noise restrictions at castle combe

[matt 2LT]

basically im thinking of booking a trackday at castle combe, but am worried about the noise restrictions.

my car is a astra 2L turbo, which has a miltek exhaust.

on the website it says cars are tested at 1/2M from exhaust at 4500, and 100db, im not too worried about this bit as its not that loud under 5000 rpm.

but it doesn't say about any drive by tests, as im sure that after about 6000 rpm, i would be over the 100db.

so has anyone recently been to castle combe, and how had the tests been done?

matt

[BenElliottRacing]

combe do have drive by monitoring but iirc it isn't an actively monitored system. It records data for future analysis.

[RB Will]

I have known them pull people off the track for it before. Its set up at camp so just back off a bit onto the start/finish straight and all will be fine. I would not think an Astra would upset it anway.

[papercup]

did you search first? I covered this comprehensively a few months ago.

[Porkie]

You will be fine. Stick some wire wool up the pipe for the test of you fail... and pull it on once you hit the track.

They only do static tests in my experience at Combe.

I've heard some huge bhp Cossies sounding like Concorde taking off and not getting pulled off at Combe!

[anonymous-user]

whilst they might only do static tests, they do have an ear on the track so to speak and anything that they think might have somehow got past the static test is usually called in.

i have run a 205 gti there with a de-cat janspeed system and it was less than 90db which was both good and embarrassing in equal measures...