Building for the road course...again

Studs are just whatever comes in the hub. Not sure about grade but I’m guessing they’re OK since the hub fails before the studs?

I’m thinking to try buddies advice. I ordered a little tube of silicone grease. Was thinking to use copper anti seize since I have that but don’t want it making a mess everywhere.

I’ll go lightly with the grease just enough to prevent rust. Hopefully that helps with something

 

How often are the tires and wheels being balanced? If vibration is a factor that could add to the equation. Especially if you're going through mm of tires each event.

 

I wouldn't rule out the studs. If they are in elastic deformation at the loads you are putting on them they wouldn't fail but would allow things to move

 

Mmmmmm yea lol. Definitely not having my shit balanced often at all. Basically at time of mounting and that’s it. This may be contributing though for sure

 

I guess any stretch of the studs would be enough. I’m just thinking corrosion and crap maybe getting between hub and rotor. Deformation would help this

 

Wire brush the shit out of the faces too

 

Installing the new passenger side hub today as well as new pads and rotors back there. Thinking I’ll brake clean the hubs then either use copper anti seize, molygrease, or I’m thinking to even use the hawk brake pad grease that comes with the pads. It’s high temp so it should work well there

 

Track day success!!
Now first off, there was a TON of traffic. I couldn’t get almost any clean laps but the few I did were promising. Most of my footage I’m stuck behind people losing my mind lol.
Anyways…
Let me start by giving a little review here. Let’s start with the engine.
HOLY SHIT how this thing pulls now. It doesn’t matter what corner, above 5000rpm the engine response is next level. Immediate torque delivery pulling so strong all the way to 8900rpm. it actually pulls harder the higher you rev it, it doesn’t roll over at all. Fucking proper. Lap after lap just screaming. I am truly impressed. When you see my videos maybe it will make sense.

I was blown away I was neck and neck down the straights with hyundai N cars. Even leaving one corner with a c8 corvette slowing me down I was on his ass.
I will give credit where credit is due. My tuner/tune is incredible. It’s hard to describe how gooooood it feels. The engine response is on another level entirely. I love it. And it sounds amazing.

As a result? The car needs a lot more front end and I need to adjust to the much higher corner entry speeds. I started the day with these tires up front. Fresh tires in the rear.


Not much life left but I decided to use them till there’s no more. Even got a new personal best time on these tires, while lifting for traffic lol!

Tires held on the entire evening. Try this with a falken rt660 and you won’t even get close before it delaminates.
Car needs fresh tires, and maybe stiffen up the rear sway bar some more and that should be enough to get my handling balance in check.


I found myself reaching top speeds similar to my speed lol. Incredible.

Need to go through the videos tomorrow but I got some good footage and data for sure!

Tires by the end of the evening lol



Had great weather as well. It was like 26c. Not too hot!

 

Man I'm just glad it worked for a whole day

 

All I was thinking the whole time was “I didn’t bring any spare hubs. Oh man”

 

one lap

 

Glad to see you got it out for some good runs. Def looks like its rolling in and out of corners strong.

 

Needs some front tires and some other minor suspension tweaks to dial out the newly acquired under steer. Otherwise the car felt great. The new engine setup is pulling hard!