Thought I'd post some footage from last autocross. I ran in Sacramento SCCA events during my high school days and have been running my car in Spokane, WA for the last 4 years while in college.
Here is a video from the last autocross.
The club I race with is pretty small but a lot of really good guys and some quick cars. Nothing like SCCA San Francisco region, but a lot of fun. Northwest BMW Club is the local BMW enthusiast scene and we have a pretty good showing at all of the Autosports Northwest races.
Some pictures of the progression of my car.
My car started life as my Grandma's four door automatic faded brilliantrot e30 and over the last 6 years I've made it progressively more fun. First modifications done were a cheap ebay chip, borla catback, and a stainless steel header in '07. Then bought some used tokico blue struts, ie3 springs, maxi fixed camber plates, cross drilled rotors, and suspension techniques sway bars and had them installed in '08. Started autocrossing on Dunlop Sport A2's for a year or two before switching to Falken RT615s on bottlecaps. I also got tired of burning by butt on black plastic seats and sliding around when turning, so I put in some inexpensive ebay racing seats and a smaller diameter steering wheel to make it feel like a quicker ratio. It was fun and did a few track days and tons of autocrossing, but needed to swap in a manual. Last year I found a good deal on a manual swap, had it installed and absolutely love my car. It still has the 4.10lsd in it from when it was an automatic, so it feels fast... even though it isn't. Before a trackday at Laguna last year, my Falkens were toast and I needed to get some replacements so I decided to put the Dunlops back on the bottlecaps and bought a set of TRMotorsports C1s and with some Hankook RS3s mounted. They were a blast and a huge upgrade over the Falkens and a great tire for street tire classes. After a season of autocrossing and a trackday at laguna seca, the RS3s were gone and I needed new tires. Decided to go with a cheap set of new Hoosier R6s and I enjoyed them last autocross. Now I'm looking for a strut brace, used Hoosier A6s, and maybe some cheap 16 or 17 inch rims for daily driving. Anyways, I know that was terribly written but I thought I'd give some background. I look forward to becoming an active member on r3v.
Here is a video from the last autocross.
The club I race with is pretty small but a lot of really good guys and some quick cars. Nothing like SCCA San Francisco region, but a lot of fun. Northwest BMW Club is the local BMW enthusiast scene and we have a pretty good showing at all of the Autosports Northwest races.
Some pictures of the progression of my car.
My car started life as my Grandma's four door automatic faded brilliantrot e30 and over the last 6 years I've made it progressively more fun. First modifications done were a cheap ebay chip, borla catback, and a stainless steel header in '07. Then bought some used tokico blue struts, ie3 springs, maxi fixed camber plates, cross drilled rotors, and suspension techniques sway bars and had them installed in '08. Started autocrossing on Dunlop Sport A2's for a year or two before switching to Falken RT615s on bottlecaps. I also got tired of burning by butt on black plastic seats and sliding around when turning, so I put in some inexpensive ebay racing seats and a smaller diameter steering wheel to make it feel like a quicker ratio. It was fun and did a few track days and tons of autocrossing, but needed to swap in a manual. Last year I found a good deal on a manual swap, had it installed and absolutely love my car. It still has the 4.10lsd in it from when it was an automatic, so it feels fast... even though it isn't. Before a trackday at Laguna last year, my Falkens were toast and I needed to get some replacements so I decided to put the Dunlops back on the bottlecaps and bought a set of TRMotorsports C1s and with some Hankook RS3s mounted. They were a blast and a huge upgrade over the Falkens and a great tire for street tire classes. After a season of autocrossing and a trackday at laguna seca, the RS3s were gone and I needed new tires. Decided to go with a cheap set of new Hoosier R6s and I enjoyed them last autocross. Now I'm looking for a strut brace, used Hoosier A6s, and maybe some cheap 16 or 17 inch rims for daily driving. Anyways, I know that was terribly written but I thought I'd give some background. I look forward to becoming an active member on r3v.
Not many e30s on the east side I was just looking into trying some autox.
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