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lol @ opposite lock down Craners, I was doing it most laps, but I think that must have been your first lol was soooo funny to watch you steer :D :thumb:
You did excellent mate - next time we'll do an open pit (possibly evening) so we can go out together, to get some external footage etc...
Lol yeah it was, up until then i'd been quite tidy into the old hairpin as initially that part of the track scared the sh*t out of melol Felt like a BIG moment but on the video it was barely a flick:roll:
Deffo get external footage next time, as you say either open pit, or both go for intermediate:thumb:
Car looks good Ben, I've always believed the hype about Astra not handling but I drove a reasonably specced turbo one round the ring last year and I was shocked how well it handled. 9.10 without trying that hard showed they have a lot of potential !
Videos from Donington Park trackday now up on YouTube.
4 sessions in total, descriptions give you an insight of when I went out, and what I was behind
http://www.youtube.com/profile_videos?user=trackdaynova
Enjoy!
Nice driving Olly - good lines and nice and smooth:thumb:
Just watched the vids and I have to say it was a pleasure! Good lines, good track manners and a lovely sounding engine :thumb:
I was willing you on when you were chasing the Z4, but when his vanos kicked in yo, round redgate you didn't stand a chance lol :p
I take it that the noise in some of the tighter corners was your front arch clearance probs? The only negative feedback was that you seemed to enter the chicane at goddard's a little to fast, (without starting the usual debate) it may be bigblock induced understeer though.
Also very jealous of the fact that you can go flat out down the pit straight without fear of noise issues, I always have to use part throttle, think I may have to go the airbox route. And the gearbox is a treat too! I barely touch fifth in mine and bog down in third out of goddard's (necessary for noise tho). So a quaife SCCR box is on the cards for this year ;)
COol vids.
You were flying in that last session :cool:
The noise deffo sounds like the 888s rubbing somewhere.
Cheers for the comments, I was generally happy with how the day went, although I wasn't enjoying the fuel starvation problems, considering I've not experienced them before, since having my Swirl setup.
Oli - was entering the chicane way too fast on occasions, usually trying to out-brake whoever was in front of me lol but it was my first outing with the quickrack, so I felt my self steering too much into a corner, then realising it was too much lock, so I'd take some off again, and so on...
Towards the end of the day, it'd just be one set turn, and I'd follow through with that.
The noise, I'm not sure about, I was more thinking rear arches, but Adam has just pointed out that it only happens in the session with my 888s, I can't personally hear the noise when I'm in the car with the helmet on, and I never drive it that hard around corners on the road to hear it without a helmet. The same noise can be heard on the Rockingham vids! and on Sprint in car vids lol
Noise is no longer an issue, it is a thing of the past (hopefully) now with my driveby a measly eighty something decibels I'm well happy, might even go back to Bedford for another trackday there also.
First things first, is to book an open pit evening at Donny :thumb:
On Starkies straight (Dunlop) I was hitting 4th limiter (117mph) then half way up to 5th limiter (134mph) so circa 125mph before braking and downchanging (thank god for Quaife strong built boxes) right down to 2nd gear...
I'm in 2nd for Goddards Chicane which has a limit of 79mph, up to the limit, then to 3rd limit @ 99mph, then 4th goes up to 117mph, but then I'm back down to 3rd, for Redgate.
See mine is good for 130mph in 4th! So most of the time I'd drop to fifth on Starkies to save the engine a bit of stress. And my 2nd gear is only good for 67mph meaning I was needing 3rd (good for 101mph) through the chicane. I'm definately adding a quaife gearkit to the shopping list!Quote:
Originally Posted by trackdaynova
What FD are you using?
FD is 3.76, which I want to drop even more so really..
Sorry but lol lol lol
Is that a smallblock thing? lol lol lol ;)Quote:
Originally Posted by dhdev (Oli)
Just for gen...
Transmission:
-Quaife Close Ratio Straight Cut F20 gearbox
Final Drive Ratio 3.764
... 1st Gear 2.54 ~ 55mph
... 2nd Gear 1.76 ~ 79mph
... 3rd Gear 1.42 ~ 99mph
... 4th Gear 1.19 ~ 117mph
... 5th Gear 1.040 ~ 134mph
-ZF Plate Limited Slip Differential
-Comma AQ3 fluid