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[eastendr]

James,

I started this thread so the other one doesn't go off-topic.

I've got the front calipers off baby-WUF sitting in the garage. If you want to take them to do a full refurbish in your own time, you can just give me back your own original ones when you swap them over.

May save you having to take the car of the road to refurbish yours ...

Might see you at some track days - you might want to try a passenger ride in Peter Empson's S2-LUX if he's up for it.

Rick.

 

[Guest]

Hi Rick,

Good idea. It always annoys me when threads get hijacked.

Thanks for the offer. That sounds like a good idea. I'm not sure whether the fronts will need anything doing to them, I'm more concerned about the rears, but I'll have a look at them when it gets a bit warmer and quite possibly take you up on your offer.

I'm planning on doing the odd track day or two here and there this year, so hopefully we'll bump into each other somewhere (not on the track I hope [] ).

Have you got any planned? I haven't looked yet this year.

Cheers

James

 

[eastendr]

I've got the rears available too ... I put the entire setup from WUF on after a full refurb, so no problems, you can borrow all 4. There's nothing wrong with them - it was purely an upgrade to Turbo spec.

Track day season starts soon, Paul Smith is normally the instigator of searching out the best bargains []

Also track evenings start soon, which I prefer.

Rick.

 

[Guest]

Thanks Rick,

I'll do that when I get round to checking them over and deciding if they need a refurb or not.

I was quite impressed with the car on the one track day that I did with it last year, although it was well down on power at the time, so a bit slow down the straights.

I'd like to refresh the suspension and put some new tyres on the car before I get it out on track again. It feels a bit loose, and the tyres aren't what I'd have chosen myself (P6000s[:'(] )

Cheers

James

 

[eastendr]

ORIGINAL: JamesH

the tyres aren't what I'd have chosen myself (P6000s[:'(] )

Cheers

James

Now you've done it - FEN !

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[Guest]

Is he a fan of them? Oh dear, I hope not. I had him down as somebody who knows his bits and bobs []

They really are quite bad. It might be that they're getting a bit old as well, but the last time I had P6000s on a car (a long time ago) I remember being rather unimpressed with them then too.

 

[eastendr]

FEN FEN FEN !
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James, I think you'll find he's with you on this one

 

[Guest]

Thank God for that. For a moment there, you had me worried []

I'm sure that tyres made of wood are practical in some instances. For instance, when you don't want them to ever wear out. However, on a car that you want a bit of performance from, I always prefer rubber tyres.

Saying that, I did once have some real fun with a Caterham fitted with very grippy front tyres, and the cheapest nastiest hardest rear tyres you could ever hope to find. Oversteer? Yes please.....[]

 

[Diver944]

I spoke to Melindi at Goldtrack last month and this year they are planning more Silverstone evenings than ever before []

I also notice that www.bookatrack.com have several evenings at Donington for £99 (and I have a voucher from Santa for that exact amount [])

Both these companies run exteremly well behaved trackdays and they are my operators of choice. I'm sure we can do a few 944 get togethers on track again this year

 

[Fen]

Sorry I had to do some blimmin' work. All afternoon.... P6000's, yes. It's a shame Bacolite isn't flammable as at least they'd be good for placing around the base of Gatsos and torching if it were.

 

[eastendr]

See ....

I knew he wouldn't disappoint ...

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[Guest]

Yes. Not the best tyres in the world [&:]. I found them incredibly sensitive to tyre pressure when I was out at Donny in the wet. It took 3 trips out (and a couple of spins) before I could get them to a pressure where I had any grip at the back at all.

Not a pleasant experience.

I've been researching replacement tyres, and my current favourite are Bridgestone SO2/3s. I had SO2s on the TVRs I owned, and generally found them a pretty good compromise between a practical road tyre and a decent track tyre.

I've got SO3s on my AMG Merc at the moment, and they seem pretty reasonable too. Not as good as the BF Goodriches I used to use, but they've stopped importing them. They were excellent on the track (but they didn't last very long).