well, It all began with a Birthday present from the wife. 9 laps on the Nürburgring!!!!!
Well, My M tech II car has had a very changing life in the last few years, from beater, to turbo, to now a 2.7 with a bunch of stuff. The car has never been driven farther than about 20 miles round trip since I've owned it, so I figured it was time to put it on the lift and go through everything.
the motor.. 2.7 block, 885 i head with IE larger valves and a bit of honing, Alpina 280 sumthin(schrick) cam, Hartge headers, Cometic headgasket, Alpina chip, 3,91 Visco dif., all poly mounts, adj. cam gear7° retarded, re-ringed and bearings about 5,000 miles ago.
some pics of the suspension work that went into it.
Here we are at work doing a last allignment on the car after poly everything in the rear with adjustable rear subframe, and a 5 lug swap that was done a few years ago. finally recieved the compete M coupe front knuckles and brakes too.
parked next to the work ride.
Well, the wife also called (EURO3) Dave and made sure he could come along for the fun too. plans were made and we set out to do the roughly 800km trip. BTW, Dave just put about 200 miles on his fresh rebuilt S14, so this was gonna be the test to see if it holds up or not.
So, off we went, took the mandatory at the gas pump R3v pic. Heres Daves U.S. spec 1988 M3.
We made it to the ring without a single hick-up!!!! not bad for the maiden journey for both cars.
Arrived and went straight to the track to try to figure out how everything works. Showed up, and who was doing some kind of filming right at the entrance? Sabine.
made it, gotta get a pic in the parkinglot.
I booked a room for the 2 of us at the Tiergarten hotel, this is the hotel that Sabine Schmitz (ring taxi chick) parents own, with the famous steak on a hot stone restaurant in the basement (Pistonklause), damn was it good steak and beer!
room even had a pic of a DTM e30m3 in it!!
drove around the track to see some scenery. WTF???? A bus on the ring!
Well, My M tech II car has had a very changing life in the last few years, from beater, to turbo, to now a 2.7 with a bunch of stuff. The car has never been driven farther than about 20 miles round trip since I've owned it, so I figured it was time to put it on the lift and go through everything.
the motor.. 2.7 block, 885 i head with IE larger valves and a bit of honing, Alpina 280 sumthin(schrick) cam, Hartge headers, Cometic headgasket, Alpina chip, 3,91 Visco dif., all poly mounts, adj. cam gear7° retarded, re-ringed and bearings about 5,000 miles ago.
some pics of the suspension work that went into it.
Here we are at work doing a last allignment on the car after poly everything in the rear with adjustable rear subframe, and a 5 lug swap that was done a few years ago. finally recieved the compete M coupe front knuckles and brakes too.
parked next to the work ride.
Well, the wife also called (EURO3) Dave and made sure he could come along for the fun too. plans were made and we set out to do the roughly 800km trip. BTW, Dave just put about 200 miles on his fresh rebuilt S14, so this was gonna be the test to see if it holds up or not.
So, off we went, took the mandatory at the gas pump R3v pic. Heres Daves U.S. spec 1988 M3.
We made it to the ring without a single hick-up!!!! not bad for the maiden journey for both cars.
Arrived and went straight to the track to try to figure out how everything works. Showed up, and who was doing some kind of filming right at the entrance? Sabine.
made it, gotta get a pic in the parkinglot.
I booked a room for the 2 of us at the Tiergarten hotel, this is the hotel that Sabine Schmitz (ring taxi chick) parents own, with the famous steak on a hot stone restaurant in the basement (Pistonklause), damn was it good steak and beer!
room even had a pic of a DTM e30m3 in it!!
drove around the track to see some scenery. WTF???? A bus on the ring!
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