Have a great day out there and hope the weather holds well for you all. Wee bit jealous as I'm likely to miss the upcoming sprints too.

Engine all pinned but we found it needs transmission work. A poor repair done somewhere before I bought her saw the transfer case gasket (which Porsche can't resupply) replaced with sealant, instead of a new gasket hand cut to shape. The closer seating put too much pre-load on the output cone bearings so these failed, overheating the ATF and thus contributing to a burnt clutch pack. The rest of it including the other packs is still as good as new I'm told.

So getting quotes at the moment to compare a local tranny rebuild (with original parts since no-one seems to want to send any upgrade parts to NZ) versus having Renntech or ESmotor upgrade it overseas. I believe they use higher spec parts such as innards from torque kings like the McLaren Mercedes SLR or the Maybach to produce a 1000Nm rated tranny versus 560 stock. I suspect air freighting the whole tranny to Florida or Turkey will hurt but at least I'd know it would be well over-engineered after.

 

Fingers crossed the Bombays keep the rain at bay. See you all in the AM!

 

Cops all over from at least Ramarama. Be good.

 

Have fun gents. Waiting for my plane home. Finally have wifi Rennlist access.

 

Back from the RSG track day. Was a good one. Stayed fine after a foggy start with rain threatening after 4pm when I bailed. Dave's record in BB seemed intact. We reckon we should make a sticky thread on the RSG site with the leaderboard. Everyone enjoyed their runs in her.

Had a nice controlled slide through turn one (and several others) today. Kept the foot on the gas and came through ok. Getting a bit bored with these track days so looking forward to the sprints in early August.

The iOS 7.1 upgrade cooked my iPhone wifi like a gazzillin others so Harrys Lap Timer wouldn't capture my times. So will have to wait for the Sprints to see if I'm getting as fast as Herman.

 

Doug Hannahaha that's good fighting talk Doug.

 

I have the AIM Solo but not the who ran, yet.

Lowest times in running order:

1.29.519
1.34.978
1.29.261
1.29.399
1.30.471

 

Sam
Chris M
Paul
Mark H
Neil D

 

You guys lemme know when you want me to show you how it's done.

Cold day to start but as Doug said, stayed dry til the end.

Had a great time with Stu from Downforce in the cockpit - I'm back down to my pre-crash 964 times (1:24.5) & able to see how much I'm leaving on the table. Extended gas/brake transitions, deep, late braking and early power on. I believe Paul also set a personal best despite the temps! I can recommend Stu to anyone trying to get past a plateau.


I'm tempted to chalk it all up to my new digital Longacre tire gauge, though...

 

Leaderboard update:

First session times:
1. Paul 1.29.261
2. Mark H 1.29.399
3. Sam 1.29.519
4. Neil 1.30.471
5. Doug 1.30.856
6. John 1.31.471
7. Dave 1.32.262 (Damp)
8. Chris M. 1.34.978
9. Chris B
10. Macca
11. Peter
12. Walter
13. Matt G
14. Jason

Overall fastest time regardless of session numbers
1. Dave 1.28.502 (2 sessions)
2. Paul 1.29.261
3. Mark H 1.29.399
4. Doug. 1.29.401 (2 sessions)
5. Sam 1.29.519
6. Neil 1.30.471
7. John 1.31.471
8. Chris M 1.34.978

NB: Fastest recorded time for Black Beauty in 2kCup is 1.28.180. Previous owner says it has run sub 1.28 at least once.

 

Just keep it simple and list the fastest time for each person, no need to track first session times or number of sessions.

 

Matt, just keeping the more sensitive souls happy after some guidance from our first run I'm not fussed.

What I'd like to have is a way to record the names and times and put them in the car. Small magnetic board? I have a couple of magnetic race numbers that were the wrong shape and can cut them up and put names to them.

 

How well did BB last? We need 6 more co-owners to get their runs in. Thanks to Chris B we no longer need to worry about a WOF or Rego after they run out. Any thoughts from the people who have run so far where this is going? Do we run her into the ground?

 

Paul's AIM traces. Green is today 1.16.250. Blue is 26/2 (pre SITT) 1.18.772. Red is my fastest 1.19.953. Analyse away.

 

john, bb was bags of fun. thanks again to you dave and both Chris's for organising this. We nick named her the howler after getting an earful of the tyres on every corner. the setup as is is pretty fun until we want more oversteer somehow maybe.

you are right about the traffic in that group (we ran in slow group today). to get a clear run we'll need to run at the back away from all mx5s and other bb dopelgangers such as the other black integra there today.