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Do it and get pics for us all to oggle over

Yeh, I am in Spa in March...dont think I will be back that late in the year so German GP or one of the Spanish races. Spain may not be the greatest race spectacles but as far as a destination and some fun imagine it will be pretty good. Would love to do Silverstone but fark going back to the UK Spa has a few good spots to spectate but not much cover. So when (if) it rains make sure you have some wet weather kit. My pick of seats would be the downhill section after Bruxelles. A lot of the spectating points dont have stands so general admission tickets are an option...you just have to fight all the campers But if you have a pit pass you probably wont leave the start/finish area Someone should start a thread for OS F1 races in case a number of people are going. I am getting a car inspected next Wednesday so may have already sorted a car for the next European summer

But is Abu Dhabi any different to Dubai? Not sure the circuit is all that good for spectating as long straights with slow corners? The V8s being there will help, and maybe if its a couples get away but not sure its the sort of city you can have too many laughs. The quad bikes in the dunes is fun though

Depends what you are shopping for I guess? Pay off a local taxi driver to be your driver for the trip, throw him a retainer and he will be happy to follow you around. Considering Sat-Sun is GP, and its about an 8hr flight, you will be hard pressed to do any shopping unless you get an late Monday/overnight flight home. Then I suppose you can shop Monday. The main thing is the big Fri/Sat night with great food and beers/laughs. Go to the right part of town and the local pubs are good fun with a good mix of people. Just have to put up with the chain smokers at the pool tables

Its a fair point. I was ready to enter this year and didnt care where I finished. I just wanted to give my car a punt and would be interesting to see where I cam against other rwd 2l road cars on semis. You pool together your own competition The reason I didnt do it as entry, tryes, brakes and travel meant that I could go hire a car and drive Zandvoort using FF points cheaper My point is for the money to just enter and try and get the most out of your setup its going to cost the same as a pretty cool 3-4wk OS holiday

Dont do Italy! Spa isnt much better for spectating. I say do Hockenheim. I am probably doing the German GP next year...a friend suggested Abu Dhabi but not sure. If you want to do an OS race then I strongly recommend Malaysian GP. KL is a great city to play up in with a few friends, the GP tickets are pretty cheap and you can a great view of the circuit...many, many corners. Win win...and you can do it all in a 4 day weekend

Its good info , so post away! I really want to like the PFC06. They are mega bitey but do give a great pedal feel. Its just I dont have ABS. I used a set of PFC01s in an old F40 setup and I liked them...PFC06 are meant to be similar to PFC01 but an endurance pad. So they may be more suitable if I was running a bigger GTR booster and smaller 324mm rotor. But on my setup they mean way too many brake lock ups. Hence my move to a low friction RB74. I can really jump on the pedal and get good modulation. I really want to find a cheap pad that works well with 343mm rotor and 4 pot caliper. Dont want to be paying $600 for pad

Oh well, the MX5 owner who is far more experienced than me didnt know the Lotus was about to blow by as seconds earlier he had checked his mirror and didnt think it would closing that fast...and how do you know what was discussed at the driver briefing? Anyway mot meant to be an argumemrent...just an amazing vid

I thought that a number of runs with the new pads would clean up the rotor?!?!? Not sure, have not had this problem before. It could be a simple case that I have gone from too race a pad which would glaze over because it never got up to temp...to too much a road pad that doesnt like the heat of the track. The lil RB74 is a pretty basic pad and when i pulled them out to de-glaze them by rubbing on concrete and see that the pad material is already cracking So, will just stop being a tight ass and get some pagids

My Stoptech as the same size as Brembo F40s which are the same as std R33/34 GTR Brembos at 44/38mm. They are working only ok as I have run too racey a pad comound (endurance spec PFC06) and need to get the rotors ground to get rid of the old pad material as the new pads wont bed and i am getting uneven pad deposits

