Skid pans in/around Sydney?

[PranK]

So, I did a skid pan last Friday at SMSP which I totally sucked at. I'd like to get better at this but it was $350 and I probably got about 20 mins on the pan over the 4 hours I was there which is just not a great ROI. 

I don't have a LSD in the car yet, that will happen before I go again. I was struggling to get the car to be consistent and I think it was the open diff. I also struggled to maintain any control at all once it did step out. More practice needed. 

I found this one but it's a good 7hrs round trip for me. https://www.fifthgear.com.au/course/advanced-skidpan-training

Are there any others that people have been to around Sydney? 

[Duncan]

FWIW, the Sutton Road facility is a good one, they have a wet kidney skidpan and a dry area as well as the back track....the club hired it a few times back in the day

The clover and wet pans at Eastern Creek are the only ones I still know of in Sydney, that place is always expensive but different clubs would run different prices/formats

There used to be a place called HART at St Ives, not sure if that still exists.

We used to hire the runway at the tafe at schofields for dry motorkhana, not sure if anyone still does that. And of course that lovely one at Oran Park that is now a housing estate....

[PranK]

Thanks Duncan, HART is only 10 mins from me (I did my bike license there), it'd be awesome if it ran these types of things. 

Sutton Road does look good and they take fewer cars than SMSP which is good. 

Surely you have enough land to lay a few million tonnes of concrete and some sprinklers D? 

[MBS206]

4 hours ago, PranK said:

Thanks Duncan, HART is only 10 mins from me (I did my bike license there), it'd be awesome if it ran these types of things. 

Sutton Road does look good and they take fewer cars than SMSP which is good. 

Surely you have enough land to lay a few million tonnes of concrete and some sprinklers D? 

Skip the concrete, we just need to smooth a field.

Mark knows how to drive a grader Duncan

 

I reckon 100x100 flat area for skid pan style, and then some sort tracks for rally...

Duncan's already got a rally car on the premises to...

[MBS206]

Maybe SAUNSW could see howany members would do a motorkhana day if Schofield's is still available for a reasonable price...

[Duncan]

pretty sure that is about $1M for a 100mx100m slab....I'm gunna need some help on that.

I do have the space and understanding neighbours though

[Milkmun]

$350 for a skid pan is a joke, cost of living is definitely more in NSW 😂

[PranK]

13 hours ago, Duncan said:

pretty sure that is about $1M for a 100mx100m slab....I'm gunna need some help on that.

I do have the space and understanding neighbours though

Crowd funding FTW

[MBS206]

11 hours ago, PranK said:

Crowd funding FTW

 

On 11/13/2024 at 7:59 PM, Duncan said:

pretty sure that is about $1M for a 100mx100m slab....I'm gunna need some help on that.

I do have the space and understanding neighbours though

I go back to, skip the concrete, we just need smooth dirt/grass...

You weld us up one of those huge take like things you buy at Bunnings for spreading dirt nicely, except we'll tow it behind a car instead of push by hand. 😛

[The Bogan]

I did a motokhana years ago with ??Sydney Sporting Car Club???, it was on a grassy paddock and was heaps of fun, I think it was north west Sydney IIRC

The old R33 boat was covered in grass and dirt, but nothing that a good wash and detail didn't fix

And thinking back, when SAU did the airstrip run in Goulburn years ago, where the old 33 won highest RWD MPH, the quickest RWD ET on the airstrip, and best paint IIRC (before the runs down the airstrip) the damage to the rear quarters from stones flicking up required them the get a respray 

I would definitely do a grass motokhana again in the MX5

Who knows someone that owns a farm with a big empty paddock 

Liability these days is a big issue though

[The Bogan]

21 hours ago, MBS206 said:

 

I go back to, skip the concrete, we just need smooth dirt/grass...

You weld us up one of those huge take like things you buy at Bunnings for spreading dirt nicely, except we'll tow it behind a car instead of push by hand. 😛

Dragging some reo behind a ute or trailer will smooth out a dirt road, I've used reo a few times to do unsealed road maintenance when we didn't have any plant available 

It's best done when the dirt is wet though, and then you just let it dry out for a day to harden up

For wetting the dirt I've used some 44 gal drums in a ute or trailer, and a water pump connected to a hose with a old sprinkler tied to the reo to wet the material down whilst spreading

Basically just drive slowly up and down the road a few times dragging a few sheets of reo wired together with the sprinkler wetting it all down as you go

[niZmO_Man]

$350 for a skid pan day at EC? WTF??
They used to be like <$100? We had track days at EC south and the full circuit for $350-odd WOOOWWWW COVID ruined us all.

[Duncan]

12 hours ago, niZmO_Man said:

$350 for a skid pan day at EC? WTF??
They used to be like <$100? We had track days at EC south and the full circuit for $350-odd WOOOWWWW COVID ruined us all.

lol let me guess 10c lollies used to cost 10c too! prices have moved on old timer

[The Bogan]

28 minutes ago, Duncan said:

lol let me guess 10c lollies used to cost 10c too! prices have moved on old timer

Cobbers and Bullets were 1 cent each when I was a youngster

[Duncan]

Surely you mean 1 penny

[MBS206]

9 hours ago, Duncan said:

lol let me guess 10c lollies used to cost 10c too! prices have moved on old timer

Theres still skid pan and motokhana days up in QLD at least that are $100 or less.

The ones that are ran as "driver training" less so, they're expensive, but just normal skid pan days like SAU ran are still low cost.

And thats one of the places I learned to be a lariken, purely by asking for passenger rides, and how people were doing crazy things. Reese gave me plenty of pointers back in the day for skid pan!

And yes Duncan, I will never forget your pointers for track work. Especially after Neil got out saying "I am NEVER getting in the car with him again!" 😛

[Kinks]

I did a skidpan night at SMSP this week, it was much cheaper than $350.

But yeah, you need to slap an LSD in that thing.  I put an OS Giken in the 370Z and it's f**king MARVELOUS even compared to Nissan's viscous LSD.

On 11/13/2024 at 9:56 AM, Duncan said:

And of course that lovely one at Oran Park that is now a housing estate....

So you're saying it's free now that it's a housing estate? 😂

[32.det]

$350 seems pretty steep for a wetpan event, you can definitely find cheaper ones there depending on the club running it.

I have done 4 there now with both Driving Sports & Australian Drift Club with entry being $160 & $180 respectively.