Originally Posted by choaderboy2 
Wes the car is much better than when you drove it. It has a brand new treated tranny and LSD, a built engine with about 20 more hp, different suspension with all new geometry, freshly rebuilt and revalved AD's for the stiffer spring rate. Dai reports it does not understeer at all and handles way better than the Spoon Civic (and is 2-3 seconds a lap faster to boot). It also has bigger brakes and is about 30 lbs lighter with a stiffer body structure.
Some sucker bought the Spoon Civic for 24k! I think the dog car is a bargain for almost 10k less!
Not only was my front aero hosed but my tie rods bent in the crash giving me 1" of toe in. I was also experiencing wheel bearing failure and was getting brake pedal knockback which was throwing me off.
Jeff also edited the video to make me look lame on purpose to be funny. I also don't blip the throttle very hard on downshifts with cars with light flywheels and use the edge of my foot instead of my heels so it looks like I don't rev match but I am. On a stock flywheel 350z for instance, I blip pretty hard.
Dai and I turn nearly identical lap times when he was driving the Dog 2 and when I was driving his 350Z. Not drifting though!
Now I want to drive it again! Especially considering when I drove it last I thought my driving style would prefer it a bit more biased towards oversteer, granted it was so composed I loved driving it.
Having ridden with Mike on a race track on more than one occasion he does not do the traditional heel that forum bench racers bite from Best Motoring, he uses the side of his foot with tweaked pedal placement, it works, he rev matches....
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