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Roadstergal Site Admin
Joined: 13 Nov 2003 Posts: 1655 Location: San Mateo, CA
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Posted: Sat May 22, 2004 7:41 pm Post subject: Racing E30s... |
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Today - novice race and qualifying for the non-novices. Tomorrow is the race. Check out the Jager car - awesome paint job.
http://www.bmwpugetsound.com/images/race_5_22_04/
Dale qualifying:
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board_nerd
Joined: 28 May 2002 Posts: 1015 Location: SE US
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Posted: Sat May 22, 2004 7:55 pm Post subject: Racing E30s... |
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Is '312' a 2002? Specs? |
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Roadstergal Site Admin
Joined: 13 Nov 2003 Posts: 1655 Location: San Mateo, CA
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Posted: Sat May 22, 2004 8:13 pm Post subject: Racing E30s... |
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312 is Toby's new track 2002. I don't know the specs, but I'm impressed with it - it's pretty stinkin' quick! |
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dale
Joined: 22 Aug 1999 Posts: 3087 Location: Seattle, WA USA
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Posted: Sun May 23, 2004 6:16 am Post subject: Racing E30s... |
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Tobys car is very impressive. Fender flares, built motor ultra light weight, around 2k pounds. Very very quick.
I was fixing my brake ducting here:
In the background of the pic you can see the DCR pit area, 7 BMWs are all pitted together. Makes for a lot of fun.
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dale
Joined: 22 Aug 1999 Posts: 3087 Location: Seattle, WA USA
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Posted: Sun May 23, 2004 6:17 am Post subject: Racing E30s... |
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Oh, and I qualified fastest of our Pro3 class BMW cars on Saturday. Let's hope I can do as well today and win the race.
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dale
Joined: 22 Aug 1999 Posts: 3087 Location: Seattle, WA USA
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Posted: Sun May 23, 2004 6:36 am Post subject: Racing E30s... |
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A friend of mine, Mark Virtue, was out on Saturday with his nice camera taking pics of practice and qualifying.
Here are 11 pages worth of photos:
http://blackberryhollowfarm.net/2004%2D05%2D22%2DPacific%5FRaceway/
Bill Spornitz's car is looking awesome!
(the little girl in pink in a bunch of the photos is Mark's daughter)
My car is back from the land of the mangled, thanks Ken!!
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85-325e
Joined: 30 Jun 2002 Posts: 4712 Location: Southampton, NY
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Posted: Sun May 23, 2004 11:51 am Post subject: Racing E30s... |
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I'm AMAZED that you car back together so fast after the wreck. Looks GREAT and obviously running great too. Congrats on the placement. Hope you did wonderfully today!
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JRS
Joined: 09 Jun 2002 Posts: 2386 Location: USA
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Posted: Sun May 23, 2004 1:11 pm Post subject: Racing E30s... |
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Dale,
What's that piece dragging underneath your car ?
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dale
Joined: 22 Aug 1999 Posts: 3087 Location: Seattle, WA USA
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Posted: Sun May 23, 2004 6:44 pm Post subject: Racing E30s... |
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The piece dragging is the O2 sensor connector. The O2 sensor I have in the header is a 4wire, the connector is a 3 wire, so it's not hooked up. It's on my list!
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dale
Joined: 22 Aug 1999 Posts: 3087 Location: Seattle, WA USA
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Posted: Sun May 23, 2004 6:45 pm Post subject: Racing E30s... |
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MarkV has some great toys, one of them being a fantastic camera. He came out to the track on Saturday and Sunday and took loads of pictures.
As a bit of trivia, MarkV is one of the partners of the trio owning the 325e $2005 challenge car.
Here are _33_ pages of pics from todays race from MarkV!
http://blackberryhollowfarm.net/2004-05-23-Pacific_Raceway/index_12.html
This was my day at Pacific Raceways, chase Will D. all race, get caught up in traffic in the last lap, Lance slips by for the win!
Lance and I had almost identical fast lap times of 1.41.7xx, he and I are each pushing each other and learning from each other. Great fun. I had a fantastic start and was quite a ways in the lead, but traffic, a few yellow flags, allowed Lance to catch up. He was right there to take advantage of a mistake I made, and slip by in Turn6 to head for the win at start/finish.
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Roadstergal Site Admin
Joined: 13 Nov 2003 Posts: 1655 Location: San Mateo, CA
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Posted: Mon May 24, 2004 12:04 am Post subject: Racing E30s... |
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Will's camera is awesome, but on my monitor, it's biased the blue towards the purple - Ken's car isn't lurid at all. |
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85-325e
Joined: 30 Jun 2002 Posts: 4712 Location: Southampton, NY
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Posted: Mon May 24, 2004 12:41 am Post subject: Racing E30s... |
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Roadstergal...
The blue looks pretty good here on my end. I have a Sony Mavica, and it almost always tends to take dark pictures. Those up above look dark as well. In almost every case, when I shoot some pictures with the Mavica, I almost always have to fiddle with the contrast and brightness in a photo editor to get them to what it really looked like... |
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Roadstergal Site Admin
Joined: 13 Nov 2003 Posts: 1655 Location: San Mateo, CA
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Posted: Mon May 24, 2004 1:56 am Post subject: Racing E30s... |
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Ja, I optimize my pics for my monitor, while the pics that others have optimized for their monitors are off on mine, and vice versa. I love web publishing. Anyhoo, here are some pics from today... darn, I guess it's yesterday by now - including some from a different vantage point.
http://www.bmwpugetsound.com/images/race_5_23_04/ |
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85-325e
Joined: 30 Jun 2002 Posts: 4712 Location: Southampton, NY
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Posted: Mon May 24, 2004 9:35 am Post subject: Racing E30s... |
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What speeds do these cars attain on the track? |
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Lance Richert
Joined: 12 Feb 2001 Posts: 29 Location: Seattle
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Posted: Mon May 24, 2004 10:09 am Post subject: Racing E30s... |
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Top speeds are relative to each track, and how long the straight is in addition to the entry speed leading onto the straight. At this track, I'm guessing our E30s built to Pro-3 specs are in the 130-135 MPH top speed range. This is a guess, because more of us have the speedos taken out and just a big aftermarket tachometer put in front of our face. Dale, is your speedo still in?
The engines we run are basically stock, we are only allowed to chip the engine. Also, the E30 is a real brick in terms of earodynamics at those speeds. Other cars like RX-7s and 240z like to pull in behind us on the straight and get a tow off the big hole we are punching in the air. If I am behind another E30, I definitely get extra speed.
These cars are really impressive in the turns and under braking. That is where we do well against other types of race cars... like RX-7s, and 240z that we see out on track. At about half race distance, the brakes seem to go away on the Japanese cars, they have to extend their braking distances, and they get easier to pass.
cheers,
Lance Richert - Seattle
'88 M3
'87 325is Dinan
'88 325i race car
[ 05-24-2004: Message edited by: Lance Richert ] |
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