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Posted by: Lawrence Aug 24 2003, 08:52 AM

Speed is seductive, especially in a 914. I had been driving several hours, cruising between 85 and 105. Clear blue sky, nice reading on the temp gauge, my Diet Coke in a cooler, sweet crisp sound of the /6 behind my head.

After a while, it just doesn't seem that fast, ya know?

At the time, I was going 95-100 on the freeway. The road wasn't the greatest in my lane, so I decided to move over.

OMG! I felt like I was on the SS Minnow. The car was tilting back and forth, and I almost put it sideways into a concrete retaining wall. The only thought in my mind was... "oh shit - another factory /6 in the graveyard."

Both hands gripping the Momo steering wheel with white knuckles, I pointed in one direction and increased speed (for just a moment that felt like 2-3 minutes) until the car stopped rocking... then I slowed down and made my lane change.

I *really* need to get that front sway bar hooked up today.

-Rusty

Posted by: tryan Aug 24 2003, 12:29 PM

glad you held on and kept it under control. i hate it when cars track sideways on uneven pavement. it must have been the diet coke.



we have a new 'enhanced traffic enforcement' zone. i will have to drill holes in my right foot until the court date comes and my probation is over.

Posted by: Carl Aug 24 2003, 01:58 PM

There was a moment like that with mine during one of the first times I'd driven it. Here in San Jose is a freeway interchange with a downhill, right-had sweeper, slight banking and a bump in the pavement half way through. I wasn't going all that fast, ~60, but the mid-turn wave in the asphalt set up an oscillation in the car that definitely increased the pucker-factor. The front bar and stiffer rear springs solved that problem.

Carl

Posted by: redshift Aug 24 2003, 02:17 PM

Right hand sweeper onto 278 into Hilton Head, 80 is good, but that camber change makes the oversteer somewhat unpredictable if you don't hit the apex on the mark..

-smile with a missing tooth, weeds in hair-


M

Posted by: scotty Aug 24 2003, 04:10 PM

Good instinct: accelerating to slow the gyrations. check your rear tire pressures...mine did that to me and I found a screw/slow leak in my right rear that caused a similar problem for me at 80mph. Damn scary...glad you made it!

Now I check my tire pressures every time I go out of the garage!

Posted by: airsix Aug 24 2003, 05:18 PM

Wow. I am shocked and amazed that anyone could... drive a 914 without a front swaybar!!!!!

I'd been driving 914's for 10 years before I had the opportunity to drive one without a swaybar. It was terrible. Anytime anyone asks "What is the single best upgrade?", or "What should be my first modificaiton?" I say swaybar. Without question. No doubts. Absolutely.

Get the bar, man!!!

-Ben M.

ps - glad you're ok.