Negative camber solution

What settings did they use?

Sorry to hear about the accidents.

 

Just to update this thread again, I took the car to snetterton on Sunday and had an absolute blast!!

There wasn't much that was quicker than Morag, despite feeling pretty slow on the straights she made up for it with comical turn in oversteer and a lovely balance through corners. The brakes were fine and the way the car runs so well on track in standard form continues to impress.

Last time I was at Snetterton it was over 30 degrees and I was running some posh continental track tyres. Best lap was very slow at 2:25 ish.

On Sunday it was only 3 degrees. Only other change compared to last time was the camber and toe change and Yokohama AD08R tyres.

Best actual lap was 2:20 with a bit of traffic, best calculated was 2:18 although I don't think I'd manage that!

So, very much quicker!

A vid, love how it turns but it does feel dicey round cobham as the car never feels settled, constantly correcting oversteer. Big fun though, never thought I'd enjoy a fwd as much

Cheers!

 

They're probably better than most track type tyres in wet. On a diffeeent car I used them at a sprint in the wet, times were excellent, way ahead of the field until it started drying out. They don't give as much dry grip as some but last brilliantly and would def recommend them provided your not paying retail price.

 

Jamie/Dale - huge thanks for the tips on the camera!! I knew it'd be something I could sort with settings, hopefully my next vids will be better

 

Looking at corner G the car now sustains 1.1g at Snetterton compared to 1g before.

Impossible to say this was down to the alignment as it was 32 degrees Celsius compared to about 4 degrees.

 

It's running AD08R's around 30/32 psi front, 32/34 back.

I'm not getting 1.1g under braking, was considering some uprated pads but will persevere with the standard ones as they're £100 a set. So far, so good with the discs fingers crossed

 

Lol yes agreed about the census here!

I've tried saying it but people have money to burn lol!

It's fluid... first track day I did with the car it had its original 2011 tyres, brakes and brake fluid... after stopping or cooling for a while first press of pedal was sssooooo long and nothing happened!

Since getting new fluid it's been great

Can you explain how it gives the long pedal?

It's been explained to me before and somewhere in the empty space between my ears there's something, but nothing I can explain!

 

Thanks for explaining! Yup that's what I was thinking.. makes sense..

 

Thanks for the explanations chaps, at least once I've forgotten I'll be able to look back here for reference

 

Just had a great day at Snetterton on Sat then a not so great day at Brands.

As you can see the car is quite a handful:


Loved it.
That was my mate in his chav wagon, he's had it tuned since I last shared a vid and it's much quicker. Still he can't get turn in oversteer, he thinkg the electronics still take over a bit despite having all traction off. It''ll only go sideways on corner exit unless hugely provoked. The polar opposite of Morag lol!

Brands was a bit crap today. The car was going well and making some serious grip when it dried partially.
Traffic was horrendous, trying to overtake was just like driving on the road. It's like they know you're going quicker and won't hold them up but they just don't want to let you pass..

And I got black flagged for drifting. I wasn't driving like in the vid above, jus had one moment that wasn't intentional. It did look great when they showed me the footage on their surveillance screens at least.

 

Many thanks for replies chaps!

Got to say I'm really enjoying my time with Morag, can't believe they made a car as good for track stuff

 

Ian - I thought you liked vindaloo? not much difference between the two, esp now yours will have the same engine!
The chav wagon won't be in attendance and neither will I

Chri5 - I remember a mini, no play unfortunately. Saw it on the way back and gave them a flash.
Not sure it was blue though?

Mattyt - yup I know what you mean - that's what I got flagged for.

 

Lol nice one Ian, soon no doubt

One mistake and black flag

 

Nice - yup that's the one

 

I'll have a look back through the footage - there's so much I may have missed it but would probably remember if I'd had a play.

 

lol yeah as Nick says I'm really happy with how it handles, getting good tyre wear and really good grip. TBH the alignment hasn't really changed the way the car handles, it was the same when running stock alignment.

Annoyingly I wore the pads out at Brands and have lightly scored the front discs. Think they'll be fine though.
It seems to be getting about 3 track days out of a set of the Renault pads, this will be my third set in since August but not complaining at £100 for a full set

The Yokohama AD08'R's have the sort of wear around the shoulders you'd expect but have done 5 track days. Lot's of tread left and they are really durable. Even after 10 or 15 mins of use the grip is the same. They haven't seemed to have deteriorated grip wise either.

Going to get the tyres rotated so will have nice fresh outer shoulders and the pads swapped.

Then give it a good polish and hopefully get a couple of thankfully small chips fixed in the windscreen.

Was thinking about getting a stage 1 type tune but the last couple of wet track days kind of made me forget about that, it's nice to know it's always there if necessary


Should be good for another Brands on the 24th Feb

 

Good to hear

Agreed, as Nick says putting some decent race type suspension on doesn't mean it'll make it better but does usually mean it's horrible on the road, my geriatric Datsun is like this. It runs an AST kit that reatails at over 3.5k and I have no idea how to use it, it's bloody quick but was actually quicker on its older suspension according to my lap times.

Sprinting always makes me laugh. The last sprint I did the old bus was wearing MPS3's, stock engine g'box yet still went quicker than R35 GTR's with alleged 1000bhp and r888r's and won its class. Same with the lap times it does, club class time attack cars on better tyres, less weight, more power go slower than my full weight relatively standard 26 year old R32 GTR.