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dale



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PostPosted: Wed Apr 14, 2004 10:21 am    Post subject: race car is out of the garage! Reply with quote

and I had to take a few hundred pics as a result...

taken with my Sony, better color, focus, but lower rez: http://www.unofficialbmw.com/racing/04-14-2004-sony/

taken with my Nikon, better rez:

http://www.unofficialbmw.com/racing/04-14-2004

In case you _just can't get enough_ http://www.unofficialbmw.com/racing/04-14-2004-juneau/ http://www.unofficialbmw.com/racing/04-14-2004-findley/













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PostPosted: Wed Apr 14, 2004 10:39 am    Post subject: race car is out of the garage! Reply with quote

Excellent.. looks just like Billo's photoshop projections.
I cant make out the tires.. what do you have on there..?

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91318is



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PostPosted: Wed Apr 14, 2004 10:48 am    Post subject: race car is out of the garage! Reply with quote

Very cool.
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dale



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PostPosted: Wed Apr 14, 2004 10:52 am    Post subject: race car is out of the garage! Reply with quote

Tires are Toyo RA1 225/50/14 on 14x7 Panasport ultra light racing wheels.
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PostPosted: Wed Apr 14, 2004 11:55 am    Post subject: race car is out of the garage! Reply with quote

What became of the similar-looking M3 in your profile pic?
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dale



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PostPosted: Wed Apr 14, 2004 12:11 pm    Post subject: race car is out of the garage! Reply with quote

The M3 with strips, etc, is a pshop mockup that Billo made.

Now that the car is 95% done, I need to update my sig, like so.

Dale

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dale



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PostPosted: Wed Apr 14, 2004 12:16 pm    Post subject: race car is out of the garage! Reply with quote

Latest updates to linked pics at 3:00 PST.
Lots of them there, over 90. All around the car.

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kav



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PostPosted: Wed Apr 14, 2004 12:17 pm    Post subject: race car is out of the garage! Reply with quote

that is so cool... cant wait to see you race.

how much do the wheels weigh?

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dale



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PostPosted: Wed Apr 14, 2004 12:58 pm    Post subject: race car is out of the garage! Reply with quote

I think the Panasport 14x7 ultralight racing rim is 14 pounds.
There are others that are lighter, but I've never met someone who has bent a Panasport on the track.

These are hard to find, and expensive, $190 each. Some of us would rather we went with 15x7 as our spec wheel size, if we did, we'd likely run this
Kosei K1 Racing Cast 15x7 13.5
from Tire Rack, around $140 each.

The darn laptop keeps going to sleep and halting my uploads. More pics there now, about 85.

Dale

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PostPosted: Wed Apr 14, 2004 4:25 pm    Post subject: race car is out of the garage! Reply with quote

Very cool. I wish I could be there for the first race. Avoid Z-cars!!

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Originally posted by dale:
I think the Panasport 14x7 ultralight racing rim is 14 pounds.


Jeez, my stock Miata alloys are 11.5.


Ha! I just saw the unofficialbmw decal. Love it. Comic sans ms?

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PostPosted: Wed Apr 14, 2004 6:39 pm    Post subject: race car is out of the garage! Reply with quote

the walk around

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dale



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PostPosted: Wed Apr 14, 2004 9:23 pm    Post subject: race car is out of the garage! Reply with quote

I learned a lot from the first animated GIF that Billo did for me.
That's why I did these additional sequences to try and get height and distance more consistent. I also tried a better place then the alley behind my garage!

http://www.unofficialbmw.com/racing/04-14-2004-juneau/
http://www.unofficialbmw.com/racing/04-14-2004-findley/

Dale
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PostPosted: Wed Apr 14, 2004 9:48 pm    Post subject: race car is out of the garage! Reply with quote

hey dale, how much does it weigh now?
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dale



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PostPosted: Wed Apr 14, 2004 9:55 pm    Post subject: race car is out of the garage! Reply with quote

Our class weight, including me as driver at 220 pounds, is 2650. So the car has to weigh 2430 at the end of the race. I burn aprox 5 gallons of fuel, so that's another 35 pounds.
I add 70 pounds of weight to the car on the passenger side floor, and I have to be sure I finish with about 3 gallons of gas(aprox 21 pounds) or I'll go underweight.

If I went minimum weight, maybe for a different type of racing, I'd be at 2330 wet weight. This includes the big 200+ pounds of roll cage, if I pulled that(which I never would) this car would be seriously light!

Dale
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dale



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PostPosted: Wed Apr 14, 2004 10:47 pm    Post subject: race car is out of the garage! Reply with quote

If you have a fast link, check out these animated gifs Billo did out of the previous pics: http://www.unofficialbmw.com/images/Animation1.gif
http://www.unofficialbmw.com/images/Animation2.gif

Very cool, thanks Bill!

Dale
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