328i Sport track project - Cadwell June 09

Rob S · Post by **Rob S** » Fri Jun 11, 2010 5:07 pm

Sounds blooming lovely:)
Good efforts!!

RX7 · Post by **RX7** » Fri Jun 11, 2010 5:28 pm

Yeah agreed, it sounds hardcore !!

Tommy · Post by **Tommy** » Fri Jun 11, 2010 6:18 pm

Cheers guys. The sounds are all down to this:

Single 3 inch bore exhaust

And this carbon airbox

Tommy · Post by **Tommy** » Sat Jul 24, 2010 11:30 pm

Chris and I took the 328M for a shakedown at Bedford back in June. There's a few teething problems, one of which you might spot in the video!

Anyway, enjoy the noise!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uopJv_UnLS0

Post by **Ben** » Sat Jul 24, 2010 11:46 pm

Mate, that's come on a treat ... nice laps

pablo · Post by **pablo** » Sat Jul 24, 2010 11:48 pm

Love the sound of your car and some nice smooth driving. Although it does look as if the gearbox or at least the gearstick is moving about rather a bit:eek:

Tommy · Post by **Tommy** » Sun Jul 25, 2010 6:56 am

Thanks guys and Pablo, you spotted one of the issues

The gearstick has been rebushed so it no longer flaps around but there are other issues too.

The ABS needs hooking up, the suspension needs a lot of tweaking, tyre pressures need more trial and error and we think the vanos may be faulty. There's good headline power (now 350 bhp after another dyno session) but there's very little power until you hit around 4500 rpm. With everything sorted I'd hope the car will be good for a lap of Bedford 7 or 8 seconds quicker than in the video. On the day of the video I was short-shifting at 7000 rpm, changing gear much slower than normal and the car had very little grip on the front end.

Mr Fletcher · Post by **Mr Fletcher** » Sun Jul 25, 2010 8:16 am

Tommy that is bloody ace mate i've gotta have some of that ,looks a lot quicker now

Tommy · Post by **Tommy** » Sun Jul 25, 2010 11:36 am

Mr Fletcher wrote:Tommy that is bloody ace mate i've gotta have some of that ,looks a lot quicker now

Cheers Jason. What state is your car stable at the moment?

Mr Fletcher · Post by **Mr Fletcher** » Sun Jul 25, 2010 3:34 pm

Tommy wrote:Cheers Jason. What state is your car stable at the moment?

after a rash purchase of an engine off ebay which i will now not be using:banghead: it will be entering a final phase of develoment after the aug10th track eve resulting in me breaking my m3 evo up for the engine .