Team Wang Phillip Island Report and Pics.

[R32Big_boy]

Godamn i am soo enverious of you lot. Hopefully i'm getting brakes and suspension within a month or so. That way troy and i can go at gtst style. Not that i'll stand a chance against any one.

[Scotsman]

Everyone has to start somewhere.. Get your ass on the track! You'll love it.

[Laurence]

R32Big_boy: When I was going to the track I followed one rule and one rule only. Go faster than you went last time doesn't matter if you go 0.01s faster or 10s faster as long as you improve. It is the only comparison that is relevant.

If you look through Motor magazine and see what times Cameron McConville gets out of stock cars (1'48" from stock Evo 6.5 (from memory)) you can see that there is so much speed left to get from the driver before wasting money on the car.

Suspension and brakes are the best upgrade as I look at them both as reliability upgrades. Riding the bump stops around southern loop on the stock suspension is no good for anything.

[Snowman]

Haha - Chris mate - get used to seeing this! But it's ok - there's nothing wrong with second. :Bang:

[ferni]

hahah Adam is a member of "SAV"

[Bec]

Come on now Andrew - nobody likes a showoff :headspin:

[adznight]

Did you mean turn 6...? Not much of a drift action was happenning, you were mostly spinning them on a straight line. A lot of smoke though, the girls thought someone blew up.

You were too slow anyway, so i took you over.

What can I say, I lack traction on street tyres :wassup: Thought I might loose you in a cloud of smoke.

[GTRgeoff]

ADZ = TEAM SAV

gonna put a sausage sizzle on next time mate

[Duncan]

....If you look through Motor magazine and see what times Cameron McConville gets out of stock cars (1'48" from stock Evo 6.5 (from memory)) you can see that there is so much speed left to get from the driver before wasting money on the car......

:werd:

[Roy]

Godamn i am soo enverious of you lot. Hopefully i'm getting brakes and suspension within a month or so. That way troy and i can go at gtst style. Not that i'll stand a chance against any one.

Forget suspension, and for brakes all you need is some good front pads and some good fluid, you are only doing max 5 hard laps, if they start to go away just give them a lap to cool down.

I wasted plenty of money on susp only to go 0.5seconds quicker around Wakefield. Over the next 18months i pulled 6 seconds out of my best lap time without a single mod.

Just get out there and enjoy it. Unless your Scotsman, odds are your car will be far quicker then you the first few times

[adznight]

True that.

[Snowman]

Jarrod - look at Adz. He was running street tyres (mostly), stock suspension and stock brakes. He was doing fine. Yeah sure he wants to improve all of those things eventually but he was still out there giving it a go and learning.

As he can vouch once he chucked on the semi's - you will appreciate the upgrades more if you've had a run with out them for comparison!

Anyways..... whats the next plan boys? We have to get this Sydney sider Duncan out to some real tracks (especially Sandown and Phillip Island so he can actually go fast on a track for a change! haha!)

[INASNT]

Forget suspension, and for brakes all you need is some good front pads and some good fluid, you are only doing max 5 hard laps, if they start to go away just give them a lap to cool down.

I wasted plenty of money on susp only to go 0.5seconds quicker around Wakefield. Over the next 18months i pulled 6 seconds out of my best lap time without a single mod.

Just get out there and enjoy it. Unless your Scotsman, odds are your car will be far quicker then you the first few times

Roy what brake fluid / pads are good for road / few track days which dont need 1 lap to get warmed up and wont spew brake dust all over ya rims?

[Snowman]

Denham,

They say you shouldn't use "street pads" more than once on the track. If you are going for a track pad thats also ok on the streets (like RB74's etc) then the fact is they are dusty.

There's no such thing as a non dusty / non agressive when cold pad thats good on the track.

I'm using the Castrol SRF brake fluid which is awesome - but not cheap.

However - if you want a good read on people opinions on lots of different pads that people use on the track then check out this thread.

http://www.mrtrally.com.au/forums/topic.as...asp?TOPIC_ID=36

[Snowman]

FYI - Im using Ferodo 3000 fronts and Comp 2 rear pads. Amazing combination on the track.

Some would say slightly noisey when cold though.

[INASNT]

thanks andrew i will have a read

[GTRgeoff]

Racebarkes recommend RB74 front and Comp 2 rear for the GTS25t. I'm happy with the RB74 front and the rear do very little. I also use Motul DOT 5.1 fluid and had no fade on PI or Sandown. At PI I was out braking a lot of serious track cars on semi comp rubber, but I doubt they were using their capacity.

Word to the wise team. Don't spend a lot of bucks to find this is not your thing. The only people who will be impressed with your mods is yourself. Non trackies have no concept of what you do and the rest of us trackies will have loads of respect for you just for having a go. Just do the safety basics of brake pads and car fluids and get out there, but gently at first. You will sooon establish what is absolutely necessary.

[INASNT]

Racebarkes recommend RB74 front and Comp 2 rear for the GTS25t. I'm happy with the RB74 front and the rear do very little. I also use Motul DOT 5.1 fluid and had no fade on PI or Sandown. At PI I was out braking a lot of serious track cars on semi comp rubber, but I doubt they were using their capacity.

 

Word to the wise team. Don't spend a lot of bucks to find this is not your thing. The only people who will be impressed with your mods is yourself. Non trackies have no concept of what you do and the rest of us trackies will have loads of respect for you just for having a go. Just do the safety basics of brake pads and car fluids and get out there, but gently at first. You will sooon establish what is absolutely necessary.

How do you find that brake pad combo during daily driving geoff??

And what price are these roughly??

[GTRgeoff]

Really good performance, althought they feel a little wooden afetr an event for a couple of days. I need to bleed again I think as my pedal is dropping a bit far.

They don't grab on application but resond well to increasing pressure and when you really push them hard they REALLY start to work a lot harder. I've had some track pads that you had to really muscle when cold.

Price is around $150 per axle.

[INASNT]

Geoff are you using stock rotors?