[Norm Peterson]

I will welcome you in advance to the addiction . . . and the car in my avatar is my daily driver too.

About pads - HPS pads are in no way appropriate for track days beyond a cautious introduction. HP+ are better, but have a big appetite for iron, meaning your rotors. I'm a fan of the Carbotech XP series, and the Carbotech compounds are compatible with one another. Meaning you don't need to have one dedicated set of rotors for your street driving and another for your track time, or you get involved with sanding/otherwise scouring the pad deposits from each kind of pad off before installing the other set. That's if you go with swapping between street and track pads. If you can live with the dust and some noise, XP8's and XP10's are otherwise streetable, meaning that they still bite pretty good even when they're stone cold, and they don't seem to be much harder on your rotors than HPS. Many other track pad compounds do not work well until some heat has been built up in them (not nice for the first stop of the day on your way to work), and many are very harsh as far as rotor wear is concerned.

If you haven't done the lines yet, that can wait.

Sooner or later you'll probably want a somewhat more aggressive alignment, with front camber slightly more negative than Chevy's preferred settings - if only out of pity for your front tires' outer shoulders. This is a fairly common topic in the Road course/Track/Autocross and Suspension/Brakes/Chassis sections.

Through all of this and being on the steepest part of your learning curve, remember to have fun.


Norm