Driving Yesteday..., Almost lost it in the /6 Options

[Rusty]

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. (IMG:style_emoticons/default/cool.gif)

After a while, it just doesn't seem that fast, ya know? (IMG:style_emoticons/default/blink.gif)

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. (IMG:style_emoticons/default/MDB2.gif)

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." (IMG:style_emoticons/default/ohmy.gif)

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. (IMG:style_emoticons/default/w00t.gif)

I *really* need to get that front sway bar hooked up today. (IMG:style_emoticons/default/beer3.gif)

-Rusty (IMG:style_emoticons/default/smoke.gif)

[Carl]

The car was tilting back and forth, and I almost put it sideways into a concrete retaining wall.

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