Safe road testing Options

[VaccaRabite]

How do you folks figure out what your cars can do in a safe surrounding?

Now that my car is driving, I'd like to find out how it corners, where it can be pushed, and where it can not. I guess a big parking lot would work, I know I don't want to do this on the open street. And I'd prefer not to learn my car on an auto-X course.

I'm interested in doing things like Drivers Ed and Auto-X, but I want to get an idea of my limits w/o trees, poles, other cars or babies in prams getting in my way - and preferably in an environment where Johnny Law won't ticket me for it either.

in a factory built and balanced car, I figure they have done the basic handling testing. In my car, none of that has been done yet, and I am driving it like a pussy cause I don't know when the back end will come loose or the front end is going to push, or what will happen when the wheels lock under emergency stop conditions, etc.

Zach

[type11969]

They held one of these out on Long Island a year or so back:

http://www.evoschool.com/

Might want to look in to if they are planning to have another in the area. I did the one on LI and it was great, a seasoned autoxer drives your car with you in it, rides with you, gives you tips and lets you go at it. You get to drive the course a pile of times, much more than if you were at an autox event.

Just an idea.

-Chris