After a year of searching, an Alpineweiß story

[e30m3s54turbo]

Looks like you had fun. I miss doing auto cross.

[iwantspeed]

Looks like you had fun. I miss doing auto cross.

Thanks it was a lot of fun.

[iwantspeed]

video from the autocross
its recorded in 1080P if you watch it on youtube

[iwantspeed]

http://garagistic.com/index.php?page=inexpensive-brake-hose-adapter

Hey guys, I just wanted to share something I found at Home Depot today.

A fellow forum member and I have been discussing an e30 he is building up. After of couple of messages he offered to send me some 3inch brake duct hose that i had posted in a wtb ad.
Kind of as a thank you.

he sent me about 7 feet of 3 inch high temp brake duct tubing for free! Stoked!

thanks Scott, (Flyingbricke30)


Thanks to Andrew Lang at Lang Racing Development for setting me up with some Carbon Fiber brake ducts. These were some prototypes and just needed some holes drilled to match the strut pattern.

http://www.langracing.com/

I found these at Home Depot.









these adapters fit the square brake duct and the 3 inch round hose.
the adapter need these 4 little nubs cut off.



I just cut them with a pair of side cutters


you get a rough hole that can cut into your brake hose


just file it down or sand it down.


wrapped it black tape to prevent chaffing


it fits!


here is the hose just mocked up to the brake duct


trying to get these wrapped up before the next track day coming up next month

[iwantspeed]

Hey guys.
I went to another autocross with the scca club
I got 9th out of 40 in the unlimited class.

My friend Matt, Mena, Rafael, and Jared all made it out to the event.
This event kind of sucked we only got 4 runs the whole day
No video because I forgot to charge the damn go pro
I also failed tech because of my battery tie down :hitler:
Which caused me to miss the course walk. :hitler:






This event had time slips at the end of each run which I thought was awesome.

[TeXJ]

how much does it cost to do something like that for a weekend? Do you have to change your pads after a weekend?

[iwantspeed]

how much does it cost to do something like that for a weekend? Do you have to change your pads after a weekend?

Hey there texj
It's usually about 70.
Plus gas and lunch.
The events are about an hour from where I live.
It's not to expensive.
The expense is what doing these driving events makes you want to do to your car.

[TeXJ]

That's pretty cool. I've heard the autocross stuff is cheaper than the road course type events.

Thanks for the reply!

[iwantspeed]

That's pretty cool. I've heard the autocross stuff is cheaper than the road course type events.

Thanks for the reply!

Yep road courses typically cost 95-200

[iwantspeed]

Well guys Natalie hit the 250,000 mile mark. This has been a great car. Proper care and maintenance goes a long way. She's been my daily driver to work and school and the occasional driving event. Celebrating by doing a track day in a few weeks at autoclubspeedway.

Went to danco today and snapped a few pictures


You can see orange brake ducts in this shot.

[sam_]

Great pics! Congrats!

[2mAn]

Celebrating by doing a track day in a few weeks at autoclubspeedway.

this weekend? Im there on sunday

[iwantspeed]

Great pics! Congrats!

Thanks

this weekend? Im there on sunday

No October 4th

[2mAn]

Hey guys, I just wanted to share something I found at Home Depot today....

Thanks to Andrew Lang at Lang Racing Development for setting me up with some Carbon Fiber brake ducts. These were some prototypes and just needed some holes drilled to match the strut pattern.
http://www.langracing.com/

Nice update here, How much ducting did you need? I plan on doing the same thing with mine, also nice find at Home Depot Racing!

How much did the carbon fiber brake ducts run you? I can get them done in metal, but CF is a nice way to prevent adding unsprung weight :up:

Who is putting on the event on the 4th?

[iwantspeed]

Nice update here, How much ducting did you need? I plan on doing the same thing with mine, also nice find at Home Depot Racing!

How much did the carbon fiber brake ducts run you? I can get them done in metal, but CF is a nice way to prevent adding unsprung weight :up:

Who is putting on the event on the 4th?

Hey simon.

I needed 6 feet of ducting

I got the backing plates for free. I helped around at his shop in exchange for the parts.

Speed ventures is putting the event on the 4th