I has a car, Updated 11/1/2015 - Nothing of note. Options

[Anoroc]

Oh hi.

I've been lurking here for a while for the wealth of motivation in the build threads and such.

I has a '96 GT4. Being in NZ, it is a JDM facelifted one - no trispokes here, though unfortunately noone in the car's past ever thought to pick up projectors.

It currently looks like this:


Anyway, hi, sup etc.

Oh, I have a build thread here, and am much too lazy to cross-post everything!

http://www.gpforums.co.nz/showthread.php?threadid=435792

This post has been edited by Anoroc: Jan 11, 2015 - 5:47 AM

[Anoroc]

So, Manfield. Holy **** that was fun.

Get set

Go!

Get overtaken by an incredibly fast STI

Have 200m of chase with ST185RC

Until it blows up in a completely unknown manner after bouncing off the limiter at the first corner.

Did 4 sessions, before first time paranoia kicked in and I decided to leave it there before something died - probably a good thing, given the state of the brakes immediately afterwards.

Prior to being at the track, I had never launched the GT4 from anything more than 2.5k RPM, because i'm not a ****head on public roads. First time, thought "**** it, this is why I paid for a good clutch", 4k RPM launch, all went well, no more than a chirp from the tyres. Second session, thought "well, the tacho goes higher than that..." and launched from the limiter, with an accompanying puff of white smoke out of the bonnet vent. Initially, I thought "oh ****, oil feed to the turbo" or something of that nature, but it turned out just to be the clutch. No regrets.

Managed a best of 1:32 which is admittedly quite poor, but given that the people who actually know what they're doing were complaining of poor times due to the temperature (33 celcius, ick), I'm okay with that. It has highlighted, however, that my lines are terrible (unsurprising, given that it was my first time), and my tyres are worse. Need to pick up some spare wheels to run semis on, or something similar. No noticable difference in tread depth before/after, because the tyres are made of old boots, rather than rubber.

Today, I've replaced all of the brake fluid because it was cooked, which has stopped some of the sponge in the pedal, but as i'm now painfully low on both pad and rotor, they'll both be getting replaced just before next time - there's enough meat to drive like a grandma over summer, thankfully.

Best feel of the day goes to the late shift into second on the hairpin, and the entire car shuffling directly sideways. Bad for my laptime, but hilariously fun.