Category: General

Brakes !

Service Time

The brakes on the BRZ are fantastic. I run the factory Brembo`s with DBA T3 4000 rotors and Project Mu Club Racer pads, but like everything, from time to time you need to carry out maintenance or repair, and the brakes are no different.

So with that in mind, I stripped everything down, cleaned it, put a kit through the calipers, fitted new pads and then replaced all the brake fluid.

All good for now for the rest of the season, will need Rotors next time though.

Repairs

Unsurprisingly, taking a production car and flogging it to death on a racetrack can lead to a few issues from time to time. Having said that though, this car has been remarkably robust.

Engine wise the car has been bullet proof. Do not let anyone tell you these Boxer engines are not reliable. If you keep up the maintenance, you will not have a problem. It should be noted though that I do run an oil cooler and I change the oil after each event. I also run an oil surge baffle in the sump.

Outside of normal maintenance, the only thing I have had to replace are the wheel bearings on the driver’s side. This side is usually the loaded side at the tracks I frequent the most, and even though the car only has 29000 Km`s on it, they were basically Catus.

It`s The Little Things

Can Make the Difference

I have Jacobs mighty Exel in the shed for some post racing maintenance, and to corner weight it, when I noticed, these ugly rusty bonnet pins, so I decided to do something about it.

When I looked closer, I noticed the backing plate was screwed in, not Tech Screws surely!

Yep, Tech Screws it is. I am a little surprised by this frankly because the rest of the car has been built to a high standard. It`s not perfect by any means but its well-built and well set up.

Outside of corner weighting and treating it to a new set of tyres, we are not changing anything at this point.

I cleaned it up and put it back together but I just couldn`t deal with the Tech Screws, so the only other thing I had to hand were Rivets.

I know it’s a racing car, not a show car but hey….

The Excel

Jacob`s Debut

My Son Jacob made his racing debut at the first round of the Pro Speed Racing NSW SuperSprint Championships on the Shelly Circuit at One Raceway in Goulbourn NSW on the 7th of March.

Apparently, it was “Mad Fun”, whatever that means?

The track is about 5 hour’s drive from home, and we both had to work the day before, so it was a 1am start. Still, it was worth it.

So, 2nd only time ever on track. Never driven this car, never driven this circuit. How did he go? Well, he beat the only other Excel by a second and half, and that was on 6-year-old tyres, so, NOT BAD, not bad at all….