NEARLY 2 WEEKS WAITING: Nissan GT-R is finally mine!

Hey all!

So loving the upgrades, it feels like a brand new car, much more refined with the smoother gear changes and so much more brutal with the extra horses and torques.

Anyway, someone had some alcon rears up for sale, 400 miles, with pads. Changed to a BBK, so selling cheap.

Either way, the money he wanted for them was stupid cheap, so snapped his arms off.

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Both discs and all the matching pads for less than the price of 1 disc new!!

Got the calipers out, and they are all at 29.99mm. Well, new they are 30mm :)

Oh, and he sent the bells with them also?! Those are normally 100 odd quid each.

Bargain.
 
Gibbo said:
Alcon's last forever, the set on my M3 were from a CSL and I then put a lot of track days on them and the fronts are only due for changing now as the little grooves are not really visible any more on the front.
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Premium discs but you get what you pay for with them.
 
Hey all!

So have been looking at getting the paint restored, but to be honest to most people its in great condition, by the time ive polished it up unless you look really hard all the imperfections I only notice as the owner it seems like a bit of a waste given the money involved.

As such, have been considering a wrap, and considering


Gloss Flip Psychedelic

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Roaring Thunder

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Rising Sun in Gloss or Matte

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Gloss Flip Deep Space

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Im learning to the roaring thunder myself. But the psychedelic does have an appeal.
 
Hi all!

So Donnington today was insane, this track is made for GTRs. Lots of photos to be emailed to me next week. Weather was perfect, track was quick and only 3 red flags all day, (2 caterham failures and someone in the gravel trap).

Took a few people out today also. Passenger 1 got out after three laps and puked. Passenger 2 got out and was still shaking visibly after twenty minutes. I'm not that terrible of a driver am I :eek::eek::eek:

The good news is, after having a chat with a few people i'm going to be dropping the alcons for a full set of surface transforms 400mm carbon ceramic discs: https://surfacetransforms.com/
 
tsinc80697 said:
Good to meet you, was a great day with only a few red flags!

I took Max (black GTR) out in my M3 at the end of the day and he was shocked how good the brakes are in it compared to his Alcon Super Kit! But that's what happens when you try to stop 1800kg vs 1300kg.
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Oh that was you!!!

Haha don't I feel silly :D I did wonder why a random M3 turned up in the Garage and assumed you were there with one of the other GTR guys haha.

Gibbo said:
Wish I could have made it could have given you something to try keeping up with. ;)
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Wishful thinking ;)
 
Well today was Litchfields second Silverstone day and I popped along... after getting up at 5:30 and at Silverstone for 7:30, the fun began.

What can I say but that track was just GTR heaven. Looking at it, and the 3 tanks of petrol burned, was out there for between 3-4 hours track time and am absolutely ruined. Everything hurts, and mentally so tired keeping up the concentration needed.

The big highlight of the day? Chatting to Hiroshi Tamura.

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A big shout out has to go to Iain Litchfield and John Misskin for their no small part in organizing these days, Iain and Neil have looked after me and the car, and kept it running in top condition. And John Misskin is lead organizing man, who makes these things happen.

It was such a fantastic day, a lot of great guys, some monster cars and apart from one moment early on when some guy nearly wiped me out after his brakes gave up on him (fortunately I noticed he was coming up rather too quickly and managed to get out the way with millimeters to spare) he did come down and apologize.

Onto the tyres....

I have been raving about the Sport4S Tyres since they went on the car, but, today I fell out of love with them, after a good few laps, they just seemed to give up on me and for about an hour I had no confidence at all in the grip. Near the end of the day the track was empty, so I went out and really gave them some abuse, and they did start to come back again, so maybe they just needed a scrubbing or a heat cycle, but to go from one lap of plenty of confidence to the next where I ended up mowing the grass at brooklands/luffield was unnerving.

Will be getting the tyres off tomorrow to see what condition they are in, but am currently deciding between R888R or Sport cup 2s.

One final picture before I go pass out!

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