Racing Wakefield Park August 7/8 2010

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Re: Racing Wakefield Park August 7/8 2010

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highjacking your thread! been to eastern creek today to help out my friend in supersprints event. Not a good day for him....Been swamped with defects that he is unable to get out on the track.
Besides that, it was a good day to see track cars in action, celicas, 180sx, corollas, evos, subaru, some exotic cars and heaps of mx-5! im really tempted to give it a go!
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I8A4RE wrote:Are you running a rear spoiler
Yep 8)
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zuihoujueding wrote:highjacking your thread!
How rude ;)
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aza013 wrote: may even 11's :D
Yeah I reckon the car was good for an 11, just couldn't quite get it there.

We ran the rear tyres 2psi higher starting pressure on Sunday and this was much better with the rear tyre grip. We were also boiling the brake fluid by about mid race resulting in a long pedal. The last 4 or 5 laps of the last race I was tapping up the pedal into every corner lol! Not sure what's going on there, but Wakefield is a bitch on brake temps. No time to cool them down.

We ended up 13th in our last race with a 1:12.45 lap time so pretty happy with that 8)
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All up a great weekend with a lot of close panel racing action :D
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Re: Racing Wakefield Park August 7/8 2010

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Shane001 wrote:Wakefield is a bitch on brake temps. No time to cool them down
Tell me about it. I ruined my last set of pads down there. Have you removed the dust pate from behind the dics?
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Bennoz wrote:
Shane001 wrote:Wakefield is a bitch on brake temps. No time to cool them down
Tell me about it. I ruined my last set of pads down there. Have you removed the dust pate from behind the dics?
Yeah u need to have some decent pads in there.

Yep dust plates long gone, need to do some more work on the ducting, also want to look at removing the front/rear factory bias and putting in an adjustable bias control. The fronts are getting over 600deg at Wakefield, and the backs are barely warmed up lol!
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Shane001 wrote:
Bennoz wrote:
Shane001 wrote:Wakefield is a bitch on brake temps. No time to cool them down
Tell me about it. I ruined my last set of pads down there. Have you removed the dust pate from behind the dics?
Yeah you need to have some decent pads in there.

Yep dust plates long gone, need to do some more work on the ducting, also want to look at removing the front/rear factory bias and putting in an adjustable bias control. The fronts are getting over 600deg at Wakefield, and the backs are barely warmed up lol!
you reckon that will solve the heating pads issue?
on second thought. i have seen on the web somewhere that people install custom diffusers to channel cool air from the inner side of the brakes.
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No issue with the pads, the pads are brilliant.

I think what's happening is the stock caliper isn't able to handle the temps we're seeing very well and the fluid is boiling inside the caliper. We're already running a very good fluid, and changing the calipers isn't an option at the moment (unless someone knows of something that bolts straight on), so ducting is the answer. Ducting cool air from the front of the car makes a huge difference, problem with the FTO there's just not much room under there to run or position them effectively. We have some ducting but clearly not enough.

We only really have the problem at Wakefield, at Bathurst the rotors got just as hot but then they have time to cool down. At Wakefield there's simply not enough time off the brakes to let em cool down enough between corners, and the heat just builds and builds.
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Re: Racing Wakefield Park August 7/8 2010

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"We ended up 13th in our last race with a 1:12.45 lap time"
Great work mate :twisted:
I wish I could have stayed around for Sunday sounds like a great day of racing.
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Hi,

Thats an awesome time mate i was at Wakefield this week on a speed of the streets day and only got down to 1:19.5 in a relatively standard GPX. I take it your car is a fully stripped out race setup.
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Yep 8)
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PS: Come along to Bathurst at Easter for a close up look 8)
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Re: Racing Wakefield Park August 7/8 2010

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Shane001 wrote:
I8A4RE wrote:Are you running a rear spoiler
Yep 8)
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Nice looking fto 8)
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