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  • RCWells
    Moderator
    • Feb 2004
    • 3589

    #1

    Baton Rouge dyno meet

    Well, after much ado, we finally pulled off the BR meet and it was a blast. Good turnout and good times.

    Friday night we made Thunder Racing where Jonathan works, and did some baseline runs on my car. Then we installed the BMP AFPR and did some more runs. I was very pleased with the results.

    The surprising thing was that I was running fine up until about 5500rpms where it began to lean out a bit, but after we adjusted the AFPR we were able to get the a/f mix set and picked up a few horsepower and some torque in the process. Yeah, I guess you could call me LUCKY wheeter, it WAS running fine and that without any tuning. However, I am glad we got it done, and it's even better now.

    We ate some hotwings at Hooters, did some driving Friday night and then some more today. Good stuff. Branden lost a caliper bolt and ended the afternoon drive, but it was a great trip.

    Big thanks to Jonathan and all the guys at Thunder Racing in Baton Rouge for being so helpful and going out of their way to make everything right, I couldn't be happier!

    Jonathan working on the afpr install:


    Dynojet dyno in action:



    Austin and some of the gang:



    Yes, the pics suck here, and we did try the tripod:





    Branden's E30 and Cole's E36:



    Before the busted caliper:



    Uh, this is me:



    Blue line/baseline run, Red line/last run. The torque spiked but was running about 151lb/ft.:



    Last edited by RCWells; 03-11-2006, 07:45 PM.


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  • YAN-3
    R3V OG
    • Jan 2004
    • 6018

    #2
    dude i love your car

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    • mbonder
      R3VLimited
      • Feb 2004
      • 2255

      #3
      Car looks beautiful as always bobby!

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      • RCWells
        Moderator
        • Feb 2004
        • 3589

        #4
        Thanks guys. Some more pics:

        A fine assortment of E30s:





        Alecs' near mint M3:



        Christian's auto-x special:



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        • motorprestige
          Mod Crazy
          • Oct 2004
          • 788

          #5
          Nice torque, you are easily over 200 ftlbs' at the crank. Whats with the hp level though?

          "Having won more road races than any other model in history, the E30 M3 is considered by many to be the world's most successful road race car." - Simply put, E30s kick ass.

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          • RCWells
            Moderator
            • Feb 2004
            • 3589

            #6
            Nooo, I WISH the torque was 171, but if you look at the graph, it spiked there, it was actually only about 151, which for a basically stock motor, is not bad. The HP is respectable I think for an M20 with the few add-on mods I have.


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            • YAN-3
              R3V OG
              • Jan 2004
              • 6018

              #7


              dude what color is that?

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              • Ray Smoodiver
                Moderator
                • Jun 2004
                • 8809

                #8
                Mint car Bobby.

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                • rwh11385
                  lance_entities
                  • Oct 2003
                  • 18403

                  #9
                  woooohoooo for running lean for your top 2k rpm's! how lucky are you

                  and also wooohoo for spending $ ___ and ending up with a car that pulls as hard as some stock have.

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                  • RCWells
                    Moderator
                    • Feb 2004
                    • 3589

                    #10
                    Top 1000 rpms. And I haven't spent much on what I've done. Something else to note, the last two runs were after several before, and no doubt the motor was hot even with the fans on it and a few minutes cool down time. The numbers are not that important to me at this point, but it runs like a champ, and that's what matters. I run with the M3s in the group easily and in the twisties as well, and I doubt many stock e30s could make that claim.


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                    • rwh11385
                      lance_entities
                      • Oct 2003
                      • 18403

                      #11
                      whoa, wells didn't freak out and threaten physical violence at a response that wasn't from a "yesman". congrats JFK from at least improving a bit

                      have fun. good thing that adj APR worked and you didn't throw down for a S-AFC

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                      • RCWells
                        Moderator
                        • Feb 2004
                        • 3589

                        #12
                        Originally posted by rwh11385
                        good thing that adj APR worked and you didn't throw down for a S-AFC
                        no doubt. thanks.


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                        • f u z z
                          E30 Mastermind
                          • Jul 2004
                          • 1600

                          #13
                          how the fuck did you climb that sign...

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                          • Jand3rson
                            Banned
                            • Oct 2003
                            • 37587

                            #14
                            Originally posted by f u z z
                            how the fuck did you climb that sign...
                            I was wondering the same thing. Nice pics!

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                            • 2002maniac
                              R3V Elite
                              • Feb 2005
                              • 4260

                              #15
                              wow! You guys have soe clean e30's down there. Very nice!

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