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  4. Mid Ohio Autumn Thunder with OVR PCA sept 11-12

    in Track is Crack

    Posted

    Saturday was great. Weather held up and gave me dry track for all 4 sessions. I would have liked to do at least one in the wet but I was not so lucky :(. By my 2nd session, my instructor wanted to move me up to one run group faster than the slowest. I do need to work on my heel-toe technique but aside from that, I felt that my skills were really improving lap by lap :)

     

    Sunday

    More of the same with the faster run group. I had one session with a 996 Turbo and an STI where we were playing lead-follow and looking at each others' lines. It was a great learning experience overall

     

    anyway, I won t stay too long-winded

     

     

     

    some pics

     

     

    pitting in

    http://www-personal.umich.edu/~lovelljc/MidO/NORPCA_Sept010/images/DSC01103.jpg

     

    chasing a Boxster

    http://www-personal.umich.edu/~lovelljc/MidO/NORPCA_Sept010/images/DSC01090.jpg

     

     

    before the last session

    http://www-personal.umich.edu/~lovelljc/MidO/NORPCA_Sept010/images/DSC01479.jpg

     

     

    It was a great weekend to hit the track

     

     

     

     

     

     

    some other cars

    http://www-personal.umich.edu/~lovelljc/MidO/NORPCA_Sept010/images/DSC01342.jpg

     

    http://www-personal.umich.edu/~lovelljc/MidO/NORPCA_Sept010/images/DSC01348.jpg

     

    http://www-personal.umich.edu/~lovelljc/MidO/NORPCA_Sept010/images/DSC01160.jpg

     

    this dude was so quick he was replacing front pads every OTHER SESSION (worn down to the backing plate. No, I am not exaggerating)

    http://www-personal.umich.edu/~lovelljc/MidO/NORPCA_Sept010/images/DSC01153.jpg

     

    http://www-personal.umich.edu/~lovelljc/MidO/NORPCA_Sept010/images/DSC00997.jpg

     

    http://www-personal.umich.edu/~lovelljc/MidO/NORPCA_Sept010/images/DSC00830.jpg

     

    http://www-personal.umich.edu/~lovelljc/MidO/NORPCA_Sept010/images/DSC00703.jpg

  12. ****A LOL Thread?****

    in Pics and Vids

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    http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_9GHoR-RJLy8/TIJQInnsghI/AAAAAAAASLs/002qinhcG2I/s400/why_grammar_is_important_blameiton.jpg

     

    http://b34nz.com/wp-content/uploads/2008/12/1229543841060.jpg

     

    http://www.stevenhumour.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/09/funny-quotes-comedians.jpg

    http://www.masturbatoreum.com/images/558.jpg

     

    http://www.masturbatoreum.com/images/535.jpg

     

     

     

     

    division by zero yields this

    http://image.vetteweb.com/f/29109223/vemp_1007_01+1969_chevrolet_corvette+.jpg

     

    http://imgur.com/UxxWF.jpg

  15. Mid-Ohio PDX (SCCA)

    in Track is Crack

    Posted

    Had a great time on friday. I think my brakes are still smoking, but it was all in good fun. I'm going to be doing this again. I need to come up with a good track setup, maybe a tune.

    I would do power last

     

    tires

    brakes

    suspension

    cage

    power

     

     

    in that order

     

     

     

     

    but I digress

  21. Dude tows car with a bike

    in Daily Ride

    Posted

    Allright, I'm transplanting this one from another forum. These are not all my words.

     

    Copypasta FTW. Here is the orginal thread if you need a laugh.

    http://forums.clubsi.com/ubbthreads.php/ubb/showflat/Number/4973046

     

    Guy owns an older BMW M3. Nice enough car, I suppose. Has the usual older-BMW-syndrome (read: crap wrong with it and parts made of, as motoproponent would say, billet unobtanium).

     

    So apparently his transmission output seal starts leaking. Rather than doing the expensive thing, he wheels it into his plywood shed in the back yard and decides to try to replace the seal himself. Everything goes wrong. Rather than dropping the tranny he pulls the driveshaft and exhaust, but can't get the seal out without potentially scoring the machined seal seat. As such, he decides to do the smart thing: take it to the shop (only 200 yards away, apparently)!

