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Sunday Funday at good old Thunderhill East with the Volkzda went great even for not driving the full east course in like 6 years. I went back to the Flyin' Miata sway bars and it's much better but I still have tweaking to do. The Hawk ER-1 pads are pretty drat good but seemed to have an annoying tendency to increase grip as they heated up in the middle of long braking zones. It felt weird and didn't inspire the greatest confidence. IDK maybe it's just my setup of heavy car/tiny brakes. Now for the real news. Randy loving Pobst was there, with his sick rear end '77 Firebird! I didn't get to see it run on track though. He spent most of his time riding shotgun with someone and constantly having conversations with random people. And... senpai noticed me!! I was packing up the car at the end of the day and he came walking over and was like, "I saw you had the hood (now trunk lid) open and wanted to see what you had done to this thing... uhh wait a minute... (looks inside)... waaaiiittt a minute... is this a Miata underneath" and I'm like, "Yep, (blah blah blah)", "Oh wow man that's cooool!". He asks if he can take a quick video and then does, asks me my name, says some stuff about the car, and thanks me and leaves. I haven't seen it posted anywhere yet but I'll have to put a link in the Volkzda thread if it isn't dead yet. Did I get a selfie or with him? Of course not because I'm an idiot (or just exhausted, dehydrated, and starstruck). I should also add that a motorcyclist running on the west track got hurt bad enough that they called in a helicopter. Crazy. T's and P's man. That's why they call 'em "organ donors". Joe Mama fucked around with this message at 02:46 on Aug 30, 2022 |
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Joe Mama posted:Randy loving Pobst was there, and... senpai noticed me!! https://instagram.com/stories/randypobst/2917710804041082243?utm_source=ig_story_item_share&igshid=MDJmNzVkMjY=
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Speaking of brake dust, I just did three track days spread over four weeks with what's left of the Hawk ER-1s without cleaning my wheels during that time. They were caked as gently caress but came clean with regular car soap and a brush and, lo and behold, the wheels are fine! I was actually surprised, by the wheels and my laziness.
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aventari posted:How do you like the Hawk ER1s? I've been using Raybestos ST43's for many years in my endurance cars and they've been amazing. They last 2-3 16-hour events and never fail. They are kida pricey though. You would be much better than I at comparing them apples to apples with other legit endurance pads. I have only ever done HPDEs. I got them because Hawk bills them as an endurance/HPDE pad that are superior because they waved crystals over them or some poo poo. I won't be buying them again because the initial bite isn't aggressive enough for me and their longevity was actually a bit less than the Blues I had before. I was looking for a 'newer, better Blue' basically and these aren't it. All that being said, they seem like they'd be a good endurance pad and their street manors are actually pretty good.
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KillHour posted:How terrible of an idea is this K&N plus Walmart-grade audio equals  Who knows what else was cheaped out on.
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Hells yes. Where at?
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Second that. Definitely a bucket list track. The history, the area, the track itself. Volkzda didn't like it so much but it has more power and more tire now so I should probably get back there and try it again. I just did Thunderhill West again on Saturday. Set personal bests in 4 straight sessions, beat the previous best by 2 whole seconds. 75% of that was due to the tires for sure, went from Maxxis VR to RC. They actually behave fairly similarly to the VR, but with no alignment or suspension changes, the car handled perfectly balanced and the tires wore dead even across the face on all 4 tires. I probably had everything set a bit too aggressively for the VRs to begin with so the RCs stepped right in.
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BlackMK4 posted:That's fortunate, I've been through dozens of sets of RC1s between the S2000, Miata, and BRZ. They wore super evenly for me on both double wishbone cars, but I've yet to get the fronts to wear evenly on the BRZ strut front end, drives me nuts. I spoke too soon. Did T-Hill west reverse on Sunday. Left side tires, especially the rear, got their asses beat. Holy poo poo it's a tough track in reverse but man is it fun. At least the tire flogging wasn't in vain, I set a new personal best there again down to 1:33 flat. The car is definitely capable of more but now I have to do a trans rebuild and the front brakes NEED to be upgraded to 4 piston calipers on 11" rotors, stock fronts are absolutely cooked.
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BlackMK4 posted:Always nice to have more video in the thread .... I was using Track Addict on my phone and the mount sucks so the video is nausea inducing. That's what my left RC1s did, the center band especially kinda wore into a mountain peak or saw tooth. I was running 34-35 so I'll bump it up.
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I've had a hard time getting the RC1 to wear evenly, usually it does some weird mountain poo poo as it folds over on itself. Usually running slightly higher pressures (like 36 hot) helps.
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That's a nice, well-rounded track package though. Money well spent.
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