Private Track Day!

[Nonie_13]

We wanker We

[scandyflick]

...and Jugs, and Glenn

glennda? fo realz?

no pat?

[heslo]

Oh yes, I forgot Pat.

And Glenn is too soft to drive, only spectating. He thinks he is taking mine for a spin, he has another thing coming

[scandyflick]

lol. he blew up a ca without trying. him and an rb would be a dangerous combination.

hopefully someone else brings a 33 gtr so i can borrow their drivers seat.

[heslo]

lol. he blew up a ca without trying. him and an rb would be a dangerous combination.

hopefully someone else brings a 33 gtr so i can borrow their drivers seat.

Munro

[scandyflick]

oh yeah. and hes got the same seat as me...

...hmmm...

"hey munro, you reckon i could..."

[writeoff]

If you had given me more notice I could've grabbed a R33 GTR drivers seat for you Dave. I have a Series 3 in my driveway doing nothing but gathering dust. CBF doing it now or tomorrow morning though.

So what time are you guys leaving Villies? And is it a counter meal for lunch then - so I don't have to make sandwiches.

[DSTROY]

Well im finally packed and ready for an early start. Just gonna make some sangas and hit bed. See you guys nice and early I'll try and make it to Vilis at 6.

Edited October 25, 2009 by DSTROY

[scandyflick]

If you had given me more notice I could've grabbed a R33 GTR drivers seat for you Dave. I have a Series 3 in my driveway doing nothing but gathering dust. CBF doing it now or tomorrow morning though.

dang. oh well, now i know who to talk to when i wanna take lukes R for a belt.

[Moodles2]

Can't sleep for some reason, guess I won't be 100% rested for tomorrow

[writeoff]

Morning all. Hopefully we get a nice day with a bit of sunshine and no rain - BOM says 21 degrees: fine & sunny.

Looking forward to it. Go the little Pug!

[Moodles2]

Awesome day today, beats an weekend open for sure. thanks to the guy who helped me with my front pad change.

Tangles did you end up sorting out the brake fluid?

[Damo_R34]

awesome day, got a bit warmer than i thought! perfect weather tho. extremely happy with the car!

[Tangles]

stagea was fantastic; no pads at all on either fronts tho !!

down to metal pad backing vs metal disc. lol lol

next time I'll be packing pads for sure !!

cheers all, great 1st time out - will be out there again very soon for sure!

[Moodles2]

I went into my window cam and found the spin I did with the windows down:

[Moodles2]

stagea was fantastic; no pads at all on either fronts tho !!

down to metal pad backing vs metal disc. lol lol

When brake fluid goes from max to min, pretty much always mean you've cooked the pads down to the backing plate that holds the pad material in place, mine lasted 80mins of mallala abuse before I had to change them.

[Luke_ENR34]

That was me that helped u mate. Did u get home all ok?

Was a great day out and money well spent. Can't wait to get out again. Thanks to Adrian for organising it all. Can't wait to see pics now.

[Tangles]

. Did u get home all ok?.

hence why I had to leave when i did, city south rd traffic with backing plates for front pads.....

took it nice and easy; slot newies in tomorrow, and get back out there asap

[32godzilla]

Yeah awesome day! Thanks again Adrian for organising. Managed to run a 1.27.46 as per Race Chrono (unconfirmed with the video footage), so pretty happy with that. Should be a 1.25 in it with some sharpening up. Will post some vids up on youtube. Can't believe how punishing the track is on brake pads. Good work Luke (ENR_34) for helping everyone.

Oh and nice video Lance! Love the dirt action!!

[writeoff]

Awesome Day!!! Had a brilliant time.

Thanks to Adrian (Rad32) for organising it. Thanks to Kim (V35-2005), Lance (Moodles2) & Luke (Heslo) for lending me your tools etc during the day.

Thanks to the two guys that helped me change my wheels over (I can't think of your names right now & I know that I've met one of you a couple of times - sorry).

Thanks to the Peugeot designers & mechanics from the 1980s for finally giving me something nice to say about the French. Pity about every car since...

I ended up going out for 7 sessions and reckon that I had about 30mins in total where I had the track to myself. Especially right at the end. Brilliant!

I'm pretty confident that I won the 'Most Spins' category with a grand total of 10 - although technically I didn't actually spin every time but the car did end up where it wasn't meant to.

How I hear you ask: 3 times because I was (am) an idiot and didn't warm up my tyres first hence I usually spun at the back hairpin on the first lap. It took me 3 sessions to work this out *face palm*

4 times I was pushing it about 15-20kmph faster through corners than I had done previously. I accept that. That's part of the fun.

And 3 times I just f**ked up. Wrong line, wrong speed, wrong pedal whatever. I'm sure that I provided some entertainment to the spectators.

Maybe I should change my user name from 'writeoff' to 'spinoff'.

Brendan (Tangles) - I have your helmet and will probably drop it off on Thursday if that's cool?

Someone left a hammer against the southern wall of the 1st group of sheds closest to the track. Dave's (scandyflick) car was there most of the day.

Someone else left a black funnel at the opposite end of the same shed. Above where Lance's (Moodles2) tools were.

There were also some cables ties but I'm keeping those.

I look forward to the driver training on November 23. Clearly I need it. Hopefully I'll have the GTR back by then.

PS - pity all the Jap crap out there couldn't keep going until the end of the day. How many casualties were there? I don't think my GTR would have survived 7 sessions & 10 spins.