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Originally Posted by onewhippedpuppy
Hey Jim/Eric, what did you think about the FC in stockish form? You can get a lot of car for not much money, and I've always loved the styling. Seems like they are a better deal than finding a GSL-SE, though I like those as well. A nice Turbo II, GTUs, or 10th Anniversary would be a fun toy.
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I am not a drifter so I cannot comment on that aspect of the FC's.
I was really really really heavy into Autocrossing back in the early 2000's and campaigned my FC in that running in a very difficult highly modified class that was called at the time B Prepared (to spend a lot of money)
The FC has the rear wheel steer via some rubber bushings which age and wear out, many tuners sell replacements that eliminate the rear steer and I liked the car better with it removed.
Stock? They are not too sharp, I mean they handle good, dont get me wrong but not on the level of a FD or RX8.
Best example I can give.
In 2004 or so I was at an AX event, my dad was there too. At the time he had a 1993 Base FD with stock suspension and some Pettit upgrades. He was putting 320 to the wheels with it. Pettit dyno tuned his Power FC for him to take advantage of the upgrades he had. Most all were bolt ons.
After the even we were doing some timed fun runs. I had set the FTD that day in my highly modded FC. I will get back to my FC in a second. Lets say my best time was a 1:22 in the FC with sticky tires on it. I was running Victoracers at the time.
Dad asks me if I want to toss his FD around, I said sure. I take 3 runs in it getting a feel for its limits. My last run was a 1:23 in it with street tires on it.
My FC had coil overs, adjustable shocks, sway bars, adjustable end links, I had corner balanced it, moved the battery and chose a singe exhaust in order to better balance the car. It has been aligned with me in it and the sway bars were adjusted with me in it. In other words, over the top modifications.
I jumped into an FD with a stock suspension and almost bested my best time in the FC.... with street tires!!
There was a time when I had both my FC and R3 together. I told everyone the R3 had a much better suspension than my FC. My FC rode like a buck board and was really harsh, the R3 was silky smooth and supple compared to the FC.
Rail with the R3 and it just came into itself, it was a delight to toss around very predicable and after the swaybar and alignment very easy to steer with your right foot.
The FC was probably faster, probably cornered better, and you could really feel what was going on, but it was brutal.
Part of the reason I sold my FC was because it was sitting a lot, the RX8 was getting driven, by me, more often.
