Jamez

I did two full laps at 1.12.5 pace but because I had to pass a car round the outside at the final corner both times ended up doing 1.12.9 Then when the canvas came through, well stringing a perfect lap together was never going to happen. My new goal will be 1.10.5 when I put my car on a diet, get new tyres and fit a rear wing.

I finished 5th in the 1 hour, but was 3rd in the pitstop at 30min. Due to the stock fuel system and no pit crew I had to jump out to put 24L of fuel in, which cost enough time to drop the 2 positions. Managed to get maximum value from the slicks. Now to loose some weight, add a wing and turn it into a proper race car. Having a glance over the data, turns out more horsepower really helps, who would have guessed? OEM ECU Best Sectors: S1 - 22.94 S2 - 24.45 S3 - 25.69 Total - 1:13.08 Top Speed into last turn - 172kmh Top Speed into first turn - 211kmh Tuned ECU with +5rwhp peak and +30rwhp midrange. Best Sectors: S1 - 22.82 S2 - 24.35 S3 - 25.04 Total - 1:12:21 Top Speed into last turn - 180kmh Top Speed into first turn - 218kmh S1 is from the start line to just after turn 3 S2 is from just after turn 3 to the hairpin. S3 is from the exit of the hairpin and is basically all open throttle.

Spent some time on the dyno yesterday fixing the fuel and trying to smooth out the power with Bredon and Josh. Some good gains over stock for what ended up being a pretty safe map. Doing a trackday on Friday to see what difference the gains make.

Sunroof was bad, rear guards had a little bit and front A pillar had some repairs, but was ok. It needed about 2-3k of work to get it mint so I sold it.

That's my old M325i, even with the problems it has I still regret selling it back in what would be ~2011

How low could you go before surge? I found with only the standard pump it was ok at 1/2 full, but not really keen to try any lower.

I've got a brand new return assembly. I removed it because I didn't like the feeling.

AMI

Tried out some tunes on the Revolution Dyno Centre dyno. I still need to dial in the tune but have already got massive gains in the midrange.

6cyl

As per auction, have pic of rear but no front.

Trying to make some room in the shed, so have some things up for sale. There might be more to come. M43B16 + GM Automatic https://www.trademe.co.nz/Browse/Listing.aspx?id=1030405357 E36 M Sport sway bar - 4 cylinder https://www.trademe.co.nz/Browse/Listing.aspx?id=1030409923 E31 V12 MAF's times 3 https://www.trademe.co.nz/Browse/Listing.aspx?id=1030412470 E30 H&R Lowering Springs https://www.trademe.co.nz/Browse/Listing.aspx?id=1030413932 S50B32 Headers, suit E30 conversion https://www.trademe.co.nz/Browse/Listing.aspx?id=1030416107 E36 4 Cylinder Radiator https://www.trademe.co.nz/Browse/Listing.aspx?id=1030418386 S50b32 Crankshaft https://www.trademe.co.nz/Browse/Listing.aspx?id=1030420356

1) E36 6 cylinder M Sport Bars front and rear, I think the front is 25.5mm 2) Attached to the control arm 3) Front spindles are E36 M3 Evo It's no secret what I am using as the everything is pretty much OEM E36, kind of makes the whole thing quite comical when the cars I am racing around all have AP racing brakes, dry sumps, carbon airbox's, adjustable sway bars, modified motors etc etc, I think I was the only car there still running carpet

Race 2 - Handicap Start Race 3 - Grid Start - Drying track

What an awesome first weekend out. The car is now safely home and in one piece, not even a scratch on what is one of the few cars that drove to and from the track, running flawlessly the whole time. The entire weekend people kept coming up to me and cracking jokes about my little hatchback, name likes "shopping wagon", "little girls car" and "hairdresser's car" were thrown around, but after people had a look at in on the track the names changed to "it's pretty f**king quick", "What the hell is it" and "that's not a 316ti". Race 3 was a good race with me setting my best lap time of the weekend, but also managing to gain .3 of a second on sector 1 by adding 2psi to the front tyres which made it a lot more stable in high speed corner entry. My best lap ended up being a 1:13.301 but going off best sectors for race 3 the car is capable of a 1:13.081, then if you take the best sectors from all 3 races, the car is capable of a 1:13.037, but with 2psi extra the car was loosing a few hundredths in the slower corners. Still stoked I was able to get pretty close to my goal of a 1:13.0 by weekends end. Here is a video of my best lap, a bit of drizzle in this Now its time to cut out 100kg+ of weight, get a swirl pot so I don't have to run a full tank to avoid surge(-40kg), get a tune to add some HP (+30rwhp) and add a rear wing so I can keep the rear end under control. New goal will be 1:11.0 around Hampton Downs.

Here it is, the first ever race in the newly put together BMW M Compact. Started 9th and finished 8th. Two cars in front were .3 faster at the start, but I was catching them at the end, so it's good to see the compact doesn't slow during the race like the others. From the telemetry I am down .4 of a second on what I would consider a perfect lap, I am also going to test a new unconventional line on the hairpin as that gave me another .2 of a second when passing a slower car in qualifying. My goal of a 1:13.0 by weekends end still stands, but to help give it a bit more power I am going to try removing the viscous fan and shroud today and see what sort of gain that gives. Funnily enough I found due to having the predictive lap timer that having the headlights and electric fan on were sapping .2 of a second just going up the front straight and about .3 on the infield, suffice to say they were turned off mid race once I figured this out

It's running off a virtual server on my blade cluster which is in a C3000 blade chassis at Hampton Downs. I am looking at moving it to a cluster at work though. Traffic wise, the VPS has moved quite a bit in just under 2 days.

It's free if you take it by tomorrow, otherwise I have to move it to the back of my garage.

What lap time were you doing?

What are people hoarding? Not much on trademe these days

Sorry about the site downtime, have had issue over the last week with servers getting to hot. Have disabled thermal shutdown until a resolve for the cooling issues is found.

I would just like to give the cops some credit, at least the ones I came across were fair and gave me a chance to slow down after finishing a passing manoeuvre instead of being a trigger finger. I had two flash their headlights until I was back under 100km/h and then let me go on my way.

Sure it's not BMW, but it's still German and awesome. I hacked together some clips from last weekend and it's all on again this weekend.

I had a 3.91 with ZF 5 speed on my E30 race car with S50b32. 2nd gear launches weren't a problem but top speed was 220km/h @ 7400rpm, this became a problem when I got more power as I started running out of revs in 5th. Now I have 3.91 with Getrag 6 speed I can idle at 3000rpm at 100km/h on the motorway, top speed 260km/h. The best thing is it's like having a close ratio dog leg 5 speed as 2,3,4,5,6 are all used on the track with the most used gears being in a H pattern.

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