Pitchblack Motorsports Rally e30 318i (now with M50) - and some Porsche 924S stuff.

[irish44j]

some nice new pics from last event.. Photos by AJ Hinners of Squared Away Photography

[silence]

Cool car!
posted about it here:

https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=417705194928080&set=a.209852369046698.56422.209850452380223&type=1&theater

[irish44j]

so for a bit of fun:

I had some credit from a printing place, so I used some of it to get some stickarz made. The original design was from Scot Crowner (the original ETA rallycrosser locally), I think from his LeMons or Chumpcar e30 team. Anyhow, made some small modifications to it and got it printed up for the e30 guys running in WDCR :)

[irish44j]

in addition to the e30 stickers, we have some other new decorations. For a couple of years I've used "Finn&LexyRacing" as my "sponsor" on autocross/rallycross signups. This name was created by my daughter Alexandra. Finn is the dog. She wanted stickers, so I got a few made.

She wants one of them on mom's 4Runner. Mom said "no" haha....Will put 1 or 2 on the e30.

[Mark 42]

Oh man, I would have used the good old "It for the Chiiilllldruuun" line
to make my wife appear uncaring.

Any time you can get an upper hand (This is what age does to you...)

[irish44j]

wife says I can put it on if I take OFF some other stickers I put on her truck a while back, lol. But the ones on there are "vintage" so they're staying put :)

[Mark 42]

wife says I can put it on if I take OFF some other stickers I put on her truck a while back, lol. But the ones on there are "vintage" so they're staying put :)

Start sneaking small stickers on one at a time so it's gradual and she won't
notice... then trade for those! :evil:

[FunfGan]

Josh, you should head up to Summit Point the saturday after this coming rallyx event, you'd get to see the 350is in person :D

[irish44j]

I may, will see what the schedule looks like!

Wait, is that hyperfest? IDK if I can handle that scene, lol.

[irish44j]

Today did a few little things on the car (silicone some squeaky door trim, etc), but spent the afternoon over at a buddy's house. He's a "fast car" guy but I've been trying to talk him into rallycross for a while. He finally gave in and went and bought a rally beater....the same car as his first car when he was a teenager: 1983 Nissan (Datsun) Sentra. Welcome to the dark side, muwahaha....

So we did a bit of work on it today, including AC delete, audio system delete, and some other random things. It's going to need a bit of work (new clutch, new front shocks) but overall seems to be in pretty good shape with a bit of rocker rust but nothing too terrible. He's going to freshen it up on the cheap and doesn't want to do anything cosmetic to it, but I'm not gonna let him not make it *look* like a rallycar, lol. That would be no fun. We will definitely be doing a "fun with spraypaint" day sometime this summer at my place on it, whether he wants to or not :)

He won't make it to next week's 2-day event, so he'll have a couple months to work on it during the "summer break" until September. And though he's a car guy, he likes me to work with him on the down-and-dirty things (rust, fiberglass, suspension). So since I have little to do (or money to do it with) on the e30 or WRX, I'll probably kill time working on his car.



His other "performance" car has a bit more performance, lol.

[irish44j]

oh, and some stickarz installed. Though I'm not sure I like where I put the one on the right.

[Mark 42]

Get him some of these for his Nissan:

http://www.ebay.com/sch/i.html?_nkw=82mm+bmw+emblem&_sacat=0&_odkw=bmw+emblem&_sop=15&_osacat=0

[irish44j]

Get him some of these for his Nissan:

http://www.ebay.com/sch/i.html?_nkw=...p=15&_osacat=0

lol...

I have about a half-dozen roundels sitting around in a box in the garage :)

[Mark 42]

Back to keys... I just got two keys at Ace Hardware.
The blank is Hy-Ko (Taiwan) BMW3
UPC 0 29069 70605 0

They cost $2.50 each

Works much better than the copies I got with the car
(I had them made from the OEM key I also got with it)
The other copies didn't work well in any of the locks,
but were really bad in the driver door lock. I may still swap
out the lock cylinder from the passenger door or glove box.

I always keep an original factory key in the envelope with
all of the receipts and other paperwork for each vehicle.

[irish44j]

Yep, I ordered some online, got 5 for 12 bucks. Had them cut at Home Depot and they work great. And oddly they work better than my OEM key in the locks. Ignition not a big point right now since I'm still waiting to pick up a new ignition switch and have been hotwiring the car for 2 weeks whenever I want to drive it, lol.

Of note, Home Depot has no "cutting jig" or whatever for BMW keys, but after a bunch of trying we found that the "Mazda #5" key is the same and it worked fine. Just for anyone who needs to know.