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Cool deal man glad you enjoyed it. It's way more fun then the quarter right.

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Originally Posted by b1adesofcha0s (Post 2290267)

I did manage to completely toast the paint on my calipers though :p

THAT SOUNDS FAMILIAR. :| :| :|

But srsly, nice job dude. Do you feel like you learned more, by participating in a FULL weekend?

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Originally Posted by b1adesofcha0s (Post 2290267)

So I just finished my first full HPDE this weekend

Awesome :)

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My instructor drove my car and had me ride along with him in one of the more advanced level sessions. He was going to take me in his car, but it didn't have any passenger seat. He wanted to show me the proper line around the track; how to be smooth with my steering/throttle/brake inputs; how/where to look ahead for the apex of each turn. This actually helped me a lot with everything. I tried to just follow what my instructor did for all of my remaining sessions on the track.

+1

I don't know how it goes with the group you're running with, but if I were you I'd take a ride in the passenger seat with instructors or other advanced level drivers any time you can squeeze it in. I've ridden shotgun with instructors several times (in their rungroup, running pretty flat-out) over the time I've been doing HPDE's, and it helps me out a ton every time. Each time I get something new out of the ride (well aside from riding with many different drivers), because I'm in a different place with my own skills, and so I notice things about their driving that I didn't/couldn't notice before, etc.

Updated my last post with info for all of my sessions and some videos.

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Originally Posted by KaienZ34 (Post 2290273)

Cool deal man glad you enjoyed it. It's way more fun then the quarter right.

Exactly why I'm never going to run my Z at the drag strip again ;)

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Originally Posted by MightyBobo (Post 2290278)

THAT SOUNDS FAMILIAR. :| :| :|

But srsly, nice job dude. Do you feel like you learned more, by participating in a FULL weekend?

Oh this is a whole new level of burnt. I'll post a pic tomorrow.

Definitely learned a lot more with the full weekend. You were so right about that. I think even one full day is a good learning experience, but one session is definitely not enough to really learn much.

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Originally Posted by wstar (Post 2290314)

Awesome :)

+1

I don't know how it goes with the group you're running with, but if I were you I'd take a ride in the passenger seat with instructors or other advanced level drivers any time you can squeeze it in. I've ridden shotgun with instructors several times (in their rungroup, running pretty flat-out) over the time I've been doing HPDE's, and it helps me out a ton every time. Each time I get something new out of the ride (well aside from riding with many different drivers), because I'm in a different place with my own skills, and so I notice things about their driving that I didn't/couldn't notice before, etc.

Yeah I think you can go for ride alongs if the instructor is ok with it. I was going to go for one in a race prepped RX8 today, but they did not want to run the car in the rain. I will definitely try to get one the next time I do an HPDE.

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Originally Posted by b1adesofcha0s (Post 2290267)

Starting in the middle of this session, I felt my tires (Michelin PSS) getting hot. Car was sliding around more and I had to adjust to that a little bit. Tires were all sticky and melty after the session. Not good with all the gravel/little rocks in the parking lot. :shakes head:

My first trip to mid-Ohio I had the re50a/stock tires on and picked up so much clag exiting the track on my last session that I had a vibration from them being out of balance until my next track day. ;)

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Originally Posted by sig11 (Post 2290364)

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I picked off the bigger pieces by hand after the session. Didn't want to risk puncturing one of my tires. They were really stuck on there!

I just read the story about the Miata, btw. What a douche.

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Shahid, great write up! I knew you'd enjoy your HPDE. :driving:

I had so much fun! I can't wait to do another one, but that probably won't be till the fall.

Your reservoir became low as your pads wore down. Be careful of overfilling when you swap the OEM pads back on.

Just ignore the miatas. Thy are great cars, but their popularity have turned them into cockroaches. It really gets annoying when they don't get out of the way. This is what you will hear from every Miata owner. "Yo, I can outbrake all these fancy cars, look at how great our Miatas are. Everyone is braking at the 300 foot marker while we can all do it at the 100 foot marker."

Blade, you going to Zdayz??

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Originally Posted by cossie1600 (Post 2291000)

Your reservoir became low as your pads are wearing down. Be careful of overfilling when you swap the. OEM pads back on.

Just ignore the miatas. Thy are great cars, but their popularity have turned them into cockroaches

I DD with the XP8's so no worries there. Luckily, I had seen this happen before in my Z and knew that the brake fluid needed to be topped off.

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Originally Posted by KaienZ34 (Post 2291027)

Blade, you going to Zdayz??

Nah I can't make it this year. I have to save my PTO from work for my cousin's bachelor party trip in June.

Its been a while maybe youve been to the track more after the date you created the thread. I just to chime in.
1- not all summer tires are the same, there is a great variety, make sure you get something decent.
2- get an oil cooler asap if youll be doing this often
3- replace your brake pads, brake fluid as well with something like motul 5.1 or motul rpf 600.
4- take your time to learn, by the time you knwo youll be lapping much faster without even noticing.

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Originally Posted by Juice14 (Post 2291609)

Yeah I've got all that taken care of. 34 row Z1 oil cooler + Carbotech XP8 + Motul RBF600 + Michelin PSS :tup: