Advice from Other Teams, Part 2
December 19th, 2008
This is from the LeMons Yahoo group, it hit my email today. Very good advice therein, after the jump:
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Brake Thoughts
December 18th, 2008
Last night after the Missus went to bed early to try to get rid of her cold before we travel for Chrismas, I stopped by AutoZone to get the rebuild kits for the front brakes. To my amazment and amusement, they were cheaper than expected. I’ve read up on the procedure and it’s pretty simple. I was expecting to spend about $12 for both caliper sets, but it ended up at less than $6. I had to buy some caliper assembly grease that pushed it higher, but that can’t be avoided. Rumor is that you have to use the special grease for caliper assembly as other greases/lubes will contaminate brake fluid, which is pretty much exactly the opposite of what we’re going for here.
Tars
December 17th, 2008
Say it out loud: tars. You know, those four black rubbery things on the corners. Tars. What about them?
After prolonged back-and-forth with Racer Matt, I’ve been hunting for tire advice from veteran LeMons racers the past few days, and in particular MR2 LeMons racers. The consensus seems to be as follows:
- The Falken Azezis RT-615 is the tire to race on in this race for any number of reasons (quality, price, availability, great dry grip and above-average wet grip);
- Start the race on new rubber on all 4 wheels;
- Although it is best practice to have 4 new spares ready to go if/when we sustain tire damage on the car, teams can probably get by with 2 new spares and 2 used spares if we keep our fingers crossed, God willin’ and the creek don’t rise.
New Blue has Miata wheels with 4 very used RT615’s on the car, one of which isn’t holding air worth a darn. The red parts car has 4 dry rotted crap tires that I wouldn’t rely upon to drive to the store, let alone at speed on the track. So although my preference would be to get 8 new tires, my budget-minded suggestion would be to get 6 new tires on steelies and if worse comes to worse use the used RT615’s in a pinch. Thoughts?
Advice from Other Teams
December 17th, 2008
I’m going to start a new category of posts here with the inventive title “Advice from Other Teams.” I’ve noticed that many other LeMons teams have websites/blogs on the intertubes; many of them have some instructive things to say. I haven’t collected many of them so far, but this entry can be a starting point for their collection; please feel free to add more other team websites in the comments. More after the break:
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