Project GTR (zed replacement)

[Monster]

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[Monster]

Getting very excited about tomorrow now....

Picked the car up sat with the bonnet painted with mixed results. I'm pleased in that It looks good all painted up. Slight disappointment is that it's the wrong colour - either it's not the colour I thought it was or the paint on the car has got slightly darker. It's not far off but I noticed, not enough to worry, esp once it's stickered up. It is however very light now all the old paint has been taken off, although I'm not sure how long the paint will last being so thin and with it getting so hot. We'll see.

[jap.slapper]

Looks good in the pic mate

[Stuart]

Can see what you mean about the colour match but it's one of those things........others issues to sort as and when mate. At least the increased cooling will be the real benefit to all of this.

[Monster]

Yeah exactly, although todays track action has highlighted a potential need for some heat shield stuff under the bonnet as it's getting mega hot over the hard turbo pipe kit and seems to be affecting it already.

Anyway, bonnet chat is boring compared to the day I had Snett with Malc riding pillion in the GTR. What a fucking mental day!!!!!! Car behaved itself and was driven harder and for longer than ever before I reckon. I also learnt bucket loads but I think I should put this in another thread.

All in all a fantastic day

GTR build thread related observations are, in no particular order:

It's fucking rapid and i love it
It did about 250kms on track today if my maths are right
The Khumo's are better able to handle the power/weight of the car than the 888s.
It drove home quite strangely (wobbly) so need to see if this is just extreme tramlining cos I've killed yet another set of tyres (2 TDs for this set, although I reckon i might see another one before they go in the bin), or the wheel bearing or worn Hicas bar rose joint have got a whole load worse after todays antics and something is moving about, a lot.
It seems to be running a bit rich & idling fast
I'm really glad I didn't sell it when it was pissing me off/breaking

Also got some sound advice from a pal of Malcs on tyre temps, geo and general set up. Matt from tracktoys.co.uk did his pyro stuff on my tyres when i came in from one session and gave me some interesting recommendations so we'll see what I do about that. Good news was that the car is loading it's tyres almost perfectly 51% front 49% rear, or was it the other way round...?

So, enough rambling. Will post on the tuition tomorrow when i've had time to reflect, but it really was the best fun I've had in the car for a long time.

Quick pic of the back - a tad of over fueling and flaming today methinks..

[Stuart]

Bloody hell!!!

That's like one of my 50/50 valeting shots showing a before and after

Glad the car performed well mate........I guess we'll have to wait and see about your thoughts on the coaching and other bits so I'll look forward to reading that when I get back next week

Well done

[Monster]

Ha, yeah it does look a bit like that.

I'm sure you can probably guess what my thoughts are on the coaching but my overriding impression is that Malc made a hugely complex subject easy to understand, through making (allowing) me to experience and therefore actually learn it.

Cheers Bud

[jap.slapper]

Sounds like the tuition was well worth it mate and interesting note regarding the Kumho's

[Ben]

Great right up fella. That's what the back of mine looked like when it was overfuelling - Bet there are some awesome shots of flames

[Monster]

OK Video Footage time

Malc put this up last night, of a couple of my quickest laps - a world first, I've never posted footage of my laps before...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mcQ-JzGG7e4

Impressed with his camera gear and datalogging overlay stuff, V Cool