Roll call autobahn June 26th laps inc.

[J-LO]

I take it the green one is gas and red one brake?

Correct

 

[J-LO]

What car is this ?

Noble 400

 

[Intel]

Correct

Seems like those should be at full throttle if you are still at the 7 mark and before the braking markers even come up Wish I could have made it but I will be there this weekend so hard to swing his one.

 

[Bruce Jibboo]

easier said than done at his 650 hp and 115-120mph coming up to hard turns

 

[Intel]

easier said than done at his 650 hp and 115-120mph coming up to hard turns

That is only 4 times what I am driving.. can't be that different

 

[Bruce Jibboo]

[MENTION=341]sickmint79[/MENTION] what HP are you running? Think he runs very consistent small groups in his 2.5X and I wasn't able to break my 3.01 at around 635hp to the tire

excuse being 4 year old tires with 5-6 track day/heat cycles

 

[Eagle]

You need better lines my friend! That's just going by the video Jim posted!

 

[Bruce Jibboo]

Yup 100%, told numerous people I wanted an instructor (known GOOD instructor) to help with that, late sign up and no instructors left.

with those air temps and the right PSI my tires weren't a problem at all

 

[Bruce Jibboo]

[MENTION=11102]J-LO[/MENTION] who was that instructor you guys are friends with that was hanging out with us? He already had an assigned driver to help, but if not I was going to ask him to hop in

 

[Eagle]

You need to use the entire turn to your benefit and trust your brakes a bit more. Those two things alone would bring you into the 2:5x range easily.

 

[Eagle]

For comparison's sake:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2toSrzKGvZw

 

[Bruce Jibboo]

yep agreed, the whole road is there so use it

very easy concepts but just need to keep at it, the other thing coming to mind is I wasn't hitting the late apex's which I believe they almost all are on that track.

 

[Eagle]

You can def see where the C7Z is carrying more speed as well as pulling harder in the straights. Damn that's impressive!

 

[Eagle]

yep agreed, the whole road is there so use it

very easy concepts but just need to keep at it, the other thing coming to mind is I wasn't hitting the late apex's which I believe they almost all are on that track.

Definitely some are, but not all. Trusting brakes is hard to do get used to as well... but its huge.

 

[Intel]

Braking points are hard to learn. I would pick a corner you feel comfortable with the runoff and keep on working on moving your braking zone back another number. It should be a firm shorter vs braking from the 7 marker down to the 2. Most newer people brake a lot longer and softer vs more firmly and shorter. The heat difference between the 2 is huge along with time saved.

Looking past the apex and waiting long enough that you aren't apexing early. I had to remind myself of this last monday as I was fixating on the apex and hitting it early. Once I looked past it and to a spot on line with it I became much more consistent. I hit 3:12's (slow car problems) all 5 laps my last time out which I rarely do.

No coasting, if you aren't on the gas you should be firm on the brakes. Otherwise that is time lost.

 

[J-LO]

Seems like those should be at full throttle if you are still at the 7 mark and before the braking markers even come up Wish I could have made it but I will be there this weekend so hard to swing his one.

Stock iron rotors/pads and fluid. I will have track pads and fluid done before next event [emoji6]

 

[Bruce Jibboo]

i'm gonna fill Jim's tires to 50 psi cold as a handicap

 

[J-LO]

[MENTION=11102]J-LO[/MENTION] who was that instructor you guys are friends with that was hanging out with us? He already had an assigned driver to help, but if not I was going to ask him to hop in

Jim Ptak. Have known him since our motorcycle days. Knows his stuff. Call me asap [emoji23]

 

[Bruce Jibboo]

Yup that was my guess but wanted to be sure, will call shortly, still on conf call having to talk occasionally

 

[J-LO]

i'm gonna fill Jim's tires to 50 psi cold as a handicap

Wtf??? [emoji23]

I need to check what psi they are at now. On the way home they cooled off to 28 psi.

 

[10sec]

I've gone to like 25+ track days and probably only checked my tire pressure 3-4 times. I definitely never checked it at AB full last time I was there I just wanna race, ain't nobody got time for checking tire pressures.

 

[Bruce Jibboo]

you either coincidentally keeps yours low enough or going too slow for under/oversteer??

 

[10sec]

The air that is in them right now is the same air that I had when I ran AB full with you guys last year. They're probably pretty low

 

[sickmint79]

that HUD is nice. i had one in my e60 545i. before it i would have that pft i wouldn't pay for that, gimmick. after living with it, it was very cool. and since the brz, i forgot i ever even had a HUD until seeing your pic...

MOAR PICS PLEASE!

i posted a chunk on cpcs - https://www.facebook.com/groups/PetroleYUM/permalink/1263966010382270/

[MENTION=341]sickmint79[/MENTION] what HP are you running? Think he runs very consistent small groups in his 2.5X and I wasn't able to break my 3.01 at around 635hp to the tire

excuse being 4 year old tires with 5-6 track day/heat cycles

i can often get in a groove in a session and put up some really close times. although i'd prefer ever lowering times a lot more... i have e85, a header, and flex fuel tune, plus a bunch of other shit but i think that's the only part that matters. my estimate would be 240/250 flywheel, have never done a dyno.

a couple tweaks here and you probably pretty quickly get to a 2:50 and under. clean up a line here, brake harder there but don't slow down as much, get on the gas a bit earlier and you'll get down to it pretty quickly is what i would bet. sent you a bunch of pics and notes on the data although didn't dig super deep into how we took a particular turn.

 

[Bruce Jibboo]

LoL I had a bad fan connector in my dual spal full shroud fan kit. Of course my temps were reaching their limits, if no shroud (like stock) at least I would have had air flow

I actually knew about it and locked it in wrong using a cable tie this last install, not just locking male to female, it's grabbing above the connector on this rubber shrink to lock the wires into the male end. Either way, D3 sending replacement wire kit like I should have done when I first noticed it.