My British Racing Green '99 NB

Trackphotos · Postby **Trackphotos** » Wed Jan 27, 2016 9:15 pm

Coming up to the first club day of the year in less than 2 weeks time. Looked everything over, have decided my front brake pads will not survive a full day at Lakeside, and I'd rather not take new ones with me and have to swap them during the day. So, I'll use up the last of the A1RMs at Mt Cotton during the test n tune this Sunday. After that, I'll throw new front rotors on, and some Winmax W5 pads. They will be swapped on for track days only, metallic pads apparently aren't going to be very useful on first approach to the hairpin at Mt Cotton. Will swap rotors and pads together each time there's a track day around the corner.

The American · Postby **The American** » Thu Jan 28, 2016 7:53 pm

Have you used any Winmax pad before? I'm about to try w3's all round which hopefully will work well for sprints and hill climbs.

zero00 · Postby **zero00** » Thu Jan 28, 2016 8:02 pm

The American wrote:Have you used any Winmax pad before? I'm about to try w3's all round which hopefully will work well for sprints and hill climbs.

I have them in my NB8A - they DO stop ya, but I find [not sure about others] they 'squeal' a bit and to me need to be warmed up from cold start

Trackphotos · Postby **Trackphotos** » Thu Jan 28, 2016 8:21 pm

Never used Winmax before, no. From what I've heard the W5s are not suitable for anything cold. The stated temperature range begins at 100c, and the A1RMs already felt pretty wooden on first approach to the hairpin at Mt cotton with a much lower effective heat range. Will continue with A1RMs for road and hillclimb I think.

I've ordered the pads and rotors, and picked up a tub of grease that I've somehow done without until now, so I can do the job properly for once and grease the caliper pins this time.

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Magpie · Postby **Magpie** » Thu Jan 28, 2016 9:00 pm

W6.5's start working from 50c however are a lot more dusty than the W5's and more aggressive. Will be sticking to them.

Trackphotos · Postby **Trackphotos** » Tue Feb 02, 2016 11:13 pm

Aww yiss, rotors and pads turned up. Will swap it all over on Saturday, and see if I can find a way to bed them in properly without going too far from home. The 80-20kmh stops should be fine, the 120-80kmh and 120-20kmh stops could be an issue. Hopefully the difference between properly bedded and halfassedly bedded will just be noise, and not performance.

rascal · Postby **rascal** » Wed Feb 03, 2016 6:39 am

Trackphotos wrote:Hopefully the difference between properly bedded and halfassedly bedded will just be noise, and not performance.

unfortunately I've always found the difference was performance when rotors not bedded properly.

Trackphotos · Postby **Trackphotos** » Sun Feb 07, 2016 5:10 pm

Fitted new front rotors and Winmax w5 pads yesterday. Bedded them in a bit today, they're impressive already. The 120kmh brake stints recommended to bed them in properly will have to wait until the outlaps at Lakeside tomorrow.

Trackphotos · Postby **Trackphotos** » Mon Feb 08, 2016 7:29 pm

Had a good day at Lakeside today, ended up running 10 sessions before running out of fuel. Not the quickest day for me, but considering the air and track temperature, I'm happy enough with my best of 64.21. It put me at 5th out of 40 outright. More importantly, I was surprisingly consistent throughout the afternoon. Except for my 16th lap of the afternoon, every single lap (excluding in and out laps) was no more than 6 tenths behind my best of the day. If it weren't for a 65.1 at lap 16, it would have been 26 consecutive laps within 6 tenths of my best for the day. Even though I had a bit of a moment at Hungry on one lap, even that turned out to be a 64.52.

Best lap of the day, 64.21:
http://youtu.be/g6izx7L9JLI

And a 64.52 including an early turnin at Hungry. Recovered ok fortunately, bit close though.
http://youtu.be/N2Ksf5hyano

Trackphotos · Postby **Trackphotos** » Tue Feb 09, 2016 12:15 am

And now with added embeddedness!

Trackphotos · Postby **Trackphotos** » Sun Feb 14, 2016 2:33 pm

Beginning to look into making some aero improvements. Thinking about a flow designs front splitter and an Apr gtc-200 wing. Expensive, $2k+. Want more corner g's though. Kinda want to see how fast I can go without increasing power at all. Tempting.

Trackphotos · Postby **Trackphotos** » Thu Feb 25, 2016 10:33 pm

Wing ordered, should be here and installed before QR in April. Also beginning to look into building a splitter from monopan, like Mark's one. Will find out whether 106kw is enough to overcome the drag and improve times, or if it'll end up slower.

rascal · Postby **rascal** » Fri Feb 26, 2016 9:17 am

Trackphotos wrote:Will find out whether 106kw is enough to overcome the drag and improve times, or if it'll end up slower.

Will be very much track dependant, however I'd say it will be quicker.
My 99kw NB is quicker with the aero (just front airdam/splitter and rear 2D wing) than without at most tracks. (Calder is still slower, and Sandown a 50/50 bet I think..)