Anyone ice race their e30?

[L8 apexr]

Finally got my monster geo out,crap in the fuel caused a couple of dnf's but thats sorted and I won the other 3 races this past weekend.

Watch for the E30's(not in my class but share the track)

http://youtu.be/H7fp4SKuxvo

[L8 apexr]

Hi Shane,with the way my car is fighting me right now you'll have no trouble outrunning me.Did you and Brian get your exhaust sorted on the weekend?.
Based on what I've seen of your driving and the ability of the turtle before the engine swap I think you'll be in the hunt,if Ted and I both were able to outrun the GTX's in his car you shouldn't have any trouble either.If I can get mine sorted I think it'll be on another level compared to normal production based awd's,might take this entire season or more to get there though.

SkiFree,that looks like a wicked ice track and that E30 looks to be IX'd without the flairs.(you don't run that angle and no opposite lock in a rwd plus its throwing some snow off the outside front)

[CabbE30]

Im jealous. That looks so fun.

[straight6pwr]

u3b3rg33k is a WI local who is big into the ice racing

[SkiFree]

I would love to go ice racing at some point, pretty cool to see some on here state side that do it.

Swiss customer sent me this a little while ago.

[shanehutton]

Well well well. Looks like a fellow ice racer (and my competition) is on this forum. Here is my ice racing beast. It looks like crap but it gets the job done. :)


I have a couple of tricks up my sleeve to try to fight off the bike engined monster above but it's going to be tough.

[ROLLingKING]

This is from my '91 civic si,fwd class and overall street studded tire champ.If you watch at the start you'll see a flat back geo with white wheels,same car with my wife driving.She is going to drive the awd corolla from the 1st vid this winter while I shake down the monster awd geo.

http://youtu.be/RRuEEVfqHxs

soo sick

[AsharC]

I planned on doing it this winter but my e30 died on me.

[Zasz]

Crazy awesome shit.

[L8 apexr]

This is from my '91 civic si,fwd class and overall street studded tire champ.If you watch at the start you'll see a flat back geo with white wheels,same car with my wife driving.She is going to drive the awd corolla from the 1st vid this winter while I shake down the monster awd geo.

http://youtu.be/RRuEEVfqHxs

[M-technik-3]

Some years ago I did for a portion of the season, have not in many years. Our Chapter's Ice Racing Chairman passed last year. Stan Jackson. Good guy!

It appears we will not have ice racing this season unless someone steps up to the plate.

[Killacortes]

^^ dude nice!!

[L8 apexr]

Yes it is a blast,I've been doing it for 16 years and for sure its good for driving skills.
The class I run uses studdable winter tires with small studs,its a spec tire class so we're all on the same tires built for us by the same shop-makes it nice a fair.
We also have non studded tire classes(allowed to be siped,tractionized for much improved grip)and also a Menard ice race tire class-they get up some decent speed but having driven in that class before its a little spooky not being able to see the car 10 feet from you while drifting at 70 mph.
I'm building what may be the nuttiest car we've ever had there,here's what I'm building;
Took the engine from this(I built the car from scratch),a 2002 yamaha R1 running on megasquirt.


And put it into last year geo metro ice racer,it had a 13b twin cam swap with cams,bored TB and chipped.


But instead of putting it up front with fwd I put it in the middle and making it awd-like this.Using swift front end parts custom fabbed into the rear.











Sorry for the non e30 content,mines tucked away for the winter with no chance of ever seeing ice while I own.

[NigelStu]

I have considered running the chump car on ice this winter - partially for working on car control, mostly for the fun of it.

A club about an hour north of me run autocross-type events. Wheel to wheel on ice looks nuts.

[twism]

I wish there was a place around here where I can do that!!! What kind of tires are you guys using? Regular winter tires with studs, or real rally racing studded tires?