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PaintVagrant posted:Nice, thanks for asking him. That seems to be the common wisdom, just alignment and fluid needed 'til you get serious. The supercar 3R is supposedly 100tw, but guys get about 4 trackdays out of them at the most, so it might be 100tw like the RE71R is 200tw - numbers don't matter when nobody polices them I guess. I am on a set of the stock Supercar 3 (non-R's) which should be fine for a while. Also, I should have clarified, he is back on the SC3 and still likes them. He said the SC3R isn't that far off the R7. BlackMK4 fucked around with this message at 20:48 on Mar 22, 2021 |
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BlackMK4 posted:Yeah, treadwear is bullshit. OEM stock pads. That's pretty impressive that he is able to use the oem pads at that level of competition. PaintVagrant fucked around with this message at 20:50 on Mar 22, 2021 |
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I took my Fiesta ST to the track and it ruled a lot. Just thought you should know.
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Roman Rambo posted:I took my Fiesta ST to the track and it ruled a lot. Just thought you should know. 
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Roman Rambo posted:I took my Fiesta ST to the track and it ruled a lot. Just thought you should know. Welcome to your new addiction. Drugs would have been cheaper. 
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KillHour posted:Welcome to your new addiction. Drugs would have been cheaper. I try not to think about my life if I hadn't done a track day.
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Same, but I also haven't come up with something to replace the void created by quitting yay, I save a lot more money but then what
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There's always motorcycles or karting. Which cost...less...depending...
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Diametunim posted:There's always motorcycles or karting. Which cost...less...depending... Broken bones can be pretty expensive.
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I quit tracking motorcycles after: Highsiding a 2007 GSXR750 at Arizona Motorsports Park and ending up with my first concussion Lowsiding a 2004 R6 at Thunderhill Raceway during a goon trackday Figured that was enough for me and bought a S2000.
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Motorcycles are cheaper to replace than a car but a car is cheaper to replace than your skull.
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Signed up for Road Atlanta with Jzilla in June with a bunch of friends and people from the local area, taking the locost which should be sketchy as hell on the back straight. Probably going to sign up for a test day at Carolina Motorsport Park or open lapping at Talledega Gran Prix in a couple months with the FF1600.
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BlackMK4 posted:Same, but I also haven't come up with something to replace the void created by quitting Agreed. I'd need something with an adrenaline rush but that all seems to scale where the less expensive it is the more dangerous it gets.
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Is cart racing the most cost effective and easiest way to do wheel to wheel? I should see if one can fit in my transit connect I could use it for solo too 
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KillHour posted:Broken bones can be pretty expensive. Aint that the truth, and one of the main things that keeps me from going back to racing MX again. I broke enough bones as a kid when it was free. Don't want to repeat the cycle now that I'm the one footing the bill. Theres an easy solution though, don't run out of talent. BlackMK4 posted:I quit tracking motorcycles after: Oof. Sorry to hear that. Head injuries are no joke. Do you still ride in any capacity? Virgil Vox posted:Is cart racing the most cost effective and easiest way to do wheel to wheel? I'm fairly certain the answer is yes? You can pick up an Lo206 cart fairly cheaply and I think one or two sets of tires will last you a full season of racing. The motors are designed to be bulletproof as well. Lo206 is an incredibly popular class at any track AFAIK. If you want to dip your toes in, your local kart track may have a rental racing league. In Austin COTA Karting has a league night every week, and our K1 speed has one a month as well. id love to get to the point where im doing W2W In cars but it just looks so bloody expensive. I cry everytime I see someone yard sale a car, and it seems like It happens a lot in W2W, especially with all of the bumping and grinding.
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Virgil Vox posted:Is cart racing the most cost effective and easiest way to do wheel to wheel? Kart, but yes, as long as you're not huge. If you're into technical side of cars that's something karts miss - if you just want to drive, welp.
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Diametunim posted:Oof. Sorry to hear that. Head injuries are no joke. Do you still ride in any capacity? I don't, I sold my Tuono, R6, and YZ450F about five years ago and haven't twisted a throttle since. 
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I do miss motorcycle track days, my RS125 hasn't been fired up since 2016. I should really sell it to make space and free up funds. It's been even longer since I rode on the street.Virgil Vox posted:Is cart racing the most cost effective and easiest way to do wheel to wheel?
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Roman Rambo posted:I took my Fiesta ST to the track and it ruled a lot. Just thought you should know. I'm looking to hopefully take my FiST to an open track day this summer. Mine is completely stock and I've heard there might be heat issues after a few hard laps. Anything I should keep an eye on?
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BeRandom posted:I'm looking to hopefully take my FiST to an open track day this summer. Mine is completely stock and I've heard there might be heat issues after a few hard laps. Anything I should keep an eye on? The car will put itself in limp mode (no boost, wont rev over 3k) if you break the coolant or oil temp parameters, so you cant really hurt it. If its a really hot day and you cant get through a session without hitting limp mode, try running the heat in the car, closing all the vents besides the side ones and point them out the open windows. The other thing is to pay attention to brake feel. If the pedal gets squishy feeling, take a cooldown lap or take a break 'til the next session. I would definitely recommend an upgraded brake fluid flush before you go to the track. Have fun! A stock fiST is a fun rear end car on track, you can get it to rotate mid corner by removing throttle and then get it to straighten out again by adding throttle. Very fun little car, I miss mine. e: check your various boost pipe clamps the day before, they are notorious for slowly working their way off and tracking is the type of driving that will finish the job. The ones on the intercooler were usually the culprit for me. PaintVagrant fucked around with this message at 22:00 on Mar 31, 2021 |
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Thanks!! I will definitely give the engine bay a good once over the day before heading out.
