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[Mangham54]

Three track days I think would be much better value right now... And would give you chance to mould your style ready for a time attack entry next year (if you chose to do so).

[The Batman]

it wont be 3 days, after you take into account, fuel, tyres and possible hotels

[turbotoaster]

hotels? I either sleep in the car or a tent on site, im to poor for hotels, but your right on fuel, tyres seem to be pretty good though as I went for a hard compound on the rear, not really much wear on them at the moment from snetterton, im hoping they last me a while as they arnt cheap!

[Captain Vimes]

Just on tyres, brake pads and fuel I'm sure I spend at least £200-£250 per track day and that doesn't include wear on suspension, engine etc. or hotel, food, drink, insurance... The entry cost is the cheap bit.

[The Batman]

2 trackdays and a airfield day left my front tyres dead

[smiley]

2 trackdays and a airfield day left my front tyres dead

 

I remember you killing a fresh set of 888's on a Micky mouse track like Abbeville in 1 day.

In a feckin NA.

 

 

 

You have issues.

[The Batman]

They where kumhos I think! What can I say I try my hardest I blame that speedster turbo

Edited by The Batman, 29 June 2015 - 07:58 PM.

[Tony H]

I done about 17 track days last year and worked it out about £400 a day average. And I didn't have any expensive mechanicals or accidents.

[Graeme Lambert]

I done about 17 track days last year and worked it out about £400 a day average. And I didn't have any expensive mechanicals or accidents.

 

£6.8k? Ouch 

[Tony H]

Yeah, ... but tell us how much you spent on your car last year and divide by number of trackdays ...

[G-Bob]

Just on tyres, brake pads and fuel I'm sure I spend at least £200-£250 per track day and that doesn't include wear on suspension, engine etc. or hotel, food, drink, insurance... The entry cost is the cheap bit.

 

 

You are having a giraffe?!?!?

 

Turbotoaster.  You'd be better doing some sprints and hillclimbs this year to get used to the car.  Miles cheaper.

[Graeme Lambert]

Yeah, ... but tell us how much you spent on your car last year and divide by number of trackdays ...

Well I did do one trackday weekend, half a day at croft in the M4 chasing you boys. That cost me nothing. Also did c63amg at Portimao, BMW x6m at circuit of America, jaguar XE circuit of Navarra, golf R estate ascari, jag f type R AWD Monticello motor club, Honda Civic type R Slovakia ring, BMW m cars at goodwood, Lexus RCF ascari, Porsche gt3 Rs etc silverstone, lotus exige v6 and Evora sport racer Hethel plus a few others in the last 12 months. They even PAID ME to do the above... As for what I've spent on my car... Well actually since not that much has actually been done in that time, it's not that bad. Or so I keep telling myself

[Acidpopstar]

You can go off people...

[turbotoaster]

 

Just on tyres, brake pads and fuel I'm sure I spend at least £200-£250 per track day and that doesn't include wear on suspension, engine etc. or hotel, food, drink, insurance... The entry cost is the cheap bit.

 

 

You are having a giraffe?!?!?

 

Turbotoaster.  You'd be better doing some sprints and hillclimbs this year to get used to the car.  Miles cheaper.

 

 

Been thinking about the sprints as I did one last year with the car and it was only £60 for the day  

[G-Bob]

Exactly... That would give you some time to develop and learn the car before time attack.

[SteveA]

Not the biggest track in the world but

 

http://www.vx220.org...ys-are-awesome/

 

Chances are you will have the track to yourself.

[Captain Vimes]

The cost of trackdays are relative to the amount of time on track. If you're not chewing through tyres and fuel then you're probably not getting much track time. I suspect time attack won't give much track time for the money and it sounds like sprints don't give much time either but I guess the challenge is the competition element rather than maximum driving time.

[turbotoaster]

throwing it on a local dyno tomorrow morning for a power run just to see where I am power wise, turned the boost up to 17psi last night and did a little tuning, its still a little rich(mid 11s afr) but should at least get me in the ball park, it will be going to efi parts soon to get tuned properly as at the moment the ignition tables are garbage and I don't even know where the cams are(just they don't smash the valves into the pistons) If its 300bhp I will be happy as that seems enough for a stock rover k series engine as that's over double the horsepower it came with

[Captain Vimes]

Good luck. Hopefully they can keep it cool on the rollers in this heat.

[turbotoaster]

first pull

27c ambient temps, 43c inlet temp at 6000rpm,

hit a big chunk of det at 6000rpm, as you can see the power is still rising



power is uncorrected for high ambient (so about 310 corrected dyno guys says)