     

    Only thing is, to get his car out to the street he needs to push it up a hill in the back yard, its late evening, and its damp out.

     

    So, he goes back into stupid mode.

     

    Enter one oil-cooled Suzuki, a sheet of plywood, and a sketchy piece of yellow nylon rope.

     

    I'll let the pics speak for themselves.

    http://i173.photobucket.com/albums/w70/Beaugt/bmwguy.jpg

     

    http://i173.photobucket.com/albums/w70/Beaugt/bmwguy1.jpg

     

    Now I'll be the first to admit I've done some shady wrenching in my life, but this is a bit beyond the normal 'git-r-done' style of mechanics. Note also tha the rear wheels are on backwards and secured by only two lugs. He took them off to clean them while the car was on stands, but figured that two lugs and wheels on backwards was fine for pushing it to the shop (nevermind that the shop might want to test drive it after its repaired).

     

    http://i173.photobucket.com/albums/w70/Beaugt/bmwguy2.jpg

     

     

    he answered

     

    I'm the owner of the car.

     

    I just want to clarify a few things...I actually posted a pic of my tranny and some had noted that it's probably the selector rod seal that's leaking, which made sense. That same night i went to BMW and bought it $22 for a little seal. I decided since i had bought the output shaft seal and the selector rod seal I might as well replace both.

     

    Having read a few threads on here I found out that some people damaged their trannies by prying out the seals and having leaks again because they scored the outer surfaces. I don't want to take that chance and having looked at the bentley manual you need a "special" bmw tool for the outer seal. Now luckily i live just a block away from a bmw shop that services mostly M cars and I've decided that I don't want to take the risk of ****ing up my car over this and I will just take it to them.

     

    I put the wheels on temporarily, hence why only two lugs and the tires aren't even facing the right way and I towed it out. Unfortunately it's just me and my gf at the house and she can't help me push it out so i just decided to improvise and use my bike. Guess what, it worked without a problem and i pushed the car down the street to the shop where it's peacefully sitting waiting to be worked on. It's a pretty simple concept, I don't have the luxuries of having a perfect garage with every specialized bmw tool, nor do I have the ability to push a car out on my own (hence the use of a bike). I also didn't want to have multiple people push the car because I am afraid they might bend/scratch a panel. (I would've used my other car to tow it out, but as you can see there wasn't much space as the fence was pretty close, so I did what worked)

     

    The blemish on the trunk is after I had removed the spoiler as many of you know these spoilers are held on by very strong double sided tape. Unfortunately even with a heat gun when pulling the spoiler some paint chipped off and I basically did some prepping before I take it in to have it painted. That's all there is to it.

     

    :lolhit:

     

    good for a smile :) and if you have ever seriously wrenched on your car you wouldve had to pull some sort of ghetto mechanic work. no doubt.

  23. mishimoto aluminum radiator and zionsville shroud installed

    in Passing Lane

    Posted

    I just put a Mishimoto radiator and fan shroud in the WRX, and I agree, it's a great radiator for the price. Installation of the radiator was straight forward with no real hitches. The fan shroud on the other hand requires some electrical knowledge since it didn't come with any instructions and Mishimoto never got back to me on my questions. But now that it's in, my coolant needle doesn't budge more than a milimeter.

     

    So another :thumbup: for Mishimoto radiators.

    saw your setup today :)

     

    I like

  24. Italian Gathering Car Show Sunday 9/5

    in Events

    Posted

    http://i216.photobucket.com/albums/cc178/1fstws6/000_1069.jpg

    My favorite

    http://i216.photobucket.com/albums/cc178/1fstws6/000_1072.jpg

    http://i216.photobucket.com/albums/cc178/1fstws6/000_1071.jpg

    http://i216.photobucket.com/albums/cc178/1fstws6/000_1070.jpg

    http://i216.photobucket.com/albums/cc178/1fstws6/000_1073.jpg

     

     

     

     

    Nice VAGs

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