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09-26-2023, 08:32 AM | #176 |
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the fitting you're describing is EXACTLY what I did on my 2.5 RS once for oil pressure and the cantilevered sensor off the T caused the same fatigue failure..
You did seem like you bumped into yourself a few times.. glad neither mostly flammable fluid spurting turned into anything more. this sounds like it was a lemons format race? the brake pads are unfortunate but now you know about them and their 6.69 hour service life.. I have to imagine that car is especially hard on the brakes. Whatever we use for pads, dunno which brand, they seem to last for most of our season.. I've never seen them being changed personally. Was there an absurd amount of brake dust everywhere? can inquire which brand pads they are.. very well may just be pep-boys finest. I'd say they're "good pads" but my driving is relatively light touch.. I only found ABS like 3 times and when I came in my fuel consumption was 6 gallons for the 1:40 shift vs the 8 gallons the other drivers in same car used. The 3.0L e46 w/diff showed it had plenty of ability to spin up the rear tires on corner exit so I was being overly easy on the acceleration. the car spun on it's first lap out via other driver.. it was just a slight oversteer that swung on correction and pointed into the grass and did a little pirouette. I was fortunate and got a pic of him in the grass so people could tell him... "you can't park there M8"
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09-26-2023, 08:32 AM | #177 |
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Anyone want to join a lemons team for the CMP race?
Dp edit.. I found a GT bike on the marketspace that matched the dark green of the haterade e30. So I bought it for Alacrity024 and surprised him with his new pitbike at the race! It's gonna get printed vinyl and schemed up to match the car.. gonna be awesome. I have a 2000 GT Pro Performer I bring along as a pit bike that was sitting in the basement for 20 years and finally has a reason to come out for racings Does your team have anything they ride through the pits to get to the bathroom or go fleece teams out of their valuable spare parts? it's been clutch a few times getting somewhere quick to recover something we forgot ahead of a pit stop. Last edited by Fish; 09-26-2023 at 09:04 AM. Reason: Dooble pooost |
09-26-2023, 07:53 PM | #178 |
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Our car relies on being an absolute savage on the brakes. I have passed 3 cars under braking before. 14" front rotors/ 6 piston calipers, 13" rear rotors / 4 piston calipers on 295 square rubber. It was a luckydog race, each day is a seperate " race" and its much better than lemons. You qualify, get put in a class and go racing. Safety is the only rule. They set a too fast time which is generally fairly fast for the course and thats it. No gameshow, no complicated rules, no nonsense racing series.
We have a pit bike but its mildly broken, since the engine is old and tired. I keep forgetting about fixing it and or using a bicycle. There is always some cluster **** going on that takes precedence. |
09-27-2023, 08:22 AM | #179 |
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that's why you need an old schoolish BMX to not have to fight with. a 20" frame will stow in most subaru's across the back seat I've found even.
We have a little gas pit bike that is part of our kit, but I've yet to ride it actually. We do lucky dog's when they're running something in the northeast, I've not run one of those yet. This bracket race was the first non-lemonsining I've done. I liked the the format of the reverse bracketing and the 20% of the traffic, it was mostly an enduro track day.. there were many laps where I was off on my own with nothing in the mirror. |
09-27-2023, 08:22 AM | #180 |
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Anyone want to join a lemons team for the CMP race?
......dp edit!
Here is my bike, cleaned it up other weekend |
10-23-2023, 12:19 PM | #181 |
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back at NHMS/Loudon for a third time this coming weekend.
We've got all 3 cars ready.. no idea which car I'll be driving. If the e30 gets B'classed it'll be running 3.5hr stints and going for a class win. I'll be in one of the e46.. which ever one they're not trying to push for results. My relative slowness has some fuel economy benefits that we may need to use. I suspect I'll see a green flag and use my 2 gallons of extra fuel to stretch in order to offset the pit timing for the remainder of the day. hopefully not the case, I don't want to become morning utility green flag non-caffeinated likely have to pee guy. The iracing league I am in is related to a IRL sports car club Time Trial group. There will be 4 cars with various mix of the league folk out there with me, last two years tons of the TT people have hopped into the Lemons/enduro world. One of the new cars debuting is basically a zero hour fancy Champ car BMW e46.. they're gunning for us with that hardware if they don't get penalty lapped back to last years race. Also going to see the Debut of the Ford Tempo with two motorcycle engines up front! pretty excited for the weekend.. the weather may be in mid 70's sat and then drop out to 50-60's sunday. |
10-23-2023, 08:01 PM | #182 |
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3.5 hour stints? We would need atleast a 35 gallon tank to do that.
