Anyone Else At Qr Today? 20/08

[jlnewton]

Just wondering if anyone else made it out to QR today for the sprints? I went out for a blast in the GTR, was good to give it a go for the first time on my Dunlop DO2Gs. My god they make a huge difference. Slashed my previous PB on the clubman layout by 2.4s. Managed 1:03.15. Pretty happy with that effort, still on stock boost even

[Bunta]

Looks like you had fun!! Cant wait till I can get out there my tyres and suspension suck!

[Genesis®]

*cough* lucky *cough*

[AzzurrA]

Hey mate

I was out there today, and i believe Stealth was as well (he was in the pit bay next to me)

I was the very standard White R32 GTS-t running around... My first time ever on a track, and was fairly happy with the time i ran... got a 1:09.86 in my last session, and the car only has a pod and exhaust as go fast mods

If you have any photos of me, could you please post them up?!

Thanks

Jason

[hungry6]

I had to go to auction yesterday, otherwise , I would have been out in a maz3, lol.

[jlnewton]

Hey mate

I was out there today, and i believe Stealth was as well (he was in the pit bay next to me)

I was the very standard White R32 GTS-t running around... My first time ever on a track, and was fairly happy with the time i ran... got a 1:09.86 in my last session, and the car only has a pod and exhaust as go fast mods

If you have any photos of me, could you please post them up?!

Thanks

Jason

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Ahhh, nice work. Yep I did see you down the end of the pit area along with the silver series 2 33 and Keith in his white 34. Was a pretty good day, weather was near perfect.

Oh, and btw, less power mods, more suspension and brake mods, its the only way to go. I only have full exhaust and nismo panel filter as power mods on the GTR too, but plenty of suspension, brake and cooling mods and a good set of tyres.

Sorry mate, no pics. My designated photographer didn't take many pics. They are sacked!

[AzzurrA]

yeah, the car has a heap of suspension mods:

Kings Springs

Bilstein Shocks

Front & Rear Swaybars

Adjustable front and rear Camber

Adjustable Front Castor

Hicas Lock Kit

Urethane Lower Control Arm Bushes

Subframe Lock and Align Kit, set up for handling

Front and Rear Strut Braces

Brakes were great (i was out-braking most other cars that i was up against) and they're just the standard calipers and rotors, with some Motul RBF600 Brake Fluid and RB74 pads on the front, and just generic crappy pads on the rear.

The thing that was letting me down was tyres, i was just running Toyo Trampio GU:WN Street tyres on one end and Falken Azenis RT-215's on the other end... i could easily drop my time by around 2 seconds with better tyres, and also improving my technique a bit (i go into turn 1 too soft, come out of turn 2 too soft)

Did you hear my car detonating at all? I couldn't hear much through the helmet, but in the last session i thought i heard it ping once or twice coming through the dipper... but Kieth? (With the white R34) said that he thought he heard it pinging its tits off when i came past the pits, wheras my pit crew said he didn't hear anything . Now all i can think of was it was either 1) heat soak (car has standard I/C and piping) or 2) was getting blowby/oil surge, and oil going back into the intake, hence lowering octane?

Hoping to do a couple more mods before i head back out, to improve reliability etc (oil cooler, remove dust backing plates from rotors, bigger intercooler, maybe water spray and/or water/metho injection, better tyres, a bit more aggressive wheel alignment), and i'm hoping to get consistent low 67's

[jlnewton]

I didn't hear it but I remember with my old GTST I thought I heard it pinging a few times down the straights and I remember someone telling me they could hear it from the pit wall too. When I noticed it, it was quite warm so I put it down to heat soak with the small stock intercooler.

[maccattack]

Hey Jase,

Great times mate. Sorry I couldn't make it - car is still not back together (maybe this week). Hopefully it won't be too long before I can get back out and have fun.

Cheers

[TOY 33]

Jase,

Great time on stock boost It's amazing what a decent track tyre does isn't it !

Hope to see you out there on the 30th? I'll be in a purple R33 GTR and It will be good to have a few quick Skylines out there this time

So speak to you there.

Also if anyone's going from the Sunshine Coast that morning PM me and we can cruise down together. I'm already travelling with 2 HSV's and a Prelude - need to increase the number of skylines, can't be seen with to many bloody HSV's now can I.