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Vid for those interested.....yes it is a Civic

Taken at Eastern Creek at Superlap

Fastest NA Open

Fastest FWD Open and Outright

8th Outright Open

Time 1.40.94

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0dnQW9MT-no

180sx at Carnell Raceway, taken with a panasonic DMC-FT1

nice aleks! Carnell is such a fun little track

here's an in-car vid from my 180 at Lakeside yesterday. Another 4 tenths off the PB with some setup changes and cooler conditions. The standard viscous LSD really isn't up the the job! but even so i don't really think I should be getting this much wheelspin with 240 wide rear slicks. Last time out, and the first time I used the slicks, I had so much traction it was boring - may as well have been driving an Evo :) But not anymore. Think they may not like the constant heat cycling? They seem to be taking longer to come up to temp too, but it was a much cooler day... Anyway, here it is. Lap 3 is a 58.9 :P

  • 2 weeks later...

I went to Wakefield Park on Monday and after taking me an hour to start my little car (-4c on the trip down froze the poor little bugger) I eventually managed a new pb of 1:12.7 down from 1:14.4 with tyres that have seen 4 trackdays.

It was my first time using the PerformanceBox GPS laptimer and datalogger which was a massive help. Knowing your split and laptimes as you go is really good information.

I've done a speed comparison on my best and second best times of the day and their is no more than 3km/h difference at any point in the entire lap. The difference between my 12.7 and driver trainers 12.0 is no more than 6km/h however I did have better mid corner speed in some corners than him but he tended to brake earlier and get on the power earlier out of the corners.

Here is a video of my fastest lap of the day:

I haven't got the TrackVision software working yet but my top speed on the straight was only 160.9km/h :D I really need to work on turning in later on the last corner and deeper under brakes on the first corner.

Here is a picture of my lines for this lap based off the gps co-ordinates:

lines.jpg

I went to Wakefield Park on Monday and after taking me an hour to start my little car (-4c on the trip down froze the poor little bugger) I eventually managed a new pb of 1:12.7 down from 1:14.4 with tyres that have seen 4 trackdays.

It was my first time using the PerformanceBox GPS laptimer and datalogger which was a massive help. Knowing your split and laptimes as you go is really good information.

I've done a speed comparison on my best and second best times of the day and their is no more than 3km/h difference at any point in the entire lap. The difference between my 12.7 and driver trainers 12.0 is no more than 6km/h however I did have better mid corner speed in some corners than him but he tended to brake earlier and get on the power earlier out of the corners.

Here is a video of my fastest lap of the day:

I haven't got the TrackVision software working yet but my top speed on the straight was only 160.9km/h :) I really need to work on turning in later on the last corner and deeper under brakes on the first corner.

Here is a picture of my lines for this lap based off the gps co-ordinates:

Have you had a look at the lines the trainer used when running your car around? Any significant differences?

nice meeting you out there too.

  • 2 weeks later...

my previous best in NA 120ish rwkw form was a 1:09.8

as run in the vids, maybe 260ish (only running 1 bar) and first time at wakefield with turbo 1:07.7's.

to be fair, the 1:09 was done on pretty old r888's, the above vids were on new re55's

There's more in it

Edited by badhairdave

LOL, just curious to know what difference power made to the lap times. I am always on the prowl for a good R32 or S13 Silvia as the basis of a build up...but being OS means it has to really be a good buy to throw into storage for when i get back. My dirty2 is not getting any more mods after the RB24. Nex car is going to be so stripped it will resemble something from Mad Max 2 :)

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