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Originally Posted by nitrorocket
Nice bird? 
I am using DOT 5.0037123335 fluid. It is a special mixture, Valvoline. Top secret.
Whatever speed I will be slowing down from, I am sure it will be dead fast. And doing that lap after lap, I just want a real good brake. All my buddies run at road america on there bikes quite often. Unfortunatly, none of them have track cars, just bikes. They say they are hitting 165 mph or so on the straight, I am not sure what to do about that, I guess I will just have to part throttle down the straight? I can't wait to go, but I want the car setup before I do. What do the fast guys do? let off on the straights. If they are doing 165, I would be doing about 180+, that seems a little fast??? It sure will be fun setting the car up though! I am all excited, can you tell!  |
Hey no problem with wanting your car right first! And no offense but you have the mentality of someone who hasn't been to the track, it is a lot different than you think, you just have to go and experience it for yourself. Its not necessarily so special or anything but it is easy to get concepts and misconceptions about it, and come up with goals and a mindset that are not realistic. Don't worry about the straight aways that is the easiest part of the entire track and I guarantee you will be letting off, maybe not a lot, but you won't be going into the corner as deep as you possibly could. For me the hardest part of driving the track is braking late, and holding off to turn in. Your instict when you see that turn coming up is to slow down and turn in when it feels comfortable, but the way to be fast is to brake later and turn in later. But my whole point was that to talk about doing 150 and the whole point of needing good brakes was because you wanted to go really fast down the straight aways is kinda silly. The only expectation you should have is that you are going to be humbled, and will be slow at first, and that you will have a lot to learn.
It will be a lot more fun if you can let go of wanting to be fast, and just enjoy the whole experience and mostly learn and have fun thats what your there for its not a race.
and I am interested to heare what kind of brake fluid you have, you might think I'm being anal but it makes a difference. I applaud you for wanting to take your car to the extreme and actually go out there and use it like it was intended for! So what are you considering doing with the front brakes?
EDIT: I just checked out a map of Road America and damn those are some long straight aways! So maybe you will be hitting those speeds but still I wasn't trying to destroy your goals and such, just trying to show you what you should actually be concerned about