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BeRandom posted:I'm looking to hopefully take my FiST to an open track day this summer. Mine is completely stock and I've heard there might be heat issues after a few hard laps. Anything I should keep an eye on? I have a 2016, tuned with an intercooler. I drove it very hard with no problems. Good fluid and pads is my recommendation. I usually drive advanced group in a BRZ but my fiesta is not that modified, I beat it up hard anyway and I was surprised at how reliable it was. That said, it was a nice day ~70F tops. The handling in the fiesta is brilliant. I ran ESC all the way off and I didn't have the issues that people talk about with rear brake heat even pushing hard. To piggyback on what PaintVagrant said, I had to take it easy on brakes. Pedal was getting soft and so I stopped braking as much. Stock pads, small rotors, my fluid was kind of old. After braking less there was no problem. edit edit: just got my seats in for the BRZ. Lime Rock Park April 10 bois. https://ibb.co/BGqWSmw Roman Rambo fucked around with this message at 02:24 on Apr 2, 2021 |
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I went to a private trackday today and managed to get about two hours of driving time. Finished off both sets of tires I had on wheels (RR/RC1). Anyway, since my last whining post: 1. Moved from GLoc R12 to GLoc R18 pads up front 2. Moved from 550lb rear springs to 600lb rear springs 3. Corner balanced the car and set the ride height to roughly 4.5" / 4.75" The car is an absolute joy to drive now, I slowly added some wing angle in the morning to stabilize it in faster corners since it was kinda loose and it just worked perfectly. BE GONE PUSH MACHINE, goddamn, makes me so happy. Lap times were basically the same as what I ran in 40*f cooler weather with tires that didn't have 25-30HC on them, so I can't complain there.
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Amazing what the proper rake will do. The rear was too low, resulting in too much grip there, causing the front to push. You can actually play around with the rear ride height to stabilize things a bit rather than wing angle too, depending on your preference. Glad to hear its sorted though, way more fun when the car does what you want it to do!
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Badass, very nice. More in car videos please.
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I was at Lime Rock yesterday for the NASA HPDE. I discovered this vehicle, which rules. https://ibb.co/D8MPNyL
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NICE NICE
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I'll play around with it a bit, I don't have my own corner balance scales so I can't just mess with it whenever  The car doesn't seem to have a problem putting power down in low speed corners right now, but I think it is worth trying.Diametunim posted:Badass, very nice. More in car videos please. Alright, I usually hate watching these things back because I see mistakes all over but how else are you going to learn This was the quickest lap for me, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0_PYj7cNQEo, it felt pretty relaxed. First session out with a set of 25+ heatcycle RC1s after cording Toyo RRs. The big mistake at the final corner cost me a 1:46.
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BlackMK4 posted:I'll play around with it a bit, I don't have my own corner balance scales so I can't just mess with it whenever You can without scales! Count the number of threads below on each side, that's your default. Go in full turns, same on both sides - i.e. two turns down/up - this will keep your cross weights the same, even if the F/R balance changes a bit. Note the amount you changed, and you can just reset it back to perfect corner balance at the end of the day. Right from Emillo: "In general, once we have an alignment we like, the only tuning we do at the track is to raise and lower the rear to fine tune. Lower to add rear grip, raise to reduce it. Too low and the suspension will bottom so that's your limiter."
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TrueChaos posted:You can without scales! Count the number of threads below on each side, that's your default. Go in full turns, same on both sides - i.e. two turns down/up - this will keep your cross weights the same, even if the F/R balance changes a bit. Note the amount you changed, and you can just reset it back to perfect corner balance at the end of the day. Good point, not sure what I was thinking with that  I even marked the collars to make it easier. My car was so low before that 'bottom' was tire to body, rather than bump stop.edit: nevermind, decided to remove the link BlackMK4 fucked around with this message at 20:59 on Apr 16, 2021 |
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You know they should class not on the modifications to the car themselves but the budget of the build.
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There are classes like that. Lemons, chump car, and the grassroots 2021 challenge iirc are all budget limited. Looks like chump car switched off the budget limit.
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Virgil Vox posted:You know they should class not on the modifications to the car themselves but the budget of the build. There's been a lot of ideas like that over the years. In practice it's kind a pain in the rear end to enforce in the sense of, unless you go with arbitrary value of some things (and then we're back to classing by modifications) the cost of stuff can vary significantly.
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Does anybody know if NRS ever made a track brake pad? Just bought a used set of Brembos from an 04 STI and they came with some pads that still have quite a bit of life to them, but I was told the brakes were used exclusively on track. The pads definitely had gotten some heat in them at some point. They say NRS, and the NRS website only lists a street pad, which seems odd for brakes that were only used on track.
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There are companies that buy bare backing plates or let you send in old pads and put whatever compound you want on them. I have a few GLoc compounds for Wilwood Superlite calipers that have NRS backing plates and no marking. They are originally entirely spraypainted the GLoc compound color, but that burns off in a day.
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BlackMK4 posted:There are companies that buy bare backing plates or let you send in old pads and put whatever compound you want on them. Interesting, thanks.
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Brought the TT RS to the track for the first time, because the organizer no longer allows convertibles without cages
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I just want to say PIR is a great, underrated track. The blink kink on the main straight is terrifying.
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KillHour posted:I just want to say PIR is a great, underrated track. The blink kink on the main straight is terrifying. I'm assuming that both of you mean Portland by PIR in which case I completely agree.
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