Show us your track day cars

Show us your track day cars

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IdiotRace

131 posts

187 months

Wednesday 5th February 2020
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veehexx said:
I'm using CL rc6e's on my FK2 typeR (road going form; 1.4ton). only pads i've found that i haven't cooked 'em after 15min full on hot laps @ Abingdon & Donington. Definitely competition grade that'll cope with the abuse of trackdays. no idea on the rc5's but the 6e's are not for road as they'll eat your discs.

are you aware CL can cut pads to any application? assuming your pad will fit inside a donor pad, then supply them a pattern and they'll cut it for you. i think they charge itr of £30, but could be wrong.

ran typ200 fluid for the last 2yrs, although this year i'll be chucking in RBF600 as it was on offer when i bought. more to compare as they both get rave reviews on track.
Carbotech UK have the same service where they are able to cut a pad for pretty much any caliper. Is the CL service based in the UK or somewhere else as I'd love to give them a try.

Only problem is that one of the mr2 pads is just a normal pad and the other has a metal brake wear thingy attached to that so I wonder if that would be a problem.

tsp

65 posts

106 months

Thursday 6th February 2020
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tigamilla

507 posts

81 months

Thursday 6th February 2020
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Heavily modified!

NNK

1,144 posts

200 months

Thursday 6th February 2020
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I started the build then sold it to a mate who has just finished it.
Took it for its first track day this week at Hampton Downs (NZ).
211bhp N/A Nissan FJ20 made for plenty of fun

mOrtt

404 posts

153 months

Thursday 6th February 2020
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Currently off for new paint inside and out.


anonymous-user

55 months

Friday 7th February 2020
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mOrtt said:
Currently off for new paint inside and out.

I'm sure it will look amazing when finished but I've never understood the desire to make a track focused car pretty when its going to be subjected to all sorts of nastiness on track

Timbuktu

1,953 posts

156 months

Friday 7th February 2020
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Edited by YinSan on Tuesday 30th November 13:03

Gary Woodland

2,552 posts

163 months

Friday 7th February 2020
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tbh the amount of work it is to get crappy glass parts fitted properly and even roughly painted you may as well do a decent job and have it looking nice. mine is in exact same place atm!

mOrtt

404 posts

153 months

Friday 7th February 2020
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DoubleTime said:
I'm sure it will look amazing when finished but I've never understood the desire to make a track focused car pretty when its going to be subjected to all sorts of nastiness on track
It’s had all new fibreglass panels, metal cut out, bits welded and the glass removed so it needs protecting from rust at the very least so it might as well get painted. Whether I do it on the cheap or properly, it still needs doing. Can’t drive around in some unpainted windowless M3, would look and feel like a right nob.

Not sure what nastiness you’ve had on track but in the 6 years I’ve been doing track days I’ve had 1 cracked windscreen

MRichards99

304 posts

129 months

Friday 7th February 2020
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mOrtt said:
DoubleTime said:
I'm sure it will look amazing when finished but I've never understood the desire to make a track focused car pretty when its going to be subjected to all sorts of nastiness on track
It’s had all new fibreglass panels, metal cut out, bits welded and the glass removed so it needs protecting from rust at the very least so it might as well get painted. Whether I do it on the cheap or properly, it still needs doing. Can’t drive around in some unpainted windowless M3, would look and feel like a right nob.

Not sure what nastiness you’ve had on track but in the 6 years I’ve been doing track days I’ve had 1 cracked windscreen
I'm guessing that's referring to stone chips, hitting cones and ruining a panel, things like that. Did your windscreen crack while on track?

seiben

2,347 posts

135 months

Friday 7th February 2020
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Two and a half years with this. Somehow it hasn't died yet hehe

mOrtt

404 posts

153 months

Friday 7th February 2020
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MRichards99 said:
I'm guessing that's referring to stone chips, hitting cones and ruining a panel, things like that. Did your windscreen crack while on track?
Meh, stone chips are stone chips. Worse things happen on the road with the state of them. I remember driving back from the detailers after having my R35 GTR wrapped and ceramic coated, hit a pothole on the motorway and bent the wheel.

Cracked the windscreen on track as a Porsche cup car went wide at Donington coming out of McLean's and threw a load of gravel up the front of the car. Cracked windscreen, chipped bonnet, headlight and front bumper.

If you're not close enough you're not having enough fun silly

Hol

8,419 posts

201 months

Friday 7th February 2020
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NNK said:


I started the build then sold it to a mate who has just finished it.
Took it for its first track day this week at Hampton Downs (NZ).
211bhp N/A Nissan FJ20 made for plenty of fun
I’m a bit of a purist when comes to engines in Escorts, but I like that.

LaSource

2,622 posts

209 months

Saturday 8th February 2020
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RSpiston said:
Excellent - always loved Dijon. Nearly did a double header there, with Day 2 run in the opposite direction !! Unfortunately that got canned the evening before Day2 so it ran clockwise again.

Out of interest, which TDO did you use at Dijon ? I've not spotted anything advertised there for years....
Opposite direction would be quite an experience and like learning a track all over again! Downhill into Parabolique could be interesting!

I've been there with a small semi-private organiser - Parabolica Events - lower volume, higher driving experience, etc.

Brummmie

5,284 posts

222 months

Sunday 9th February 2020
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IdiotRace said:
veehexx said:
I'm using CL rc6e's on my FK2 typeR (road going form; 1.4ton). only pads i've found that i haven't cooked 'em after 15min full on hot laps @ Abingdon & Donington. Definitely competition grade that'll cope with the abuse of trackdays. no idea on the rc5's but the 6e's are not for road as they'll eat your discs.

are you aware CL can cut pads to any application? assuming your pad will fit inside a donor pad, then supply them a pattern and they'll cut it for you. i think they charge itr of £30, but could be wrong.

ran typ200 fluid for the last 2yrs, although this year i'll be chucking in RBF600 as it was on offer when i bought. more to compare as they both get rave reviews on track.
Carbotech UK have the same service where they are able to cut a pad for pretty much any caliper. Is the CL service based in the UK or somewhere else as I'd love to give them a try.

Only problem is that one of the mr2 pads is just a normal pad and the other has a metal brake wear thingy attached to that so I wonder if that would be a problem.
Yes we can cut it from another pad, if we dont do an off the shelf solution. Its £25+vat.

https://clbrakepads.co.uk/

hkp57

285 posts

123 months

Monday 10th February 2020
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Raptor R Hayabusa




jdmave

135 posts

136 months

Wednesday 12th February 2020
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Heading to Goodwood this month are the A45s and the little old TT Roadster...............................................................so tempted to take the Defender.....




Frimley111R

Original Poster:

15,685 posts

235 months

Wednesday 12th February 2020
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Looks too nice to track!

jdmave

135 posts

136 months

Wednesday 12th February 2020
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Has to be done........just to see some of its capabilities and keeping our licences......wont be going mad thats for sure hence the taking the little TT (my daughters first time on a track - so ill apologise now in advance if she's a tad cautious)

LotusOmega375D

7,649 posts

154 months

Friday 12th June 2020
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Just found this photo of my last track day outing so I thought I’d post it up on here.



It was a Group B Car Club event at Curborough 25 years ago.