Might you be alluding to the time my wheel chock stuck to my hot sticky tire and I ran it over???? :)

I didn't want to call you out, but yeah that was you :tup:

All this track talk is infectious!

Thing for me, I know if I go out there I, will instantly get addicted.

What keeps me from tracking vs just running the canyons is the risk of a miscalculation causing an impact (either I make a mistake or someone else does).

How common is that at the events you guys run?

I guess, more specifically, in the SoCal region.


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What keeps me from tracking vs just running the canyons is the risk of a miscalculation causing an impact (either I make a mistake or someone else does).

How common is that at the events you guys run?

I guess, more specifically, in the SoCal region.


Nobody ever hits anybody out here. Everybody wants to drive their cars home. There are no walls to hit either, unless you consciously crank the wheel on a straightaway- it's all soft sand and silt runoff areas, as opposed canyon walls, bicyclists, and.. CANYONS :thumbsdown:.

-A reformed canyon run guy.

I would say the average is about one incident overall per track day. Everyone will go off at some point, just a matter of hitting things or just mowing the lawn.

I saw one door to door contact, they both spun off into the same area of the dirt. EVO VIII vs EVO X crime

Thanks for the perspective threeseventy. Makes sense.


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I've been doing track events since 2004 and have only ever seen one car to car contact event.

I'd be more concerned about 'pushing it' in the canyons than on most tracks. I just did Blackhawk today though...not so forgiving if you go off. And the brake cooling kit is for the birds. My dust boots are vaporized once again.

Those titanium shields that go behind the pads might help with heat on the dust boots, too. I put some on mine for the hell of it a little while back: Hard Brakes - Titanium Brake Backing Plates, Brake Shims, Brake Heat Shields .

Car to car contact is really really rare in an HPDE-type track event. Everyone's generally really careful about passing, and perhaps more importantly there's no winner or official timekeeping, so there's no reason for aggressive jockeying for position or anything.

Spinning out (and possibly spinning off) is going to happen with some regularity overall, it's rare a day goes by at MSR-H that someone doesn't spin in some group, usually more than one person. With the guys I run with, they have a 2-spin rule: first spin they black flag you into the hot pit, check under the car, make sure you're coherent and ready to go back out, etc. Second spin in the same session and they take you off the track and you miss your next session as well. I imagine if you repeatedly hit the two-spin rule you're going to get bumped down a run group, etc...

How dangerous a spin is depends on the track and on the other drivers. Look for tracks with generous runoff areas. Of course, there's always risks, but really you don't need to spin out to learn the limits. If you're spinning, you're doing something wrong (or had some freak mechanical failure (e.g. tire falls apart mid-corner)). Instructors will talk you through slowly raising your speed as you learn to apply better techniques and read the car's feedback.

I can do this easily in my 240sx, but cannot seem to do it at all in the 370z. Is it possible? S-mode on and off?

Absolutely. Works exactly the same.

Good post. MUST MUST do the fluid and pads.

Ive been to the track sith stock suspension and its surprissingly great with a good set of tires. The only problem i had with the sport package stock tires is the braking, they just dodnt stop the car well enough. other than that this car is great stock.

as far as tire psi. I like low tire pressures for some reason, I keep taking air out and drive them at arouns 33psi when hot. Maybe this my prefference for the track i go to

good post

Forgot to mention, I have the yellow stuff pads from EBC and motul 600 fluid. NIGHT AND DAY vs stock. Also the 34 ROW oil cooler, 25 is not enough for my climate

I use AP Racing's fluid. It's worked just as well for me as the Motul RBF600.

Any car-on-car event at the track is, as Im sure we can all agree, a serious mistake on at least one, or potentially both drivers parts.