CADWELL PARK trackday weekend: 9/10 Feb 2008

[crazybrightman]

thanks for that . early start for me then up at 5am and will need to leave by 6am

[mr2mk1chick]

thanks for that . early start for me then up at 5am and will need to leave by 6am

I hate early mornings. I was up at 5am yesterday to go to London, so am looking forward to a slight lie in before the trackday (esp as we are staying close)

See you at sign-on

[crazybrightman]

yes im going to make it just got home the cars finished ish and ready to roll in 2 hours after a quick nap, oh wot fun lol

[System-G]

Good to meet you crazybrightman only sorry it was at the end of the day.

Hats off to both of you for getting the car ready for the day
It looked like all the hard work paid off. The car was one of the quickest MK1's around the circuit and looked pretty good - well planted.

We had a top day too. Got back last night totally cream crackered. Bolly the new trackhack seemed to cope quite well considering. After sorting the brake wobble the car wasn't far off Betty handling wise. Just a fueling issue we need to overcome now... Least it's not spraying the engine bay with petrol anymore

Good weekend again - thanks to all involved

[anna]

Well, I had an ace time in the super nail. It was really good to be able to WOT and really drive it - for the first time ever!

Unfortunately we had a coolant burp and steam at Cov on the way home this morning (after 100+ trouble free miles, we hit a traffic jam at tollbar island, and turned the car straight off, and pushed it to the garage round the corner.
I don't think the head gasket has gone, but we get recovered the short distance home just in case (it's a pita to bleed up mr2's on the roadside), so the RAC membership came in handy. Will have a look later when i get home from work

Good to meet everyone, and a fun weekend despite the burps!

[vashy]

That was a good day! And sunny and even kinda warm!
Thanks to Speedy, Si, Kirsty and FlatPack for the rides (: Next time Lauren & Tom! Did you make it back Chris?
I'll post up my pics tonight.......

[kirsty]

That was a good day! And sunny and even kinda warm!
Thanks to Speedy, Si, Kirsty and FlatPack for the rides (: Next time Lauren & Tom! Did you make it back Chris?
I'll post up my pics tonight.......

No probs . . thanks for the compliments.

Please can you post my sheared bolt pic still can't believe that happened . . . . nowt to do with my offroading around the Gooseneck!!

[Speedy]

nowt to do with my offroading around the Gooseneck!!

glol, tis the wrong side anyway

Am uploading my pictures now.. video is going to take a little bit longer

Tom - am uploading the file for you now, will let you know once it's done.

[Speedy]

Well, what a stonking weekend - great weather, and a great trackday.. with all of the problems on the Saturday with the exhaust falling apart on me, it was a wonder we managed to make it at all.. but there was cake & fellow trackdayers and jenga




Sunday morning out in the Lincolnshire countryside



Some other pics..














er.. and then today on the way home this morning.. it all went a bit wrong..





Rather amusing where we ended up having to stop..


Full write up & video to come

[kirsty]

My matching pic . . .

[Lauren]

LOL!

TAAN.

Had a great weekend, thanx Anna for organising the accomodation and to Kirsty for her culinary skills.

Was a great social in the cabins as usual.

What a fab day on track. Weather was just stunning, was on the pitlane in short sleeves at mid-day, in February.

The integranail was even more so than angers. It loved Cadwell long time. Got in a decent amount of tracktime too sharing with Tom. Couldn't believe how many spinners there were at hall bends, i think its become something of a magnet since I went off in Ben's car there last year.

Highlight for me was when Toni passengered and I was chasing the sailor. Oh what fun that was. I heard Toni saying 'he's trying'.. and i was like 'so am i'.. fortunately normal service was resumed after a while but it was interesting to see that the supernail and teg were pretty evenly matched pacewise.

[vashy]

Please can you post my sheared bolt pic still can't believe that happened . . . . nowt to do with my offroading around the Gooseneck!!

yeah sure! 1 sheared bolt


...and of course, what happens if you store pastas in your frunk (;


I take the pictures, you post the captions...


It's a beautiful place for a track day (:


It's Lauren in the DC10 with Speedy (or Anna?) hot on her tail in the SN


It's Kirsty's sweet SC


hardcore winter trackdayers - 3 MR2's (:


this was a fast metro


this was ****ing fast nissan rocket thing


the supernail!


