Track Must-Haves
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before every track day, check your oil coolant and all other fluids.
get high temp brake fluid, i use motul 615 (or something) and it works.
get a track pad to change at the track, i used porterfield street/track pads, which are supposed to be good but i had tremendous heat soak after 5 laps and braking greatly diminished, i would reccomend some hawk dtc-70's or something along those lines.
get new tires for track use only for 2 reasons:
with street tires, you will significantly decrease their life, they will heat cycle and you will loose all grip early on your session, no fun.
R compounds are the best investment you can make. personally if you are interested in doing this a lot, i would go and get some 18x9.5's and get some 285's. if it is just for fun a few times, some 17x9.5's w/ 255's are a good choice and will save you some money. make sure to get a strong wheel. i prefer the Enkei nt03+m (not that pricey either). for tires, i have heard good things about the bfg r1's. i used some yokohama ao48's and loved them, they will last you a really long time and seem to sustain great grip throughout a long session.
enjoy the driving! keep an eye on the temp gauge while on track!
get high temp brake fluid, i use motul 615 (or something) and it works.
get a track pad to change at the track, i used porterfield street/track pads, which are supposed to be good but i had tremendous heat soak after 5 laps and braking greatly diminished, i would reccomend some hawk dtc-70's or something along those lines.
get new tires for track use only for 2 reasons:
with street tires, you will significantly decrease their life, they will heat cycle and you will loose all grip early on your session, no fun.
R compounds are the best investment you can make. personally if you are interested in doing this a lot, i would go and get some 18x9.5's and get some 285's. if it is just for fun a few times, some 17x9.5's w/ 255's are a good choice and will save you some money. make sure to get a strong wheel. i prefer the Enkei nt03+m (not that pricey either). for tires, i have heard good things about the bfg r1's. i used some yokohama ao48's and loved them, they will last you a really long time and seem to sustain great grip throughout a long session.
enjoy the driving! keep an eye on the temp gauge while on track!
I'm just gonna change the brake fluid (prob go with motul 5.1 so I don't have to change it too frequently), install some brake ducting, and was talked out of running the stock pads, so probably put some Ferodos on it. I'm gonna use the street tires the first time. Street tires actually don't heat cycle out like track tires do. If they did, they'd go bad within a few days of just driving around town. Initially, I'm thinking about using the stock 17's for track wheels, and going with 18's or 19's for the street. 17's should (SHOULD) be a little cheaper on the track rubber, and I've always liked the feedback they give. I'll figure that out later. Right now I'm just trying to figure out a way to talk my wife into coming back from our vacation early. I get the car tomorrow, and won't get to drive it for a week.
There's going to be a few of us at Streets of Willow on Dec. 9th if you want to come out. I've mentioned this in a few other places, but I'm a lazy bastard so I always track with street tires. I just get sticky street tires (REO1Rs right now) 
For the motorcycle though... going to need to invest in a separate set of wheels and race tires.
For the motorcycle though... going to need to invest in a separate set of wheels and race tires.
sport compact car seems to be turning their latest proj. evo ix into a track/autox car i think... should check it out they mentioned the brakes and tires and such, seemed to have some good ideas
They're actually running the same tires and pads as me; Potenza REO1Rs tires and Ferrodo DS2500s pads. They're running 245/45 whereas I'm running 245/40 though. These pads are a great street pad and should work well in auto-x, but they're certainly not a 'good' track pad. They're classifed as a 'light duty' track pad afterall. I'm tracking them but you do have to take it a bit easy on the braking.
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Got the car today. Funny thing, they let me know right before the driver was leaving with it to bring it up here, that one of the wheels had some curb rash, and they'd credit me $300 for it. When it showed up, I jumped in, and immediately noticed it pulled to the right. I then called them back and told them to give me something in writing that I can take it to my local Mitsu dealer (Looks like Anaheim),and they'll pay for it. Have to deal with it when I get back next week.
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Why not just run full slick or near-full slick than run on entry r-compounds?
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