[Wazza]

[quote=OZCOBRA]Wazza ...

perhaps a couple of hours preventative maintenance wouldn't go astray...

Don't worry I spend a lot more than "a couple of hours" preventative maintenance.
I drive my Cobra over 20,000 klms a year ,and that particular trip was a 3,400 kilometre round trip , with a full race meeting ( Shelbyfest) thrown in, and the temperature down and back was around 45 - 47 degrees....i.e. a bit bloody hot!........FEBRUARY 2006.

The only "problem" I had for the whole trip was that I cooked a set of pads, and I guess it could be said that I was hardly nursing the car at any stage.

Before I left Queensland I had checked everything.

The car ran like a dream, there were a new set of brake pads there when I left ( Race Pads), but I guess the 47 degree heat all the way down, combined with a MILLION practice laps when we got there, and the continued extreme heat just destroyed the brake pads.

I couldn't believe a full set of pads had "disappeared".

Don't worry I check the pads again and again, as well as everything else before any track runs now.

That was my error, and the scrutineer can't be checking everything...lesson learned.
I agree though.....there are a great number of Cobra drivers that get a real wakeup call when they take their cars out on a racetrack....Things break/bend/melt/twist in a matter of 15 minutes on a track, when they would be fine with "normal" street use.

Regards,
Warren.