Garrick & Jo's new N/Ail kicking ar$e


Tom taking a little bit of kerb


the set at
http://www.flickr.com/gp/56041288@N00/rCE0P6
grab the url and post 'em up if you like any (:

[kirsty]

Fantastic pics!!!

[System-G]

Excellent photos there both John & Alex

Our BaTpics are up and am just waiting to get them unlocked before we can post up Jo's Hall Bend moment. I can't believe how close she came to emulating Lauren in Ben's car last year

Brilliant weekend all round. Bolly did us proud even though there were a few teathing issues with initial brake wobble (easily sorted), possible fuel pump/injectors/timing (will look into it further) and ball joints/top mounts...

Now included as one of my favourite circuits
Although I had difficulty getting to grips (literally) with Gooseneck - probably taking too much speed in and bottling it
And Hall Bends just scared the crap out of me and because of the fueling flatspots, just couldn't take it in 3rd
Still good fun

The accommodation & company (fellow members) was spot on again - just gutted we couldn't stop for the Sunday night as well. We stopped at a Chinese buffet along the A158 which turned out to pretty good despite being in the middle of knowhere.

Bring on the next one

[Speedy]

John - have you got a bigger version of 6994? (SN through Hall with J5 at teh wheel)

[tonigmr2]

Yes I had a little incident in Hall...lost a passenger wing mirror.
I really don't know how they raced the challenge on those Falkens last year, I felt the grip terrible! Plus they melted pretty quick...
T

[Neil_turbo]

Yes I had a little incident in Hall...lost a passenger wing mirror.
I really don't know how they raced the challenge on those Falkens last year, I felt the grip terrible! Plus they melted pretty quick...
T

LOL, the falkens on the front of ours melted aswell! Probably get another day out of them but after that they won't be replaced with the same!

[crazybrightman]

was a great day everything went well for once although i was some what knackered by the time i got there after less than 2 hours sleep lol. theres some pics of the car car too thanks to vashy, managed to forget the camera in all the rush. suprisingly i didnt really have any problems other than brake judder due to the unknow discs that obviously can be sorted although looking at prices of discs isnt going to be cheap . the ferodo fcp308a pads up front and mintex extreme rears held up suprisingly well, although ive not had the rear pads out yet to check if they have melted lol. the stainless brake lines and millers racing brake fluid did a fantastic job the brakes never went soft or faded i was very impressed.
the silencer is another matter i knew it was a tad noisy but 103db at the start of the day was suprising only problem being the nice flames it was aparantly spitting out seem to have burnt the exhaust wadding away as i got black flagged but luckily tested at 104.7db that exhaust luckily will be going as the turbo exhaust will be a larger bore.
next time when everything is planned ahead a bit more ill have time to wonder round.
the d2 suspension i had been a bit doubtful of worked very well altho it was very pogo like over the mountain. some new arb are needed too as looking at some of the pics i can see why the front tyres where rubbing now lol.

[LivingInThe80s]

Great day indeed and fantastic weather, good excuse to take the roof off even it it does slow you down a smidge
It was nice to meet afew of you and borrow some tools due to my lack of preparedness . The amount of Mk1s there baffled me i was very impressed

I hope to do it again some day without budget tyres on the front and with better brake pads.

Cheers for the passenger as well Garrick, great fun almost as good as driving

Nice pics as well i wouldnt mind a copy of 6912 if it comes a bit bigger
I dont think my camera was up to much, blurred blurred blurred lol.

[Speedy]

Highlight for me was when Toni passengered and I was chasing the sailor. Oh what fun that was. I heard Toni saying 'he's trying'.. and i was like 'so am i'.. fortunately normal service was resumed after a while but it was interesting to see that the supernail and teg were pretty evenly matched pacewise.

DAFL - was an excellent session, alas the heatsoak/cooling problem surfaced and you could feel the ECU winding the engine back down the straight and out of mansfield, which kind of hurt my chances of staying ahead with power alone will have to work on the Sailors talent.

Once I sort that out, will just have to do it again somewhere else

Also, really impressed with the Paradas, stood up to the abuse pretty well (see the pictures above). I think they are more sticky than A539s, which is no bad thing on our SC, but they are nice and progressive just like the 539.. so full from me on those.