Yesterday was another Mallala test day. It was also the first chance to seriously test the axels, the feel of the car now the rear end is sitting straight with the adjustable pan-hard in, and a new set of nitto nt-01 track rubber!
So I drove the car all of 3m in the driveway from where it stood to the trailer. Mates arrived and while loading the last few thing in to my tow car Simon asks.. whats that sound? from the front of my car. He takes a look and ive picked up a chunk of snapped drill bit from the drive and air is leaking from an nt-01. Doh! So for the money all of 3m out of that tyre. Sucks! But the bright side is, we had not left yet and I was able to get 2 commodore rims with the old track rubber and load them up.
We read the track without event and I put nt-01s on the front and old rubber on the rears. We measured tyre pressures and Ross noticed that the guage on my 12v air pump was reading 10psi under the tyre pressure his hand held guage was! Eeek! Good thing to know. Wont be trusting that meter any more. So we experimented with pressure and got it dead on.
The car felt better than it ever has before! I was in the non-cams group and spent my day working on trying to get my corner speeds right. The first session of the day I reckon I nailed it because I needed 5th on the banana straight and rear straight. That is not a gear Ive needed at mallala before! Unfortunately my gopro overheated and I didnt have time to start it manually so no footage of that session.
Next session I did get some footage and times with track chrono on my phone (nice dash mount for that, hey?)

But a new problem was developing. It seem the 41 year old stock gemini in tank lift pump is running poorly and Im now running out of the fuel from half to 3/4 down the banana straight and could not stick my boot in down the back straight without it missing. The times I got with track chrono are telling me im now doing 1:30s which is a good 6 seconds of my PB. Oh well.
The day ended with the flaggies kicking me off the track for a newly developing oil leak. All in all a fun day and I know the next steps will be to sus out and sort out the leak, and replace the fuel tank with an allow after market and new pump.
Heres some footage from the second session of the day:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qbebg5RwE_M