Trackday stuff

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Finally got the car properly track prepared now so going to book a slot at Donny asap.

Is it best to book direct at Donnigton - or through one of these trackday people? Is there any difference?

Also - at Donnigton - does anyone know at what point around the track they record sound levels? Car is pretty friggin loud now & I'm worried about getting ejected by the noise police. Although I do have a bung to use so I may be ok, but I'd rather just throttle off at the right moment than kill the performance around the whole track with the bung.

Trackday Insurance - who's best?

Cheap camera mount - where from?

Finally - anyone interested in a run around Donny say March or April?
 
Excellent, thanks v much. :)

I'm determined to keep out of trouble, not interested in jousting with people I dont know.

I'll take the bung and hope it takes the edge off the noise. :/
 
Still, pretty sure I'm going to need the bung @ 98. :(

Never actually put it in so I'll do it tonight and see whether it's like pee'ing in the wind or whether it does actually work.
 
eidolon said:
I'd rather take me car on track with you lot than some idiot in a £50 Nova that doesn't care if he crashes.
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Yeah same here, can't overstate how much better it is driving with people you can trust.
 
Morba said:
im liking that idea, even tho i drive an auto!
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Don't matter, auto/manual/petrol/chip fat - whatever, a car is a car.

100% guaranteed fun, whatever you drive. :cool:

I'm really keen on getting some Track time sooner rather than later though.....got the itch now.
 
Bigsy said:
Really want to go on one myself after going on one with Smokes and his rover.....just the lack of a baffled sump on the CTR worries me a lot, there are a couple of people on the CTR forum looking for new K20's after killing them from oil starvation on track days.
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Two possible solutions -

1) baffled sump or
2) simply overfill the engine oil for the track
 
Lowe said:
Merlin, if you're concerned I can borrow a dB meter and we can test your motor.
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lol, is there anything you can't do or get? You've got more contacts than Specsavers. :D

Cheers dude, hold that thought, I may well take you up on that. I'm just going to throw the bung on and get Ade to listen to a dry-by - see what difference it makes. I've never put it on so no idea what to expect.

:)
 
Me and my brother - yes, no problem, any day - not fussed.

So - how exactly do we go about paying?

I'm sure we could nail 40 people easy - but how would we all pay?

I'd suggest we have a deadline for payment of at least 3 weeks before the event - that way we aren't going to get stuffed for 10 people dropping out and hiking the price up for the rest of us right at the death.
 
James_N said:
id be up for it also. With regards to the CTR and oil, i dont hang around in my CTR and its not used up much oil at all. im guessing this might be different on track though. Im desparate for some track time, and for £100 im up for it.
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It's not the oil consumption that's as issue.

It's oil stavation - totally different to whether your K20 likes a drink. Although on that topic - it will start to drink oil at some point. Mine was fine till around 20,000 miles then it started using a bit so I just check it every couple of weeks.

Oil starvation issue is basically an oil pick up problem - oil gets pushed away from the sump pickup on high G corners/bends and if the corner/bend is long enough - it'll run out of oil to fire at essential parts.

So the baffled sump is a solution - it stops oil swilling around so easily, or simply overfill (which a lot of CTR/ITR owners do daily anyway). :)
 
We'll see what the score is with CC, although personally I can't see it going smoothly - always going to be people messing around with paying etc and I dont fancy getting there to find out the price is £300 each cos someone's puppy has fallen over in the strawberry patch or some other marvellous excuse.

Maybe we should all just pick a day at Donny and all book/pay privately? No hassle, no stress - whoever turns up turns up, and the price isn't going to change.
 
Sunday 26th Feb anyone?

Or is that too soon?

Going to have to buy some trackday insurance I think, I've heard about loonatics in Rovers. :eek: :D
 
Simon said:
The advantage of having a car worth FA :D
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The car may be, but the engine's worth a few quid. :cool:

Either way - you could always take the engine home on a pallet so that's the important bit. ;)
 
Sam said:
Merlin do you know how "decent" trackday insurance is ? Ive heard its full of holes so to speak and most of the time its hard to get a pay out.
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Basically the only things that I know of to look for are heavy excesses (obviously), silly exclusions like panel damage and the policy MUST cover accidents both caused by you AND other drivers.

I have heard of policies that only kick in if YOU make the mistake and take yourself out.
 
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