Project E36 M3

Post by **Stuart** » Tue Apr 29, 2008 8:24 pm

To expand upon Slartys post, this may or may not be datalogging from Snetterton today. Hypothetically this may or may not have been some times breaking the circuit up into sectors. He looks like he may have been quite quick, if he was timing..........which he wouldn't have been as this wasn't a competitive event, but he looked quick all the same.
1'21" in an unfamiliar car two up is pretty good mate

How was the instruction?

How did the car behave overall?

What exhaust are you using and what dB reading did you get?

What sort of wear and tear did you experience?

How were the 888's?

Thanks

slarty bartfast · Post by **slarty bartfast** » Wed Apr 30, 2008 6:53 am

Those were my last runs with only me in the car and with about half a tank of fuel but very heavy traffic at times. Chuffed with the actual 1:23 as it has beaten my data logged 1:26 from the E30 if I could hook up all the corners with a 1:21 then I would be very pleased.

Instruction was excellent but pricy, Richard spent the afternoon with Sean in the GT3 so I had the afternoon to myself. I will try and do a little write up later.

The car just keeps getting better and better but, I was chasing a Scooby in the afternoon had him on every bend but as soon as we exited the corner, Woosh he was off I would gain on him by the next corner and again woosh he was off onto the straight, He came over to me later asking what power i was running and was a bit shocked it was only 280, he was running 550 bhp!!!

We did 221 miles in the M3 with even wear to the tyres, far better than the E30, they just need to be rotated. The 888 feel great, very progressive on the limit in the wet and almost impossible to get the back out in the dry, still suffering from a little understeer so will to lift the rear ride height slightly, this will also stop the tyres rubbing on the arches.

Standard manifold and down pipe, supersprint centre section (no cats) and I

Post by **Stuart** » Wed Apr 30, 2008 7:03 am

221 miles

That's stamina!!

I am delighted that the 888's were so good on a 'heavy-ish' car for that sort of period. I had concerns of them getting a bit overheated within ten or a dozen laps. They must have been very stable in their behaviour for you to rack up over 100 laps

Bonus

Lovely and quiet too. No worries with noise limits there.

slarty bartfast · Post by **slarty bartfast** » Wed Apr 30, 2008 9:29 pm

http://media.putfile.com/Snetterton-2008

Keep an eye out for the two offs, Supra and a Rover 220...

Ross · Post by **Ross** » Wed Apr 30, 2008 9:40 pm

Great vid there Simon 8)

Post by **Stuart** » Thu May 01, 2008 10:14 am

Simon

I meant to ask, did you fit the Z3 rack in the end?

Was the z3m quick shift kit a direct fit?

Does my bum look big in this?

What are the lottery numbers for Saturday?

Yours faithfully

S.

slarty bartfast · Post by **slarty bartfast** » Thu May 01, 2008 12:26 pm

I replaced the M3 (horrible) rack with a standard E36 rack, Z3 racks are like rocking horse Sh*t but will replace with one when I find one.
Yes direct fit just needs to have a very small bracket made.
Yes
And No!

Bladerider · Post by **Bladerider** » Thu May 01, 2008 10:54 pm

Nice vid,

You take a fairly early line into Riches.

Car sounded lush though dude.

Good work

J.

Mr Fletcher · Post by **Mr Fletcher** » Thu Jul 31, 2008 9:21 pm

just a quick question simon what ET are your team dynamics wheels please and did you need to roll the arches at all.

cheers

jason