SOTS @ Wakefield THIS FRIDAY 2nd April (Good Friday)

gobsmax · Postby **gobsmax** » Thu Apr 01, 2010 2:39 pm

busy installing ducktail instead? :lol:

Dweezle · Postby **Dweezle** » Thu Apr 01, 2010 3:51 pm

Awwww ...

Well I'm going, so is my brother in his n12.
Gonna get there as early a possible and try to take advantge of the cooler conditions.
Sick of getting sunburnt lol.

Should be good to have a few mx5s

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Guran · Postby **Guran** » Fri Apr 02, 2010 11:58 am

Was good to catch up with Deen and Mark at Wakefield this morning. It was a pretty good day for SOTS with maybe two dozen cars all up. We stayed long enough to see Deen's third run ended early by a R34 GT-R hit head-on into the tyres surrounding the marshall station at the fish-hook! Man he hit those tyres hard - the driver is fine but his car is now seriously "fully sik". :lol:

That's what you get when you deliberately cut the apex ripple on that turn. On the lap before I swear he had both wheels inside the apex ripple! :roll:

hamx5ter · Postby **hamx5ter** » Fri Apr 02, 2010 10:10 pm

Broady broady, you missed an awesome day.

The weather was perfect. The air ccol, the track dry and a great mix of cars on the track.

The usual skyline evo crowd but also a lot of honda power, and shite, those things GO.

Found that hamx5ter doesn't have the pep to outrun a toyota corona on the straight :oops:

me need boost...

Otherwise, Had a ball, and didn't manage to run into any walls, not even once.

two40 · Postby **two40** » Fri Apr 02, 2010 10:19 pm

hamx5ter wrote:
Had a ball, and didn't manage to run into any walls, not even once.

Well done

broady · Postby **broady** » Fri Apr 02, 2010 10:56 pm

hamx5ter wrote:Broady broady, you missed an awesome day.

The weather was perfect. The air ccol, the track dry and a great mix of cars on the track.

The usual skyline evo crowd but also a lot of honda power, and shite, those things GO.

Found that hamx5ter does have the pep to outrun a toyota corona on the straight me need boost...

Otherwise, Had a ball, and didn't manage to run into any walls, not even once.

Ahhhh nice work man... I just realised I should have lent you my camera mount!!

Gotta get my cars fuelling sorted ASAP. Prolly after I get the zorst on.

Sasso · Postby **Sasso** » Sun Apr 04, 2010 8:52 pm

hamx5ter wrote:Broady broady, you missed an awesome day.

The weather was perfect. The air ccol, the track dry and a great mix of cars on the track.

The usual skyline evo crowd but also a lot of honda power, and shite, those things GO.

Found that hamx5ter doesn't have the pep to outrun a toyota corona on the straight me need boost...

Otherwise, Had a ball, and didn't manage to run into any walls, not even once.

ah great, I was hoping you'd stick to mx5 days so you didn't realise how slow your car was, because now you're going to want more power.....
What times were they doing? I remember the honda boys in their integras, met a few at circuit club day, nice guys, but an mx5 despite being slower on the straight could still beat them! so keep practicing deen!
time yourself...?

hamx5ter · Postby **hamx5ter** » Sun Apr 04, 2010 10:34 pm

Didn't think I was appreciably slower than anyone there, esp. in the twisties... felt a LOT better about my driving; the SS is good :mrgreen:

The lack of power is obvious though when people shoot uphill past you when they were miles behind on turn 2... and again on the straight (felt I was standing still)... Everywhere else I didn't feel disadvantaged at all.

Didn't get timing, but looking forward to it :lol:

The power and the Corona... ok, so hamx5ter can't power away outright like all the others can, but even so, I know (after the fact) that I have enough power to get ahead of the corona on the straight... my exit speed and line out of turn 10 were much better (and it should be :lol:

) and if I had the clangers to keep my foot down through turn 1, i'd have enough speed and pace to get more than just the 1 car-length ahead of the corona.. As it is, I lift off before turn 1 and start braking soon after...

So... yes, need more powah, but also need snickers and keep it flat through t1 and brake MUCH later than I do :oops:

hamx5ter · Postby **hamx5ter** » Sun Apr 04, 2010 11:15 pm

oh and I was getting a lot of wheelspin on the fish-hook... revs climbing ... I'm hoping that's all cocking an inside leg (to be fixed by LSD) and not slipping clutch?

Dweezle · Postby **Dweezle** » Mon Apr 12, 2010 10:43 am

hamx5ter wrote:oh and I was getting a lot of wheelspin on the fish-hook... revs climbing ... I'm hoping that's all cocking an inside leg (to be fixed by LSD) and not slipping clutch?

I have the same thing..
My car has a Vicious LSD, which may not be all that functional??

Thought it may have been a clutch thing, but shifting into 3rd after the fishhook i usually get a little squeak from the tyres so it must be grabbing somewhat decently??

Will be installing a new clutch with the new motor, so will see if that fixes it for me.

greenMachine · Postby **greenMachine** » Mon Apr 12, 2010 10:52 am

Dweezle wrote:
hamx5ter wrote:oh and I was getting a lot of wheelspin on the fish-hook... revs climbing ... I'm hoping that's all cocking an inside leg (to be fixed by LSD) and not slipping clutch?

I have the same thing..
My car has a Vicious LSD, which may not be all that functional??

...

Try changing the oil. These thing work, but need decent oil in them. Do a search (including the big board), you should get the good oil ( :lol:

couldn't help myself :roll:

) on them.

:mrgreen: