I've just get back in from a top weekend away at what has to be one of the best and most enjoyable circuits in the UK.
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I'd just got my Mk3 back from having the PE Turbo kit kit
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+ Unichip fitted at Millway on Wednesday
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- the car is running well, I just need to do some final tuning
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(but that's for another post
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- Greddy Profec and eManage may be on the cards
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This was my first
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'proper' trackday in the Mk3.
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I'd done the TOC event at Bruntingthorpe a month or so ago, but Bruntingthorpe wasn't a circuit to push beyond the limits as it is a fairly high speed circuit.
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I was looking forwards to Anglesey, as it is has a great mix of height changes, corners and bends that can either be driven
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'technically' for a good lap time, or given reasonable circuit conditions you can use the opportunity to goon sideways through corners
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- come in too fast, get the car sideways and scrub off speed whilst on the throttle and collect the car on the exit
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- huge fun
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I first tried the standard Mk3 alloys with 185/55 A539s on the front
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@ 32psi, and Yoko A043s in 215/45/R16
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@ 36 psi on the rear.
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This give me good inital turn in to corners, but would soon wash out into understeer in tighter corners.
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Adjusting the pressures at the front down to 30psi didn't really cure the understeer, making it difficult to turn into slow and medium speed corners
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I then swapped the tyres and rims for some earlier 15" roadster alloys, with 195/50 S03s on the front, and 205/50 T1-Ss on the rear, 30psi front and 36psi rear.
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I was expecting this setup on the revised 2003 suspension to give me huge amounts of oversteer, but I have to say I was very pleasantly surprised.
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The car felt much more balanced and with less rubber on the road at the rear it felt much more willing to move around, but in a progressive way rather than snappy way.
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After a couple of sessions with this setup, I was gooning around sideways at most places at the circuit
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- I was laughing so hard at one point I had to slow down to wipe my eyes.
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I did end up coming into the hairpin a little too hot on one lap, which resulted in me getting incredibly sideways, as captured below
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- I was actually against the end locks of the steering rack, but kept it balanced
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(just) on the throttle and caught it on the way out.
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I have to say, it wasn't what I would have intended with cars following me, but that hairpin has to be one of the best places to goon around sideways on in the UK
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Turn in
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Hmm, opposite lock already required
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keep it balanced
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Hmm
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- is that the end stops of the steering rack
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![Image](http://home.btconnect.com/benf2/Anglesea_May05/Ben4.jpg)
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Getting ready to wind off all that steering lock
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![Image](http://home.btconnect.com/benf2/Anglesea_May05/Ben5.jpg)
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Well, I was wanting to replace the rears with some Advan Neova LTS's anyway.
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Nice smoke though
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And away we go
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