Looking good!

Harmless photos :)
 

IMG_9161 by rico.vision, on Flickr

IMG_9171 by rico.vision, on Flickr

Went to my first trackday at Marulan Driver Training Centre. Its a great first trackday experience. Being a friday there was only 3 cars there. And i learnt alot about MR cars and getting the right lines. I had my gopro recording but im going to keep that to myself hahah :P.
 
Definately a great day and getting ready for the 23rd Sept at a private trackday at wakefield :)
 
Yesterday replaced my rear rotor as they were near EOL and had scoring. Replaced with RDA grooved and dimpled.
 
Followed this article, http://cobaltuniverse.net/topic/9014360/1/
To spray the hub from rusting :)
Installed them and bedded them in as well.
 
Brake cleaner

 
Chose silver high temp paint

 
Masking off the face.


Backside

 
Finished product.
 

 
Old vs new

 
Installed.

 
Pads are intima SR if anyones interested 

 
Bedded them in.

First trackday at Wakefield hosted by Tristan and his friends. Plenty of tracktime as it was capped at 25 cars. It was an amazing day and definitely learnt alot. I was disappointed as im not able to judge how the car behaves, i think im still dont understand mid rear engine layout yet but i plan to watch over my videos and see how i could improve and watch other some drivers on youtube and also better lines. Need to learn heel toe as that will shave off a few seconds.
 
It was hot that day and definately the re002s were not up to the task. My rear re002s totally lost grip after 4 laps and needed to cool them down. And i just dont think they were grippy enough, i just didnt have enough confidence in the tyres. But that being said let my friend drive my car and he got a 1:15... so its all driver then....
 
I wasnt happy at all with my time even if it is my first time out at Wakefield. The fiskhook was tricky but i think i could some good lines. Just too much braking at times.
 
But at the end of the day i had great fun. And the car is still in one piece. On the drive home a fapping noise started coming from the engine bay. Sounded like a wire hitting a fan, intercooler fan? Pulled over and it was the AC belt broke. At first i shat myself as i didnt know what belt it was. Was it important? Can i still drive? I thought it was the AC but just wasnt sure. Just started driving slowly and monitored the temps and everything seemed okay.
 
I hope to get out there again at the end of the year or early next month. With some sticker tyres and see how i go.
 
Heres a pic of the front re002. Hard to tell but hot rubber coming right off... The back was much worse.

 
Here are some pics of the day

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

A few weeks back picked up a staggered set of SA3R 17x8/9 to wrap the AD08. (my current set is 16 7/8) I love trispokes :P Abit of gutter rash, but easy to fix up.
 

 

 
Been thinking about getting a dremel kit for my polishing addiction. Doing abit of research and went for the cheaper option "ozito" rather than dremel. Has 183 pieces and 3 years warranty. For $50? Why not. This can be bought from Bunnings.
 

 
Polishing the exhaust tip

 
The lips of the rims, which were them ruined on the trackday haha. Good fun.

 

Nice work, surprised to hear of an SSQV leaking though
 
I've got to plumb back mine and tidy up my bay soon, maybe get started on the long weekend

Great to see you are starting to enjoy some driving at the track.
Last week in Tasmania, I had a drive of a friends SW20 with the same tyres you have just fitted. They are a nice tyre to work with and do fall over after a few laps if you get the temps up but a great tyre for track days. We dropped the pressures to 34 psi which seemed to work ok. If we had more time (and fuel) we would have tried a few more things.we were only 5 seconds of the pace of the improved production times so both pretty happy with the result.
Do have footage available?
If you need a hand at the track for a day( with set up), I'm sure a Ian, Adrian and myself can help out where we can. 
 
 

Last week Repco has a sale for Mother products 30% off. Did my research and went with the following products,
- Clay Bar kit which also has the lube :)
- Synthetic Wax 
 
Altogether it costed me $50 and i saved $20. Winning :)
And i bought a car cover which was also on sale for $40
 
Being quite new to car detailing. I found this page, http://www.autopia-carcare.com/how-to.html. Which explained things about clay, polish and wax. 
 

 
Washed the car and then started claying it. Ive never clayed this car ever and wow what a massive improvement it makes! The paint was so smooooooth afterwards :D. I was very impressed, but noticed all the stone chips and scratches from old paint :(
 

 
I think the whole process took around 3-4 hours. From wash -> clay -> wax.
 

 
Since i dont drive the car on weekdays. Bought a car cover so dust wont gather up on the car.