That weather seems nice, and iracing experience can definitely have results on the track. If it helps, i only got faster by finding an instructor at the track and going over every corner to essentially find the cheat codes. Post race examination showed that we smoked two $300 calipers. The big piston came out too far and if it moves to the side a little the bore of the aluminum caliper gets pushed out of round by the steel piston. This means the caliper is toast. We are still trying to swap in the new motor but ive been home 3 days in over a month. It doesnt look good for the december race we were trying to run. |
10-24-2023, 07:57 AM | #183 |
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3.5 no driver change, but it'll take fuel.
Were these wilwood calipers or something? |
10-24-2023, 08:48 AM | #184 | |
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Yeah, Wildwood superlite forged wide 6 piston calipers. Kinda need the 20mm pad width. Don't necessarily need the 6 piston but they were used/cheap when I had the brackets made. |
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10-24-2023, 09:15 AM | #185 |
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if I could just find my SFI rated socks.. this is always a problem for me...
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10-24-2023, 10:25 AM | #186 |
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ordered 2 more sets.. makes 4 total.
I don't know what magic keeps making them vanish but its annoying.. ordered a underlayer shirt as well.. want to get some bottoms at some point too. they should all be here tomorrow, I have some I can borrow if it gets down to it Friday. |
10-26-2023, 08:15 AM | #187 |
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Got muh sox..
Rain looks like it's gonna occupy Sunday, like 77% presently. Not looking forward to a wet drive, would be my first time racing in rain. I'll just bail on my team and see if I can get a seat in the rental spec Honda accord or Nissan Altima that is still carrying most of it's glass and likely has window defog still installed. |
10-26-2023, 08:15 AM | #188 |
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Got muh sox..
Rain looks like it's gonna occupy Sunday, like 77% presently. Not looking forward to a wet drive, would be my first time racing in rain. I'll just bail on my team and see if I can get a seat in the rental spec Honda accord or Nissan Altima that is still carrying most of it's glass and likely has window defog still installed. |
10-26-2023, 06:55 PM | #189 |
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We have absolutely zero hvac or wipers in the car. All we use is rainx anti fog on the inside and gtechniq or however its spelled on the outside. It works pretty damn good and since there are no wipers the exterior coating lasts for years.
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10-29-2023, 10:30 PM | #190 |
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My #763 car had non catastrophic but time eating things. 36th overall out of 123 cars started. black flags and the wheel studs on the front right were all failing on us.. Wheel went loose early on after torquing it the night before.. and then during my drive it snapped two studs off but I felt it and got crew ready to end my shift 5 min early. Alacrity024 was in the #306 e30 running 3.5hour fuel/driver stints and nearly took B-class but got beat by a Miata with a 302. The silver #444 car took an overall win without much struggle. They stayed clean and the car finished a whole race without teething issues. And with this race we also finished as the regional champions! The special trophy they gave us for first place says it all. Sent from my iPhone using NASIOC |
10-30-2023, 09:48 AM | #191 |
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You seemed to have a good race. Wheel stud issues are not only a bmw thing, but their setup is definetly prone to failure. Last race the bmw team next to us broke two studs and then the other three went to ****. Luckily i had a welder and was able to get the stubs out so they could get the car in the trailer. We have had stud issues as well. Checked torque after saturday and one stud broke in the process. They were moroso 1/2 -20 studs but it made me paranoid so ARP 14mm were installed on all corners.
Second place in class, and an overall win is not easy to do. Congrats on making that **** happen. We are getting close but still have some bugs to work out. How was the race as a whole for everyone else? Was it a black flag party like so many races as of late? |
10-30-2023, 10:08 AM | #192 |
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It was yellow flag dense at times.. I think most of the black flags were passing under yellow. Everyone was better than they were last year.. we didn't even have to have a Sunday Drivers meeting to get yelled at.
