91 318is GT car

[Emre]

Ugh...I've been there.
Glad you walked away.
Hope the car will live on to race another day!

[pmachan]

unfortunetly this car was crashed this past weekend, I was punted off in a very fast section of track and sent into the trees at high speed. Took a direct tree hit to the A-pillar, pushing the firewall over quite a bit. Not sure yet if its fixable.
Motor is ok though, so that's good..

[KamakaziX]

You inspire me, sir. Might have to give Rebello Racing a call. . . My M42 needs some life.

[pmachan]

Are you really running stock brakes with PFC's only? Any other cooling going on?

I have a track car with 200k on the m20 and stock Brembo blanks/PFC08's. We've been thinking about upgrading the engine to something with more power (S52) but I've been reading that brakes need to be upgraded first. You're making me think that might not be the case.

How does the stock setup deal with all that extra power? Are you easier on them, get any fade, etc?

We run stock calipers and rotors front and rear, cooling in the front with 01's.
They are great, BUT, the car only weighs 2100 pounds with me in it, and fuel. This makes a massive difference.

[Cephas]

Are you really running stock brakes with PFC's only? Any other cooling going on?

I have a track car with 200k on the m20 and stock Brembo blanks/PFC08's. We've been thinking about upgrading the engine to something with more power (S52) but I've been reading that brakes need to be upgraded first. You're making me think that might not be the case.

How does the stock setup deal with all that extra power? Are you easier on them, get any fade, etc?

[FredK]

Sweet. Your car looks well-balanced!

[pmachan]

Couple from 2014, from my local track in Nova Scotia, racing against my usual co-driver in another car I sometimes drive, its a super late model converted to a road race car. It has about double the power I have, 500+, but its 600 or so pounds heavier.
We are just messing around in the vid, he let me lead off the start then he tried to get back by.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LcY-XAeeQVM#t=241

view from his car:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2yH5r8JZPII

and split screen:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CFxKBqt4QPw

[word is bond]

Glad to hear the car is still going strong! I'm sure we'd all love to see some recent pictures and/or video, if you have any.

[brian52555]

Awesome car - thanks for the update.

[pmachan]

Still having fun with this car, truely great race car, I love the simplicity of the e30 chassis.

We almost won a 3 hour enduro with it last season, but a fuel fitting came loose at the FPR, I had to pit to fix and we lost several laps.
Luckily the car did not catch fire!

Tried running the Hankook z214, car was a bit quicker, but did not suit our setup (I did not change it to suit the tire), it had some understeer mid corner, which I hate. I may try them again with a diffeent setup.
Usually we run the Nitto NT-01, which I really like, lots of slip angle and the car is super lively.

[pmachan]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0O_FXgAmxrQ

[pmachan]

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[pmachan]

I took a few updated pics of the car today, showing some more detail.
Will include a vid from our last race as well (2 weeks ago).

[pmachan]

We had the same issue in traffic with our e30 with traffic until a dohc 24v replaced the sohc m20; now the car needs the front end weigt dealt w.

We hummed and hawed, and this is exactly why we stuck with the M42, the car drives so awesome with the light motor, we just didn't want to kill that, then start trying to find balance again by changing everything to suit a heavier motor.

[Wanganstyle]

Not sure how competitive the light car/small motor thing is in NASA GTS. If you can start out front and keep the higher power cars behind initially until you get through a few corners, great, if not, its a hard go.
The power cars out drag you, then park in the corner, VERY hard to pass, especially if they make it difficult.
Hot setup in GTS3 I believe is an e36 m3 with an S54, detuned, the TQ characteristics are very good vs a built s52.
I have no idea if our car was competitive in GTS2 with the old MM motor.

The cams peak around 7400-7500, start dropping after that the way its tuned currently, red shift lights go off at 7600 I think, with rev limit at 7800.

Yes, s54 detuned is hot for gts3; just setup a diff for a local client/friend with that in mind; torque for days and rpm range to 8500. I did a s54 e36 street car in 2009...such a torquy screamer

Local race shop TC design (amazing cages for many others & ours) has gts3 record with detuned s54.

We had the same issue in traffic with our e30 with traffic until a dohc 24v replaced the sohc m20; now the car needs the front end weigt dealt w.

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