The G Family of calipers do come in a range of applications and I can promise you that Brembo sell a Range Rover kit. They are not factory but if you check the Brembo GT catalogue you will see that Brembo list a Range Rover kit and other giants like F150s and whatever those Cadillac SUVs that all the bling brigade drive (Escalades?) Who knows what year models it was for. I almost bought a Range Rover kit a while back but the piston info they provided me turned me off. But they were dirt cheap I am in country NSW with work so dont have access to my drive of catalogues and caliper part numbers. I could be wrong but if you look here ... http://www.racetechnologies.com/images/Retail_GT_Application_List_2011_(06.29.11).pdf There are a number of different G family kits. Apologies if I am wrong but the following G kits are different by part number and in turn piston sizes. Range Rover_____1G2.9006A LS430__________1G2.9019A AMG CL55______1G2.9023A ML550__________1G2.9029A Cayenne________1G2.9016A You may be right about the RS4/RS5/Gallardo having the same kit number. I have a quick look on the net to see catalogues but cant find the US site that has the comprehensive logs but I think you will find the 06A, 19A, 23A, 29A, 16A etc are all the exact same kit other than the piston sizes and leading/trailing applications. If you look at what part number is cast into your calipers you will be able to see what car Brembo offer that kit for and trace it through to piston sizes

Ben, you are not doing 70km/h more than them, the cars are less side by side and there is more space. I agree its a similar scenario but not the same situation. I personally would not have gone for the gap. Granted the Lotus onboard shows there is more space then the other video suggested but it is still damn tight given their closing speed. Anyway...enough to scare me off the track and think another 30 times about doing my OLT and working up to an Intl licence for some paid Enduro drives in FWD pussboxes

They are the same or look the same? For instance people generically call F50 calipers the ones with the 44/40mm pistons. But F50s have a range of part numbers and externally look identical to one another...but have many difference piston combinations. I have see F50s with 46/44mm pistons...and I think the 4 pot Brembo off FPV Fords are similar...at around 48/44mm so if you put them on a Nissan they would be horrible. So your family of 8 pots may be the same as the Lambo etc but they could be a different part number, and given what you are saying about the piston sizes it could be a horrible mismatch. Somebody, not sure if it was you posted a while ago they had 6 pot or 8 pots off a Range Rover or something which makes me think they are a risk to buy unless you know the piston sizes or are going for a full custom brake install with big gears, boosters and changed pedal ratios

If thats true Luke you are in for a world of hurt. Are they off a Range Rover, Hummer etc ? They often come with nice and tasty big brakes but cant really be retrofitted to cars

Sorted... and how about some pics of this abomination you now own Zebra. You have to be the most bipoloar person in the forum wth regards to plans, cars you buy etc

Does it still comply with Targa regs?

Agree that downforce needs speed to help. If you look at open wheelers and their brake pedal pressure trace on data you will see that when they first jump on the brakes they are trying to put their foot through the floor, as the speed washes off the tyre grip afforded to them drops off as the downforce drops off with speed so they drop the pedal pressure otherwise they will lock brakes. Saloon cars are the same but to a lesser extent as they only have downforce (normal load N) measured in the tens of kilograms rather than hundreds of kgs. (to go from weight to force you multiply by gravity - 9.81; so 10kgs is 98.1 Newtons) Re ABS, I am not convinced if its a good thing or a bad thing. Personally I cant stop cars for shit and am always locking brakes and ruining tyres. I suspect late model cars with faster processors etc in their ABS would stop quicker using it....not sure where a GTR sits in stopping distances. But yeh, the mechanics/dynamics of cars braking is pretty interesting. This is the theory behind what I am trying to say... And this is why braking will always be shorter if you dont lock brakes Essentially when a tyre is rolling there is no slip between the tyre surface and ground so is referred to as static friction. When a tyre locks then you have slip between the two surfaces so you have kinetic friction. As kinetic friction is lower then static friction then you will always have less grip with a tyre locked.

