the Aluminum Monster. a 318 with a special 24v

[The Dark Side of Will]

Did the Rolls Royce go out on the track?

[2mAn]

Did the Rolls Royce go out on the track?

nope, he showed up and was hanging out. I think the E46 M3 show below was his race car but I am not 100% and I wasnt there long enough to see him go out on the track. Terry (QUKBMR) knew the group, I was just tagging along

[MyE30]

2mAn, are you sure none of your wheels are bent or out of balance? I don't believe not having hub-centric rings would wreak havoc the way you described. Were your wheel bolts/lugs torqued correctly?

[2mAn]

Yea this whole problem started when I upgraded from 10mm spacers to 15mm spacers. The old ones were perfect, but I wanted to push the rear out a little. Ever since then Ive had problems. Might be the damn spacers ( ECS Tuning), but I wont know for sure until the other element is resolved.

I also think the instructor kinda had it out for me and didnt want me on the track. He seemed to keep messing with me...

[MyE30]

Yea this whole problem started when I upgraded from 10mm spacers to 15mm spacers. The old ones were perfect, but I wanted to push the rear out a little. Ever since then Ive had problems. Might be the damn spacers ( ECS Tuning), but I wont know for sure until the other element is resolved.

I also think the instructor kinda had it out for me and didnt want me on the track. He seemed to keep messing with me...

I see. Perhaps one of the spacers isn't sitting completely flush. Hopefully when you figure it out it's an easy fix.

Haha, how was the instructor messing with you? If he was nit picky about things like keeping your hand off the shifter, left foot off the clutch, your eyes up, looking past the turn, using the full width of the track, etc, etc then it was only to make you better and it's normal.

[MyE30]

Oh yeah, that e46m is pure sex.

[2mAn]

I was hammering the car the day before in the Angeles Forest back roads with the SoCal vintage group and had zero issues, but within a few slow laps on the track and not even pushing it, he told the workers that I needed to get off the track. He was ahead of me in his own car, never once in my car.

Theres more to the story, but yea either way I need to fix this before I go back out.

[kid325e]

More to the story?

Fill me in!

[ak-]

That's my bud Ayed's e46 :p
He doesn't own an RR lol

[2mAn]

I figured it was his car as I didnt see the dude in the RR suit up or anything....

In other news, after the canyon part of the caravan to the CarBQ I headed back to LA on PCH and actually got a guy in a new McLaren to race me :rofl: I didnt win, too much wheelspin. Yes, Im going to blame it SOLELY on the wheelspin

Also got the larger hubcentric rings again and convinced Nigel to turn them down for me so they will properly fit. Not sure exactly when this will all be done, but it needs to happen ASAP

[2mAn]

LOng overdue update. I just completed this, but its been something Ive had and been working on for a VERY long time... So long that I might split this up into 2 posts so as not to overwhelm R3V...

It all started with this, you may remember it from page 1



fast forward nearly two years and it still looks like this

rear_valence01 by 2mAn

Started trimming it a long time ago

rear_valence02 by 2mAn

ahh the smell of cutting metal

rear_valence03 by 2mAn

well, I finally got back to it today. its been trimmed and ready for months, but because of that stupid muffler I couldnt weld it on. Finally got my Ansa muffler welded on today and I was pretty disappointed how quiet it is. I think Im going to delete the factory resonators to liven it up a bit, but thats not what this is update is about

[2mAn]

Lets start!! Notice the giant muffler is gone. I had kind of a nervous moment getting the muffler welded on prior to having the rear valence welded on, but I reviewed some pics and gave the dude a good idea of where I wanted it and it worked out perfect



already getting excited at this point! but still a lot to do before I can actually weld it.



and now I used a grinder and removed the paint, undercoating, etc to get a bare metal surface to weld to







Now I have a perfect bare metal to weld to but if I did that there would be bare metal that would also start rusting so, I masked it all up and used a self etching and weldable primer



this took way too long....





after removing the blue tape and stuff this is what I was left with. no bare metal and a perfectly good weldable surface



No pics of "in process" welding, I was trying to get it done. BUt heres a crappy pic of when I finished



after welding I covered the exposed welds with some seam sealer



FINISHED!!



I love how it looks, but the rear valence mustve been poorly repaired in the past because a ton of bondo was caked on over the exhaust cutout and it cracked when I was maneuvering the valence into place. oh well, this car isnt a show car.


AND I couldnt wait to go take pics. best I could do for now. Hopefully there will be some good pics taken at the SoCal Vintage show

[e30m3s54turbo]

The rear valance looks good.:up:

[sam_]

woo!!

[Red46]

Lookin good Simon!