How To Track My Car In The Bay From San Jose
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So as followup I ran Laguna Seca yesterday at a Hooked On Driving event.
After much thinking and a lot of recent distraction (new dog etc.) I ended up running with stock brakes, including fluid. RCE/Billstein shocks, R206 bits, Pilot Super Sports. Basically just the car as was, with numbers on the side and mats taken out. Put in a few gallons of 101 octane at the track since it was warm and I was a little paranoid about knock.
Great fun. Had some soft pedal in the penultimate session is greasy tires. Seemed like boiling fluid and too-sharp control inputs. All worked fine in the final session of the day. No ducts, no BBK.
After much thinking and a lot of recent distraction (new dog etc.) I ended up running with stock brakes, including fluid. RCE/Billstein shocks, R206 bits, Pilot Super Sports. Basically just the car as was, with numbers on the side and mats taken out. Put in a few gallons of 101 octane at the track since it was warm and I was a little paranoid about knock.
Great fun. Had some soft pedal in the penultimate session is greasy tires. Seemed like boiling fluid and too-sharp control inputs. All worked fine in the final session of the day. No ducts, no BBK.
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So as followup I ran Laguna Seca yesterday at a Hooked On Driving event.
After much thinking and a lot of recent distraction (new dog etc.) I ended up running with stock brakes, including fluid. RCE/Billstein shocks, R206 bits, Pilot Super Sports. Basically just the car as was, with numbers on the side and mats taken out. Put in a few gallons of 101 octane at the track since it was warm and I was a little paranoid about knock.
Great fun. Had some soft pedal in the penultimate session is greasy tires. Seemed like boiling fluid and too-sharp control inputs. All worked fine in the final session of the day. No ducts, no BBK.
After much thinking and a lot of recent distraction (new dog etc.) I ended up running with stock brakes, including fluid. RCE/Billstein shocks, R206 bits, Pilot Super Sports. Basically just the car as was, with numbers on the side and mats taken out. Put in a few gallons of 101 octane at the track since it was warm and I was a little paranoid about knock.
Great fun. Had some soft pedal in the penultimate session is greasy tires. Seemed like boiling fluid and too-sharp control inputs. All worked fine in the final session of the day. No ducts, no BBK.
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Exactly. Having suffered some fade I said to the instructor at the start of the final session that I'd like to focus less on pace and more on driving smoothly. He approved of that, that's what I did, and at the end of the session said he suspected it had been the fastest.
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Exactly. Having suffered some fade I said to the instructor at the start of the final session that I'd like to focus less on pace and more on driving smoothly. He approved of that, that's what I did, and at the end of the session said he suspected it had been the fastest.
Good thing you were running the Auto gear box. A good friend of mine did a track event at Willow and his brakes faded to the point he had no stopping power at all. He decided slamming it into 2nd gear from 75mph would be an ample idea to make the car slow down. Personally I would have just ran off. Would rather replace junk rotors, pads paint than a motor.
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Good thing you were running the Auto gear box. A good friend of mine did a track event at Willow and his brakes faded to the point he had no stopping power at all. He decided slamming it into 2nd gear from 75mph would be an ample idea to make the car slow down. Personally I would have just ran off. Would rather replace junk rotors, pads paint than a motor.
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you guys grilling or anything for food?
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my bad sorry about that.
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So as followup I ran Laguna Seca yesterday at a Hooked On Driving event.
After much thinking and a lot of recent distraction (new dog etc.) I ended up running with stock brakes, including fluid. RCE/Billstein shocks, R206 bits, Pilot Super Sports. Basically just the car as was, with numbers on the side and mats taken out. Put in a few gallons of 101 octane at the track since it was warm and I was a little paranoid about knock.
Great fun. Had some soft pedal in the penultimate session is greasy tires. Seemed like boiling fluid and too-sharp control inputs. All worked fine in the final session of the day. No ducts, no BBK.
After much thinking and a lot of recent distraction (new dog etc.) I ended up running with stock brakes, including fluid. RCE/Billstein shocks, R206 bits, Pilot Super Sports. Basically just the car as was, with numbers on the side and mats taken out. Put in a few gallons of 101 octane at the track since it was warm and I was a little paranoid about knock.
Great fun. Had some soft pedal in the penultimate session is greasy tires. Seemed like boiling fluid and too-sharp control inputs. All worked fine in the final session of the day. No ducts, no BBK.
That'll give you time to flush the fluid for something better, and put some Carbotech's on. With that, next time out it'll feel amazing, i'll never forget my first drive with track pads, they are so much better than stockers both in bite & stopping power. I loved it, would run them all the time if i could stand the noise.
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Just got my reg packet in the mail on Monday. Definitely NOT excited to see that I need to leave sac by 6AM to make my drivers meeting. You've got a long day ahead of you coming from SJ.
Also- make sure you bring plenty of water and a foldable chair if you have one.
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Then on the first 30 minutes driving away you'll feel like you're ok... until the adrenaline hangover kicks in and you'll have the massive urge to just curl up in a ball where you are and go to sleep.
Do a cheap motel the night before. Eat dinner close by and rest afterwards. THEN go home.
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I highly do not recommend driving up from SJ the morning of. You'll be on adrenaline all day, pissing between every session (HYDRATE!!!)... but by the last session you'll be getting tired; which can be unsafe.
Then on the first 30 minutes driving away you'll feel like you're ok... until the adrenaline hangover kicks in and you'll have the massive urge to just curl up in a ball where you are and go to sleep.
Do a cheap motel the night before. Eat dinner close by and rest afterwards. THEN go home.
Then on the first 30 minutes driving away you'll feel like you're ok... until the adrenaline hangover kicks in and you'll have the massive urge to just curl up in a ball where you are and go to sleep.
Do a cheap motel the night before. Eat dinner close by and rest afterwards. THEN go home.
especially on a friday there will be traffic on the way back
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NCRC summer track days start earlier. It's a good thing IMO as the last session is typically ~3-3:30PM when the temperature is just starting to peak for the day. If they started later in the morning your last two sessions would be in 95*+ weather.