GTI Class - Phillip Island Racing Club

[GT3]

Bugger it's not cheap is it

Keep in mind that it includes driver training, personal tuition by pro race car drivers, track time etc etc.

[Peter Jones]

Augie 30th? I reckon I'll be keeping that free!

Who else will come for a spin?

EDIT: Bugger it's not cheap is it

Nope. Remember there's only a max of about 20 cars out there for a training day, usually the cost of the track hire, ambulance tow truck etc is spread accross a much bigger field on a race day.

This is a good chance to learn, there's plenty of instructor time and you get to practice each corner before you have to put it all together.

You might want to start with a slower course though if this is your first one, the stage 4 course is full noise, helmets on stuff.

Pete

[Water Boy]

Come to a PIARC day

[ausgolfer]

Very tempted, anyone else considering seriously??

[Peter Jones]

Very tempted, anyone else considering seriously??

Got to check my calendar, but yeah I'm thinking of going again.

The car's had a lot of work since I did the Level 3 course with them earlier this year.

I've got a few laps under my belt now too.

Pete

[Jarred]

After giving my car a thrash up black spur, I don't think my car is up for something like this. Downdraft carbs just don't like corners.. + other stuff which makes it probably NQR to track yet. And a Level 4 course, in all honesty, will probably be too much for a beginner like me ..

I'll come and watch though, if any VWW guys will be tracking

[GoLfMan]

id think about doing it if my mk1's up for it
otherwise dads TDi will be getting a hiding

[Oneofthegreats]

Downdraft carbs just don't like corners..

I've got to say in all honesty, that's crap. How many top quality race car's have there been with down draft carb's.

Porsches, Madza's, Monaro's, Torana's(Weber's & Holley's), Falcon's, Golf's, Alfa's, Commodore's, Beetle's, Ferrari's, Lamborgini's, Masarati's, Jaguar & the list goes on & on & on. (That's all I can think of at the moment.)

It all comes down to the setup & the tuner.

[Peter Jones]

Jarred's worried about the orientation of the float leading to fuel starvation.

With a pasat manifold the pivot of the float is in line with the car which can lead to fuel starvation in long high G corners.

Having said that though I have the same setup and I've not experienced this happening. I run an electric pump and pressure regulator though.

I usually take freeway onramps at the limit of adhesion so I think you're probably safe Jarred.

Pete

[Jarred]

That's what I was getting at Pete.

Up the black spur there are a few long, hard corners (hairpins), that you take at about 70k/ph, and pretty much near the "apex" (is use apex loosely here) it would start to starve, and start "bunny hopping".

This wasn't even pushing it that hard, I mean, I wasn't going slow, but not as fast as I possibly could have (Given bigger gahonez), and suffice to say, you noticed it...

Setup and tune isn't perfect, esp, different air temp/pressue up in the hills, affects tune a bit (I popped and farted SO much..) But no worries, I have a solution in mind