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Apparently me gears are in the country...... somewhere. There might still be hope for me yet!!

:mad: I know your frustration, car was runing ok, but not properly, threw in a set of cams as the new ECU was coming and wanted to get the whoel thing tuned / running properly in the one hit.

As of today, sadly my old bus still isnt running :mad: , and i suspect the workshop where my car is have got the sh1ts with me ringing asking how its all going :Oops: actually i know they have.

We are hoping to fix the prob by Wednesday, is it the cams, fuel pump, ecu????.... doesnt leave me much time to get the car ready for Friday...still ill come even if it means hiring a car....only id rather my car back...as a i have already paid for the Sunday Sprint.

may have to borrow a friends car... its always good to have a backup plan. :cheers:

Track Insurance :cheers:

See if you can even find someone that will offer it to you. As far as I know it doesnt exist anymore. Too many people were going "well my car is insured so I'll see if I can go around this corner a little bit faster......... DOH" When I first got my car I searched everywhere for insurance but had no luck. Now I just take it easy and you realise that non of the other cars on the track have insurance either so they are all very smart about things as well.

Its one of the fun risks that makes it so exciting! (If I put my car into the wall there's no way on earth I could afford to fix it! :mad: )

Apparently there is no problems getting 98RON fuel. I was going to take 20L of Toluene just in case however. And I believe its about 2hrs from the start of the Hume. I figured I'd be catching up with Roy and whom ever else at the NDSOC meeting next Wed night and we could arrange a meeting time and place for Friday morning then.

GTRs have oil temp gauges dont they? Just drive it around until she start to get warm, id say bursts of 10 minutes on the track should be fine, especially this time of year.

Dont know who i am kidding with my little regime, but typically the first 2 laps im going a moderate pace, no more then 4,500rpm, and not too hard on the brakes...slowly building up to a pace allowing for the brakes, engine etc to come up to temp, then i normally do 4 or 5 laps flat chat, then usually the flags are out so do a cool down lap then back in.

If you dont have an oil cooler and you are concerned about temps, just potter around the track for 2 laps, (keeping an eye on your mirrors) at a reasonable speed not putting too much load on the engine. The airflow thru the engine bay may bring the temps back under control quicker then stopping (Dont know how true that is...but that approach has sserved me well) So if you are new to Winton liek me its a good opportunity to test different lines and familiarise yourslef with the track layout

At Wakefield open days, often the sessions arent timed, and once i did 35 minutes straight, only slowing for 3/4 lap every 5 or so laps to give the tyres a chance to come back...(Usually fronts because i turn in way too early and cook the front tyres with understeer)

With no flagged sessions at Winton you will just have to call your own pace based on your oil temp gauge. I did track days for 2 years in my car without an oil cooler, yet she lives

My mum did 18x 1m35sec laps around Wakefield at our last trackday, didn't slow down but then again 1m35sec isn't exactly quick around Wakefield so we just kept going and lost track of how many laps we did haha.

My quickest lap was #67 of the day (2nd last) :cheers:

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