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Quote (240sx_soon @ July 11 2002,9:54)</td></tr><tr><td id="QUOTE">...He didn't know about lift off oversteer, so as he went over some wet ground, he lifted off the throtle and slid into a curb and hit a tree...</td></tr></table><span id='postcolor'>
OH SHIT!!..dats wat happened to me!!!..well heres my story..i was driving one day..and the road was wet..due to rain of course..and as i turned left..i shifted gear..and i fished tailed..i corrected it..but i corrected it too much and i whipped back the other way around..then i drove off..is that "lift off oversteer?"...i wanna know more about this "lift off oversteer. Thanks
well as for me...im in a crew and street racing isnt allowed..i also have a limited lump of sum..ok ok..i have no money..but id go for show..since i cant street race or anything..not that i want too..so i can juss roll around in a nice lookin car..only racing i would do is..racing at the track haha..nice car running stock times..oh well..but on the other hand..going fast is koo..cuz speed never fades</td></tr></table><span id='postcolor'>
errr... right.
Lift off oversteer is what might have initiated your FIRST (initial) powerslide -- lifting off the gas to shift causes weight transfer from the rear of the car to the front, lessening friction on the rear wheels causing you to slide.
OR
it could have been shifting. When you shift into the next gear and accelerate, you're suddenly putting power to the rears, which might overcome the traction with the wet road -- and hence caused them to spin freely, and hence your rear end to come around a little.
The reason your eventually spun out after "correcting" this initial powerslide is called snap oversteer -- and is different from lift-off oversteer.
Snap oversteer is what happens when you correct the first oversteer situation too much (i.e. you over-correct) and the rears gain traction again, causing your car to snap back the other way instead of slowly correcting the slide.
What you should have done was to "catch" the car just at the point that your countersteering corrected the slide, then slowly unwound back into the direction that you want(ed) to be going.
... hmm a little complicated, yes... for some better descriptions, try sites like
http://www.turnfast.com (turnfast.org?)