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FANTASTIC DAY YESTERDAY!

Had some epic fun out in the zed playing with the big boys at donnington park on the full GP circuit.

The day was run by RMA and had some un-usual trackway rules such as overtake on both sides with no consent and no sighting laps etc .. Most cars there were exotics and race cars.

The zed did very well apart from brake issues that i was expecting from running a less than ideal pad compound and old mogul brake fluid

Car has been set up great from corner weighting and feels very well balanced and inspired confidence! Power wise I was keeping up with most things out there down the straights but I was being left of dead in the braking zones

The issues I need to address are the rear passenger arch is catching the tire a small amount under full loading and the front brake pads have crumbled Ended up driving home over 80 miles with out using the brakes lol.. I think the pad has come away from the backing plate on the passenger side as it sounds legal on metal!

Few pics I took on my phone.. I have a few on track pics coming soon though

Packed up the night before heading down to donny where we stayed over the night before.

Fuelling up!

Mates cars parked up. Just one missing chris in the new R8 V10 Plus which was epic!

Zed chillin'

Sharing the track with these guys

I suffered with some rather bad understeer (possibly driver error lol) but i did have some success playing with tire pressures on the day. I ended up at 31psi HOT and found this did help a little but my main plan is to switch to a 265/275 front tire, 10mm front spacers to widen front track and build a new larger splitter with side fences.

I had a tire pyrometer with me and took a few data sets, first one was after a small session but was taken 5 mins after i came off track and 2nd set was done in the pit lane by a mate so a better set IMHO. Data is for seeing if i can add more front and rear camber.

1st set

2nd set

Brake looking rather cooked!

Do you think you can get a well price ti strut brace made up?? Im after as stiff and light as possible.

Want the gearbox sooo much

Great feed back mate. Im happy to get these for extra feed back and a weight saving also!!

Come on Bennett!! Pm details... Post everything here were all interested!

Bennet i want to know what the difference is with clubman vs. Pro sliders

Wicked mate!! 👌

Shame about the other arm failure but good r&d anyway!

How much is the front track width widened?? And scrub radius? School me!!

Ekona... OT but what do you think off R888's vs other trackway tires.. I have them fitted now but yet to track the car on them.

Yeah but still nice to have a safe track to go over the limit on?

I do like tracks that art out to wright you car off for stepping over the grip limit

Ill do a test the year.. Ill run my car with Vbox lap timer at a circuit like blyton park then remove wing and splitter/bumper and go again?!>!

Silverstone defo suites high power cars. Ive done 2 days there and the nissan gtr owners day and still think its far better with a car with way more power and downforce. Its a gp track!!

Oulton is far more fun but more dangerous imho

I have one. Pm me.

Todays jobs

Back to my local diy garage to get the zed on the lift!

Water wetter topped up into the swirl pot from the turbos and the rad expansion pot..

Oil was changed out for 5.5L of fresh Castrol 5W-40 FST titanium and new HKS purple oil filter. (No pics)

Next issue was a joke I forgot my wheel nut key so my dad kindly offered to got to my house and look for it.. 2 hrs later still nothing ... I went home and turned the house upside down and still nothing This was a pain as I was trying to bleed the brakes next!

Back to the garage to try and bleed the brakes with the wheels on.

Set up my vac bleeder and tried the first bleed nipple on the rear caliper... solid! Would not move at all... Tried the other rear caliper... Nothing.. It just felt like a may snap the bleed nipples off so Ive left it for now

Ordered a new wheel key from rare rims thanks to fake ben taylor for the contact!

So to make myself feel better I sent a little time cleaning the messy underside on the zed....

Cleaned up the fuel tank heat shield well!

Cleaned up all the wax/oil crap of the plastics which took ages but there far better now!

Just need to replace/powdercoat the W brace now before my major rear end clean up project starts.

Picked up 8L of fresh high quality liquid gold today!

Also a bottle of water wetter to see what this does (if anything)

I have a new HKS purple oil filter read to go on tomorrow when I do my oil change and some fresh SuperBlue brake fluid for a full build change ready for Donnington Park next week.

I was running a 10W-60 oil last time so Ill log what my oil pressure does with this thinner oil weight.

Exiting times mate!! Bring on the booost!

Or kazz?? Any details on that m factory one as im lookong for a new lsd too!

Skillz to pay the billz.... 😎 looking bloody amazing mate!

Details on how you removwd the ac mate?? I thought that belt seamed cheap! Lol. Guess now. Hahhab

Well ill trial having the sc switched off for a few months then see if i need it hahba

Just looked up full ac system weight... 31lbs so about 14kg from the nose of the car.... Must... Not.... Remove... It.....

Cheers bennet. Z1 sell a kit with belt and spacer you need for $46. Ill delete it as its just 1.5kg of metal the for no reason

Just thought id ask on here if anyone has done an idler pully delete on a de motor?? Saves me a further 1.5kg from the very front of the car so looking to do that soon. Plus it will mean i can fit new belts at the same time.

Bennet at steel door skin with nothing at all in is 19kg. Seibon wet lay door is 6kg. You might be able to get the steel door that light but it wont be weather sealed and be wobbling like **** lol

Haha cheers guys. 😎

I can say after having the car out on the road yesterday for an hour you an feel the drop in weight.

On the plus side removing the door cards has created a ton more space in the cabin around yhe driver.

Im still unsure of how im going to sort the door release etc but ill come up with something.

Bennet i take it your not on WhatsApp? Ill send you pics of mounts etc etc.

Im not cutting the side impact bars out the oem doors for safety reasons. I need a full cage then ill go cf doors. Saves another 20-21kg off set the weight of the cage and door bars and looks cool as **** 😎

Ill post a few pics tomorrow morning to get this thread rolling. Agree with ben.. Hardcore cars for grip/drift/drag/hillclimb etc no stance show cars please lol ðŸ˜