After a year of searching, an Alpineweiß story

[iwantspeed]

I was getting ready for a track day at chuckwalla.
The day before the event I lost a driveshaft bolt.

Blessing in disguise because chuckwalla is a solid 3 hours away almost 200miles one way. It would have sucked to loose that bolt on the drive to the track at the track day or on the way Home.



I limped it home put it in the air figured out what was wrong. And I had a spare bolt and nut.

I installed the spare bolt


I called Irvine BMW and they had 10 one time use nuts in stock so I installed the old nut and bolt test drove it to the dealer and was relieved that it fixed the problem 100%.
I picked up the new bolts went back home and installed them. The loaded up the car for the track day. When it first happened I thought I might have to cancel my track day. I was happy to not have to cancel it.

[2mAn]

this update sucks, why no track day pics???? Im disappointed

[Sh3rpak!ng]

Damn, I had that happen to me once. Also took out the guibo. Good catch!!

I usually use belmetric and mcmaster to replace fasteners for a fraction of the cost of oem :)

[efficient]

you work real clean Alex, which reflects how nice your e30 looks. i like your attention to detail also.
keep up the good work.

[iwantspeed]

you work real clean Alex, which reflects how nice your e30 looks. i like your attention to detail also.
keep up the good work.

Thanks man

Damn, I had that happen to me once. Also took out the guibo. Good catch!!

I usually use belmetric and mcmaster to replace fasteners for a fraction of the cost of oem :)

Good idea

this update sucks, why no track day pics???? Im disappointed

I will come through today.

[iwantspeed]

Late night swapping driveshaft hardware the day before the track day.
Really dreading having to wake up at 3am


Car loaded up and meeting Apexjunky (Tyler) and Tomo in the s2000 at 3:45am in Irvine Ca


Sunrise

Made it safely to the track. It's 30 minutes to the Arizona border.

Setting up our pit area


Variety of cars out there this yellow Miata was so loud it startled me as I walked by it in the pits and it revved as I was passing by.

Say no to garage queens

Functional fitment
15x8 trm c1 et20 front and rear
5mm spacers in the front
205/50/15 bfg rivals
Fenders rolled front and rear
Riding on coilovers 450 fronts 600lb rears bilstein sport shocks
Ground control camber caster plates in the front and ground control tall rear shock mounts

-3 degrees of camber in the front zero toe
-2.5 degrees of rear camber 1/8toe in
Corner balanced with fuel,spare tire and driver ballast.


Track map chuckwalla was a fun technical track with a lot of flowy turns and decreasing radius turns.


Great weather at the track. It was pouring rain on our drive in the morning but after 6 am the weather cleared and was good.
A bit windy with lots of sand storm blasting us. But much better than having rain.


Panoramic of the pit paddock.
Really nice compound the bathrooms where nice. They even had 2 showers.




I really liked this Ek hatch back civic with full cage and halo seats.
Pumping the good race gas.


This track is literally in the middle of no where. My gps said you are driving on an unpaved road.
This huge tank was on the side of the road where you are suppose to turn on and I was thankful for it. He would have probably have gotten lost with out.



Apexjunky(Tyler)about to go out on his first session

Our pit neighbor told us where we could get dinner on the way home.
In Palm Springs near the mountain there is a place that sells the most authentic Chicago style deep dish pizza. Thanks Juan!
We packed up the cars topped off the tanks and headed towards Palm Springs to get to Giuseppe's pizza and pasta.


And to wrap up this track day report I'll leave you with these shot thanks to the photographers by Cali photography.
Turn 10

[2mAn]

A+ post, I hope to get out to the track in the near future. Gotta get this wedding thing out of the way so I have some free weekends

[TeXJ]

Awesome +1

[iwantspeed]

A+ post, I hope to get out to the track in the near future. Gotta get this wedding thing out of the way so I have some free weekends

Awesome +1

Thanks guys

[iwantspeed]

I got my oil catch can back from my welder buddy.
-8an weld on bungs
-Sight glass
-ball valve drain
-mounting flange

[iwantspeed]

my friend moved into a new house and the previous owners left this nice table in the garage



he offered it to me and I went over, dissembled it and brought home in the wife's prius




got it home. its freaking heavy


mocked up for now

[Sh3rpak!ng]

I like garage upgrades just as much as I like car upgrades. Nice work shop you're building there!

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[iwantspeed]

I installed some magnetic strips into some of the drawers to help keep things in place.








Magnetic tray
Paper towel holder
Paint can holder

I went to bimmerfest at auto club speedway in Fontana California and got to ride with tony Jackson in his e46 m3 for part of a session. Very good driver and nicely setup car.

[Balleristic31]

Car looked awesome at bimmerfest!! Not only is this car used and driven hard on the track it is also impeccably clean! Nice job :up:

[iwantspeed]

Car looked awesome at bimmerfest!! Not only is this car used and driven hard on the track it is also impeccably clean! Nice job :up:

Thanks nick