Thoughts on FL5 vs FK8 (by savagegeese)

[TheCanadian]

Is it true you guys purchased a GR?

It's on either his or Jack's instagram. It's replacing the GR86.

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[Estoril4]

It's on either his or Jack's instagram. It's replacing the GR86.

Awesome, wasn't sure if it was a Toyota car or if they picked one up themselves

 

[tezzasaurusrex]

@savagegeese did you guys get to the bottom of what happened to the poor S209 engine? Spun bearing?

 

[savagegeese]

@savagegeese did you guys get to the bottom of what happened to the poor S209 engine? Spun bearing?

CYL 4. Usual stuff

 

[urbo73]

@savagegeese At the end of the video you went into the whole thing about not being able to turn off stability control unless you're in +R mode, but that you want to be in COMFORT suspension mode for a faster lap time. So did you guys run it in INDIVIDUAL mode with suspension on COMFORT and use the pedal dance to disable stability control, or left it in +R and sacrificed some lap time? I guess the latter is how it comes from the factory, so that's how you would test it?

 

[savagegeese]

@savagegeese At the end of the video you went into the whole thing about not being able to turn off stability control unless you're in +R mode, but that you want to be in COMFORT suspension mode for a faster lap time. So did you guys run it in INDIVIDUAL mode with suspension on COMFORT and use the pedal dance to disable stability control, or left it in +R and sacrificed some lap time? I guess the latter is how it comes from the factory, so that's how you would test it?

For the official laps we left it in factory +R and VSA off. And yes the harsh suspension slows car down by about .3.

 

[Rhorn]

Really hope with the refresh or maybe later model years, or even an OTA update would all that to be turned off and not locked to +R without doing the pedal dance.

 

[Integra23]

@savagegeese I can't wait to watch your take on the ITS tomorrow! Hopefully there's something to the car that justifies the price.

 

[Estoril4]

Is video release 9AM?

 

[Integra23]

Is video release 9AM?

That's when the embargo ends.. so I would assume sometime after that if Mark was able to finish the editing. Q&A really showed how much time is spent on these productions. Talking weeks sometimes per a video.

 

[savagegeese]

That's when the embargo ends.. so I would assume sometime after that if Mark was able to finish the editing. Q&A really showed how much time is spent on these productions. Talking weeks sometimes per a video.

Video is out tomorrow. Sadly I could not put my laptime in it because of a seperate embargo. However video answers most all questions.

Ill be on here to answer anything else.

 

[Integra23]

Video is out tomorrow. Sadly I could not put my laptime in it because of a seperate embargo. However video answers most all questions.

Ill be on here to answer anything else.

Thanks Mark for all the hard work!

 

[urbo73]

For the official laps we left it in factory +R and VSA off. And yes the harsh suspension slows car down by about .3.

@savagegeese Yeah, that's what I assumed, but good for you to confirm. It then doesn't compute to me that the car Honda ran at the Nurburgring to set the record time was in +R suspension mode with OEM springs/rates and OEM dampers. It would mean they left time on the table, and no way that makes any sense. So whatever they ran ("Type R S" version car) had some suspension tuning different than OEM.

 

[savagegeese]

@savagegeese Yeah, that's what I assumed, but good for you to confirm. It then doesn't compute to me that the car Honda ran at the Nurburgring to set the record time was in +R suspension mode with OEM springs/rates and OEM dampers. It would mean they left time on the table, and no way that makes any sense. So whatever they ran ("Type R S" version car) had some suspension tuning different than OEM.

The LPL told us all development was done at Suzuka. So they clearly calibrated it for a glass track. I think there are certain areas it helps the front end dig in and rotate the car as well but, its mostly worse on almost every normal track.

 

[spectre186]

Fantastic video. Really changed what I thought of the ITS! Sounds like quite the all around car!

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