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[C4B]

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[Maverick]

C4B,

Great pictures of both my ride and roaz, thanks heaps for posting them, and nice to meet you.

Had a ball out there today, and to be only 2.8sec slower than roarz, with my stocky I'm stoked.

Cheers again
Jeff

[oz_utester]

they are great shots!

[CarlFST60L]

Nice shots, you obviously have a good len's on that sucker :cool:

[Mozz]

they are great shots!

Great shots of a very nice straight monaro - I really like the monaro in that colour :)

[matty s]

Nice Photos! What track were you guys at?
I really love that monaro color is that impulse? :D

[Maverick]

Nice Photos! What track were you guys at?
I really love that monaro color is that impulse? :D
Track was Queensland Raceway
Color = Impulse Blue :D

[Maverick]

First of just let me tell you the track day was heaps of fun, and the best value for money that I can remember getting for many a year. I managed 24 flying laps, in five sets, with 1 warm up and 1 warm down lap for each session. It was great having brett (ROARZ) and I parked next to each other with all of the other japanese (etc..) (no offense mountainrunner) cars out there, but the porsche and lotus did look really sweet.

I did run my monaro as a totally stock car, and it went amazingly well - no issues at all, no brake fade, loss of grip etc.... The back end didn't want to let go at all (might have gone a foot on one or two occasions) even with TC off and some really good boot (full) from half corner on. The front end really did want to push into understeer a lot, front passenger tire was pretty scuffed at the end of the day (put we swapped it to the back on return - so wear should even out).

If I have any recommendations for you (and myself before my next track day)(which I will be doing at least once again this year) they are as follows.

1. I would recommend running with some form of strut brace (the monaro series 3 has this as standard) and with the amount of understeer/bounce I was getting this would be a very good starting point.

2. Before I go out next time I will get the brake fluid and powersteering fluid upgraded to an appropriate level. I did have powersteering fluid leaking from boiling over (no harm done - damn reminds me to make sure it's all gone (probably to late now))

3. Tires will depend on how hard you push it, I went out there with intentions of not going to hard (and I did back off after putting 2 wheels in the dirt), but ended up with tire skewl in most corners (fronts mainly from understeer). As a result the fronts lost the tread edges a bit, but rotation will help prolong thier life.

4. Brakes went fine for the monaro. However I think the maybe a slighty larger spec than the standards, not sure about the berlina. Back brakes were smoking when I pull up after one set, so make sure that your pads are good.

5. Fuel, I was running standard BP 98 octane fuel, of which I used about 6-7L to got to the track 50 odd k's. However on checking upon leaving the circuit it was sitting pretty close to half a tank, so I used approx 30L out there for 34 laps total (or roughly 71k's - 2.1k's per circuit)

If you want any further feed back or info please don't hesitate to contact me by PM.

[No Pants]

Mate that sounds great ! Think I'll come along next time .. !!
I was going to come but then my wife got me 12 arounf Norwell Raceway driving their Race cars so I did that instead ! I'd still love to come out though ..
When is the next one ??

:driving:

[Maverick]

March 16, pm mountainrunner

[MountainRunner]

Hi, nice pictures of both cars I agree. Glad you had such a great time.

The next track day is Tuesday March 15.

If you want to be on the list, just PM me your email address.

[ParaDoxx]

:eek: :eek:
very nice!!!

Top photos!!
what camera!!