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I'm using 330I front brakes which supposedly limits to 16's or bigger but only certain 16's clear. If you use 325 brakes up front I'm pretty sure any 15+ fits -
It wouldn't be the start to AZ summer without the A/C trying to die on you. Noticed the airflow from the vents was pretty low despite the speed of the blower motor sounding OK.
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Needless to say we're back and operational again with a new OE resistor and a $48 amazon blower, just in time for a hot afternoon trip 100 miles to the track for the first night event of the year! I did some race prep friday night, part of which was installing new rear shock mounts since whoever installed these did so wrong and allowed the shock to blow the tops out of both. I ran the last track event like this but wanted to fix it prior to this one. I still have some crappy monroe sensatrac shocks on the rear that need to go, but this was an improvement in both sound and ride quality.
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The transponders were down for the event and I didn't even bother turning on track addicts so I have zero time from the event. I only did 2 sessions before a buddy blew up an axle in his k-swap accord and helped fix that just in time for the event to end. The first sessions was a slide fest. These RS4's are pretty heat cycled and took the whole first session to come up to temp, dropped the pressures down to 30 hot on the second session which helped tremendously but even holding 3rd gear the whole track I had to pedal 20-40% throttle out of the corner to put power down. I started using 2nd towards the end coming out of the slow turns and had a few uneasy 2-3 upshifts resulting in a lot more wheel spin than I like at 70+mph. I plan to have the hydroboost gone and tesla booster in for the next event. Using the stock 318is master with e46 brakes is less than ideal, I'm 3/4 pedal travel into the fast braking zones to get the car slowed down. A 25mm master would definitely fix it, along with some brake bias to be able to trail brake. If I trail brake this car at all the back end just comes around so you're scrubbing all speed before corner entry and then just hammer down early and try to control the slides out.
Hopefully I'll have some videos from friends to upload shortly, I only took one picture the whole event with my buddies ST165. We switched him out to spec'd feal coilovers last week along with a pulsar G25-550 replica turbo. His car hauls absolute ass now and was an absolute weapon on the track despite the laggier powerband.
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Good fix on the AC. I was just saying to a few on Monday it felt like summer officially is here. We got some teases of decent weather last week. No mo' till October now I suspect. Why do we live here? (AZ Native - I love AZ and Phoenix, but also not.)
Also really like reading the updates of changes made prior, during, and after events. Especially in regards to brakes, since I'm seriously considering that same setup to get 5lug, but with your suggested 325 brakes so I can run 15/16s.
And like John - you have me weighing options of a V8 for the forever project instead of k24 - both of those possibilities are a ways away though.Comment
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I'll let you know the next time Im up in phoenix with the car and you can take it for a spin to see if it's a swap youd want to take on vs a K-series. I think both are great platforms but my buddy that races with us has a K24 CD5 accord that makes 230hp and it's really entertaining watching his reactions in the car when you stomp on itOriginally posted by DEV0 E30 View Post
I think a K-series would be better in a lot of aspects of being able to point/shoot the car like an m20/m42 but I sure do love sending the car sideways from idle. There was one point during the event I was following 2 b-series civics and ended up just throwing it into 4th at part throttle following them around the track until they let me pass. We said it felt like a pitbull chasing down some chihuahuas 
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Long time since the last update. I ended up leaving the auto shop I've worked at for nearly 12 years and taking on a position at a friends off road/motorcycle shop. He's been trying to get me over there for years and finally called me on a day I was about ready to walk out on. This meant more money in my pocket and 2 less hours of work/day, but also much less time spent on a computer. Haven't changed much on the car since the holley install, but I did a test/tune cash day at a local air strip. I only lined up with one car in the BMW the whole night since I'm sure my rear diff isn't going to enjoy life for too long. Managed to sneak out a win against a turbo GSR civic and realized at the end of the run I forgot to drop the hand brake after staging
my clutch was already hating life before this but with nearing 150k on the original LS1 clutch I'd say it was due for an update.
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This is actually the mcleod RST out of my now-boss' C5. He stripped the teeth off the discs in his car and mcleod didn't have the parts to warranty it at the time, nor was this rated for the torque his car makes so he bought the RXT and gave me the now warrantied RST for swapping it all out for him. In order to swap the clutch the drivetrain has to be dropped out, and I said the next time the driveline is out that I'm doing the cam too so here we are.
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I had Pat G spec me out a road race cam and texas speed cut it. It's a .600/.600 228/232 with a 112+4 LSA, similar to a TSP228R cam. I also bought matching .660 lift dual valve springs with TI retainers. Spent a day after work dropping the drivetrain out, it takes about 2 hours from start to on the ground. Its not too bad all things considered.
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Cam, clutch, and springs all in
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And back in the car and running the next day with my buddies 85 318I we just got done with a 4g63t RWD swap he bought off me, which ironically was the original engine swap plan for my car.
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The holley makes quick and easy work on getting up and running. I had a pretty good starter map in the car and worked on dialing in the VE but wanted a professional to look it over. I had it remote tuned and the holley estimator spit out 394whp, I'll be putting it on a dyno at some point just for some power pulls but I honestly couldn't care what kind of actual numbers it puts down on paper. The car absolutely rips now, definitely in the near 400hp realm. It's pretty much exactly what I wanted power wise out of the car and while 2nd gear is pretty tough to manage if the tires are cold it should definitely work really well for most tracks we race at here with a some taming of the right foot. I also picked up a set of koni DA shocks for the front to replace the bilsteins in the car and I plan to swap the rears out too. Rebound/compression adjustments would be very nice at this point. And lastly for the cash days they've recently started out here I've got a bottle of nitrous to play with. We're going to start with a 125 dry progessive shot and move up to a 200 if I or the car survive that point. I raced my montero at the cash event with it turned down to wastegate and lost to a 750hp procharged coyote, but they're doing small tire events and im on a 33x12.50 mud tire. They've been letting me run with the mud tires but once it's turned back up and people start losing I know it'll be the end of letting me run "small tire" on a "big" tire, so the e30 can step in at that point and be competive with some spray.
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I plan to upload a youtube video for the sound clips and some flybys with the new cam, I just need to get some time to put it all together.
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