Track Day Best Practices - MUST READ

chknhawk

Cant you also just buy an upgrade thermostat and get the same effect as uprev tuning? Im not the expert by any means I am just throwing that out there for discussion. Thanks for a GREAT thread!!! Sub'd

I just started AUTO X and have been to 2 events and an all day driving school.. Love it. I think for me personally this is where to start learning about driving the car a little harder than street and actually getting a good feel for pedal pressure and breaking and steering so that when you do spin out it is in a parking lot and the most you hit is a cone.

Just my 2 bits.

My driver training day I ran the hell out of my Z for about an hour and some change straight without going over 240 oil temp and no brake problems.. no fuel problems either at 3/4 tank. TWICE. the only think that hurt me that day was the one run with traction control on. after that I was golden.

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Chuck33079

Once you're above the temp where the thermostat is fully open, I can't imagine it making much of a difference.

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ChrisSlicks

Pretty much what Chuck said. By changing the thermostat the radiator will be fully flowing at a lower temperature, but the electric fan still wont kick on until 213F. At highway speed you have enough airflow to make the fan largely irrelevant, but at lower speeds it might be useful to have them kick on a little earlier.

I assume this was auto-x style course instruction? Usually the pace of those is such that you don't really have a temperature issue unless you do back to back to back runs, plus the 2012's have the factory oil heat exchanger at least.

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wstar

I was thinking (and I don't know if I'm thinking correctly) that with most of my direct radiator airflow now blocked off by oil/trans coolers, I should go ahead and have UpRev turn on the fans full blast at all MPH settings (but still ramp up with water temp initially), just to provide some "pull" to get through the layers of radiators and help flow move in the right direction instead of deflecting off to the sides.

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