I guess this is somewhat of a newbie question...

How hard is it to reach 1 lateral G either by braking or acceleration? I ask this because I just bought a Pioneer Avic N1, which has a built in G force meter (goes up to 1.25lg) which measures acceleration, braking, angular velocity and a few other things.

So last night after tap. ex. my cousin showed me his new work place. Pretty empty area at 11pm.. So I thought to myself..why not try out this G-force meter. I didn't really care about acelleration Gs, cause the motor is bone stock, and it probably wouldn't impress me one bit. Since the brakes are upgraded on all four corners (4 piston calipers up front, and 2 in the rear) I wanted to see what I can hit. So yeah, the best I could do was about .65 until the front left wheel locked up (no abs). Every time I'd try it I'd get the same reaction from the car..front left keeps locking up. The streets are wet, and the front tires are pretty crappy on my stock wheels.

side note>>But for some reason when the wheel locked up it felt like the whole shock assembly flexed backwards.... like as if the top shock mounts were lose. As soon as my tires come in, I'm sure I can hit a higher #.

So anyways back to the point. How hard is it (or what's required) to hit one lateral G by either means braking or acceleration. And another newbie question.. what exactly determines G force (in laymens terms ).

I've read about it.. but never quite understood it.

Car 95 240sx