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Guys,
just a quick one to inform you that the green beast and myself survived Sepang track day :-)
All had some big fun including my mom being at race track for 1st time in her life (said afterwards she understands now why my exhaust needs to be exchanged, couldn't hear my car at all, haha).
I did start in group 1 first as I wanted to have instructor for 1st time to tell about break, turn-in, apex and turn-out points. But no need lah, as they put up cones on the track to mark them. Still 4 laps in with instructor he tells me to pull out into pits, I think WTF, I booked 25 minutes man. He then says, you're too good and fast for this group, so put's me in group 2.
Still overtook everybody, only a blue Subi I had to pass as guy was faster than me (need to get rid of speed limiter and upgrade). Smoked anybody else, was constantly driving around 3 minutes, 2:59, 2:58 and so one for most of my rounds.
Then decided to change to manual shifting instead of letting SST do the job in sport mode. Guess what, big change. 2:55 and 2:54,20 was my last and fastest lap before 3rd session was over. Even then super-sport mode probably can add a couple of seconds. Also, as AFC was still on a couple of seconds were lost there too as it didn't allow the car to slide a little bit, slowed me down a lot.
Instructor said car could probably do 2:40 on the track, so still some room for improvement. All in all a great event, but had no brakes at end of 1st and 3rd session, both on the end of long straight going into turn 15. Ooops, scary moment to find out at 180 km/h that breaks don't work. So need to change to steal lines, race brake fluid and ECB brake pads I guess. Also, will look at ventilation for brakes as they were seriously overheating, can't be after 6-7 rounds of hard driving man!!!
Only had one more error message on some temp issue, as it was in Japanese can't tell if it was oil temp or tranny temp. Will know when I can read ECU messages (have software for that but left my adapter in my S2000's trunk
All in all great event organized by HPC, debrief by instructors after event (1 participant went off after 1st round in turn 14 at EXIT POINT !!!), people were good behaving and only 1 or two blocked road but probably due to be concentrating to street ahead and not the green beast lurking behind them.
For 250 bucks definetely one to consider for all of you. You get 3 times 25 minutes of track time in return, seems enough when it comes to car having problems after driving it hard.
Was logging data via Performance box, so will post more details about lines (got instructors line in his own little Jazz) and g-forces later on.
Andreas
PS: Eva saw someone with a MLOC shirt there, two Evo 9 (I guess) where at the event, one Lancer GT too. But had no conversation with them, probably all too busy preparing car and themselves. I had to drive for 10 minutes car down after brake loss, so not much time from my side too to find them
just a quick one to inform you that the green beast and myself survived Sepang track day :-)
All had some big fun including my mom being at race track for 1st time in her life (said afterwards she understands now why my exhaust needs to be exchanged, couldn't hear my car at all, haha).
I did start in group 1 first as I wanted to have instructor for 1st time to tell about break, turn-in, apex and turn-out points. But no need lah, as they put up cones on the track to mark them. Still 4 laps in with instructor he tells me to pull out into pits, I think WTF, I booked 25 minutes man. He then says, you're too good and fast for this group, so put's me in group 2.
Still overtook everybody, only a blue Subi I had to pass as guy was faster than me (need to get rid of speed limiter and upgrade). Smoked anybody else, was constantly driving around 3 minutes, 2:59, 2:58 and so one for most of my rounds.
Then decided to change to manual shifting instead of letting SST do the job in sport mode. Guess what, big change. 2:55 and 2:54,20 was my last and fastest lap before 3rd session was over. Even then super-sport mode probably can add a couple of seconds. Also, as AFC was still on a couple of seconds were lost there too as it didn't allow the car to slide a little bit, slowed me down a lot.
Instructor said car could probably do 2:40 on the track, so still some room for improvement. All in all a great event, but had no brakes at end of 1st and 3rd session, both on the end of long straight going into turn 15. Ooops, scary moment to find out at 180 km/h that breaks don't work. So need to change to steal lines, race brake fluid and ECB brake pads I guess. Also, will look at ventilation for brakes as they were seriously overheating, can't be after 6-7 rounds of hard driving man!!!
Only had one more error message on some temp issue, as it was in Japanese can't tell if it was oil temp or tranny temp. Will know when I can read ECU messages (have software for that but left my adapter in my S2000's trunk
All in all great event organized by HPC, debrief by instructors after event (1 participant went off after 1st round in turn 14 at EXIT POINT !!!), people were good behaving and only 1 or two blocked road but probably due to be concentrating to street ahead and not the green beast lurking behind them.
For 250 bucks definetely one to consider for all of you. You get 3 times 25 minutes of track time in return, seems enough when it comes to car having problems after driving it hard.
Was logging data via Performance box, so will post more details about lines (got instructors line in his own little Jazz) and g-forces later on.
Andreas
PS: Eva saw someone with a MLOC shirt there, two Evo 9 (I guess) where at the event, one Lancer GT too. But had no conversation with them, probably all too busy preparing car and themselves. I had to drive for 10 minutes car down after brake loss, so not much time from my side too to find them
