Mux213 Levin GTS

[Mux213]

With the new brake pads and all the brakes bled my car hardly had any braking power, what a letdown Now my brake has always been soft.... I drove around most of the saterday night trying to get the brakes driven in....

And then sunday came...

5:30 am, man it sucks getting up that late.
6:30 am, start the car up, leaving Lisse with my dad and Leon
The brakes are starting to give me confidence..
8:00 am, entered eindhoven to pick up Tim
Brakes are doing pretty good now, pedal is getting rock hard
9:15 am, crossed the border into germany..

Now here's a strange thing, my rear diff sings a bit, usually around 80kmph and 120 kmph. Its not to noice except around 130, but still. Entering germany I kept her at a steady 170. The car is SILENT at 170... Man that was nuts, the engine humming in the background, no noice from the diff, only the tires on that strange asfalt they got up there making noice. We could just talk normally in the car....

10:30 am, entering the car part at the holy grounds...

11:00 am, my hachis first run around the nurburgring!!

YEAH smashing man! that was way cool! The first lap was a bit of a let down, a motorcycle kept being in my way. They are way to fast on the straights but oh so slow in corners. And for small tiny things they are, they sure take up alot of space on the road.... sucked...

Second and third laps where the best. Tim besides me really helped as he knows the ring on the back of his hand. Except for downshifting a gear to low on the first lap I had pretty uneventfull laps. The only downside, my blasted brakes kept letting me down, I need to floor them to get a bit of braking power. Fading to the max. As soon as I left the ring and drove a bit around the countryside to cool the brakes my brakes would be rock solid again. After a lap on the ring, weak ass shit..

Fourth run was also alot of fun having a Z3 chase me most of the way. Only hairy moment was when I took the karosell wide because I wanted to let the Z3 passed (which he didn't) I got a motorcycle sneak up beside me without me seeing, I nearly ran him over but it went ok luckely...

Fifth run went a little less good, Tim hadn't joined me on the fourth and firth rounds so I was without my navigator. Eventually I ended up mixing to turns and entered a turn way to fast. As I dove into the corner the back came out and I did a totally invulentary but very cool 4 wheel 'drift' through that corner. Well I wouldn't call it a drift but it was wicked.

That round was my last of the day as spending 60 euro on a 5 round card was way to expensive already Still it was the most fun I had with my Hachi so far. GREAT STUFF!

Except for the brakes the hachi performed way beyond expectation. Sure its not as fast as the other stuff out there but it performed just fine. I also had no trouble at all with grip. The car behaved very predictable and only punished me twice for my own mistakes. Both times the back came out but the car remained fully controllable, very interesting experience indeed..

I've been looking around the sites but no pictures of the hachi showing up just yet

One thing is for sure, the hachi will see the ring again!