Lauren

Yep, a snip at only £2000 per day!

Only trouble is these ice driving holidays seem to be very expensive. Minimum of a grand a day it seems!

Looks like a lot of fun. Considering an ice track driving holiday for new year next year instead of Amsterdam. Want RWD on the ice of course, so will be looking into it.

So today I've put back on my Rays Engineering Volk Racing TE37 wheels in 17x8 shod with Primacy OEM tyres back onto my car. IMG_3719 by Lauren Blighton, on Flickr My standard wheels with winter tyres were what came off: Now the weight difference is this, Rays are 7.4kg, the OEM wheels are 9.2kg. The Rays are also 10mm less offset so a 20mm wider track and obviously the wheels are an in inch wider. The difference I find is tangible. The car is more responsive to the throttle, turns better and more quickly. Also braking is better too. It's almost like the car feels lighter on it's 'feet'. I kind of knew this was coming as I immediately noticed the difference when I put them on for the first time last year. It's certainly something to think about. The biggest problem is that lightweight forged allloys are always expensive, though I was fortunate enough to snap mine up second hand and refurb them. They'll always be worth what I've laid out for them, so that's all good. But really if you want your car to feel more agile have quicker reactions, then a lightweight wheel is certainly worth giving serious thought too, particularly so if you like to really drive the car. So check your wheel weights!

How light, just out of interest?

Really, Dave? Since I put the Rays back on, I'm thinking I need to get a set of lightweight winter wheels, anything to avoid the OEM wheels going back on again!

AM20 doesn't give it away as it could be either of three options!

Hmm, I've done about 25K since my car was lowered. Not noticed anything as such. Will keep an ear out though.

Well, it's a question of preference. I like to move the car around myself as otherwise all I'm experiencing is grip, not handling. If I can't steer the car on the throttle because there's too much grip, then it dulls the experience a bit for me. I may even find that I prefer a different tyre, but stick to stock sizes. But, we'll see. Just re-adjusting to the Primacy tyres after low grip winter tyres. Typically it was cold (3C) and a little damp when I went up the Cat and Fiddle yesterday and the A54. The Primacy tyres were no worse than the winter tyres, though the grip levels of tarmac either white with salt or slightly damp was very low indeed, so it made it pretty tricky with understeer and oversteer experienced often in one corner after another. But this just hints at the grip being low really.

I'd ask that post pics please. The prices seem very high. Are they brand new or are they used?

Sorry to hear that Jay. Is that potentially a result of lending your driveshaft to a certain person?

I'm guessing you mean the prop shaft (not a driveshaft!). I would guess there is little to gain as rotational mass is fairly well controlled given the small diameter of the prop.

Welcome aboard, why such a long wait though? Is there really a shortage of orange GT86's out there?

Yes, I had Advan V105's on it from last June, yes. I've gone back to Primacy tyres as the Advans are too grippy for my liking. It's a power/grip balance. Will see how I get on. I swopped my Advan's with Jamie's Primacy's.

The summer tyres make the car more precise along with the stretch, but the difference in wheel weight is the most noticeable thing.

It does seem to work, so well done on that front. I'm guessing the yellow is the Renault Sport one?

I was at the TSS at Woodbridge and it was noted I had the loudest car at 90db. I had a look at it last Thursday night and it's cracked on the weld of the pipe to the rear box. About 20mm across on the bottom. I guess it's a stress point. Richard was straight on it and there is a new one on it's way, so will be sorted this week hopefully.

Just a thought. If we are getting there for 2pm, do we want to stop for a quick drink and chat, then go for a drive out and return for dinner? Does that work for people?

LOL, don't worry about it. We'll see you next Saturday, should be good.

Glad you had a warm up! Come again next Saturday and we'll be there!

It's certainly at the light end of the scale. I think they are actually 7.2kg per rim if anodised (which is how they come from Rays), but mine are powder coated so that adds weight I guess! Mad isn't it? Well really the lighter the better, though it obviously helps if you can tune your suspension to suit (which I can). You'd certainly need a forged wheel, which does make it expensive, though these wheels do turn up second hand. I just snapped them up quickly when Jonathan (PwrOut on here) had them up for sale! Think he still regrets selling them! So I'd say look at second hand forged wheels and be prepared to jump when they turn up. Then get them refurbed, it won't cost that much more than a new set of Rota's.

If it helps, I had some trouble with Flickr the other day. Not sure what was going on, but the image oddly appeared after being blank for a while.

Not really worth buying a set of tyres if you just do occasional track work. The Primacy tyre goes off a bit when they get hot, but it remains consistent. You can drift it all day and they seem not to wear much. Had far more fun with Primacy's on track than I ever did with the grippier Yoko Advans which is why I've gone back to Primacy tyres again. They just seem to be able to take tons of abuse and still last forever. Win, win I reckon.

It's not a problem really. Just expect mine to likely be on fire by the end of the session. But, that's not a problem, they'll cool down and be fine. Done it before. Also you don't have to hammer the brakes, it's optional.

Stock pads are fine on track for about 10minutes. 15 minutes and they do start to smoke I find.