Bit of a mixed day. You've all seen i presume the post from @Nefarious about how we had Colin up for the day and he had a good bit of success driving the Westfield.
I had a bit more of a disappointing day.
In prep for tracking the car I had thought i had properly sorted the brakes and put some top quality track biased tyres on.
Brakes wise The car came with a set of brand new front discs (Lotus cross drilled curved vane) and and pads (with a receipt for £650 from allon whyte sportscars) but the rear discs were shagged. So new Lotus Cross drilled discs fitted to the and i - under advice from my indy specialist - went for Pagid RS14 pads all round.
This seems now to have been a mistake. After 3 fairly short sessions at moderate pace i went out on my own and started pushing it a bit harder. this didn't go well. The pads basically shat themselves and started a massive vibration. Cock.
Back into the pits and let everything cool down. Had some discussions with Neil and Kenny Brown (Well renowned race engineer) Kenny immediately said - "Its those pads. Weve had that problem with them before." An opinion backed up in a later discussion with Andrew Baird from Automek - another indy race setup guru who used to race an Exige.
Decided to go out for another session and go easy to try clean the discs up - this did not work. Id forgot to put the go pro on in the earlier sessions so this is the only footage ive got.
So plan going forward. Ive took the discs off and Neil will take them to his mate to clean them up on the lathe and ive ordered a set of CL RC6 pads to replace these shit pagid ones. £400 down the drain
![Evil or Very Mad :evil:](./images/smilies/icon_evil.gif)
Back out on track at the end of the month so hopefully this is a fix or im in to big money for bells and rotors.