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@RainierHooker The e12 was a spare chassis used by our late great race drvier Tony Vianna (he raced anything with a BMW badge. 530MLI, 745i, 333i, M535i). This was his spare chassis from one of the classes he raced in. It was a M30b35 originally but it currently runs a S38b38 sadly though they are constantly struggling with cooling issues.
@dk The series is called Super Saloons. My father likes to call it the death bed of race cars. It's because all of our once great and mighty Nationally sponsored race cars seem to end up running in this series. Not that it's a bad thing as we have an incredible mix of cars from old school GT cars (like that blue Chevrolet/Holden/Opel depending where you come from is currently the car to beat. It's blindingly fast) Even the SCCA GT1 type cars can't keep up with him. Then there are some of our fresh of the South African Touring Car series, e90 WTCC chassied 330i and Scoobies.
Gladly the BMW contingent seems to be growing with each meeting, with at least 2 E46 M3's coming out to race, an E46 330i Touring Car and a couple old school e30's all coming out for the 1st time next year.
@mcr driver Yeah we went with the trunklid because I figured it might provide even the tiniest amount of downforce in the rear, but came to my senses and we are going to pickup a single element wing and mount it in the near future.
Well we have 3 reasons on using the 5spd box. We had it from the old S50b30euro, Who needs 6 gears? :P, and also it's lighter than the 6speed. I even contemplated using the Getrag 260 as it even lighter, but the ratio's in the ZF are much better.
@RainierHooker The e12 was a spare chassis used by our late great race drvier Tony Vianna (he raced anything with a BMW badge. 530MLI, 745i, 333i, M535i). This was his spare chassis from one of the classes he raced in. It was a M30b35 originally but it currently runs a S38b38 sadly though they are constantly struggling with cooling issues.
@dk The series is called Super Saloons. My father likes to call it the death bed of race cars. It's because all of our once great and mighty Nationally sponsored race cars seem to end up running in this series. Not that it's a bad thing as we have an incredible mix of cars from old school GT cars (like that blue Chevrolet/Holden/Opel depending where you come from is currently the car to beat. It's blindingly fast) Even the SCCA GT1 type cars can't keep up with him. Then there are some of our fresh of the South African Touring Car series, e90 WTCC chassied 330i and Scoobies.
Gladly the BMW contingent seems to be growing with each meeting, with at least 2 E46 M3's coming out to race, an E46 330i Touring Car and a couple old school e30's all coming out for the 1st time next year.
@mcr driver Yeah we went with the trunklid because I figured it might provide even the tiniest amount of downforce in the rear, but came to my senses and we are going to pickup a single element wing and mount it in the near future.
Well we have 3 reasons on using the 5spd box. We had it from the old S50b30euro, Who needs 6 gears? :P, and also it's lighter than the 6speed. I even contemplated using the Getrag 260 as it even lighter, but the ratio's in the ZF are much better.
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