Oulton park circuit! Who went and what happened..!!

[ajay]

Wanted to go today but couldn't make it.
Who went and what happened..? C'mon spill the beans....a˜³

[M-Sport]

What happened I want to know now to

[M3SAM]

Well i spun off in the wet coming out of Old Hall Corner halfway up The Avenue!
Hit a pool of water aqua planed came onto the kerb slid off in the grass managed to pull it back on track but was facing oncoming traffic!

Lost the power steering and heard a whining and my fan controller decided to short out and stay on maximum! So pulled into Dan and Andrews garage and realised i had ripped the drive belt in half! Managed to get a replacement belt delivered and on by 2:30pm "Thanks Dan I owe you big time"

Finally got out warmed her up and put some heat into the tyres and went track car hunting......
My first track outing for 8 years and got named second best driver of the day!

Dan can fill in the blanks.............

[rich318i]

love to see some fotage SAM of your car in action

[Demlotcrew]

Really good day, If anyone is thinking about doing a track day, then the car club days would be my recommendation, not too many cars and really nice organisers.

I have to say thanks to NeolM3, Mikey_boy, Motorhole and Danthe. Sorry about no passenger laps Motorhole, next time you are first!!!! Also thanks to Mike for the first few guidance laps, really needed it on this cicuit with its blind off camber crests

I have one video with DanThe in the passenger seat, I mounted the camera too high and my mirror is in the way

Quote of the day

You don't need an engine, you have brakes.

[DanThe]

Andrew that E46 electric shite you have is ridiculously good, I was amazed at how well it held on

[Demlotcrew]

Cheers dude, glad you were impressed, its a pretty awesome piece of kit, especially for wet conditions, tempted?

[DanThe]

I am indeed, as you know ive got to fix a butchered E46 M3 so once ive got my head around the wiring I might throw some bits in my E30

[pacerpete]

Victimz !

[Demlotcrew]

I am indeed, as you know ive got to fix a butchered E46 M3 so once ive got my head around the wiring I might throw some bits in my E30

Sounds good, let me know if you need any more info

[Motorhole]

Take it from me, even just watching from the pit wall, the way Sam's car pulled down that straight was just epic. Equally epic was watching Andrew follow shortly behind again and again on the last session! Too completely opposing approaches to putting a crazy quick car together.

Don't worry Andrew, I appreciate time was short. Let's try and get on the same day sometime next year

Dan - if you pm me your address I'll post that video through on DVD. Angles not too bad for a quick lash up and the slide on the way out of druids is nice and clear

[M3SAM]

Motorhole I was so pleased with my motor the grip and the pace were really impressive!
Bear in mind my car is a full fat road car that was chasing down and passing some of the track only cars on the day with my 2.93 ratio diff! I was well chuffed! I'm on the hunt for a 4.10 diff now just to put in for track days...........

[Demlotcrew]

Thanks Motorhole, I spent a little time last night looking at the data. My fastest rolling lap was 2.07.763 and looking at the sector times, the software is showing my best theoretical lap on the day could be 2.00.770, quite pleased with that, especially with a passenger, damp sections and low sun.



Just working on the video overlays, hope to have some laps up soon

[stevesingo]

Just working on the video overlays, hope to have some laps up soon

Nudge nudge

[Demlotcrew]

Getting there

[Demlotcrew]

Ive been busy coding the video overlay, its taken the best part of the day

[appletree]

Very clever stuff, overlay looks good!

[stevesingo]

Getting there

Is that a dirty SE I see

[Demlotcrew]

Thats a mint SE being used properly

[Demlotcrew]

Im trying to be clever and keying the overlay, but my windowzzz renders keep failing with artefacts and general crashes. So Im just going to throw something up temporarily.





Why is windows so unreliable? The Key on the Mac is coming out perfect, but I cant seem to export the full session from the overlay software in windows.

[ajay]

Stop trying to edit out the bad bits and it should work finea˜†!


Only joking, C'mon people are waiting.!!a˜Š

[Demlotcrew]

Directors cut edition Ajay

[andyp]

take it the E30 in front is a 6 pot







and not a BUTT special

[ajay]

He does look kind of worried in that shot..a˜a
Or is that just dogged concentration..!

[stevesingo]

take it the E30 in front is a 6 pot

and not a BUTT special

But it is a 2.5

[DanThe]

Definitely not standard by the sound of it screaming past the pit wall

[stevesingo]

Not quite

[andyp]

just got off the phone hmmm very impressive is all I am going to say

[Demlotcrew]

Managed to get the video online at last. Its still processing at YouTube so no HD yet. But you get the idea.

[youtube][/youtube]

[stevesingo]

It looks like I could do with equalising the roll stiffenss between front to rear. Slightly stiffer rear springs and maybe soften the front anti-roll bar.

[bigbird76]

Good show chaps i watched all of it and did not get bored.. Well done

Leigh

[Demlotcrew]

Cheers Leigh, sadly its the only recording I have of the day, crap camera angle

[stevesingo]

Spotted 08:43, exhaust flame.

[Demlotcrew]

There were many flames coming Steve, looked very cool a‘a

[bigbird76]

Camera angle is a bit high but hey never mind i am sure you will fix that next time.

Leigh