Been a busy boy in the last week with buying a house and a great trip to Thruxton.
The black diamond pads did not fair too well, although they did have a nice feel to them but I had to keep an eye on them throughout the day and did not have much confidence in them in heavy braking zones, thinking of giving pbs pads a go, they sound like a reasonably priced but very capable option.
Trying to keep the momentum up through goodwood and church really made me realise just how badly I need new suspension... I like how much bang for your buck you get with bc racing but as this is a real budget build I'm not ruling out the cheaper durable, durable and simple bilstein b8 dampers with eibach (b12 kit) or vogtland springs.
Its very hard to tell as the suspension is old and worn now but fairly often when under high lateral load I could feel something strange in the rear of the car... almost feels like a slight dab of the rear brakes making me think its the stability kicking in all the time? Either that or the compression of the rear dampers being so soft over bumps or just because its knackered, hopefully it will go away with a refresh, if anyone has had issues with stability control on track though let me know your findings!
Tyres are pretty dead now so a good excuse to change for some ns2r's finally. Weirdly though as its a mostly right turn track like most circuits are... my tyres on the right hand side seem to be in a worse state with blistering and some cuts on the tread.... would have assumed its just heat related as the tyres were overheating quite often as you would imagine being normal road tyres but as ots only my tyres on the right I'm wondering if its kerb related? While I hit some of the kerbs I avoid the super aggressive ones and the ones I did hit did not feel like they were aggressive anyway? See below:
