Production BMW Build 320 - RACING!

[jmc330i]

Well done Miles, sounds like your enjoying yourself. I was actually only about 20mins from the circuit so was going to try and pop over to say hi, but couldn't get away from a family visit

When is your next race?

[milescook]

Slowly I am! By all means come say hello if you can - Brands hopefully in August but depends on how work goes... does anyone need a part time contract software engineer from next week?!??

[milescook]

http://www.deutschefest.co.uk/ Zoners by all means if you're there come and see the legendary car! We'll be racing but probably only at the circuit on the Sunday as there's nothing on for us Saturday. We'll probably watch some cars and bugger off for the day

Anyhooo... it's our 4th weekend of racing EVER. Aiming to make it 6 races complete, which has a special significance if all goes well. Last time we were at Brands, there was several pages to fill...

Hoping for a good weekend!

[Motorhole]

Good luck Miles!

[milescook]

It went pretty ok



Full write up here!!!!

http://cookracing.co.uk/index.php/8-rac ... ands-hatch

[milescook]

Wrote about some plans for next year, for an awning and livery musings here: http://cookracing.co.uk/index.php/8-rac ... ason-sucks

(Trying to up the site traffic, for more ad revenue more racing )

[milescook]

New livery for 2018

(You WILL need sunglasses too...)

http://cookracing.co.uk/index.php/8-rac ... new-livery

[DanThe]

Christ there will be no missing you going round!

[Motorhole]

Hopefully reduce the chances of another incident

[milescook]

Hopefully reduce the chances of another incident

Exactly

If you miss that you shouldn't be allowed to walk on the streets on your own nevermind drive...

[rix313]

Good to see you still plugging away mate. Are you planning to do the whole season?

[milescook]

Certainly am, Rich!!



Starts in April at Donington. Need to loose some weight my race suit doesn't fit any more....

[milescook]

Great success!!

Not only did I manage to get finish the weekend unscathed (despite trying hard on Friday), I had a lot of fun!

Full write up ------> http://cookracing.co.uk/index.php/8-rac ... april-2018

Plenty of vids on the youtube channel too! https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCff59E ... tSpC63iWAg

[milescook]

We've also since done Brands GP, the first time since the smash

All went well : http://cookracing.co.uk/index.php/8-rac ... tch-review

Also, here's the past 10 years or so summed up...



A special mention and thank you to the zone!

[milescook]

Holy crap, the Zone looks a bit different

Here's a montage of our first full season last year



Oh, and some rust pics! I remember how you all love a good rusty pic

[Steve]

Holy crap, the Zone looks a bit different

Holy car Welcome back.

Great video, I love seeing E30s on the track.

[milescook]

Holy crap, the Zone looks a bit different

Holy car Welcome back.

Great video, I love seeing E30s on the track.

Thanks Steve! It would be rude not to come back with all the work you guys have done

The PBMW championship is trying to get more E30 owners back out on track, with a nifty power dependant minimum weight introduced this year, so people with the stock power aren't disadvantaged by not having expensive engine mods begrudgingly permitted in the rules. Last year the grids weren't too bad but at it's minimum we had just 13 (at Cadwell which is always a factor).

There's easily a few more years left in this championship. We had a blast, as you can see

[rix313]

I can't imagine you'd want many more cars than 13 at Cadwell haha. You should put an M42 in there and come out with us in the BMWCC ;)

[milescook]

I have enough on my plate just trying to patch it up, Rich!

Speaking of which, will let the vid do the talking

[milescook]

Yet more rust work... never ends!!!! And there's plenty more to do elsewhere

[rix313]

When are you next out in the car? Doing PBMW again?

[milescook]

Yep, 14th April at Donny. I'm hoping we get to do the whole season again, but with a house move that's optimistic, but we'll see!

About to go out and get the old exhaust off actually. I have an Ashley exhaust so hoping it's a bit lighter.

https://www.msvracing.com/cars/race-ser ... mpionship/

[rix313]

Ah we are up there the 22nd, Easter Monday! What layout will you guys be on?

[milescook]

National. Been watching all my youtube vids in prep. First corner is a really late apex... I need to remember this!

[milescook]

Bit of progress in the off season, not much though!



Need to get a shift on....

[rix313]

How did the weekend go Miles?

[milescook]

Not too bad, the Ashley exhaust gave 10 more hp at the wheels which was a surprise! Caught me out down the craners as it's now more ballsy



I'm 2 seconds quicker than last year. Putting that down to having analysed my footage, new tyres and of course the extra horses. I was getting up to 5th which never used to happen!!!!

[rix313]

10bhp is a pretty strong gain from an exhaust. Blimey. Did you do a power run?

A bit confusing how the car just let go like that? You should easily be able to take craners flat out mate. Lifting is probably what unsettled it but it sounded progressive or did you touch the brakes? Lucky it didn't roll going into the gravel sideways like that!

[milescook]

Yeah maybe I did lift? Can't recall. The tyres were brand new, and I probably aced Redgate so took more speed. My setup is crap, I need it corner weighted or something. Anyone you can recommend near you maybe? I can see visibly the arch has more gap between the tyre on one side than the other at rest, even though I've measured it (probably badly). On the same damper settings one side is harder than the other. Need to service the gaz struts really...

On the 10hp... yeah! My stock exhaust may have been worse for wear, there's pictures in the for sale section! Plus it was a really cold day, premium fuel at the circuit. Yeah we have a rolling road that follows us these days, as PBMW have gone to a power to weight chart. The more you've spent on your engine the more weight you need to run. To stop people needing to spend thousands on their engines.

[Sidewaysbmw389]

Hi miles .great to see you out again this year .just wondered what noise readings you been getting from the Ashley exhaust . I’m looking for a replacement for the rally car but when I spoke to Ashley they couldn’t tell me .thanks for your help .

[milescook]

Hi miles .great to see you out again this year .just wondered what noise readings you been getting from the Ashley exhaust . I’m looking for a replacement for the rally car but when I spoke to Ashley they couldn’t tell me .thanks for your help .

I want to say 104 up from 98....? 104 rings a bell from the noise test at Cadwell. I'll make sure to clock it.

Oh yeah, another vlog vid:

[milescook]

A write up of last weekend at Deutsche Fest, Brands Hatch

http://cookracing.co.uk/index.php/8-rac ... eview-2019

[milescook]

A bit of a montage of our race weekend at Brands Hatch - this was fun!

[milescook]

Oh, I also finally got the Z3 short shift installed! Makes a pretty big difference as seen below I haven't installed the other bushes that came from Cotswolds yet so it's all still a tad floppy.. But it's still better than it was.

[milescook]

It's been a while, but need to keep up the story so...

There's a fair bit of waffle how 2019 went

https://studio.youtube.com/video/3LYCGBr2pTI/edit

In reality we didn't do the full season as we've just bought a house, and that's expensive... but we're determined to go all over the country to various soft plays, beaches, parks and erm yes, race tracks Next year the calendar looks great again, we have a Silverstone weekend (yes yes it's not amazing for road cars but it's still Silverstone damnit!), two doses of Donington, so looking forward to it all.

We also have a shiny new youtube url: http://youtube.com/cookracinguk - please subscribe if you haven't it will help with sponsors