow.
But then obviously Switzerland can afford such costly alternatives to salt...!
TTM
Well-known member
Oli, while by now you may well be aware of the handling characteristics of your Baltic Blue dragster, may I suggest you to have a look into fitting an LSD.
I have always found my turbo, running stiffer suspension, wider tyres and LSD, to be more predictable in slippery conditions than my softlier-sprung S2, at least when running Summer tyres on both.
I have always found my turbo, running stiffer suspension, wider tyres and LSD, to be more predictable in slippery conditions than my softlier-sprung S2, at least when running Summer tyres on both.
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