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Originally Posted by DR_
Well you are in the NE which helps a lot on the track. Here in Texas most of our track days are in 85f+ temps. I've done races in over 110f+ temps and it is just brutal on the car (and driver). I haven't done much on track with the Z yet but the plan is to sell the race car and modify the Z to be capable to do several track days a year.
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I do about 14-15 days currently, and yes in the early spring and the late fall when temps are cooler everything runs nice and smooth. Once the temp gets over 80 things start getting pretty hot, and at 85+ there is a noticeable drop in HP and lap times (due to traction and HP), water and oil temps start climbing quickly. Can only go about 10 minutes before having to give it a break in those conditions, in Texas it would be far worse.
If you're going to do a fair amount of track buy the largest oil cooler you can, run a block off plate when DD'ing. Since the oil cooler by itself isn't keeping up for me I'm going to upgrade the radiator, and go to a vented hood to help increase air flow through the radiator, and increase the oil line size for more flow since the AE kit came with -8AN lines.