I've also seen others write their numbers on their windows with a window marker. I'm assuming this is another option to consider.

 

Yeah. We use white shoe polish or washable window paint.

Some nice track day groups give you vinyls.

 

So as followup I ran Laguna Seca yesterday at a Hooked On Driving event.

After much thinking and a lot of recent distraction (new dog etc.) I ended up running with stock brakes, including fluid. RCE/Billstein shocks, R206 bits, Pilot Super Sports. Basically just the car as was, with numbers on the side and mats taken out. Put in a few gallons of 101 octane at the track since it was warm and I was a little paranoid about knock.

Great fun. Had some soft pedal in the penultimate session is greasy tires. Seemed like boiling fluid and too-sharp control inputs. All worked fine in the final session of the day. No ducts, no BBK.

 

Part of it is the parts most of it is you over driving it.

 

Exactly. Having suffered some fade I said to the instructor at the start of the final session that I'd like to focus less on pace and more on driving smoothly. He approved of that, that's what I did, and at the end of the session said he suspected it had been the fastest.

 

Good thing you were running the Auto gear box. A good friend of mine did a track event at Willow and his brakes faded to the point he had no stopping power at all. He decided slamming it into 2nd gear from 75mph would be an ample idea to make the car slow down. Personally I would have just ran off. Would rather replace junk rotors, pads paint than a motor.

 

Mine was stick (in the STI). In fact when I ended up (just) into the gravel off the Corkscrew one reason was because my brake pedal needed to go down farther than my muscle memory for heel and toe thought right. So it didn't, and I hadn't bled enough speed.

 

I'll be out there with a friend of mine. I'm running my silver bugeye in solo, he's running a white bug in point-by. If you're going to be out there solo, feel free to come over and say hi and/or hang with us in the pits!

 

sounds good man I'll be in the driving school I have no idea if they talk to us after each session or if we wait around like everyone else

you guys grilling or anything for food?

 

sorry reading this thread on mobile is teh suck and I got you confused with the op

my bad sorry about that.

 

Come on back down in Oct, I just signed up for the Oct 3rd session at Laguna.

That'll give you time to flush the fluid for something better, and put some Carbotech's on. With that, next time out it'll feel amazing, i'll never forget my first drive with track pads, they are so much better than stockers both in bite & stopping power. I loved it, would run them all the time if i could stand the noise.

 

You will have mandatory meetings after your first two sessions, after that you'll have down time in between. We'll be doing burgers and sausages on a little propane grill and usually have plenty to go around. When im out there on my own I usually just roll by Safeway in the morning and pick up an "all-american" premade sandwich for 5 bucks. Theres a consession area and some restaurants near-ish-by as well.

Just got my reg packet in the mail on Monday. Definitely NOT excited to see that I need to leave sac by 6AM to make my drivers meeting. You've got a long day ahead of you coming from SJ.

Also- make sure you bring plenty of water and a foldable chair if you have one.

 

I highly do not recommend driving up from SJ the morning of. You'll be on adrenaline all day, pissing between every session (HYDRATE!!!)... but by the last session you'll be getting tired; which can be unsafe.

Then on the first 30 minutes driving away you'll feel like you're ok... until the adrenaline hangover kicks in and you'll have the massive urge to just curl up in a ball where you are and go to sleep.

Do a cheap motel the night before. Eat dinner close by and rest afterwards. THEN go home.

 

I completely forgot about all that,
especially on a friday there will be traffic on the way back

 

NCRC summer track days start earlier. It's a good thing IMO as the last session is typically ~3-3:30PM when the temperature is just starting to peak for the day. If they started later in the morning your last two sessions would be in 95*+ weather.