sig11's Journal... not that anyone cares

sig11 · 09-10-2012, 01:22 PM

Back from a weekend of Grattan again! Man what a good time. Saturday I was struggling to drop my times from the 1:33-1:34 range but then I took a ride with a racer.

Next session out I started applying a couple of his tips and dropped two full seconds from my best time. Started taking the hairpin very tight and downshifting to 2nd mid corner to help rotate the car and braking sooner to apex turn 1 earlier.

Sunday after the first couple sessions I wore my front pads down the backing plates. (but had my best lap of the weekend 1:30.25. Just short of my goal of 1.29) Quite an interesting experience... moving up my braking for turn 1 on Saturday probably kept me out of the kitty litter. Unfortunately I grabbed the wrong box of pads so when I went to change them all I had was Bobcats.

I took a friend out to show him my line after putting on the street pads and was pretty amazed by the difference. I had to start braking way way earlier and even knowing that I ended up going off at the hairpin after misjudging my brake point once I got up to speed. Funny thing was, he said he was wondering if I was ever going to brake on the front straight and I was probably starting 300ft sooner than normal. :P

I guess I'll order up a set up XP12/XP10s but I'm not sure how much longer I'll track the 370. The plan is to have the 350Z caged and ready to rock for next spring.

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09-10-2012, 01:22 PM	#30 (permalink)
sig11 A True Z Fanatic Join Date: Jun 2009 Location: Detroit Posts: 1,294 Drives: 09 370Z Red Sport-MT Rep Power: 20	Back from a weekend of Grattan again! Man what a good time. Saturday I was struggling to drop my times from the 1:33-1:34 range but then I took a ride with a racer. Next session out I started applying a couple of his tips and dropped two full seconds from my best time. Started taking the hairpin very tight and downshifting to 2nd mid corner to help rotate the car and braking sooner to apex turn 1 earlier. Sunday after the first couple sessions I wore my front pads down the backing plates. (but had my best lap of the weekend 1:30.25. Just short of my goal of 1.29) Quite an interesting experience... moving up my braking for turn 1 on Saturday probably kept me out of the kitty litter. Unfortunately I grabbed the wrong box of pads so when I went to change them all I had was Bobcats. I took a friend out to show him my line after putting on the street pads and was pretty amazed by the difference. I had to start braking way way earlier and even knowing that I ended up going off at the hairpin after misjudging my brake point once I got up to speed. Funny thing was, he said he was wondering if I was ever going to brake on the front straight and I was probably starting 300ft sooner than normal. :P I guess I'll order up a set up XP12/XP10s but I'm not sure how much longer I'll track the 370. The plan is to have the 350Z caged and ready to rock for next spring.