a few of us went to the NCC BMW club season opener and it was a course with two super-slow technical sections/chicanes (going between concrete curbs) and a few wide-open areas up to 50-60mph. A fun course and I've never seen so many cones flying around.

Also happy that of my four runs, each one was 1 second or so faster than the previous and I beat my target time by about 8/10ths. I think I was 4th or 5th out of 15+ cars in one of the non-BMW classes. A couple fast STis with much camber beat me and a Mazdaspeed 3 who always is 1/2 sec up on me at most events....

Anyhow, a few pics with some Maxima/I30/mysubie/other content. Didn't take many.

Nick


Darius


me and the bastard MS3 that I can't beat!


Road racing IT legacy/STU autocrosser


drool..

 

350z uber-fail




I must have...

 

Nice pics man. I have to check one of the local events, it looks like alot of fun.

 

Nice pics. I want to get another car in the future and start participating in some of these events.

 

just get a set of *normal* (lol) wheels/tires for the I35 and run it....it won't hurt anything.

 

LOL. ok ok ok...

I'm probably gonna go with G37s 14" rotors and a new caliper which is still twin piston but lighter than stock 5th gen calipers. It covers a larger area of the rotor too but it's not as fat as the 300zx calipers i'm currently running. So I should be able to run an 18" wheel still

 

find some lightweight 18x8 with ET around 30 front and rear. Put some 235/40/18 Star Specs or RE11R's on it, and you'll be good to go.

I'm sure you can slum it wiht some Rotas like I do

Don't go any more aggressive offset than that...35mm might be better. The wider you put them out, the crappier your scrub radius is going to be in motorsports....

 

Not sure any lightweight wheel will help 14" rotors. That's like 60% more weight than usual.

 

true....unless he gets some 2pc. to mitigate it somewhat.

 

2pc is what I will probably be getting depending on availability. The whole setup will be one of the biggest, [hopefully] most effective, but one of the lightest setups anyone has ever put on a maxima. Just gotta wait for the developer to finish. And actually, another member on the .org will most likely have them on his car first.

 

er.....when it comes to motorsports...."biggest wheels" are stark opposite of "most effective."

Rotational weight is your enemy. And the bigger the wheel, the more rotational weight - no matter how light they are.

e.g. my 17lb 17s have FAR less rotational mass than a 16lb 19".....

Plus if you roll to an autocross with some dubs on there, everyone in the place will laugh at you...true story.

 

^lol. i'd roll on some millenias if they weren't so danm skinny

 

Waste of time buying a set of wheels for racing and not putting racing tires on them

 

I keep going to BMWCCA events, and I keep not seeing you there, on course, in your M3.



Are you co-driving with Karen this year? Or are you actually going to run one of your own TWO cars, lol?

 

Not sure about this year yet. Ill try to take the M3 out to one of those BMW events... as long as its not raining.

 

April 17th at Blue Crab Stadium (the place where I blew the motor)...nice smooth tarmac, so your l33tmobile won't get any rock chips

Since you actually know how to drive, you'd be one of the fastest E46's out there I bet...

 

Ah, ill be in miami on the 17th. Ill have to do the next one

 

Lol. I know. But i'm the type of person that likes to push the limits of a less than optimized setup/daily driven setup. Makes it fun and interesting. Brakes and wheels are easy enough to swap out anyways. Easy enough so that one day I can see what I do on the street setup, the next I can see what it will do on the track only setup.

 

You'll be embarassed how much better your "street setup" works at auto X. small wheels, small brakes FTW when you're running around in a parking lot.

you don't even need brakes that big on a road course. not unless you have 500+hp, a badass suspension, and 12" wide Goodyear slicks.