benm

Well my day started with arriving at 7:30am as requested to find myself sitting with the HCC boys. By 8am I had my own garage and most drivers had arrived by then. Looking over the otherside of my garage I see a Porsche Boxter with fatttt rear tyres thinking "oh gawd im in trouble today". The Drive Briefing was well quite brief, MotoConcepts were quite easy going all day (which was good). I was expecting the day to be much more formal than what it was but really loved how it turned out (Even if it did take 30 takes on the microphone to stop people sitting on the concrete pit wall). Session 1: My passenger (Jamie who is trying to get is XU1 Torana ready for the next trackday) ended up being late (got called out to a job at 7am) so Duncan was kind enuff to lend me his experience. Spent the first few laps just trying to stick to the red cones to get the corners right. I thought my car was handling extremely well, much better than I anticipated considering I had completely warn and bad quality rubber (Faulken ZE502 @ 225/50/16 @ 38psi). I could tell straight away the difference if I missed an a-pex as my exit speed and straight line speed suffered. Brakes felt really good and I was hitting the 190km/h speed limiter quite early down the straight. I spent all but the main straight in 3rd gear while trying to get myself (and Duncan) around the track without sliding off. A huge thankyou to Duncan for your tips they'll greatly pay off. Session 2: By now my passenger and my dad had arrived and it was onto the track again to see what I could do. My brake pedal was slightly lower but with my non-mechanical knowledge I thought it was just from the wear of my pads from Session 1 so I pushed on. Not once did I get the car even remotely sideways (infact I think i only used opposite-lock once during the entire day and that was only for 0.2sec). I started to get alittle more confident and braked later into some corners (Turn 4, 6 and 11). Everything felt good, although my front tyres went off and I was starting to get understeer whenever I didnt hit the corners right. Session 3: This time my dad timed some laps which ranged from 2:16 - 2:19. For the last 3 laps I was taking about 1sec a lap out of that old red Ferrari (you shoulda seen the grin on my face even if the car was 20yrs old hehe). Front grip once again was an issue although I worked out that on some corners if I just went alittle harder instead of backing off the frontend would stick better so I played around with that. On the last lap I finally managed to catch the Ferrari and slipstreamed him the entire straight stuck on 190km/h not having enuff to overtake before the checkered flag was waved. I immediately slowed down to about 80 km/h just to let everything cool down. Upon reaching Turn 9 (the hairpin after Corporate Hill) I suddenly realised that my brake pedal hit the floor. I crawled back to the pits hoping i'd have something to pull me up at the end of pitlane. After talking to afew people I realised that I had cooked my brake fluid (standard fluid... once again me being the mechanical novice). Session 4: I took the car out again and did 1 lap @ 80km/h before realising that my brakes were no better so pulled in again immediately and my car was sidelined for the remainder of the day. Session 5: With my car sidelined I managed to grab a ride with Duncan in his car. Myyyy god I didnt realise how much ass a stock skyline could haul with the right driver, tyres and brake fluid (hehe). On a clear lap we did a 1:57 (apparently with crap tyres so Duncan said). The next lap we got held up by a 350Z (stupid $76,000 cars pffft) but still managed a 2:01, from their the front tyres went off before we could catch the F355 (or was that before it spun at Turn 2). Tomorrow (Wednesday) im getting some higher quality Brake fluid put in my car (315c instead of 165c haha). So i'll be back at the next MotoConcept day (hopefully with new tyres and my own helmet too) to try and better my 2:16. Just wanted to say once again a huge thanks to Duncan for your driving knowledge and ride on Session 5, if I was abit quiet its coz i was hanging on hehe. Also to Dan for showing me around n stuff thanks heaps mate. Akira, Prank, Carlo and the rest of the boys you were putting down some seriously good times (ranging from 1:57 - 2:05) and hopefully by this time next year I'll be down around the 2:05's also. Thanks again, Ben. PS. mmmm dagwood dogs.

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Your providing skanks ?

GavSport St Marys (Western Sydney). Call Kevin on 0296238070.

Same ere too.

Last week i got some new quotes for these Dunlop FM901's. From a Dunlop dealer they were $200ea + fitting. From Beaurepairs they were $269ea fitted.

No but I wish..... hook me up !!

Hi, (1995 R33 GTS-T S1) I went to a track day today expecting to have really strong brakes (brand new DBA Clubspec Rotors and 5mth old Bendix Ultimate pads). After only 3x 7 Lap sessions my foot went flat to the floor and after asking people what the problem might be they all suggested that I had cooked the brake fluid (pedal slowwwwly came back after leaving the car rest for 2hrs before driving home but still nowhere near before I went to the trackday). Now the questions I have are: 1) What is a good quality brake fluid that is going to give me no problems at all on a trackday? (5x 7 lap sessions with a 50min gap inbetween each session). So far I have been recommended: Motul DOT 5.1 = 270c Castrol SRF = 300c Are these compatiable with my car? 2) On the lid of the brake fluid container it says "only use DOT 3 brake fluid), but I can't find any when doing a search on the net. Is this because in 1995 (when my car was built) DOT3 was all that was available back then and technology has increased since? 3) How much fluid is required to do a complete change over from the old fluid to the new fluid? 4) Approx what is brake fluid worth ? I want to get something really good because while having a speed limiter is annoying it certainly isn't dangerous, but having no brakes at all when braking from 160km/h -> 60km/h its not a pretty situation. Thanks, Ben.

I'll tell you tomorrow after ive finished my trackday at Eastern Creek...

I'll be there to spectate like I am every fortnight without fail.

Yup awesome ! If tomorrow goes well than im in for sure (havent asked for a day off in 2 years, now I know why )

same here it will also save the brakes alittle...

Join the club with my speed limiter still in place

I have a set of 4 brake rotors for sale which came off a 1995 Nissan Skyline R33 RB25DET. * My reason for selling is I have just upgraded to the new DBA Rotors. * These are the original stock rotors which have done 72,000km. * They were last machined about 5mths ago and are in good condition. * Pics available at: http://skylines.pnc.com.au/pics/ben/rotor/rotor7.jpg http://skylines.pnc.com.au/pics/ben/rotor/rotor8.jpg * I have no idea what they are worth and im not too technically minded (as far as what they will/won't fit) so go easy...

Just had my rotors installed this morning... some dull pics @ http://skylines.pnc.com.au/pics/ben/rotor/

a touch before 7:30am

Just got an email from Kevin that the ROTORS HAVE ARRIVED. I'll be picking mine up in about 30mins schweeeeeet Call him on: 0296238070

Its also what my boost guage is in. When the electronic digital guages 1/2 in price i'll think about upgrading it to 1 of those.

.. 1 reason why i find bar pointless.

Actually so far I have only removed my front left tyre... I figure since most corners are left handers I can balance it up on the other 3

No rain just cloudy (my dad is in the weather business and i already asked him about this) we live about 15-20mins west of EC. If it rains tho (and my dad is wrong) im happy for you all to submit his email address to spam lists

The mods you have should get you to a flat 13 but putting the mods into practice is another story.

Spoke to Kevin on Tuesday and he said the Rotors are arriving Friday - 6th

in the distance future probably, but you'd be best off aiming for a 13.5sec first off.....

note the original message request...