mikymu

Wow, how do I begin? Well, I had a bad shock and cooked rotors so I decided to get a set of sachs two ways shocks and endless pads to improve handling and better brake modulation compare with PFC pads. I also decided to try out BR racing's track support since they did a great job at recent Laguna Seca event and I want a piece of the pie.

Lar aka 24chromium came up and sweat it out in my man cave and put on new brakes, Akrapovic sports exhaust config and I stay up all night till 2 PM next day and got the sachs two ways shocks installed. It was pretty hot in the garage even at night ...



Wife and I were glad when I finally clean up the mess



After getting couple hours of sleep I headed to Thunderhill and boy, am I glad to see the crews from BR. I unload my Cup (they were **** that I kept on wanting to do work lol) and sit back and rested my sore bones.





The weather at Thunderhill was ... strange. It rain like cats and dogs in the morning with puddles on the track till almost noon. We send Lar out on the track as a scout (in slicks) and once he came back unscathed all the race prepped cars join the party

The track was not optimal and my sachs two ways was banana boat soft out of the box which took major adjustment to tighten things up. Endless pads were just flat out amazing! It brakes 50% better than PFC 01 with fantastic modulation. Folks from BR did a fantastic job in dialing in my shock and I was able to communicate with Rico and Robb about what the car is doing and make adjustment accordingly. OK, I will let the photos and video tell the rest of the story. Big thanks to Jussi for the quick hands with his camera


Nice shot of BR's Cup car with Robb at T14 ... we will see Robb again ... soon



HELLO! LOL



Lar, wait for me ...



Miss the wall ... a good thing



Where is Robb?





There he is







Robb ... you are going the wrong way





OK, time to turn around and get more practice with the endless pads

savyboy

Yikes! From the pictures it looks like no big deal but the video shows how close you came to hitting the wall. I seem to remember you having problems on that corner at other times my friend

Missed you guys, glad I could live vicariously through your pics and video.

Richie18

From the video its hard to tell what even happened?

mikymu

Combination of cold tires (first lap out) and also not use to to the better bite of the endless pads ( I was applying the same brake peddle force as PFC) lock up the tires. I was really surprised at the quick lock up ... maybe I hit an oil spot? I use about 40% less brake pedal force after and no more lock up

24Chromium

New brake pads... $700. New brake rotors..., $1000. Fresh sticky Hohos... $1500. Not having to lift a finger to get them all on the car at a track event... priceless.

+1 to what Mikymu said. I can't say enough good things about BRRacing's track side support. They are awesome!!!

mikymu

Oh yeah, the wall was really close from driver point of view. Hey, strip your 4.0 and bring her out to play

fc-racer

Good save! Which Endless pads did you go with?

edwin814

Good save there, Mike.

I didn't know TH laid down new paint on the apex/rumble strips. God, it's been too long since I've been out there.

Laguna_Dude

did they check the data and adjust your brake bias? looked like too much rear bias.

at least you missed the wall... i hit a wall over the weekend at fontana on my last lap of the weekend! she's fine, as am i. i needed a new bumper and fender anyways. haha. FYI, blipper is amazing! It's a must have. If you have the $$, get the porsche one. It's amazing. I tried the Michelins and they are much grippier vs. Yokos, but have a numb feeling and don't offer too much warning when they release... I am going back to Yokos... I managed 1:41 on old yokos, over 1 second improvement over my last outing on new yokos. the blipper improved my braking significantly and that was the time savings.

997gt3north

Someone stole my car - the white gt3 with RS wing and black wheels.

Richie18

So do only new Cup cars have ABS or is it an option of sorts?

mobonic

only 996 cups have abs... 997 cups come without abs, but abs can be added in World Challenge & Grand Am racing..

TRD0524

Grand Am & ALMS cars do not use ABS. Only the 997 Cup R in the EU has ABS as certain racing series in Europe allow ABS (I.E: Porsche SuperCup). Same goes for Asia and Japan. The 997 Cups that race in All Japan Super GT Championship (GT300) have ABS.

World Challenge Cars can use ABS.

mikymu

+1

Now let's get to work on the auto blipper

N05U ... freaking amazing!!!

It's all instinct now days when I spin ... had plenty of practice lol

New paint? Time to unwrap your RS and get her out on track!

Man! You OK? Hope it's not a hard hit

That's the beauty of these Cup car. You hit something, take the damage part off and put replacement on and keep going. I would cry a river if that happen to my street RS.

I tried Michelin at TH and it grip much better but I did not push too hard to lose traction. Brake bias is fine. I was not used to the better braking power of endless pads and lock up the wheels. I wil have an auto blipper soon

lol. Hope that's not your GT3

996FLT6

Hey that's improvement. Now only one spin per day vs 3 spins when u 1st got cupcar : ). Mike