Santapod 14th or 28th October

Post Sun Sep 30, 2007 3:44 pm

After not running my car at the Ultimate BMW Show, and regretting it:
I'm going to "the Pod" for a run what you brung day on either the 14th or 18th october with a few mates (depending on weather).

Thought it would be nice to get a small group of zoners up there.

So is anyone up for it??

Post Mon Oct 01, 2007 7:31 pm

I'll be taking my 335 cab back down on the 14th hopefully on a trailer as the mot's now run out and if it fcuks up were not stranded up there.
My mates sorting me out some wider tires and run them at a lower pressure to try and get off the line better as it was spinning up into 3rd before it was getting any grip.

Post Sun Oct 07, 2007 11:14 pm

Yes, i'm going this saturday and camping over.

I want to run in the evening on saturday but will probably run sunday too.

Post Mon Oct 08, 2007 6:07 pm

BMracing wrote:Yes, i'm going this saturday and camping over.
I want to run in the evening on saturday but will probably run sunday too.

Cool. What e30 will you be in?

Post Thu Oct 11, 2007 9:39 pm

My tech 1 sport, its pretty standard.

Will you be in the beast in the sig? What motor is in that?

Post Thu Oct 11, 2007 11:10 pm

Its got a mildly tweaked high 2.7 in it. Yes it is the car in the sig but the wheels were 'photoshopped' on before I put them on the car. and Ive got 2 matt front wings at the moment aswell

Post Fri Oct 12, 2007 12:28 am

Sweet! Looks very hard. I won't be racing you then!

I'm racing my mate on saturday evening in his french trolley (clio 172). It has been remapped and is obviously lighter. I would expect to have him off the line (effectively rear 2 wheel drive LSD vs front 1 wheel drive), not sure if i'll be able to stay in front though

What sort of times are you expecting, have you run it in that spec before?
I ran a 15.3 in the white car last year which I was very pleased with. Hopefully i'll go quicker in the sport.

Post Fri Oct 12, 2007 12:48 am

Not sure what time to expect- never done 1/4mile before.

Probably an embarrassingly low one. lol
15.3 is pretty damn good.

Post Fri Oct 12, 2007 1:03 am

I haven't done many myself, only driven up the strip 4 times. My other 2 runs on that day were 15.7 and 15.9 so not too consistent! One it bogged down the other it span heavily through 1st. The 15.3 did feel like a gooden though, for a standard powerplanted 4 door bar the mongoose system, on hankook ventus' 195's too! Dropped to 10 PSI on the rear. Full throttle gear changes all the way of course, and that hugely satisfying 3rd gear wheelspin!
Hopefully you'll get nicely into the 14's in yours if you get a good run?

Post Fri Oct 12, 2007 4:52 pm

Ive I get into the 14s I'll be chuffed

We'll soon see

Post Sun Oct 14, 2007 5:29 pm

My best last night was a 15.6 @ 88

I had 3 runs and none were particularly great but its annoying that i'm not even close to my dads 4 door (which i ran the 15.3 in). I blame the pretty worn SP3000 (terrible) rear tyres and an exhaust manifold leak. I thought being a 2 door and having LSD i'd still be able to match it though

I had a look, didn't see you though today Oakey?
I did see this though;

A tidy looking 318is I think. Had an M power badge on the back. I'm sure i've seen this somewhere on here.

Post Sun Oct 14, 2007 11:02 pm

the bloke who I was driving up with owns a TVR and it broke on Friday

so were all going on the 28th now.
Even thought didn't go I was still productive and fitted a shiney new wing to my car

Post Mon Oct 15, 2007 2:55 pm

Ah, fair enough. A TVR breaking down, well i never.