My last nurburgring trip - ALMOST a 7 minute lap.
 

Guys,

Some videos of my last ring trip.

http://www.youtube.com/profile_video...waspishbobfish

If it werent for the MX5 and the 318 in the 8:01 BTG lap it would have been a 7 minute lap im sure...

Spec of the car is stock twins standard ports running 1 bar. Coilovers, polybushes, v mount, 6 pot 330mm brakes and a couple other bits.

Enjoy!

That's amazing...a lightly modified street RX-7 running a 7 minute lap...good stuff :icon_tup: You couldn't be making more than 350whp. Everyone has their panties in a bunch of some 600+hp vette running a 7.20whatever.

Long live the 7

nice drive.

loved the way you drove harder just after passing each car.

sure looks like a great way to spend 7 minutes.

FD in it's element. thanks for sharing.

What brake pads were you running?

Thanks for the comments guys :)

SLOASFK, the 7:26 'vette was a 7:26 IIRC, but it was a FULL lap (i.e straight included) my lap is only bridge to gantry, so estimated full lap of 8:35 including the straight. That puts me a long way off mr 600hp vette! But i do have traffic, and no race experience!

Howard, not sure what you mean about drove harder? And yes, it is a great way to spend 7 minutes. Except for the fact it makes every other track simply boring!!

Dgeesaman, the pads were ferodo DS2500 - but the brake kit is an AP racing 330mm 6 pot setup with huge ducts and Castrol SRF fluid (used in F1). It works well :)

Oh and yes, the car has been rolling roaded at 319hp, i run it safe for the track :)

Good job!

Amazing drive - I'm so jealous. You were hung up in so much traffic that I bet you could break the 7 minute mark easily if you had a clean run.

nice run

:bigthumb: i'm envious.

wish there was a track like that in L.A. im pretty sure if there was a track like that there would probblably be bumper to bumper traffic.. lol

Congrats Bob. Awesome run. You make us FD owners proud. :)

More like nobody would get a lap in because they'd be spending too much time cleaning up all the yahoos who wadded into the guardrail...

At least the 'Ring has policies to keep most of the yahoos off the course. For instance, if you crash and force the course to be closed in order to clean up your mess, you're dinged for about $2000 for every hour the course is closed. Even if the safety car has to come out, you're billed for about $120 every 30 minutes it's on course. You also have to pay for any repairs to the track, including any guardrail that you screw up. This doesn't include the German 19% VAT, or any towing/ambulance ride fees.

Nice driving on the vid, you were definitely running pretty good.

I thought most cars ran on the outside of the Karussell, but I can see that assumption was probably wrong. The inside banked portion of that corner is so rough that it's almost useless to try and make time there on a bike.

Now I want to take my FD and get it on the ring, too...
You all should think I´m a lucky person just living 300km away from the Ring! :icon_tup:


Really good driving!
All the german tuners put 1000s of $ into their porsches to run mid 7s.
I would love to see which time RE Amemiyas or Feeds Touge Monsters would run!

Nice driving! Well done!

nice!

thanks for the vid! What kind of rubber did you have on the wheels?

Tim

awesome video! you made everyone else look like sunday drivers on the track. great driving.

Very, very nice videos. Amazing driving skills, too!

Wow, you have balls! Driving that track at speed must be scary as hell. Nice work, love to see vids of the FD on the track--especially that one! Where is your camera mounted?

But... 1 bar boost on stock turbos, at THAT track? You must have a really safe tune. What are your AFRs under boost? Leading timing and split? Don't mean to clutter your thread... you can PM me if you like.

EDIT: just saw you pass a 'couple of dudes on bikes. you rock :bigok:

I wouldnt call a 350 whp FD lightly modded. Lightly turboed yes! Nice run!!

Fantastic!! You did a fine job of managing traffic and still keeping your lap times down.

I noticed you passed a bunch of sport bikes;

I've had some tell me that I'd have troubles keeping up with sport bikes on the road... Roads with turns similar in speed to Nurburging. I've found that the bikers slow me down when I catch up to them. These friends BTW, were online buddies, but just last Sunday I happened to meet up with my best friend and 4 of his friends who invited me to follow along with them on their sport bikes. All of these guys go to track events pretty frequently, so they are pretty quick.

I ended up passing two out of four of them rather quickly and the second was also holding me up. I was scared to push them too hard and see them get hurt though.

What I'm getting at is I always thought the bikes could kick the crap out of the RX-7s, but from what I saw, that isn't true. In a straight line, yes, but we can catch up in a big damn hurry. :D

Scooter :)

great driving indeed :icon_tup:

amazing driving there ;)

A guy crashed a subaru there this weekend just gone, he flipped it and hit 3 barriers. Last i heard his bill was 7000 euro and still counting up. And thats not including car repairs!

Karussell you have to go around the inside of, its no fun otherwise :)

You've never been?

what the hell are you doing? Get a decent radiator, some race pads and fluid and get over there NOW! I ORDER YOU!

seriously you wont regret it!