Track Day - July 4

[MountainRunner]

Rain will be kinder on your clutch

[SirSkyline]

Rain will be kinder on your clutch

I would rather blow the clutch then hit a wall

[SirSkyline]

See you lot tomorrow

[Mr-Toy33]

Will be out there in a few hours!

[AzzurrA]

i nearly took a sickie to come out and watch this today, but decided against it

[r33_racer]

YEH GOOD LUCK PEOPLE...lol wish i was sick and have payed to come along...i could sneak out the race car while everyone else is working...hahahaha

[predator]

was good to watch.. and get out there, if only for a few short laps. Finally found out my problem in the end - dead start motor! so got it push started at least, and got home, where it shall stay until I get a new one. damn, these things always happen when you need the car.

[JCMarshall_Law]

Hey all,

It was a great day, well the few hours I was there anyway, I only drove the morning and had to head back to work for the arvo.

I was pretty happy with my times, 1:09:04 for the clubman, and pretty consistant the whole day. Time to start spending some mony on go fast bits me thinks.

What I dickhead, I ran out of fuel and could not finish the last session on the national track, limped to the servo on vapors. I'm sure I've never used half a tank in three sessions on the clubman (which is all I had) I usually only fill it to half to keep the weight down.

Good to meet you JNewton, even if it was breifly, glad I put on a good show at turn one, bit of late braking always keeps things interesting I toned things down in the next session, braking earlier and setting up for the corners better, got pretty much the same times as when I was hammering the brakes.

Thanks to Joe for the advice on how to fix my brake fade problems...

Would have loved to hang around to see how that car of yours went SirSkyline, with an engine bay that shiny its gotta go fast So how did the clutch go?

Jmac, hope that "extreem" toe out issue is not to serious :0 So what was it like braking at the end on the main straight with that funky rear end "allignment"??

Gordon, bummer about the electrical gremlins, looking forward to seeing it out there next time.

Once again thanks to Paul and the vollies for all the work they put in.

Anyway, can't wait for the next one.

Cheers,

Pat.

Edited July 4, 2006 by JCMarshall_Law

[predator]

photos..

[Wink]

How was this car?

[Col-GTSX]

^^^^^^^^

That car my friend is a PRB Clubman...

They are a cheap self build car which is built around a 20 valve corolla motor usually...

My dad used to have one... It weighed less than 800kgs and put out 140 hp at the wheels... So yeah it was a fast little bugger...

[Wink]

^^^^^^^^

That car my friend is a PRB Clubman...

They are a cheap self build car which is built around a 20 valve corolla motor usually...

My dad used to have one... It weighed less than 800kgs and put out 140 hp at the wheels... So yeah it was a fast little bugger...

lol I know what is , just want to know how it went

[maxe]

Just a quick one while we're sorting out cameras and footage

[pear]

Sounds like you guys had a great day!

Looking forward to seeing more photos

[Mr-Toy33]

Was an awesome day out!

Ended up progressing very well for a first timer out there with my first best time was 1min, 18sec's and in my last round of laps, best was 1min and 8secs.

[jmac]

Jmac, hope that "extreem" toe out issue is not to serious 0 So what was it like braking at the end on the main straight with that funky rear end "allignment"??

Well JC, it actually didn't feel TOO bad (for those just tuning in, jmac managed to drop his left rear wheel off the kerb at turn 1 at approx 140km/h and now has about 10mm extra toe-in on that wheel which he doesn't really need). It pulled up straight, and felt worse with cold tyres. I've also scrubbed that tyre pretty badly but it'll live. Kept improving my times anyway though!!!.... I got my clubman time down from a 1:07 in May to a 1:02 today, and sprint down from 1:02 to a low 1:00 (although I was hoping I broke the 1min barrier in the last session before I left).

So since then the car's been up on the hoist..... it looks as though the control arms are ok but apparently I *might* have bent the subframe. Which is $$$ ouch grab your ankles territory. Though I'm getting Scott (Tyrezone) to look at it tomorrow - he reckons they're pretty tough and often the adjustment has just been whacked and it'll be ok. I'm not holding my breath though - every time I look at my car lately it winds up costing me $500. All for the sake of running wide in turn 1 by about 15cm...

ANYWAY I'm looking forward to the photos guys! Thanks again to Paul for organising yet another great day that ran smoothly with HEAPS of track time.

[SirSkyline]

Would have loved to hang around to see how that car of yours went SirSkyline, with an engine bay that shiny its gotta go fast So how did the clutch go?

The clutch basically slipped the entire front straight I had to back off then accelerate again and I had no traction on any of the slow corners so slicks tyres next time for sure

[SirSkyline]

photos..

Did you get home ok Gordon ??

[predator]

yeah.. trying to work out the exact problem now.. its either the starter or the plug around the starter is dodgy.

I'm going to try and get a set of slicks for next day too before wasting too much on extra power.. f**k those nankangs.. haha

[MountainRunner]

Hey Guys, thanks to everyone who came out. It was the biggest day so far and I think it ran the smoothest. The timing gear was spot on again, so it seems the problems are solved. I will have the times out soon. I will get the big sign showing live lap data back running now as well.

When you guys are talking tyres, think Semi Slicks, not full slicks as I don't think we do enough laps to get slicks to temperature. The guys I have talked with (who have tried slicks) say they are pretty skatey while warming up.

Also I have had a lot of good feedback about the Sportsman track we tried at the end of the day. So I think we will run it again.

Paul