Holy Coolness...

To my profound amazement all the pieces that I made actually work. Unfortunately I forgot to tighten some parts on the front left brake caliper but that is completely unrelated to said research and developement.

There was some massive mid corner understeer due to the shitty V710's I had on the front. These tires have been through hell !!! Honestly the fronts were part of a set that were never good. They might have been fast for about 3 events then they fell off dramatically. Weird as the second set are still extremly sticky, who the hell knows.

Dan drove my car for a couple runs and he beat my raw time with the traction control on. "Is this thing running out of gas???" he asked :) That is mainly because he's a great driver and very used to understeer. I am NOT!!!!

We'll I'll continue as I compile some pics !!!

Okay 911 GT3 RSR vs Cup Car

RSR is not exactly the cup car but pretty darn close. Is it just me or is the seat in the RSR really moving around alot? Reason enough to use a seat back brace. However if the seat didn't move it would probably transfer those forces into your kidneys :)



Okay lets compare?

Jon Holders turbo car

Well I have to admit I'm jealous. If I had 100K to blow on a club racecar I would build one too. If I had 200K I would just buy a used Porsche Cup car but thats a different story. Look at his handwork and how akward it is due to his brain sensing the opposite lock he is going to add after the apex. I dunno, it is sort of unbalanced from the looks inside the car, not my thing. Rather would have 400HP of NA then 600HP of boosted power.

Oh and addition to that you figure a guy that races amoung the top 3-4 best prepared BMWs in BMWCCA would know how to heal/toe. I'm not going to make fun as one of my best friends has a CM car and doesn't heal/toe either but CMON NOW!

M Coupe Developments

Wow, moving has thrown a huge monkey wrench into suspension developement but I guess May isn't too late to get things going. For the last couple weekends I have been working on repairing my rear subframe from the removal of my previous eccentric bushing kit from Ireland Engineering and pressing in solid aluminum bushings. Also I have customized my rear trailing arms with the addition of a 5/8 heim joint replacing one of the bushing arms. This will allow me to adjust toe without changing the rear sweep angle. Due to my lack of data as far as loadings on this area I decided on using the PRM line of bearings from Aurora which are rated 10%-15% higher than the normal allow bearings. They actually turned out really well. 7 hours of welding, grinding, painting, and working on the lathe later, I was done. I have to admit it turned out nicer than I had thought when starting. Next week I'm putting everything back in addition to a delrin diff bushing and then working on the front control arms. I'll be doing more lathe work making aluminum bearing cups and spindle spacers. I'll be using 5/8 spherical bearings to replace the out ball joing. My design is a copy of other popular designs that puts the bolt into sheer. I've seen another design that uses the spacer to transfer the sheer forces and a tension bolt to hold everything together but the spacer could fatigue and fail too. So you are better off just replacing the bolt every 2 years or so. For mock and testing I'll be using Grade 8 bolts but after I figure out the final length I'll be ordering AN bolts aka. mil spec hardware. This would be a good idea as I would like the bolt to be stronger than the bearing so we are looking at minimum sheer loadings of 18000 lbs or so.

Naked 1, 2, 3

Jason had me thinking about motorcycles and the whole crotch rocket gendre doesn't appeal to me. I don't think I'll ever do track time on a motorcyle, stunt or go to the drag strip.

New Monster 696 looks more like an MV for half the price. Has a 600 so its a bit lighter and easier to ride.



The MV is the Ferrari of nakeds, I mean c'mon, Brad Pitt owns one. Dunno if 17K is a great price for me.



Speed Triple is a big bike but Jason mentioned it wasn't that fast although I believe he rode the 675. It's pretty flashy but I dunno if 140 lb asian guys should be riding heavy, 1000 cc'ers.

We all froze our faces off...

I'm never doing that again ! It was cold, windy, and super busy. You would think driving a new M Roadster at an autocross would be a fun day right?

It was so cold I couldn't feel my thumbs today. They still kinda hurt :( Also combine this with daylight savings and waking up at 5:30 after a night of drinking = a very grumpy person today. Well not really because I don't get "grumpy" but you catch the drift. Sorry, no pictures or movies as I sat inside a Toureg the majority of the day timing and scoring. Oh what fun!

Ahhh, Limerock...

Just fucking fast. This is Joey Hand driving at limerock. Then a couple weeks later at Mid-O was the BIG wreck.

This year's winter build list

Okay, okay, we like to spend money in the off season so I'll come straight....

Onlinemetals.com - $50 in aluminum and 4130 steel for my bearing cups and spindle spacers

Bimmerworld.com - $250 for ground control bump steer kit (I didn't feel like making them so I pay)

Hrpworld.com - $120 for 5/8 spherical aurora bearings and for another tire gauge to replace the one I lose every year

Thats it for now. I wish I had time to finish the rest of the good stuff but I don't. Can't wait to see everyone Sunday !!!

Painful, Seth WTF !!!

Ever been rear ended on the road? Ever been rear ended by another racecar going 110 while you're going about 50?

Time to shut it all down :)

Track and autocross season is so close! My days cursing cold weather and filling my days with trivia are numbered so it's time to shut it all down ! I never thought my new job would be so self absorbing and working Saturday's all but eliminates me from running in Englishtown this year so my calendar will be limited. That's okay as my life feels like its in a bit of an upheaval. Just gettin old and growing up finally. I guess I'm well on my way to becoming a rich and totally anaomous character. Whatever I guess? I've been really stressed out lately trying to excecute my impending move as I've run out of motivation to pack. Well it's more like I've run out of space to put packed shit. That and borrowing money is a pain in the ass. I told my mom to lend me the money and I would pay her back. She almost went for it :) but I think she was just fucking with me.