I did a little 180 spin in rush hour traffic this morning. Ended up facing up the road that I was headed down on. I’m still shaking a little. I’m totally relieved that I didn’t hit or harm anybody. The only damage done is to my pride, I feel like a fool. I just need to vent.

The roads were a little wet. I was in a line of cars trying to pass a stopped bus. I think my choke went full open and let my secondaries open up while I was accelerating. :eek: :eek: :eek:

 

Did you get out, face traffic and say "I meant to do that!!!" like Pee Wee Herman in his movie? :lol:
Glad you weren't hurt or damaged the vette

 

Been there and done that.........VERY scary..i am glad it was only your pride that was damaged!!

 

glad you missed everything! :eek:

 

Sometimes it's better to have an open, non positraction rearend!

Hans

 

phew! Good thing you're doing alright. You'll get back into the swing of things and hopefully not repeat what happened

 

hmmmmmmmmmm....let's see...I've done that 4 times. The corvette was my first car so I kinda learned how to drive by trial and error. I also learned that wet roads are the enemy. 345s in the rear would be nice

 

Maybe you need to fart and let the pressure out so you can think straight! You just need better tires! :seeya

 

I'm under the impression that a less than perfect 4-wheel alignment can also contribute to this problem when you loose traction.

Anybody have any thoughts on this? . . . Agree or disagree?

 

:lol: :lol: Do a Pee Wee Herman then a fart! :lol: :lol:

You guys crack me up! On my way home I took a better look at that area. Big fresh white painted crosswalk stripes. Must have lost traction on one side while it was on the stripe and the other side caught traction while it was off the stripe. Watch out for those broad painted stripes on the road!

 

Don't B.S. me! You just have to much instant power to the ground. Some 265/50's T/A's rears might just grab. They are A traction and A temp I think that they are V rated in the 15 inch wheel size. I have fun in the rain. That way I'm saving rubber.

Norris. I really do raise H*** when it's wet. The real problem is you don't do it enough. Bad old tires even with tread would make me loop it in a heart beat. Posi-track is a art to learn. I gave up on old tires. I went to Z rated and heat cycles ruins them. You saw my tires 300 tread rating they are gone in 6 months.

I'm glad nothing go hurt. I've loop my car many times. Even on our little Auto-X races where the max speed is only 85. The lucky thing is I have never hit anything.

 

mine did that in the dry when i got my new engine running.
happened when i was shifting, fortunately it was on one of the empty
wide roads next to my mechanics shop.
hasnt happened since. dont know why. but when it happened it scared me.

Chris :cheers:

 

After spending time in my Corvair, the vette's a piece of cake! Until you've experienced a lift-throttle oversteer spin, total pucker has NOT been achieved!

Hans

 

Kind of fun isn't it? :eek:
I did it about a month ago with less than 1/4 tank of gas, and dry roads. I feel your pain! :)

 

Hey, know the feeling. I came out of a sonic drive in and took off, when I grabbed second I hit a bump and spun around 3 times ending up in the other lane. I was fortunate it was around 11pm and nobody saw me except the car hop at sonic, by the way, she mentioned it the next time I was in the get some food. :lol: :bb :cheers:

 

Have done that too, bad thing about it was that the vette was hanging on the guardrail of the street afterwards.
But I was really a lucky one.
Slided up the rail with the rear first, (guardrail started at this area) and the C4 climbed up :eek:
Was under shock when this happened and thought I´ve crashed into the sidewall.... When I tried to get out of the vette I stumbled because the vette was about 3 feet in the air. BTW it was 3 o clock in the morning and winter!!!
Big surprise, nearly nothing was damaged. But we had to call a crane to get it back on the road again.


[Modified by MARKUS_P, 6:02 AM 10/12/2001]

 

Show off!!! First it is 13 sec 1/4 miles, then thrill rides with GKULL, next donuts in heavy traffic, What is it going to be next? Was there someone in the cross walk you were trying to hit?

 

I did that when I first got my car. The road was dry, but I had very poor tires. I pulled out of a gas station and hit it pretty hard (did a pretty quick 0-45). Well, someone hadn't seen me pull out I guess and pulled out from the side street. There were two South bound and two North bound lanes, no median (thank goodness!). This guy is in an old Continential and completely blocks the driving lane and half of the passing lane. I looked past him and see there is no North bound traffic so I decide to swing around the front of him by going into the North bound lane. I made it past, but I tried to come back into the South bound lanes too quickly and spun. I was at 90 degrees long enough to put up a pretty good cloud of tire smoke in the air, then I continued around another 90 degrees and slowly backed up onto the side of the road. I stopped about 10 ft from a mailbox. VERY VERY LUCKY :eek:

I felt pretty stupid, but a car that was a ways behind me stopped to ask if I was OK and said that I did a pretty good job not hitting the guy so I felt a little better.

It took a minute or two before I could get myself going down the road again. Not something I ever want to do again.

:chevy Oh, I saw an article on TV once that said when the Government first required "roll over" tests on cars, that they couldn't get the Corvette (I'm pretty sure a C2, but don't know the year, maybe '67) to roll over. They ended up having to cut a small ditch in the road to catch the tires and make it roll over :cool: I can believe it's pretty much the same case with the C3s after my experience. :chevy

 

Wow, this is completely amazing! I cannot believe how stupid I felt when I did this. I can't believe that so many people have had the same thing happen. I did it on dry pavement after pulling through an oily mud puddle and accelerating to ~45mph. Right as the TH400 shifted (yeah, I was on it a little) the tires did their normal bark, except that instead of a little bark, my backend completely broke loose. I immediately steered into the slide, back and forth several times before I lost it and did a 180 and was slowly putting backward, never leaving my lane. I felt like a complete boob, but fortunately for me, the only car that had been on the same side of the road as me disappeared somewhere, so I was alone and nobody and nothing was hurt.

Got rid of the crappy Goodyear Eagle GTs for a set of Pirelli Scorpion Zeros (traction A, temp A, V-rated). I'm now very careful when road conditions are less than perfect. Having posi and and TH400 with shift kit can be a bad combination if you aren't experienced.

Glad to hear that you were unharmed. It could have been much worse.

-dath

 

those DAMM hawaiin drivers ..glad ur ok though..hey what colour is ur vette,im wondering how many times ive cn u zoom bye.. :cool: