Basic but mandatory track mods help needed.

RedNismoZ

I advise the both of you to take classes together on racing techniques. As for brakes, tires, and cooler: upgrade brakes, I'm still on my stock ones. Tires, wide grips, but those are kinda expensive, and cooling; since its only a weekend warrior, maybe a stillen for ya sir.

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jmg944t

Thanks for the input. I have about 150 track days and no time for a school at the moment. I work about 90 hours a week all summer so just getting to the track is going to be tough. That is part of the reason I am only concentrating on reliability/safety mods.

FL 4Motion

See sig for a good idea for brake/oil cooling mods. Basically run a 25 or 34row oil cooler, brake fluid, lines, and pads and you're all set.

As far as fuel starve, you're just gonna have to top off the tank after every session. You could try bringing a big ol gas can wiht you if you don't have time to actually go and fill up. There's a solution being worked on by a vendor on here but it's not ready for prime time yet.

Tires, stock nismo sizes but running PS2s. Will be switching to PSS's once they become available (and these wear out) hopefully by the summer/fall. BIG improvement over the stock Advans btw.

jmg944t

How are the Carbotech brake pads? The car will be trailered to the track so it doesnt matter if they are streetable. You didn't feel it is needed to add brake cooling? Bringing gas isn't a problem I was just hoping to not miss 5 minutes of track time pulling into the pits and filling up. Its times like that when you are in a hurry and dumb things happen.

FL 4Motion

The xp8's, IMO, are fine both on track and streetable as well. My wife is actually the track rat, I'm just the "crew chief" (cervical & lumbar spinal injuries and a TBI etc etc). She's been doing HPDEs for a few years now and her feedback is the xp8s are fine on track with her braking style. We're considering moving up the xp10s at some point but I'd rather add brake ducting first. Unfortunately, there's no "off the shelf" solution yet, if there was, it'd be on our car already.

The carbotechs have been wearing extremely well and while they dust, it's non corrosive so our wheels still look brand new after a nice wash. We both have a very high tolerance for brake squeal etc, so I consider them total fine for daily driving etc.