NOR-CAL General Chat.

[canakami]

Hey, I think I saw that car in the city yesterday.

[rob&e30]

So what's going on here?

he's on his winter wheels! 24's at home niggi! lol




PS danny is a kid guys..... lol

[Danny]

Oh no! You revealed my secret!

[salvuhdor]

Fog light switch anyone?

[oliver.r]

Fog light switch anyone?

picknpull has a ton, theyre even free!

[blazinxpk]

picknpull has a ton, theyre even free!

unless you're spence. then you get caught. :rofl:

[whaaac]

unless you're spence. then you get caught. :rofl:

i am the king of picknpull so its free.

edit: but if you need one, i have extras!

[HerbReal]

I need one Dylan!

[Ian Bowers]

Niiice! You should have joined us at Laguna last week and actually gone fast ;)

(last time i post these vids, I swear)





What steering rack are you running again? Looks a bit slow...

psh, the supercharger setup won't let me go fast. Sfiddy will. kinda.

Z3 2.7turn

[freeride53]

Getting some pizza tonight and eating it at home with a friend.
We're having practice with the Former US Rowing Men's National team tomorrow, very stoke to say the least.
What are you guys doing tonight?

[BlackbirdM3]

I don't have much of a reply beyond what Josh said, I suppose. If he doesn't care what it looks like I guess it doesn't matter what diameter the tires are. But I do think that you seem to be quite a purist, Will, and IMO raising your car up and putting tires that are too small on it seem to go against your beliefs.

I'm a purist as far as keeping the correct motor in the car. As far as modding the motor, hell yeah go for it the sky is the limit. Suspension, well, since I do race the thing, obviously stock springs are too soft, and a lack of adjustability for camber and caster help nothing. Coilovers over lower the car, and unless you spend big big $, you don't really gain a thing over a set of H&R race springs. You still don't have remote reservoirs, or the compression and rebound damping required to control the crazy high spring rates that are required when your geometry is screwed up. Hence the needed spacers to bring the geometry back to where it should be. The stock M3 roll center was about right, when you lower the thing not only does the center of gravity drop, so does the roll center, and it goes below ground. The solution, you either have custom springs and dampers built that are stock but higher rate, you install the roll center spacers that fit between the control arms and the bottom of the struts, but those only fit if you have at least a 16" or larger wheel. The solution, you stick the spacer on top of the camber plate. Onto wheel size, the smaller the wheel, the faster it will accelerate. Yes, its like shortening the gearing a little. Again, this helps getting out of the corner. If I had a second set of wheels, yeah I'd likely run the stock size simply because on the street its all I need, Still, I'd be inclined to run a set of E28 M5 wheels with the stock Evo3 224/45/16 tires on them. I just need to find a set.

I'd say rather than being a purist, I like total sleeper cars. They look stock on the outside, even with the hood open. When they get turned loose on a track or autoX course, its a case of WTF? How is that car that fast and still stock? The person who pulls that off has my utmost attention and respect. If you can do it and keep the car usable on a day to day basis (passes smog if needed and runs on pump gas), that is a masterpiece. I'm not a hypocrite, what I do to a car is done for performance only. Its done on purpose, and for a reason. An engine swap is clearly not a sleeper since its got the wrong engine altogether.

For those of you who question whether I compete with the car?



I think I ran it in 7 events last year, I won 3, finished a very close 2nd (within 0.02 seconds) twice, and had two crappy races, one of which was the first race I did in the car and I found a whole slew of things wrong (In tank fuel pump was bad, and the suspension was fighting its self.) The second bad race everyone on Hankook RS3s had a bad race for no reason. 7 people who were normally front runners were all off the back that day. Still, the car is my daily driver street car. I have something faster that I would rather race, but its nice having a backup car that is still capable of winning my class on street tires. (I'd love to run it on race tires just to see its potential. The $1000 price tag for a set of wheels and R compounds isn't worth the cost.) As it is, I need a wet course and lousy driving to spin the car. It takes a lot of effort. The car sticks very very well and will only get better as I sort things out.

I played this very same game with the Datsun. People called BS until I went head to head with a full blown race car, and not only was he not faster than I was, I beat him, packed up the car and drove it 150 miles home. Did I win the race? Nope, but I was 21st of 58 starters in the only car to be driven to and from the race on its own (300 miles round trip) My driving skills weren't good enough to win, however the guy who finished 2nd is pretty sure he could have put it on the podium (he has driven the car in the past.) Not bad for a car I've built from the ground up.

The M3 is the new project. I can't afford to turn it into the sleeper DTM car, and I don't really want to. I do want to make it a very hot sleeper however. Perhaps in 10 years I'll be close to getting it finished. In the mean time I'm going to take care of it and drive the wheels off it at the same time.

Will

[Wh33lhop]

See here's me with my car br0s.

"is good car"

[Wh33lhop]

psh, the supercharger setup won't let me go fast. Sfiddy will. kinda.

Z3 2.7turn

You think my 220hp 3400lb barge was fast? ;) Still gobs of fun.

Ah guess I was mistaken about the rack. Carry on!

[decay]

What are you guys doing tonight?

Playing a gig in SF:

[freeride53]

Here ya go guys!

http://sfbay.craigslist.org/sby/pts/3686955187.html