Brakes!?

[Mark CSL]

Re: ap brakes

just bought set of ap's one of the calipers had 2 wrong pistons, they were too large, worth checking before you take off the old brakes that all pistons can be pushed home, this is an issue known to ap, cost me 3 days work through not having a car, worked out to be expensive brakes

But other than that how are you finding them ?? :banghead:

[derek]

brakes

they are good not a lot of difference between the standards brakes with pagid 19 pads and braided hoses as far a stopping the car , but expect less fade, going for first track day in my own car at knockhill later this month hopefully i will benefits from having ap's

[Mark CSL]

Derek When are you at knockhill i like a trackday there i done 6 last week :hahaha:

[derek]

28th Aug, i know about 5 or 6 people who have booked, where is the best place for track insurance,

[Mark CSL]

Not sure i dont bother with it
This is what you must be going to ??

Hot Marques Evening
Thu 28th August

6pm - 8pm

I might be there. :thumbs: where in scotland are you ??

[derek]

thats it, its taken a few years to decide to do a track day in my own car, im in perth so its only 30mins away knockhill

[Mark CSL]

What colour is you CSL ??

[derek]

black

[Mark CSL]

were you at knockhill a not long ago there was a black CSL watching at the hairpin at knockhill when i was on track :whistle:

[derek]

no my car has never been near the track, seen some of your pics looks good, do you have track insurance?

[Bravo73]

Hello Derek,

Hope you're well (and thanks for the PS2s... :wink

You might struggle to find 'reasonable' track insurance. The premiums will be very high (£3-500 just for the day), hardly anything is covered (ie no third party cover - which is particularly what I was after) and often a pay-out limit of only £15-20k (ok for a Caterham, less so for a £30k CSL!)

Because of all of this, you might find that most of us accept the risk and track our cars without specific track insurance. I certainly do. :smt009


HTH,

B73

[Mark CSL]

I dont have track insurance just watch what the nuters drive like and do the same you dont want this to happen




This is a friend of mine but he was racing in the scottish saloon cars :thumbs:

[derek]

that makes me feel good!!!!

[Mark CSL]

Ha HA ha
The day you are going is the best days.

Have you upgraded the brakes ?? race fluid / braided brake pipes / red stuff pads and the standard brakes are great on track.

Also get a good tyre gauge and check the tyre pressures as they get very high
when you are on track.

[derek]

i have just put on aps, got a tyre gauge, just need some valium if i dont get track insurance