Intermediate+ level hpde driver, do I need cooling mods for first track day?

vjarnot

Looks like consensus will be rather elusive Oh well. I appreciate all the inputs - keep 'em coming.

I agree with your post in general, but tracking any street car is huge compromise and an exercise in probability... your post would apply to any car that's not fully stripped, caged, and race converted. Anyway, the problem is that it's definitely not nothing compared to the cost of the weekend; and it becomes an absolute waste of time and money if I decide the Z isn't worth tracking.

Wow, 260 doesn't worry me; but overcoming the cooling system in HPDE-1 is scary... and downright farcical. Did you back off at 260, or did it level out at 260 on its own?

Cooked OEM pads/fluid or aftermarket? No oil cooling issues, then?

I think little Talladega is just evil... I set my S on fire there once - oil filter backed off a bit, sprayed oil on track causing me to have an exciting spin, while also spraying oil on the exhaust manifold. I can state with full certainty that the exhaust manifold temperature on an S2000 is higher than the flash-point of 10W-30 synthetic

The fuel starvation issue is the real reason that I'm unsure about tracking/keeping the car I just bought: hence the desire for a trial run on track. Oil and brakes seem to be fixable (brakes less so, I suppose), but they really seem to have screwed the pooch on the fuel system of this car. Anyone thought about putting an inflatable bladder (balloon) in the left half of the tank yet? In other words, give up 50% - 60% of tank capacity in the hopes that that keeps the fuel pump wet...

Apparently the OEM oil cooler ain't worth ****. And yes, it should be able to handle some track time in stock form. Nissan seems to have missed that memo... I didn't know how good I had it until I sold my S.