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Autocrossing my stock 850 wagon - Tips? 850 1994

posted by  someone claiming to be Mark Leinhos on  Fri Feb 21 04:59 CST 2003 [RELATED]


I think I'll autocross my totally stock 850 non-turbo wagon this weekend. This will be the first time I've autocrossed it and in fact the first time I've ever autocrossed a wrong-wheel drive car! My usual weapon of choice is a Mazda Miata. :)

Anyway, I'm looking for tips on the car. What should I expect it to do? What is the weight balance of the 850 wagon? What tire pressures do you recommend? Can the Winter setting help me manually shift it? Does it respond well to left foot braking (a trick I'll be learning for the first time, woo!)?

I've driven it in some spirited mountain passes so I have a general idea, but you don't push a car to it's true limits there because you'll be off a cliff if you guess wrong. At autocross I always spin a new car while looking for its limits.

I'm really looking forward to loading it up to maximum passenger capacity on the last run! :D

Thanks.






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