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Yeah, the only two RWDs I've owned were an '89 Chevy S10 regular cab with a full bed and a '91 Chevy S10 Blazer. I had all weather tires on both (as I do on all my cars living in Cincy) and while both were exciting to drive in the snow, I have to say, I've preferred the two Civics I've owned for driving in snow. I never had any control issues in the Civics no matter what the weather conditions were.

And while I do like getting to go play in a RWD car, I don't like having to fight over steer on my 26 mile (each way) commute to work, which was the case with both the RWDs I had. Given, neither of them were good cars, and the tires were far from optimal, but my Civics weren’t great cars either, and I’ve been running the same tires (Kumho Ecastas ASTs) on every car I’ve owned. They are a great cheap tire that wears well and they handle pretty good in all weather conditions. Besides the road noise (which I’m not going to lie, is LOUD), I’ve never had a problem with these tires. On my Civics (a 2001 LX that had a few modifications and a 2008 Si that was stock), the cars did great in the snow and handled exactly as I wanted them to.

For both Civics, I did keep a set of summer tires, Falken Ziex 912s, so the Kumhos were only for winter on those cars, but I’ve run them year round on all the other cars I’ve owned.

The Si did produce a bit of over steer when the road was slick, but it was predictable and never like my either of my Chevys (my truck actually did a complete 180 pulling away from a stop light with just a light dusting of snow, but that was partially driver error, as it was just 2 months after I got my license).

Honestly, though, like with anything RWD vs. FWD vs. AWD is a preference. I like my little rice runners, so I’m going to be a FWD fan for life. Others, like you, u3b3r, or my friend Ryan (who is a Mustang guy through and through) are going to favor RWD. I don’t think there is anything wrong with either, I just prefer FWD (honestly, I just prefer Civics, but hey, I’m a Honda guy!). With that said, my 3 isn’t a bad car either, I’m really loving the handling in that so far (not as good as the Si, but pretty close).

Also, I wanted to say, that is an awesome video and I’d love the chance to do something like that!
Edited by WonderMutt - 5/20/13 at 8:43am

Yeah, I just got sick of swapping tires every 6 months when I owned my LX. I only had the Si for a year, so I only swapped the tires on it once, but with the LX, I had it for 9 years, and just got tired of storing an extra set of tires (and now I just don’t have any place to keep them) and then swapping them. Also, with Cincy’s crazy weather, we could have snow one week and 80F the next (that happened twice this year), so I like to stick with all weathers. However, if I do ever get another Si, I will look into the Dunlops for summer. That was one car that didn’t really like the all weathers (the handling was so tight I could break the all weathers loose in a turn, in dry weather, pretty easily). But for all my other cars, All weathers have worked fine.

As for the trip to WI, if I ever make it that way, you’ll know beforehand and we can try to set something up!

As for a little bit of that, I’m considering trying to enter some autocross races this year with the 3. I haven’t looked at the SCCA regs in a few years, but they used to have an “All Stock” category where the only thing you could do was tires and a drop in air filter. If they still have something like that, I might try it out. Pick up a set of cheap rims and put some good sticky rubber on them and just use them for track days. I don’t know, though, like I said, I don’t have any place to store extra rubber right now, but I could go for wearing out the set of Firestones that are on there now…

Honestly, I can’t argue with your logic! As for the last part, LOL, I know what you mean!


Hey, team, I’ve been a little bored this afternoon at work, so I started working on a team web page, just something I want to do to try to sharpen my HTML skills (as I’m taking my first HTML class over the summer here), so I was hoping you guys could give it a look and let me know what you think…

http://homepages.uc.edu/~alexanf/fafolding/

I’ll be building on it over the next few months, as my skills progress, so will the site, but I figured this gives me a start. Also, I don’t know if I have everyone’s gear right, so if I have something wrong (which most of it probably is, honestly), please let me know so I can fix it.

Also, I might be asking for some info from you guys as I build it out (short bios, rig pics, stuff like that). Like I said, this was just something I’ve been wanting to do for a while and I’m going to try to work on it in my down time, so I’ll let you guys know as I update it.

Right now, I have it uploaded on my school’s filespace, but I figure once I get it looking better and more fleshed out, I’ll actually buy a domain and move it to a better spot, but for now, if you guys could just take a look and make any suggestions, that would be awesome. Also, I’m still pretty n00b with HTML, so forgive my lacking skills, my goal is to build the site as my skills build.

Thanks, team!!

This is very, very correct, I will have another, it's just a matter of when! And, as Honda is making them in sedans (my preferance anyway), an Si can even pass for a family car, so having kids won't stop me!

Thanks for the tips. I can't remember what the res on my work rig is, but at home I'm 1280x1024 (times 3), and I don't have any side scrolling, do have a bit of vertical, but I was expecting that with the graph at the bottom. We haven't really gotten into how to code pages to work on all screen sizes, browsers, etc., I'm sure we'll get into that when we get into CSS later in the semester, but I am keeping a file of all the suggestions I get and I will work on it as time goes by.

Thanks again for the input, I'll update you guys when I make changes.