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Pezhead Grand Master

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Yeah was great to meet you fellas. My best was a 1:58.5. Happy that I broke 2 minutes for my first time out on the Creek. A lot to learn about that track.

The night raceing was kinda freaky. Everything comes up so fast.

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XKLABA
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i bleed the brakes after the first session in the main shed (love knowing the guys at EC)and didn't help 5 laps and then nothing i had my street pads in as work took longer than expected and i didn't

FST513 Mentor

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I took some pics, think i missed saying hi to everyone as i wasn't around the garage much or you guys left early. Will post up tomorrow.

That sucks about the DC5, when did that happen e.g. what time!?

Pezhead Grand Master

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Yeah, was in the dark. Don't know too many details but Stevo was standing out the back of the garage and he heard it. They way he described it "I saw white headlight, white headlight - then red going just as fast or faster than the whites, then bang - hit the wall".

I drew it right down during the night racing. I was surprised how many guys were still pushing a bit harder at night.

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Yeah great concept racing at night, just need lights showing all the corners-that's the first thing I'd change about those nights. There's more, but that's just vital.

Any pics of the stacked Honda?

hamiltonau Grand Master

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someone showed me some pics on their iphone but nothing of my own as it was way out there in the dark and i had just come out of my last session, thank god i was in group A or would have followed it off.

The front end was simply...gone. New sleek design for the intergra begins at windscreen and ends at R quarter which was missing rear bar and spoiler. poor bugger.

nice to meet the guy behind the silky american accent on the radio, i am of course talking about you Pezhead. love your giant CANNON muffler and your 1.56 clearly shows its value. My best was 2mins and that was when it got dark.

whos coming to the cruise tomorrow?

XKLABA Grand Master

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night driving was freaky, you would find yourself hard on the brakes without been able to see the corner.

In the last session i was doing 240kmph as i went passed the 200m marker heading for turn one, went for the brakes and the pedal hit the floor and i had no idea when the corner was,wow what a rush

The dc5 went to hot into turn 9 overshot it got on the grass and couldn't stop, hit the wall straight on bring the front of the car level with the strut towers, hope the driver is ok

hamiltonau Grand Master

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that sounds like at least twice that your brakes failed on you, bet your heart leapt a few feet the second time...

love night driving, scary shit but you certainly get a feel for the road as all your other senses are heightened, suddenly every bump and shimmy communicates so much more than ever before. Glad its not typical of track days though, dont think i could handle the stress..

bring on march 5!

Pezhead Grand Master

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Xklaba,

Did you bleed your brakes before the track day? Also your pads could have glazed causing infamous Brake fade. Lastly if it is neither of those, you might want to check your rotors for run-out/have them turned. On a long straight if the rotors push the pads back then when you go to stop the first "gulp" of fluid is just to get the pads back into location then second pump gives you brakes.

I glazed my pads on my first track day - same last session go for the brakes and they go just able to the floor and don't feel like they were ever going to stop. I fiddled with them for a while (EBC Reds) trying to get them back to normal but ended up chucking them in the end. Shame cause they still had 80% of the pad left.

Just about to post a video boys. coming soon....

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Xklaba,

Did you bleed your brakes before the track day? Also your pads could have glazed causing infamous Brake fade. Lastly if it is neither of those, you might want to check your rotors for run-out/have them turned. On a long straight if the rotors push the pads back then when you go to stop the first "gulp" of fluid is just to get the pads back into location then second pump gives you brakes.

One of the reasons pro circuit guys give a "faith test" to the brakes on the main straight of most circuits. Firstly, incase they need extra fluid up, secondly in case they have failed, they can get off the gas.

XKLABA Grand Master

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Xklaba,

Did you bleed your brakes before the track day? Also your pads could have glazed causing infamous Brake fade. Lastly if it is neither of those, you might want to check your rotors for run-out/have them turned. On a long straight if the rotors push the pads back then when you go to stop the first "gulp" of fluid is just to get the pads back into location then second pump gives you brakes.

I glazed my pads on my first track day - same last session go for the brakes and they go just able to the floor and don't feel like they were ever going to stop. I fiddled with them for a while (EBC Reds) trying to get them back to normal but ended up chucking them in the end. Shame cause they still had 80% of the pad left.

Just about to post a video boys. coming soon....

i bleed the brakes after the first session in the main shed (love knowing the guys at EC)and didn't help 5 laps and then nothing

i had my street pads in as work took longer than expected and i didn't get a chance to change them, a mistake i'm not going to make for wakefield, changing them this weekend with the project MUs and replacing fluid with the wilwood 570 stuff.

the discs are a bit choped up now so will need replacing soon, on with the 6 piston APs and 372mm discs

luckily i was braking early just incase which gave me a bit extra time and proble the only reason i made it through, more arse than class i'd say

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Eric - Your video editing is definitely getting much much better! Really like the music and its a good compilation. Only thing i don't like is the zoom in and out real fast a few times but i know that wasn't you doing it haha.

Love it at like 1:15 the BYP evo is spraying flames everywhere from the cooler piping blowing off, looks awesome!

How come Dave's car smokes out of the exhaust everytime he gets off the throttle, turbo gasket?

The lowdown pics look great mate, keep up the good work, i always like reading your guys blog.

XKLABA - Is this your GTR below? If so.. pr0n.

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Pezhead Grand Master

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Thanks Kory. I think that video is actually one of my best ones yet. I finally feel like I'm starting to get the effect and feel I'm going for. If you have any projects that need a music score like the one I used, I found a royalty free composer that shares his work. Google Kevin MacLeod & music.

When I saw the big flames spitting out of the evo, I got a big grin cause I knew the GoPro was on the front bar and should have captured the shot. You know that feeling you get when you know you got the shot before you even have to look at it.

Did you happen to get any shots of my car? I haven't see any on the JDM or circuit club blogs.

Also, here is an in-car video with GPS Telemetry Data overlaid (Expand to full screen to see the position on map better).

XKLABA Grand Master

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Eric - Your video editing is definitely getting much much better! Really like the music and its a good compilation. Only thing i don't like is the zoom in and out real fast a few times but i know that wasn't you doing it haha.

Love it at like 1:15 the BYP evo is spraying flames everywhere from the cooler piping blowing off, looks awesome!

How come Dave's car smokes out of the exhaust everytime he gets off the throttle, turbo gasket?

The lowdown pics look great mate, keep up the good work, i always like reading your guys blog.

XKLABA - Is this your GTR below? If so.. pr0n.

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yeah thats me, great photo, sorry whats prOn

XKLABA Grand Master

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common typo when people want to type PORN has now almost superseded the original term for usage :P

and he is right, your car looks the bidniz

lol yeah i thought that might be it, cheers to both of you for the nice comments, hopefully i can get it to go as fast as it looks

again thats a great photo to bad the gopro was on the car for that pic

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