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I Rate Deathmatch. I just love it!

Few extra pics I've been meaning to post.

And here is the trackday video, 2mins of fun:

Powersteering, water pipes, cam angle sensor. All off to get the bloody t28bb turbo/manifold package in.

The very, very, very f**ked T25 turbo. AIR FILTER, DO YOU HAVE IT?

Judging a Honda.

I actually really like Type R Integras.

I might just come out for a ride in your car , 331hp in a BMW would be quite an experience haha. My wee weapon is resting, the R888's are bald, and it's waiting for a muffler and a cert.

I bet he was indeed surprised with your power! He was talking about putting 2 turbos on his 1UZ next year. He reckoned he had 230hp at the wheels on the dyno currently.

I myself will be aiming for about 260hp at the wheels. Maybe 300 with some camber correction...

Anyone have a picture of any BMW with bullbars?

I'm still not happy with the lighting in the photos. But I was happy everytime the hair slid off the mounds that day.

Thanks for the pointers there Heath. Track Newbies: take note.

My car was one of 4 cars with passengers, and the only non-caged one, as stipulated by the organisers. It helps when you take the organsier out and do some 'big duriftos', every young gun hero looooves 'big duriftos', and you basicly become 'the man' by using the throttle too much, turning in too hard and then letting go of the 9deg caster assisted steering wheel.

I took my MidRear virginity at the last track day, so the remaining driver theory became real in those short 5 laps, so a few more years, some targa, and a few more thousand hours and I'll have to buy a white helmet and live a double life!!!

Do you really think having the side windows up would help passengers arms flying out of car in the event of a rollover? The windows would shatter like crisp poppadoms!

It's not a race event, just a casual trackday that millions of people go in every year with no cage, and a lot of the time with passengers. It's a risky sport, just earlier on the day this video was taken a motorcyclist came off his bike at the end of the straight when his engine locked up, he was just a student, basic leathers and a nice wee road bike. Smashed 1 ankle and 1 wrist and some ribs. The ambulance was on site all day, and got to him within 40 seconds.

It's safer to be in a car with a somewhat experienced pilot than to be on New Zealand roads. Sure there is a chance of mechanical failure happening around the 140kph corner 'Pothole', but that is part of the risk, part of the fun for people who choose to watch my car do some crazy stuff around the track, then choose to get in.

Covering most bases here with a long reply ahaa.

* oh and I spent a lot of the day sitting in the passenger seats of people who wanted driver training, did about 5 people. No cages, dodgy newbies who only brake once you tell them to, some cars much faster then mine and lots of tank slapping and lines all over the place. I'd much rather be a passenger in my car lol

There was a Series 1 RX7 racecar with a 1UZ in it that I was battling later in the day. Running a link/stripped out/cage etc:

Dead even with it down the straight in my car. Bring on 1 bar of boost, gonna be keeping up with Jason down the straight Possibly anyway haha!

Rears are vented and two piece

Ducting is a bendy pipe that directs air to the rear-inside of the rotor to provide ventilation. Even if the rear rotors are vented and 2 piece they still don't have fresh air being pumped in from behind.

Head out to a big straight road and do 5 hard stops from 100 to 10kph, then 1 more from 100 to 0kph, then run around and measure the temps, should give proper readings. Then get moving quick before the pads glaze/whatever.

When you are doing the cool down lap (you must be with only 100deg Celsius on the front) the front brake ducts (even just the stock duct holes in the M3 skirt) will be cooling the front rotors while the rears are stuck in the rear wheel with no ventilation.

The acceleration in 1st and 2nd is massive, really gets off the line. But in the vid there is really only 3rd gear and above, so perception is decreased.

And yeah haha Sam has very nice brakes, really slows down fast from high speed, he was trying to catch up, just slightly tooooo hard.

Just a few clips.

Engine overview. A doridori slide. And some boost pulls. Thanks to Sam in the 325i Ex-JiB machine for showing the difference in acceleration. From out of the hairpin it just bolts away, and in the final clip once 4th gear is hooked it puts lengths on at an acceptable rate for only 7psi.

14psi with link g4 plugin board (antilag and flatshifting included) and injectors before Christmas :D

Oh the link

Isn't it strange that the qualifying times are not the fastest times, and even more so that they are 0.8 seconds from the fastest practice time. Should be smashing the record in qualifying and taking pole..

Crank the timing and fuel maps right up past the legal power output, put in 10 litres of fuel and send em out for a practice lap to break the lap record!

Murphs lap was a 2.06.8 if I recall correctly, these times today are almost a second off that..

Well thanks a lot there Graham

Fun: It's what it is really all about. It doesn't have wide rims, active differentials, active yaw control, fast steering, monoblock 6 pot calipers or central locking that works 100% of the time.. But it is what it is: fun.

Removed video. Imagine a dark scene, loud car, wheelspinning into the distance.

I don't do burnouts, but here is wheelspin from standstill to around the top of 2nd gear (110 or so-ish-ly-ness)

And that's stock boost............ Good grief this is the best thing ever!

Excuse the night footage ahaa! As you can hear it's not very stealth. We were out testing colder plugs and different boost levels with a proper knock sensor.

YOU WILL NOT

FIND ANOTHER LIKE THIS

!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

WW.

Will have in-car footage at this trackday coming up

And yes took Mr l33t for a 0.8bar 3rd gear pull today.

Car is very, very fast on 0.8bar. Clutch couldn't keep up though, so will run standard boost for the trackday on thursday. 1 bar will come one day.. Massive tunnel vision going from 50-150 in 3rd (gears are long john silver)

Pictures of rooted T25 turbo tomorrow!

Gonna drop dat clutch all day now

It's small. But does the trick. Not going for topend non-useable power here.

The T25 will be strung hiiiigh into the roof of the workshop, to remind all-comers, far and wide, to use air filters.

I wish I could type that how I can say that haha (think movie voice over guy)

Well so the turbo popped. Freeboosting the fin f**ked turbo ended with a bit of ol' blue smoke out the back, and the turbo-manifold gasket blowing out.

I looked at getting another T25 on the cheap, just so I could have it running. But yesterday I decided to call in some favours and gather up the funds to get a much, much better churbro.

Part Number 14411-91F00. S15 Spec R T28 Ball Bearing turbo. This turbo will stay on the engine until it comes out of this car. Do it once, do it right. They say it is quite superior to S14 turbos, and will push out 300+ horse powers.

Came with oil/water lines, inlet/outlet/dump pipes, the better S15 manifold (still cast though) and all the heatsheilding (needs it).

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Really the only thing appealing about it was the good chance of getting crushed by a chainlink fence and getting cut into cubes