Mallala Trackday - Nov 23

[JTMILLER]

August 25th

Edited November 26, 2009 by JTMILLER

[heslo]

Nice, cheers buddy

[V35-2005]

here are my photos from the day:

i only managed a best of 1'23.9 in the Supra (PB = 1'23.1) and struggled with massive underbonnet temps (140'C after four laps) despite extra cooling mods (oil cooler, new radiator, extra thermo fan, more ducting) and new Brembo brakes. in hindsight, the rapid increase in temp and higher than normal boost levels recorded (1.5bar compared to the usual 1.2bar on track) with no improvement in speed or laptimes, were the early signs of my impending turbo failure - unfortunately this occurred on Tuesday morning when i went out again with the intention of breaking 1'22. interestingly, Trent (one of the instructors) only got 1'24.19 on a clear track when everyone went to lunch - he drove beautifully and it sounded like he was pushing hard, but analysis of that session reveals that my stock twins were already failing as we should have gone a lot faster. late braking and high corner speeds were let down by the lack of power on exit.

the fastest cars on the day that i know of were the R35 (a comfortable 1'22.08 - not bad for a four month old car after its first service!), the blue Evo IX (1'22.9 on street tires) and the black TT Supra (Dave with a stonking 1'23.13 on street tires). it's great to see that two Supras with stock turbos can put down some good 1'23 laptimes! for the record, the stock R35 is good for 1'18 as Trent the instructor drove that laptime in it the next day.

for all those who couldn't attend - you missed out on an awesome event. the good news is that i will be running another trackday like this in March next year, so start planning now!

Edited November 28, 2009 by V35-2005

[heslo]

Look forward to it Kim! Great pics, am I able to get the last one with me and Bengi in hi-res?

[V35-2005]

best times of the day (as far as i know)

1'22.08 - GUNR35

1'22.9 - Evo IX (Gav)

1'23.13 - Dave (Supra TT)

1'23.40 - Joshdc (R33 GTR)

1'23.7 - Damo (Supra V8 SC)

1'23.9 - me (Supra TT)

1'24.06 - writeoff (R32 GTR)

1'24.20 - heslo (R33 GTR)

1'24.67 - Red Back (R33 GTR)

1'25.9 - Jugz (R33 GTS-T)

1'27 - Moodles2 (R32 GTR)

1'28 - Steve (blue Supra NA)

1'29.3 - Bengi (Toyota Starlet)

1'30.3 - Nightcrawler (V35 Coupe)

1'31? - Brenton (Supra NA)

1'32.2 - Heslo+1 (Glenn, MX5)

1'34? - Matthew (black Supra NA)

DNF - 32godzilla (Stagea 260RS)

?? - 32godzilla's friend (blue R34 GT-T)

?? - Luke_ENR34 (R34 GT4)

?? - JTmiller (Lexus IS200)

[Luke_ENR34]

I got a 1.33 something

[V35-2005]

1'22.08 - GUNR35

1'22.9 - Evo IX (Gav)

1'23.13 - Dave (Supra TT)

1'23.40 - Joshdc (R33 GTR)

1'23.7 - Damo (Supra V8 SC)

1'23.9 - me (Supra TT)

1'24.06 - writeoff (R32 GTR)

1'24.20 - heslo (R33 GTR)

1'24.67 - Red Back (R33 GTR)

1'25.9 - Jugz (R33 GTS-T)

1'27 - Moodles2 (R32 GTR)

1'28 - Steve (blue Supra NA)

1'29.3 - Bengi (Toyota Starlet)

1'30.3 - Nightcrawler (V35 Coupe)

1'31? - Brenton (Supra NA)

1'32.2 - Heslo+1 (Glenn, MX5)

1'33 - Luke_ENR34 (R34 GT4)

1'34? - Matthew (black Supra NA)

1'39 - JTmiller (Lexus IS200)

DNF - 32godzilla (Stagea 260RS)

?? - 32godzilla's friend Mark (blue R34 GT-T)

[cyberdiamond]

Hi,

I am Steve with the Blue Supra, Great to catch up with you guys!

Copied and pasted from SASupra:

Well done to everyone great day, thanks Kim for organising it.

Personally I was aiming for a 1:29 or a 1:28 as I saw darren "yiros" had got a best of 1:29.84 (fastest N/A as per his sig).

I just looked up that track day and saw that he did that on semi slicks so I am even more impressed that I did the 1:28 on street tyres!

All of the pics I took on my iphone failed??? So the only ones are a couple from my hand held digital. Here they are: