Hey Everyone!
I want to share my experience with my FiST at Laguna Seca this year. If any of you guys remember, I was at Laguna Seca last month and oh boy was it a crappy day for a track event. It was windy, cold, and extremely rainy! Thankfully enough, not even a month later, I was blessed by the car gods and got a PERFECT Turbo Weather day to fun my FiST. It was a Solid 55 degrees ambient, cloudy, and DRY. Perfect conditions to beat the crap out of my little tiny car. The car preformed exceptionally well, even with the TCS off. It was able to hug all the corners just perfectly without any hint of oversteer and understeer. It felt perfectly composed in all areas, and whereever I would turn the wheel, it would just shoot. I was able to keep up with Lexus ISF's, E92 and E46 M3's, Track Prepped 4.6L Mustang GT, Tuned Pontiac GXP, and many others. Not bad for a little 1.6L
I probably pushed my car the hardest at this event than any other events. Even with that added stress the car kept on trucking. My coolant Temps never went over 230 degrees and oil floated around 245-250. That is with a 25/75 coolant/distilled water and water wetter mix plus the new Mishimoto Oil cooler. What did show the most wear are my brakes. I previously toasted 1 set of the Wilwood Spec37 GT rotors on my car, they lasted about 5 track days. After toasting those I decided to go with the plain ULT rotors for my car. They were $28 a piece as opposed to the "stronger" GT rotors which retail about ~$100 a piece. These were the ones I ran on the track and to my Amazement, after 3 track days I completely cooked these, which quite frankly exceeded my expectations. I'll be getting another set and will never get another Spec37 GT set ever again, the cheapo plain rotors are much more cost efficient. I paired these with the Wilwood PolyMatrix E compound and they preformed so so. They tend to lose their bite after a few hot laps and for whatever reason chunks of the pads started to fall off as if the compound was getting brittle, I don't think they were able to take the heat. That was with my Porsche 997 Brake Air Dams installed. I would recommend going with the HAWK DTC60 compound as I liked those pads more and they seemed to bite harder. I also installed some SVT Caliper brackets and bigger 280mm rotors in the rear, these helped a ton under hard braking. I feel like it made the brake bias more neutral and the rear didn't feel as floaty under hard braking as before. A must do upgrade for those that can find some old salvaged SVT parts. My Dunlop Star Specs took a thrashing too, this is my 5th track day on them and they are still holding up beautifully, despite the chunks missing out of the rubber, I still have about 30% life left on them. Even after 5,000 DD miles they still look good!
As far as the Cyborg performance on the track. I ran the car the first 2 sessions on E30 and oh man did it make a difference. I was able to stay on a ISF's tail all the way up to the corkscrew on E30. He couldn't pull away from me. For those that don't know, that segment of track up to the corkscrew is uphill, and the ISF couldn't outrun me. Also those that don't know, ISF's are FAST. I used to own one before my Z06 and the way those are geared and with their 5.0L V8, they haul ass. So it was nice knowing I can keep up with one of those with a E30 Cyborg. Unfortuately my first two sessions I was not pushing the car 10/10, more like 8/10 as I was getting more comfortable with the other cars in my group and trying to catch a groove on the track. After my second session I ran out of E30 and had to fill up with Junk-O 91 Octane. My impressions of the Cyborg with 91 octane were not that great. The car does not pull any different than a Stage 3 FiST. Even though I see boost of 22-21 psi all the way to redline, it did not feel any different. [MENTION=1536]LeonardSkeonard[/MENTION] can testify to this as he was at the event with me, and we were hitting the SAME exact top speeds at the ends of each straight and the top of the corkscrew. Even on our way home, we decided to do a quick 3rd gear drag race and we were dead even from 30 mph up to 100 mph. I emailed Adam from Tune+ if he could offer some insight and we are currently working on a solution.
Overall I had a great time and I hope to track with many of you in the months to come!
Now for photos and video!
The FiST
Passenger Side Tire after the track day:
Driver Side Tire
Rotors
Passing Video
[video=youtube;GpFBD8afMmo]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GpFBD8afMmo[/video]
Fastest Lap Video
[video=youtube;gDb1u6q64gg]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gDb1u6q64gg[/video]
I want to share my experience with my FiST at Laguna Seca this year. If any of you guys remember, I was at Laguna Seca last month and oh boy was it a crappy day for a track event. It was windy, cold, and extremely rainy! Thankfully enough, not even a month later, I was blessed by the car gods and got a PERFECT Turbo Weather day to fun my FiST. It was a Solid 55 degrees ambient, cloudy, and DRY. Perfect conditions to beat the crap out of my little tiny car. The car preformed exceptionally well, even with the TCS off. It was able to hug all the corners just perfectly without any hint of oversteer and understeer. It felt perfectly composed in all areas, and whereever I would turn the wheel, it would just shoot. I was able to keep up with Lexus ISF's, E92 and E46 M3's, Track Prepped 4.6L Mustang GT, Tuned Pontiac GXP, and many others. Not bad for a little 1.6L
I probably pushed my car the hardest at this event than any other events. Even with that added stress the car kept on trucking. My coolant Temps never went over 230 degrees and oil floated around 245-250. That is with a 25/75 coolant/distilled water and water wetter mix plus the new Mishimoto Oil cooler. What did show the most wear are my brakes. I previously toasted 1 set of the Wilwood Spec37 GT rotors on my car, they lasted about 5 track days. After toasting those I decided to go with the plain ULT rotors for my car. They were $28 a piece as opposed to the "stronger" GT rotors which retail about ~$100 a piece. These were the ones I ran on the track and to my Amazement, after 3 track days I completely cooked these, which quite frankly exceeded my expectations. I'll be getting another set and will never get another Spec37 GT set ever again, the cheapo plain rotors are much more cost efficient. I paired these with the Wilwood PolyMatrix E compound and they preformed so so. They tend to lose their bite after a few hot laps and for whatever reason chunks of the pads started to fall off as if the compound was getting brittle, I don't think they were able to take the heat. That was with my Porsche 997 Brake Air Dams installed. I would recommend going with the HAWK DTC60 compound as I liked those pads more and they seemed to bite harder. I also installed some SVT Caliper brackets and bigger 280mm rotors in the rear, these helped a ton under hard braking. I feel like it made the brake bias more neutral and the rear didn't feel as floaty under hard braking as before. A must do upgrade for those that can find some old salvaged SVT parts. My Dunlop Star Specs took a thrashing too, this is my 5th track day on them and they are still holding up beautifully, despite the chunks missing out of the rubber, I still have about 30% life left on them. Even after 5,000 DD miles they still look good!
As far as the Cyborg performance on the track. I ran the car the first 2 sessions on E30 and oh man did it make a difference. I was able to stay on a ISF's tail all the way up to the corkscrew on E30. He couldn't pull away from me. For those that don't know, that segment of track up to the corkscrew is uphill, and the ISF couldn't outrun me. Also those that don't know, ISF's are FAST. I used to own one before my Z06 and the way those are geared and with their 5.0L V8, they haul ass. So it was nice knowing I can keep up with one of those with a E30 Cyborg. Unfortuately my first two sessions I was not pushing the car 10/10, more like 8/10 as I was getting more comfortable with the other cars in my group and trying to catch a groove on the track. After my second session I ran out of E30 and had to fill up with Junk-O 91 Octane. My impressions of the Cyborg with 91 octane were not that great. The car does not pull any different than a Stage 3 FiST. Even though I see boost of 22-21 psi all the way to redline, it did not feel any different. [MENTION=1536]LeonardSkeonard[/MENTION] can testify to this as he was at the event with me, and we were hitting the SAME exact top speeds at the ends of each straight and the top of the corkscrew. Even on our way home, we decided to do a quick 3rd gear drag race and we were dead even from 30 mph up to 100 mph. I emailed Adam from Tune+ if he could offer some insight and we are currently working on a solution.
Overall I had a great time and I hope to track with many of you in the months to come!
Now for photos and video!
The FiST
Passenger Side Tire after the track day:
Driver Side Tire
Rotors
Passing Video
[video=youtube;GpFBD8afMmo]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GpFBD8afMmo[/video]
Fastest Lap Video
[video=youtube;gDb1u6q64gg]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gDb1u6q64gg[/video]