Dumpster Firebird - my ratty track toy

Catmaigne said:

My Fleetwood is basically a truck lol.

crew cab medium box with front-hinged bed cover 

Half cage in and harnesses installed.

Got to demo everything at NJMP Lightning a couple days ago and managed to slash 1.5s from my old PB with a best of 1:14.6. These bridgestones rock. I'm testing out  a new camera and lap timer as well. The audio is a little goofy since I left the wind noise suppression on, my bad.

Traffic at this Track Night was really bad and there were a bunch of black flags. My best lap came later in my 3rd/final session, but I know I can break into the 13's if I do a full trackday with more time and get lucky with no traffic on the first 2-3 laps (when these tires are the fastest). Optimal was showing 1:14.1.

Vid here: https://youtu.be/vqhyIsf5z3E

I found some cracks in the spokes of my track wheels, so I picked up a set of Spec Corvette 18x11s to finish out the season. The old C5z reps had about 30 trackdays worth of abuse complete with curb hopping and plenty of street miles so I'm not suprised. I was planning on replacing the wheels over the winter anyway.

I drove the car to Pittrace last weekend and had an OK time with Gridlife, but brake fade, tire cording, and debris from drifters kept me from getting the sub 2:00 I wanted. I did manage this 2:01.46 on my 2nd session. https://youtu.be/rTjfHj_wJvU

I ordered some C6z brake ducts I'm going to rig up.

In reply to Catmaigne :

brake fade huh, what pads/fluid are you running?

btw wheels look great!

In reply to StuntmanMike :

I'm still running EBC SR-11s with Castrol SRF fluid. The pads seem acceptable at low-medium speed tracks, but they definitely can't tolerate faster ones like Pitt and WGI with my current deflector style cooling. My plan is to fab some 3" spindle cooling ducts before the season starts which will hopefully cure it, otherwise I'll have to swap pads.

I've got some maintenance to do on the car but should be back on track by late April hopefully. Trying to get to some new tracks this year like Lime Rock and Summit Point main. Also eyeing up some TT events for E36 M3s and giggles. SCCA has a TTNT event at Pocono in July and GRM UTCC is at Pitt in September, although I might be too slow for the latter lol.

Here's a pic from an NJMP Thunderbolt day last November. Was hoping shave some time off my 1:29.8 PB, but my optispark started acting up during session 3 lol. Typical LT1 behavior.