I wanna do my first trackday/airfield day!!!

[TJW]

Heyyylo! I am really interested in doing my first track day ever. hehe, I live realy close to goodwood, however I'm tempted by a driver like training airfield day.

Any hints/tips for me and the car.
Any websites for booking etc.
Nothing too expensive. haha

[Don]

www.bookatrack.com

And get instruction at the day.

Don't get cocky and you and your car will be fine. Enjoy!

[TJW]

Thing is... should I upgrade my brake fluid and pads? On the road atm after a small sesh of heavy braking my brakes are spongey as you likkee!

[trackcar]

its a VW they have the worst brakes ever, spongey dead feel and well underspecced. I'd get them sorted as a priority, if they're bad on the road you'd end up being a liability on a track especially as novices are very hard on their brakes until they learn how fast they can go around the bends

[TJW]

Hmm and crappy drum rear's that dont work well. haha

[iguana]

TJW said:

Thing is... should I upgrade my brake fluid and pads? On the road atm after a small sesh of heavy braking my brakes are spongey as you likkee!

err pick A or B

A- Yes

B- Yes

[gridgway]

iguana said:

TJW said:

Thing is... should I upgrade my brake fluid and pads? On the road atm after a small sesh of heavy braking my brakes are spongey as you likkee!

err pick A or B

A- Yes

B- Yes

err no and no.

To be precise, certainly dont get involved in "upgrading" your fluid. Replace with that recommended by the manufacturer, yes, upgrade no. Upgrading pads is more sensible. TBH I have wasted more money on pads that dont suite the application, that again you might be better off with new proper spec ones. And check the discs too. If you have drums, check them as well.

[Phil. S.]

TJW said:

Hmm and crappy drum rear's that dont work well. haha

Hey! Nowt wrong with drums on the rear. (Helps if your car is only 550kg though!)

If you can get grooved disks cheap that would help prevent the pads glazing. That's all I changed with my first track car (205 GTI) and the brakes were fine. I got mine for £50 off ebay.

Try Motorsport-events for your first track day. They're reasonably cheap and well run. They're also in your area.

[shnozz]

Tim, I can vouch for motorsport events - big open airfields and well organised days. They only had one event left for 06 mind you, and I have a feeling its the end of this week so be worth checking their calender to see what's available for next year.

[shnozz]

gridgway said:

iguana said:

TJW said:

Thing is... should I upgrade my brake fluid and pads? On the road atm after a small sesh of heavy braking my brakes are spongey as you likkee!

err pick A or B

A- Yes

B- Yes

err no and no.

To be precise, certainly dont get involved in "upgrading" your fluid. Replace with that recommended by the manufacturer, yes, upgrade no. Upgrading pads is more sensible. TBH I have wasted more money on pads that dont suite the application, that again you might be better off with new proper spec ones. And check the discs too. If you have drums, check them as well.

why not upgrade the fluid? I am less than convinced VW would be expecting track driving from a shopping trolley when they considered what fluid to use when it left the factory.

[TJW]

I'm going to upgrade teh fronts to grooved 259mm ones (from a G60), However rear disc conversion is 450quid lol.

[iguana]

TJW said:

I'm going to upgrade teh fronts to grooved 259mm ones (from a G60), However rear disc conversion is 450quid lol.

G60s have 280mm, later 16vmk2 is 256mm, think youve got a tad muddled.

Not really worth uprating the rears.