BTW Welcome Terry. You'll like it here I think. The E30 section at Bimmerforums is a joke, and this site gets more traffic than E30tech.com. Which is still pretty good....
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Holy @#*&!!! That's got to be a handfull to drive.
SM just scares me. I hate the class because I feel it's so unfair for some cars and is way to broad of a spectrum for some other cars.
But I love to see some of the swaps.Your signature picture has been removed since it contained the Photobucket "upgrade your account" image.
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I'd have to get some solid weight numbers but the best bet yet, for a E30 SM engine just might be a swapped in S14 with F/I......Built, and Cammed S14's N/A have gotten close to 300whp!!sigpic
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Sorry guys for beating a dead horse....
Go to youtube and search for SM Nationals......Watch that video. Daddio just simply wheeled that Evo much better than anyone else did.....All other Evo's were mixed in the results......Tunnel would have owned that class for a long time if he would have stuck around.sigpic
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that is fucking awesome - got any pics of the build up? for some reason I have a soft spot for LSx swaps into BMWs..Comment
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Mtech1 v8 build thread - https://www.r3vlimited.com/board/sho...d.php?t=413205
OEM v8 manual chip or dme - https://www.r3vlimited.com/board/sho....php?p=4938827Comment
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Actually, its TWO handfuls! :D Here's an in-car video: http://au.youtube.com/watch?v=r82qX2VjqZc
That's with the front swaybar "locked up". We've since remounted that and the car is much more planted in front - so much so its compressing the suspension and getting up on 2 wheels a lot. We've just put in AST4300s and new spring rates, but we've got to go up on the rates once again...
I like StreetMod... a lot. A friend and I created an SMOD class back in 1992 and I ran it it at a regional club for several years. It was regularly our largest class for 4-5 years, by a LOT. We had 28 cars enter one day, with only 125 cars at the whole event (I remember because I won in a borrowed and then-new Roger Johnson owned S2000 that day!). It was just... huge. We all had street driven autocross cars that had some flaw that pushed us out of SP...
When Dennis Grant and Howard Duncan started taking about the SCCA having an SMOD class back in its infancy, me and some fellow SMOD racers joined the "e-mail list" (remember those?) and "helped" push DG into allowing some non-Hondas and other changes. Mostly we fought with him and showed him how wrong he was. Sometimes he even listened, ha! The rules were pretty jacked up for a number of years (the "DG Years") but later the class got full National status and more attendance, its still getting better. This latest round of weight break changes were all for the better!
HPT's slick surface really emphasizes AWD so they need to be handicapped a bit more. They just handicapped the XP class similarly. Its always going to be tough to put down BIG power on sealed asphalt with radial DOT based tires...
Have to agree with you - pleasantly surprised. I have to watch what I post, as we're not "supporting vendors" yet, but several of our dealers are... does that count? :D
Hmm.... can I link to another forum's thread? Here goes: http://forums.bimmerforums.com/forum...4#post12457714
That thread details the build-up of our "Beta" E36 LS1, which was used to verify production parts for our LS1 swap kit. Its a lot more polished then our ghetto Alpha car, for now. The Beta car just had a 1-piece roof panel welded in and was repainted, while it waits for a new clutch (the junkyard sourced transmission had a fried clutch). It should be on the dyno this week, and we're hoping for ~420 wh on this junkyard sourced LS1 motor (with an LS6 intake and a cam). The 7.0L motor that's being finished should make "a good bit more than that".
yes, the ridiculous wing is coming off, and its getting repainted white in the next 2 weeks!
http://www.cardomain.com/ride/3041266 - this is our "CarDomain" site for the Alpha car. We're trying to get some votes so we get an invite to the GRM "Ultimate Track Car Challenge". If you have a second, please login there and vote! :DLast edited by Fair!; 03-26-2008, 10:47 AM.Terry Fair - www.vorshlag.com
Project Thread for the now-burned-to-a-crisp $2011 GRM Challenge Winning E30 V8 :(Comment
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Holy SHIT, that is probably the best in-car autox vid i've ever seen!Comment
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