Goodwood track day (Sat, 24th July)?
Discussion
As there appears to be no Noble summer gathering does anyone fancy joining me for an Easytrack track day at Goodwood on Saturday 24 July 2004. Cost is a reasonable £199, especially as its a Saturday!
Come on and lets' see those M400's out there!
See: www.easytrack.co.uk
Come on and lets' see those M400's out there!
See: www.easytrack.co.uk
amg merc said:
As there appears to be no Noble summer gathering does anyone fancy joining me for an Easytrack track day at Goodwood on Saturday 24 July 2004. Cost is a reasonable £199, especially as its a Saturday!
Come on and lets' see those M400's out there!
See: www.easytrack.co.uk
Evening Rob
If my car is fixed in time i'll be there........hopefully Scott will bring his new toy along as well.
Martin.
A great day - decided to shell out for the professional photos...
http://gallery84250.fotopic.net/c240416.html
http://gallery84250.fotopic.net/c240416.html
hunttheshunt said:
Great pictures...and good to see the Saxo keeping you honest!
...that race-prepared, turbo-ed, Saxo whippersnapper was quick in the bends but, needless to say, way off in the rear distance on the straights!
BTW a note on Goodwood and noise for 3R owners:
I only just scraped in with 98dB!
How did you like the track? I did Goodwood in my Griff on Thursday.
I loved Lavant Corner (the double apex about 3/4 round the circuit). Tyre screeching corner and then the long windy straight to power into straight after.
Must have been a good track for the Noble. The Griff certainly enjoyed it, its still grinning now!
Wish I had seen this early, I only live down the road and could have popped in to say hello.
I loved Lavant Corner (the double apex about 3/4 round the circuit). Tyre screeching corner and then the long windy straight to power into straight after.
Must have been a good track for the Noble. The Griff certainly enjoyed it, its still grinning now!
Wish I had seen this early, I only live down the road and could have popped in to say hello.
Yes,a great track - 2.4 miles and almost ran out of fuel in the afternoon, but found Optimax 15 mins away!
Martin (V6 GTO) arrived with his mate Simon in Simon's monster Ultima and parked up next to me - needless to say, we had much of the "visitor traffic" and it was good to discuss the fact that here we were displaying Lee Noble's earlier and current offerings - when parked next to each other the similarities were clear!
Reliability report:
Temp:
Never went above normal!
Oil:
Virtually nothing used!
Gearchange:
Found the 4-5 cross-gate change somewhat cumbersome! And this circuit needs 6th.
Brakes:
Excellent and very reassuring - they seemed to bite better as time went on. PS - I have the solid pipe mod.
Tyres:
Plenty of rubber melted onto the bodywork!
On the straights:
Upper range acceleration really showed - it wasn't difficult to create a huge gap with most cars that were on your tail at the last corner!
Wing on/off comparisons:
Can't report on this as couldn't be bothered to take it off as planned!
>> Edited by amg merc on Monday 26th July 10:58
Martin (V6 GTO) arrived with his mate Simon in Simon's monster Ultima and parked up next to me - needless to say, we had much of the "visitor traffic" and it was good to discuss the fact that here we were displaying Lee Noble's earlier and current offerings - when parked next to each other the similarities were clear!
Reliability report:
Temp:
Never went above normal!
Oil:
Virtually nothing used!
Gearchange:
Found the 4-5 cross-gate change somewhat cumbersome! And this circuit needs 6th.
Brakes:
Excellent and very reassuring - they seemed to bite better as time went on. PS - I have the solid pipe mod.
Tyres:
Plenty of rubber melted onto the bodywork!
On the straights:
Upper range acceleration really showed - it wasn't difficult to create a huge gap with most cars that were on your tail at the last corner!
Wing on/off comparisons:
Can't report on this as couldn't be bothered to take it off as planned!
>> Edited by amg merc on Monday 26th July 10:58
Rob,
My trackday experiences similar - car now great but frustrating stiffness in gearchange when car gets up to trackday temperatures - never at road speeds. Agree particularly bad on up changes 4th to 5th - so much so that I'm losing time in the changes.
I've had gear linkage adjusted and clutch fluid uprtated. Any other suggestions?
Brian.
My trackday experiences similar - car now great but frustrating stiffness in gearchange when car gets up to trackday temperatures - never at road speeds. Agree particularly bad on up changes 4th to 5th - so much so that I'm losing time in the changes.
I've had gear linkage adjusted and clutch fluid uprtated. Any other suggestions?
Brian.
BrianJ said:
Rob,
My trackday experiences similar - car now great but frustrating stiffness in gearchange when car gets up to trackday temperatures - never at road speeds. Agree particularly bad on up changes 4th to 5th - so much so that I'm losing time in the changes.
I've had gear linkage adjusted and clutch fluid uprtated. Any other suggestions?
Brian.
Brian,
Yep, wait for the next generation 3R with the revised gearchange - as fitted to the the GTC! ;-(
Seriously though, I've also had the linkages adjusted and checked twice and all are "OK" so can't see what else to do myself - factory?!
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