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  • 3 weeks later...

I thought i'd bombard this thread with more pics (when is there enough pics though?). As some of you may have seen the video in the previous post of my 1st time at pukekohe race track! This was an awesome experience for me, I found where my limits ended as a driver (where I ran out of balls) and also things that weren't quite right about the car.

 

 

Our spots for the day

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Lucky for me, I had an awesome workforce to help with everything from chocking my car after every run to tips of what I should and shouldn't do on track.
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One of the BMW race series drivers (Raewyn) decided to humor our efforts as well haha

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Like I mentioned earlier, I had my fair share of problems throughout the day. 1st issue while blasting down the back straight (everything feels slower on the track for some reason haha) when my lovely wife noticed the abnormal reading on the wideband AFR gauge. Obviously assuming the worst, my stomach was in my throat as I limped back to pit lane. Car sputtering and misfiring. 

 

To my relief when opening my bonnet, my intake elbow had popped off :P. A quick turn with a screw driver and we were ready to go again!

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Unfortunately not many photos of my E30 doing werk. One I did find of me chasing Raerae while a holden who almost had a deep and meaningful relationship with a subaru followed. (Not sure about this front bumper setup)

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Marcus had his own fair share of problems. His low offset and wide tire combo were having a good time with the arches, so out came the hammer. I could see that  he wasn't very happy about his brand new falkens getting rekt by his guards, but not one to shy away from a photo opportunity...

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Did I mention this was all on valentine's day? Haha

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Things I would definitely change is the stiffness on the rear. I had wound up my rear shocks to max stiffness before the track day thinking it would be a great idea. Hell no. It made the front sweeper and the part over the hill very scary as the car would "step out".

 

I also ran into cooling problems after 5-6 laps, maybe because the rep m3 front has no air ducts for airflow? But i'll upgrade the radiator as well.

 

I need to sort out traction. Maybe related to the shocks? Either way an LSD will be a great upgrade. :D

 

Here is a video from the day with my buddy Daniel K from Corsbe -

 

Big thanks to all my friends that came to the track day just for support and banter! 

 

Hopefully not too much of a read! Ill leave you with one last picture of something we can all appreciate ;)

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  • 1 month later...

More updates on my excursions! 

visited hampton downs to do some skid pan work. Trying to handle the car in a tight, slow environment was very... tiring. I don't have power steering and still running the e30 4 turn lock to lock rack. Also i'm finding that i run out of lock very quickly so will need to do something about that.

 

Despite all this I had an awesome time! Learning to drive this car *properly* is so fun. I need to attend more of these types of events and get as much seat time as possible!
 

My car was dubbed the cone eater of the day. my front lip had suffered quite a beating haha Hence its absence 

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Having great friends that always come to cheer me on, I had to take them all for some rides. 

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What better way to show off my new front end setup! :D

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The more I drive this car, the more I need to change stuff. Some new bits and bobs incoming :)

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  • 1 year later...

its been a while ;)

The e30 has changed a lot since my last update. Ill try to keep everything in order..

We'll start with my 1st ever drift day on the track which was the 28th of May last year at Bruce McLaren Motorsport Park . Tragic. With no real prior experience and not really having a clue about what I was doing, it wasn't until the last lap of the last session I linked the drift section. (Again, tragic) But sure enough I left the day with a chip on my shoulder thinking I was the absolute sh*t, next drift prodigy. I immediately signed up for the next drift day that I could afford, which was in July last year. Boy, the humble pie came swift, and still no power-steering. 

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As I said. I thought I was doing great and going into the next drift day at hampton downs club circuit I was super excited to show off my skills. But then I drove with some people that had a clue. The skill gap was YUGE. I found my self pushing harder and harder to keep up with them, but I still didn't really know what I was doing. Rather than being in control of the car, I was just reactive after the initiation. Basically the car was driving me. And of course the e30 took a bit of a beating.

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I lie. It took a f*cking hiding. 
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sh*t video for lols

Yep, I drove it to Hampton Downs, did an entire drift day. As I was exiting the pit for the last session of the day... BOOM! Rear wheels lock up and I couldn't find any gears, the getrag 260 had enough. No trailer, no way of getting back. Thankfully Sam from Hellbm didn't break his car, so we put my e30 on his trailer. Again, my friends save my ass.

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Not much went on for a while. It was a rough time for me. But my wife graduated! YAY!

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Will update in a bit. Need food.

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So being a gearbox down I needed something that would stand up to a little bit of a hiding. So off I went. To Silverdale. Straight to Hellbm haha. Ray sorted me out with a zf 5 speed and I went to work to install it. We ran into a few hiccups along the way.

Between the m50 and the gearbox sit a lightweight M20 flywheel and m20 6 puk clutch. So using the m20 release bearing resulted in multiple slave cylinder failures (because I didn't know what I was doing wrong). A simple measure up and sure enough the combo was too short, causing the slave to "over extend" and burst the slave. I then did a little research on the issue i was having and the answer was on the internet :) 

1x BMW e21 323i release bearing 21 51 1 204 525 was ordered from Gavin @ euroItalian (great place to shop), and that was it. Driving once again. Seems simple and quick when i'm typing this up, but it took a while... I had other stuff on the go while this whole gearbox drama was happening... good stuff! 

Making sure i can fit big tires at the ride height i want the e30 to sit

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things were done to make it fit

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Oh and I moved house sometime between all of this

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So of course my mates had free reign in my garage :) (Blasphemy warning)

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I had a deadline given to me. There was a E30 meet being organised in Taupo and I was super keen to attend but I wanted to be a little different, so I started hunting for flares. I looked at the options from the states but they didn't really do it for me. I wanted something a little more "JDM" but my wife being the great person she is had bought me a birthday present... the flares I had on my eBay watch-list.

And with the magic of the internet, THEY'RE ON! (255/40R17 all round, Photo credit : Sam Boucher Photography)

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I met some fantastic people and their cars at the meet. It was really heaps of fun! (some stolen photos from Facebook)

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More soon :)

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  • 4 weeks later...

ok so since Photobucket wants me to pay $400 to host my photos I thought it would be a good time to start a vlog. So here's my 1st instalment. Its jumping ahead in time quite a bit, but hey, its free! Have a watch! Give me some feed back, i'm new to this so some constructive criticism is welcome:)

ps. ive been advised to go with  flickr as my photo host
 

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