LOL...how old are you Neil? I am 35...so how long until I look at things with the same cheery/rosey perspective as you

I could very well be wrong..but think about it...no way the Cyber Evo weighs 800kgs. NO WAY! But your point is correct..you can get away with cars that have good OE brakes for a lot longer when you are ripping weight out of them. I will just repeat, I will masturbate with a cheese grater in public on film if the Cyber Evo weights 800kgs If it weighs > +/-35kgs of 1000kgs they have done an amazing job Best not to listen to a word I say...BUT...there is plenty of reasons why without significant improvements in downforce you wont achieve shorther stopping distances on a std pressed steel mass manufactured car by going for bigger rotors (increase in braking force) and bigger calipers with more piston area (increase in braking force) and racey pads (increase in braking force) I suspect you could know more then me about this stuff and its a baited question...so will try to explain my view. In saloons like most of us punt, they weigh a lot, have good hp and have limited grip. Under brakes its all about tyres and how grippy they are and suspension: how good it is at controlling the pitch of the car under brakes and ride the bumps when the shocks are under compression. You get braking force/torque from pad compounds, rotor diameter and piston area. All this works to help slow a car to the point that the tyres dont lock up. Tyre grip is again just friction so given a certain tyre grip, the only thing that is ever going to increase friction (ie grip under braking) is an increase in the normal load. You increase the normal load on a car/tyre with downforce. So the only way to increase the normal load on a tyre is to increase downforce which gives the tyre more grip. If the tyre has more grip than you can use additional braking force. I agree that track cars need brake upgrades, but since Skylines have pretty good gear std, its mostly about thermal management and trying to avoid brake fade. NOT increasing braking capacity as it will just result in bitey brakes that lock up too easily. You often increase thermal efficiency with better pads, fluid..then rotor diameter and pad surface area. By going to better pads you normally increase braking force...which is the reason why many AP/Alcon calipers that use 365mm rotors etc have less piston area then std Nissan gear. Because the assumption is they will run good pads with higher friction coefficient + bigger rotors which also gives increase in braking force...when it comes to the piston area they are smaller then std calipers. This is an attempt to stop waaaaay toooo much front brake bias, because std its all pretty good. Its all about stopping fade so they increase rotor diam, increase pad area and reduce the piston area to maintain essentially the std braking bias whilst adding loads of thermal capacity LOL, probably makes no sense...I best read this again in the morning when I have not had two bottles of red, beers and watched The Thing (Both 1982 and 2011 )

Disagree....at that level of motorsport...you need to read the traffic, the cars, their pace and the drivers to the best of your ability...going through that gap at full tilt was in my opinion to high a risk (not that my opinion really matters) No doubt they are all more experienced than me...but I think that was a gap he should not have gone for at that speed >_< Out of interest were you entered on the day? Sure, its important to hold your line but the MX5 was kind of occupied reading the pace of the Boxter. LOL, its just another reason why I ever want to race. Look at the vid maxima posted...it can go pear shaped very quick with such a speed differential. I have been wathcing some German VLN races because in 2013 I genuinely hope to do a few 6hr events in Europe on the cheap and frankly I am scared out of my mind by the accidents you see due to different classes of cars

I already have the jacket because I love Lotus...even if to some its not the Lotus (road car or F1 team) of old....I just love Lotus vs all the homo Itlian and German junk on the road I imagine there is going to be a lot of disappointed Russians out there...but ... I liked Petrov, but he whilst he had good race craft and was a great defender and character....he lacked a bit of the outright pace needed to be in a top F1 seat.

FARK YEH!!!!!! Burn in hell RBR. I will continue to show a minor interest in your BS team because Old Son Mark is still a resident pilot in your squad. But for 2012 I will wear my Renault-Lotus Black and Gold with pride baby!!!!! :worship: + So happy for Grosjean...he will do well alongside Kimi, who wont be out to play mind games with his new upstart team mate....good combination in my books. And hats off to Lotus managment, in particular Boullier for grooming a guy...realing his talent and then giving him a seat. Not something that happened under Old Flavs watch FARK YEH!!! Now I am pumped for 2012

Serious? Paid mechanics installed calipers upside down ? Fark me there are some thieving muppets out there who have no clue about anyting other than taking peoples money off them