For the 1st june (2 weeks), just wondering if anyone fancies going on the track too?

 

http://www.motorsportvision.co.uk/trackdays/event-details.asp?ProductID=5097

 

Cost me £119

its an evening session

 

15:45 Signing on

16:30 Safety briefing

17:00 Optional circuit briefing in minibusses

17:30 Open lane begins

20:00 Track time ends

 

Extras

Additional Driver £25

Additional Passenger £10

Car Instruction £25

Helmet Hire £10

 

Good oportunity to really learn the handling of your car and it really is a lot of fun. Its not a race so you dont have to try prove yourself or go too mad.

 

Open pit lane means I can come on and off track however many times i wish, gives me time to fiddle with suspension etc.

Edited May 21, 200916 yr by j1mmytt

Got all excited about that then till i looked where it is.lol. Thats a long way from manchester. worse than castle combe. Got the track bug now in a big way since the japfest. Cant wait to get back on there. Have a good day mate, you seemed to enjoy the jafest. Hope the weathers better.

danny

Got all excited about that then till i looked where it is.lol. Thats a long way from manchester. worse than castle combe. Got the track bug now in a big way since the japfest. Cant wait to get back on there. Have a good day mate, you seemed to enjoy the jafest. Hope the weathers better.

danny

 

Yeah i loved it, i wanna get into it more often now. once a year is not enough lol.

 

wanna start tracking at least once a month.

Would love to join ya Jimmy but miles away from here:( have fun mate :)

would love to go but need to sort my brakes and suspension first. (mainly my brakes as they completely failed at japfest) only live around the corner as well. bugger :(

would love to go but need to sort my brakes and suspension first. (mainly my brakes as they completely failed at japfest) only live around the corner as well. bugger :(

 

iirc they just boiled the fluid?

 

easy fix, just drain and fill with dot 4 or 5.1 which has a higher boiling point, im sure your fluid was really old which would cause it to fail easily.

yep i boiled the fluid but it was brand new fluid

yep i boiled the fluid but it was brand new fluid

 

ah, erm which type was it?

For the 1st june (2 weeks), just wondering if anyone fancies going on the track too?

 

Cost me £119

its an evening session

 

15:45 Signing on

16:30 Safety briefing

17:00 Optional circuit briefing in minibusses

17:30 Open lane begins

20:00 Track time ends

 

Extras

Additional Driver £25

Additional Passenger £10

Car Instruction £25

Helmet Hire £10

 

Good oportunity to really learn the handling of your car and it really is a lot of fun. Its not a race so you dont have to try prove yourself or go too mad.

 

Open pit lane means I can come on and off track however many times i wish, gives me time to fiddle with suspension etc.

 

Hi Jimmy, good to see you again today, If I'm free that evening I'll pop down and see you. Before you get there try and put all the adjustable parts of your suspension in there middle settings, that way it gives you a reference point when you start to adjust them. Try and find out what tyre pressure other track day people use, and take a good tool kit so you can change things easily.

 

Paul

Get some racing fliud with higher boiling point. My standard brakes have always been ok so far, except Dave making the smoke like hell.....Mind you it will be alot harder on them running them for a few hours

Hi Jimmy, good to see you again today, If I'm free that evening I'll pop down and see you. Before you get there try and put all the adjustable parts of your suspension in there middle settings, that way it gives you a reference point when you start to adjust them. Try and find out what tyre pressure other track day people use, and take a good tool kit so you can change things easily.

 

Paul

 

Sounds like a plan matey :D its only 2 and a half hours so i might not have time to adjust the front roll bar settings, so il leave it on the middle setting for now.

im also thinking about raising the suspension at the front a touch.

 

 

Get some racing fliud with higher boiling point. My standard brakes have always been ok so far, except Dave making the smoke like hell.....Mind you it will be alot harder on them running them for a few hours

 

 

why does your steering wheel wobble when you brake now lisa ? :D

 

anyway most of our brakes were smoking when we came off, mine, bullets, pauls yours lol

why does your steering wheel wobble when you brake now lisa ? :D

 

anyway most of our brakes were smoking when we came off, mine, bullets, pauls yours lol

 

Well i used to have red stuff pads and racing fliud and it didnt then...back to standard now...but they didnt fail tho:)

 

P.s Glad it was only the brakes smoking...thought Dave broke my z and I wouldnt get a go..lol

i think dot5 fluid was in there. i get steering wheel wobble under heavy braking (even before japfest)

i think dot5 fluid was in there. i get steering wheel wobble under heavy braking (even before japfest)

 

crap discs mate, get some better ones. they prop caused all the heat.

i did buy some uprated discs (320mm with fitting brackets) but put them on and they where warped beyond belief.

i did buy some uprated discs (320mm with fitting brackets) but put them on and they where warped beyond belief.

 

:(

back to the drawing board then :(

was looking to put something like evo brembo's on. was looking at these http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&ssPageName=STRK:MEWAX:IT&item=220413711550 what do i need to get them fitted?

any thoughts on them?

krsmayo has them fitted, he had a bracket made up and he is using skyline 324mm discs.

 

there is a thread on here somwhere he put up on his fitment and progress, have a search. I think he has the dimensions for the brackets too.

are the evo discs ok?

im looking to have to spend as little as possible on doing things like brackets etc as i just want some good brakes that arent silly expensive and will work well on the road and on trackdays.

sorry for the thread hijack jimmy

sorry for the thread hijack jimmy

 

no worries :D

p.s im not sure of evo disc fitment.

Brands indy track is awesome mate you will love it! Give it some berries for me! Be careful on the way home though the police love to hang around on the way to the m25.

Brands indy track is awesome mate you will love it! Give it some berries for me! Be careful on the way home though the police love to hang around on the way to the m25.

 

you coming? :D:D

 

lol will do matey, yeh the police were pulling peeps right outside castle combe on the way home.

I did this at Brands a few years ago in my first 300 ! I can tell you without a doubt it is the BEST way to really discover what these cars are all about !!

 

I booked the driver instruction too and honestly thought the guy was going to kill us ! In my car he was braking SOOOO late and yet the car did what he asked of it !! IIRC I managed about 100-110 before braking for the first corner.....and that corner is like falling off a cliff !! And then the compression that follows through the dip is amazing..........

 

Only bad bit of the day was when I broke the bolt on the bottom of the gearstick as I snatched fourth through the dip.......had to cruise back to the pits in thrid with a flapping gearstick......but they have a workshops there and the guy had a bolt that he gave me and use of all the tools I needed ! Top bloke !!

 

I remember sitting in the pits on several occassions after a few quick laps listening to my car ticking loudly and watching the heat rise of it.......BUT the best time I ever had in it !!!