I love that corner. I was turning in extremely fast there. A couple of times a little too fast and was well on the rumbles at the bottom. I was bullying an M3 on that bend as he wouldn't let me past. I was so close through there and a few other bends that I couldn't see his tires.
He got blue flagged eventually.

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Well, that's not gone well.

I went to Bedford today instead of Brands Hatch. After fighting past an accident on the M25 and a fire on the M1 Slip road I eventually made it an hour late.

It was wet and I've never been there before so wasn't going to be the most informative day but by the end of my first lap, I knew I had problems.

I've got the most horrendous brake judder, I'm to overly surprised by this after fitting a set of used calipers, discs and pads but it was nasty. Would basically get progressively worse over the course of a couple of laps before becoming undriveable. Rather oddly, if I drove through it (didn't have a lot of choice on a 4 mile lap) it would get somewhat better again but not great.

Cold, wet day, i wonder if this can be as simple as the build up from DS2500s or if I have bigger problems. What do you reckon? New Pads, Disc Skim, Bleed fluid again, check all torque settings on Bells and Calipers and hope everything is OK otherwise it's all a bit beyond my level of expertise if it's anything other than that and whilst I know a hundred mechanics, I don't know a good one who is likely to a)know what they are doing bother to do it right.

Any suggestions as to anyone I can take it to (I'm in SW London) or should I just to go through the basics first and go from there? Problem is that it only really presented itself on the track and I don't want another day like today to find out if I've sorted it or not.

When I fitted my 310mm brembo's I had horrific judder. We changed the hub when fitting the brakes and only when checking on ramp why it juddered so badly did we notice the hub flange was not flat. More worryingly than that we noticed that the P bush on the driver side was cracked where it bolted to the sub frame. Changes them for Berlingo p bushes which are much stiffer and put the old hub back on and that was problem solved.

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Get her up on a ramp and have a good look and bar about.

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I had a similar problem with brake judder before, think I fixed it by changing a load of suspension parts (wishbones bushes, etc.) so might be worth looking at that as Aaron suggested?

RE laptimes, a 55 second lap around the Indy is bloody fast. We've got the race car down to that and I think Carl does it in about 54s in his race car so that might be a bit optimistic. On a standard engine we could do 56s.

Don't be too concerned at laptimes. I know that's easy to say but when you get down to mid-50s you spend your entire life bottled up behind slower cars!

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you're probably right but I decided to get the best brakes I could get in the budget rather than the shiniest ones. At least now I know that whatever else I do or don't do, i won't be looking at the brakes thinking I should have bought better ones.

Just put it up on the ramp quickly this morning, found the play in the ball joints and knew I didn't have time to do anything with it so left the whole lot for another day. Will get it up again early next week and go through it all properly.

While I'm at it, will change the P bushes, might as well use berlingo ones. Don't suppose anybody happens to have the part numbers?

Thanks, went with the vibratech ones in the end. Genuine Pug front bushes, TRW ball joints, Lemforder anti-roll Bar bushes and vibratech lower engine Mount bush. Did I forget anything?