Strict budget, slow restoration. *Now with moar budget*

[blazinxpk]

Nate bringing the boys to the yard.

[Wh33lhop]

Thanks guys.

What's the overlay? RaceChrono?

Tighten up that visor. :p

Dashware.

What size nt01s are these? Front and rear? Any scrubbing?

205/50R15 on 15x8. No rubbing at all, though I did do a little clearancing in the front wheel wells (frame rails) since my struts are shortened and allow the suspension to compress another 30mm or so without bottoming out.

Here's Zain's (blazinxpk) ridealong highlights :)

[AusScare]

What size nt01s are these? Front and rear? Any scrubbing?

[rcsoundn1]

nice windshield sun blocker in the PS pocket! looks like a fun ride

[2mAn]

Tighten up that visor. :p

this had me laughing hard in the first part where you kept fixing it and it would just drop back down

very cool stuff though, I really need to get some seat time.

[Balleristic31]

Driving is looking great man! Impressive times as well!

[Cabriolet]

those drifts at the end in 2 and 3. those recoveries from the tax were glorious

[agent]

What's the overlay? RaceChrono?

Tighten up that visor. :p

[MPLFoster]

great driving. that slide past the miata was cool.

[Wh33lhop]

Jeeeeeezzzz I just hardcore procrastinated on my gov essay reading all 59 pages of goodness. Super inspiring man, I am in a very similar position you started out in haha. Makes me excited for the future of my car! Hope it will be even half as bad ass of a story you have had so far.

Thanks! Where there's a will there's a way. Make it happen dude.

Took some time off driving events, and now I'm starting up again.



Here's yet another video. Watch me chase down some spec E30s, a Porsche, a Z06 and spec Miatas.

[bdawg809]

Jeeeeeezzzz I just hardcore procrastinated on my gov essay reading all 59 pages of goodness. Super inspiring man, I am in a very similar position you started out in haha. Makes me excited for the future of my car! Hope it will be even half as bad ass of a story you have had so far.

[Wh33lhop]

Thanks dude, I like the setup as well but I'd still like to play around with it as I feel it could be more aggressive. This event I ran 3 degrees of camber, zero toe instead of 3.5 and 1/4" toe out in case it started raining again, and I don't have a pyrometer so I'm not sure which one is more optimal (3.5 seems to be the number people toss around with r-comps though). The rear is at about 2.2 degrees of camber I think.

Good call. The car's setup with a little actual rake and a little "virtual" rake. I've got riser bushings in the rear so the geometry is as if the rear was about .5" higher than it is. That plus more aggressive rear pads (PFC08 in front, PFC11 in rear) and a lot of trail braking means if you nail it just right you can be at neutral steer entering the corner until a little after you roll off the brakes.

I like loose cars significantly more than pushy cars, though that doesn't necessarily carry over to my taste in women.

[Jb325is]

Cool video, I really like how you have the car setup. I'm guessing you are running a decent amount of rake? I love how well it rotates on entry, minimizing steering input mid-corner. Nice driving

[Wh33lhop]

Thank you sir!

Nice. Didn't have time to watch it all, but at 6:50 looks like you let up on the clutch a bit too fast without matching revs? Am I seeing that right? That back end really wanted to come around on you on that downshift.

LS looks so much nicer in the winter months when it's somewhat green.

Yeah it's a long video, the last half is just me playing with a few friends who came out.

Okay, ready for a long winded opinion? There are a few things that contributed to that:

1. I've set the car up to be loose on braking (more aggressive pads in the rear than the front)
2. I like trail braking super deep into that corner (also see corner 10, the 90 degree banked right hander).
3. The car's geared such that I've gotta turn in right after I downshift. I heel-toe religiously and you can hear me blip the throttle but with very little weight on the rear tires and most of their friction circle used up already it's very sensitive to imperfect downshifts--definitely possible that's what happened.

Luckily though it didn't slow me down too much as that was my fastest lap of the day. I was always pretty loose entering that corner and you can see me leaving marks at about 3:47 into my friend's video ;D

[GDA]

Great thread.

Props on repairing, building, using and enjoying your E30.