Performante at Silverstone

Performante at Silverstone

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keepup

Original Poster:

111 posts

115 months

Sunday 21st October 2018
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Has anyone taken their Performante to Silverstone?

Thinking of taking mine to the PistonHeads Sunday Service next Weekend but I’d also like to take it on the track so if I’m going to get black flagged I’ll bring a different car.

At 102 drive by, will I be ok in Strada at least?

drakart

1,735 posts

209 months

Wednesday 24th October 2018
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I've been round fairly flat out (in Corsa mode) and had no problems. It was pretty windy but dry.

keepup

Original Poster:

111 posts

115 months

Thursday 25th October 2018
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Awesome, thanks for that. I was beginning to think owners didn’t drive these cars in anger.

911Thrasher

2,573 posts

198 months

Thursday 25th October 2018
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not a Perfomante, but i was black flagged at exceeding 109 quite a few times on a dry day (no wind) with my Challenge Stradale on factory new exhaust.
Do lift off i would say, a shame to be out of the pack after 1.5hrs when there is a full blue sky day ahead.

WCZ

10,492 posts

193 months

Thursday 25th October 2018
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keepup said:
Has anyone taken their Performante to Silverstone?

Thinking of taking mine to the PistonHeads Sunday Service next Weekend but I’d also like to take it on the track so if I’m going to get black flagged I’ll bring a different car.

At 102 drive by, will I be ok in Strada at least?
worth getting a noise meter and testing yourself imo

had so many disappointments that I sometimes bring two cars just in case.

drakart

1,735 posts

209 months

Thursday 25th October 2018
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keepup said:
Awesome, thanks for that. I was beginning to think owners didn’t drive these cars in anger.
Keep an eye on tyre pressures. They're working very hard and get hot!

keepup

Original Poster:

111 posts

115 months

Monday 29th October 2018
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Thanks for all the replies, unfortunately the Performante was way too loud, even in Strada.
Drive by was +107db lap after lap.

Race control were very decent about it but even lifting off I could only get it down to 105ish - wasn't sure exactly where the sound meters were on the two straights.

Apparently in Corsa in the dry they can top 120db! Time for a trip to Spa...

hunter 66

3,888 posts

219 months

Monday 29th October 2018
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haha did you go for a burn through the village a few times on Corsa ..... shame it sounded nice early on .
Think the Sensor is just at the Woodcote kink so you were still on it there and only lifted after .... hence the issue .

Regards

steveyg83

16 posts

72 months

Monday 29th October 2018
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keepup said:
Thanks for all the replies, unfortunately the Performante was way too loud, even in Strada.
Drive by was +107db lap after lap.

Race control were very decent about it but even lifting off I could only get it down to 105ish - wasn't sure exactly where the sound meters were on the two straights.

Apparently in Corsa in the dry they can top 120db! Time for a trip to Spa...
I got black flagged at Spa in the Performante. They were nice about it, presented me with my 'mugshot' and just asked me to lift off. I thought the DB meter was on the right hand side of the track on the straight so was going to the left, but the meter is actually on the left so was asked to lift and stick to the right

keepup

Original Poster:

111 posts

115 months

Tuesday 30th October 2018
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hunter 66 said:
haha did you go for a burn through the village a few times on Corsa ..... shame it sounded nice early on .
Think the Sensor is just at the Woodcote kink so you were still on it there and only lifted after .... hence the issue .

Regards
Wasn’t me in the village, I was in and out south on the A43.

Thanks for the heads up on the meters - will go on a noisy day and try and scope them out.

keepup

Original Poster:

111 posts

115 months

Tuesday 30th October 2018
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steveyg83 said:
keepup said:
Thanks for all the replies, unfortunately the Performante was way too loud, even in Strada.
Drive by was +107db lap after lap.

Race control were very decent about it but even lifting off I could only get it down to 105ish - wasn't sure exactly where the sound meters were on the two straights.

Apparently in Corsa in the dry they can top 120db! Time for a trip to Spa...
I got black flagged at Spa in the Performante. They were nice about it, presented me with my 'mugshot' and just asked me to lift off. I thought the DB meter was on the right hand side of the track on the straight so was going to the left, but the meter is actually on the left so was asked to lift and stick to the right
Thanks for that, good to know. How did you find the wear on the brakes? I hear the lack of brake cooling can lead to heavy pad wear?

drakart

1,735 posts

209 months

Tuesday 30th October 2018
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The wind must've been blowing the right way for me then!

steveyg83

16 posts

72 months

Tuesday 30th October 2018
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keepup said:
Thanks for that, good to know. How did you find the wear on the brakes? I hear the lack of brake cooling can lead to heavy pad wear?
I changed out the CC discs and pads for Girodisc discs and Pagid RS29's.

My only problem with my brakes is that when I had the CC's on the car and on the road, after a few hard brakes I would feel the pedal feel change with a lot more travel on the pedal than I would feel as the 'norm'. I had hoped it was just something odd and that all would be ok when I changed out the discs and pads and the fluid etc but when I was on track things still were not right.

I would go out and basically once I have done my warm up lap and started to push a bit I would have a forever changing pedal feel, it would go from being no travel, instantly there to a long travel from one corner to the next, it really was frustrating and a little off-putting as I basically ended up tapping the break before my normal breaking point and leaving off just to see how the pedal would 'feel' when I was going to break hard a second or two later.

We blead the brakes a bit in case there was any air in the system but nothing worked, it was wired and never had such an inconsistent pedal feel in a car before. If I had not had a similar thing happen on the road a few times whilst still on the CCB's I would have thought that it was something done wrong when the setup was changed over to steels but I don't think that is the problem. It is really weird.

Anyone else had any issues with their pedal feel on the Perf either with hard road driving or with driving on track?