Fall in Love with Nissan

Just back from Bedford Autodrome where I have had one of the best days ever !! In over 15 years of Track days and my time as a professional Rally Driver I must say I am in love again with Mr Nissan’s finest, the GTR !!!

As some of you are aware my mildly modified GTR has taken on a Full Miltek Stainless Steel Exhaust System to a) get the exhaust gases away faster, b) help the Turbo’s spool up quicker and c) reduce the noise to get onto the crazy noise policed UK circuits!

Firstly to report that with the Miltek “Y” pipe in place, even though she sounded absolutely fantastic she was within a hairs breath of the noise limit at Bedford (drive by at 87.5db) she was @ 86.8. However, now the Full Miltek Stainless Steel Exhaust System she was at a drive by on full chat at a miserly 82db. So, more performance and less noise!!! It’s sh*t, but that’s the fact of this fantastic sh*t country we live in !!

Anyway to the meat in the sandwich, the car was amazing, the Bridgestone’s will deffo want replacing as I really hammered them today to get my every penny’s worth !

The Alcons held up extremely well, even better than I had hoped. Fantastic and YES worth every penny !! I could haul her down from 160mph through the chicane on the back straight to take the chicane at about 100mph and then another spurt to the “horrible” 180 hairpin (2nd gear, arse out!!).

I used a full tank full + my 2 x 25 ltr Jerry cans and then a fill up on circuit and did 140 Track miles – as I say what a day !!!

She will be going to Iain to have a post track shake down and a little birthday present !! LOL

Have fun, life is too short !!