How Did You Begin Your Track Racing Hobby?

[tweety bird]

i see, is it this place

[MBS206]

i see, is it this place

Yes that's the one.

[GoldZilla]

Don't use cheap parts on your car. I have first hand experience when the [cheap] front pads on my car died very quickly, resulting in the piston coming out of the calliper as I was thrashing around Oran Park late last year.

I converted the front brakes to R33 4 pots that afternoon in the car park . (For those that went, White/grey R31 Skyline, used a hammer to create clearance for the discs hehehe).

I remember this day clearly, and can vouch for the condition of the brake pads on Ravi's car: they were literally bent like bananas, and that's NOT an exaggeration! I might even have a photo somewhere, I was that stunned at what I'd seen. I used to spend plenty of my youth helping my old man when he worked on cars, and I have NEVER seen brake pads in that shape.

[SargeRX8]

I want to drift. After reading, watching videos, looking around etc, it looks like great fun. Ive seen a couple drift mob cars(180 and a silver r33) parked near my work. Hopefully I can see the guys who own the cars and talk with them. I find it quite gay though that shit like this cost so much money. There should be some free tuition day. Anyhow, for now Ill be watching more japanese basic drifting videos. They are not bad at all, they show camera in car and out of the car so you can see what different situations do with the car. Most of the videos are skylines too, so I can relate! Would be awesome of work would let me use the car park for drifting haha.

[Duncan]

Umm It is almost free to try this sort of event. We are running a 'khana on the skidpan in Nirimba in 3 weeks, entry cost is $50 if you were a SAU NSW club member....ie it will cost more in fuel and tyres than it will in entry fee!

Most motorsport is not cheap....but we actively try and create some events that are as cheap as possible. Come along and give it a go.

[Pezhead]

Well drifting is all about learning the balance and power control (e.g. powersliding) of your car. Texi is a good place to start and there are a few guys that can pretty much drift our texi courses (James in his black and yellow R31 for instance).

Come to a texi in your car then do a drift school day. Then there are a number of drift night events at eastern creek running - watch our event section.

That'll be my suggesting if you really want to learn drifting in a safe controlled environment.

[niZmO_Man]

I remember this day clearly, and can vouch for the condition of the brake pads on Ravi's car: they were literally bent like bananas, and that's NOT an exaggeration! I might even have a photo somewhere, I was that stunned at what I'd seen. I used to spend plenty of my youth helping my old man when he worked on cars, and I have NEVER seen brake pads in that shape.

I found your pictures in the trackday thread over at R31SC

<1,000km old, 1.25 track days later

Don't use cheap parts

[tweety bird]

noway thats insane.

[kungpow]

hey mate i was teaching with driving sports out at EC for drift they have days running from only a few hundred dollars and that is with all cars tyres and fuel supplied which is a great place to learn and is quite cheap when you work out what the cars cost to set up maintain and have running.

if you want to give it a go pm me and i can get you some infomation sent out about the training day, drift is not a cheap sport, it is quite cost effective if you are going the wet pan as you dont wear anything out but if you go in the dry tyres can add up quite quickly.

last time i was on the dry penut i did 10 tyres in my r 33 in 4 hours and around 12 tyres on the big track over the course of a few hours (depends what tyres you run as well).

there are many good drift schools that you can go to and Driving Sports is just one if this intrest you please pm me for more details.