Sunday was still black flag dense, but it was raining most of the day so spins a plenty. I had a semi moist tank-slapper I saved... track was moist then me. my black flag was pass under yellow.. It'd been local yellow for 3-4 laps in one area, next flag was around a bend and up a hill and hadn't been yellow.. but then whole course went to yellow and I'd already made a move around the slowest thing on the track. I called it exactly when they asked me what happened and they were content. But my 736 car first driver sunday rang 2 black flags 20 min apart.. and they pretty much said "we don't want to see this car again or you're hanging out with us for a while." So we drove clean rest of the day and I got to take the checkered flag! the B-class 302 ford'd Miata that beat the e30 barely for the class win.. they rolled off track for the parade exit and to go over to victory lane... they got about 10 feet into the exit parade.. did a celebratory rev for the peoples.. Blew the motor into bits for the peoples... the peoples helped push it to victory lane. I didn't get to see it because I was in the car ahead of them. Since 2021 when I started.. this was my 6th endurance race being a driver and I've somehow got 6 endurance finishes! we may not always kill it with results but finishes are still a win. |
12-26-2023, 04:02 PM | #193 |
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We (Bostonwhiners) are the eastern champs and third place nationally! Signed up for 2 lemons races next season and I’ll be crewing some races. 2/3rds of the cars are good and are just seeing some development work. The e30 needs some metal pulled to be more straight and not need ratchet straps to hold rear bumper off the ground. Sent from my iPhone using NASIOC |
12-26-2023, 04:18 PM | #194 |
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Congrats. How many races did the team enter?
I'm still mid engine swap. It's turned into a project since we had to cut the k member for oil pan clearance. The factory motor mounts were not ideal when sliding the oil pan past them. I bought a set of swap mounts so I could make more room. Engine has been in and out 3 times already, it's going to take at least 5 times. Then we can wire it back up, plumb in the accusump, redo the radiator mount, 34 other projects. We totally smoked the other motor. It had been dropping oil pressure under braking, and that led to galled rod bearings with vertical scoring on the cylinder walls. 4 cylinders had low compresion. Two of those were 1/3 of normal. |
12-26-2023, 04:30 PM | #195 |
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that does not sound like happy wintertime fun, at least you somewhat south.
We only ran 4 races but we got that cheater 3x multiplier and got all 3 cars to the finish, just not always on the same motor we started the race with. I suspect depending on results in 2024, if we're in the same points position nationally we'll travel and tack on one more race. we just weren't ready for it after racing in october this year to get back out and road trip it but it was heavily considered. |
12-26-2023, 04:30 PM | #196 |
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that does not sound like happy wintertime fun, at least you somewhat south.
We only ran 4 races but we got that cheater 3x multiplier and got all 3 cars to the finish, just not always on the same motor we started the race with. I suspect depending on results in 2024, if we're in the same points position nationally we'll travel and tack on one more race. we just weren't ready for it after racing in october this year to get back out and road trip it but it was heavily considered. |
12-26-2023, 04:34 PM | #197 | |
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I'm heading up to Pittsburgh to race with Luckydog. I believe the race is in June? Could be wrong on that. If you can swing it sure any of your teams cars would be competitive. Also gets you access to the RS4 discount. |
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12-26-2023, 04:46 PM | #198 |
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They've done that race a few years ago, but lucky dog has mostly fallen off the schedule it seems.
Here is our 2023 results, not bad results overall. Car #444 wasn't ready for the first two events, did pretty decent on it's first year out. 2023 Highlights > --------------------- > - 7 endurance events > - 1st place class A (Lemons@NHMS) > - 1st place class F (Champ@TSMP) > - 2nd place class B (Lemons@PIRC) > - 2nd place class F (Champ@WGI) > - 2nd place class B (Lemons@NJMP) > - 2nd place class B (Lemons@NHMS) > - 2nd place (Bracket@TSMP) > - 3rd place class EC (Champ@TSMP) > - 4th place (Bracket@TSMP) > - 4th place class C (Champ@TSMP) > - 5th place class EC (Champ@WGI) > - 7th place class EC (Champ@WGI) > - 8th place class A (Lemons@PIRC) > - 2nd fastest lap (Bracket@TSMP) > - Car #306 8 starts, 2563 laps turned > - Car #444 6 starts, 1351 laps turned > - Car #763 8 starts, 2438 laps turned |
12-26-2023, 04:50 PM | #199 |
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It's a joint race with Luckydog Canada and the US league. First time for us and the US Original Luckydog. If any of your guys want a seat let me know. Should be 300 wheel rwd absurdity.
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12-26-2023, 04:54 PM | #200 |
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Alacrity024 is in PA, I bet he'd bite. He's kinda stupid fast and our e30/no ABS/long stint specialist.
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