MX5 Club of Queensland Track Day 4 November 13

james_p93 · Postby **james_p93** » Tue Oct 29, 2013 7:24 pm

im defs coming, havent payed or anything yet thouigh.

JBT · Postby **JBT** » Tue Oct 29, 2013 9:50 pm

Forecast looks great. Mostly sunny morning. Isolated showers about bayside suburbs from the early afternoon. Light winds becoming southeasterly 20 to 30 km/h during the morning. Max 28 degrees. :mrgreen:

zero00 · Postby **zero00** » Wed Oct 30, 2013 7:57 am

Thanks JBT - appreciated

Looks like being a fantastic day!!

corners · Postby **corners** » Wed Oct 30, 2013 9:07 am

Not looking like I will make it :frown:

Unless I can source a gearbox before then.

MattR · Postby **MattR** » Wed Oct 30, 2013 9:24 am

corners wrote:Not looking like I will make it

Unless I can source a gearbox before then.

In all seriousness, how hard is the swap back to a 5 speed?

I have one hear you can use until the 6 speed is fixed.

MINX · Postby **MINX** » Thu Oct 31, 2013 4:03 pm

Car going in to MX5 PLUS tomorrow for a quick inspection and "Nut and Bolt"
Then she is ready for Monday.

MattR · Postby **MattR** » Thu Oct 31, 2013 6:16 pm

Mines sitting in the air in the garage keeping the ute out.

All ready, nut and bolt check done, brakes bled, paper work on the passenger seat, just need to throw the track wheels on on Monday morning and fill the jerry can on the way up there.

Will be interesting to see if the strut brace makes a difference to the car and if I can get into the low 66's.

Gladiator · Postby **Gladiator** » Thu Oct 31, 2013 6:35 pm

MattR wrote:Mines sitting in the air in the garage keeping the ute out.

All ready, nut and bolt check done, brakes bled, paper work on the passenger seat, just need to throw the track wheels on on Monday morning and fill the jerry can on the way up there.

Will be interesting to see if the strut brace makes a difference to the car and if I can get into the low 66's.

Show off! I'm hoping to break 1:10

Trackphotos · Postby **Trackphotos** » Thu Oct 31, 2013 7:21 pm

Gladiator wrote:Show off! I'm hoping to break 1:10

I've been watching footage of Matt Davey's NB doing a 62.8sec lap on youtube, and trying to figure out where all the time comes from. Most of his corner speeds are quicker than mine, but only by a few km/h. 7.2 seconds worth of later braking than me?

zero00 · Postby **zero00** » Thu Oct 31, 2013 7:30 pm

Hoping for a 1:08.99 or better! That's the target :wink:

Gladiator · Postby **Gladiator** » Thu Oct 31, 2013 7:30 pm

Trackphotos wrote:
Gladiator wrote:Show off! I'm hoping to break 1:10

I've been watching footage of Matt Davey's NB doing a 62.8sec lap on youtube, and trying to figure out where all the time comes from. Most of his corner speeds are quicker than mine, but only by a few km/h. 7.2 seconds worth of later braking than me?

Yeah, funny you should say that. I'm hoping my new rotors, pads & tyres might help me go from 1:12's to sub 1:10's

JBT · Postby **JBT** » Thu Oct 31, 2013 7:42 pm

I'm working on regularity...track times that is.

Trackphotos · Postby **Trackphotos** » Thu Oct 31, 2013 7:49 pm

Gladiator wrote:I'm hoping my new rotors, pads & tyres might help me go from 1:12's to sub 1:10's

I never ran Lakeside on my old and crap rotors, only ever with new slotted rotors and EBC Redstuff pads, so I dunno how much of a difference they can make. I've just got some new 595 RSRs on though, should be a second and a half or more I hope. What tyres have you gone to and from?

Gladiator · Postby **Gladiator** » Thu Oct 31, 2013 8:03 pm

I've gone from Ultra crappy, ultra hard "Milanza Heros" which were on the car when I bought it, to KU31s 205/50/15. The old ones still had heaps of tread but they were crap in the dry & even worse in the wet.

Trackphotos · Postby **Trackphotos** » Thu Oct 31, 2013 8:15 pm

Gladiator wrote:I've gone from Ultra crappy, ultra hard "Milanza Heros" which were on the car when I bought it, to KU31s 205/50/15. The old ones still had heaps of tread but they were crap in the dry & even worse in the wet.

I know that feeling. I was on Yokohama A.Drives, built for maximum fuel economy and mileage. Less than ideal for track work. They were only 12,000km old when the shoulders started breaking into pieces, 2 QR afternoons and 1 Lakeside morning and they were totally rooted. I thought I'd need an angry alignment to rip through them, turns out they were so hard compound that they just broke apart instead of wearing. I'd expect KU31s should be a pretty significant improvement for anything similar to that.