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Bottoming out on the skid plate? Mine has saved me but that's skating over rumble strips and slamming onto the concrete gator teeth on track. What spring rates are you running and what's your ride height?
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That or target practice if anyone has a large yard and loose local regs on firearms.
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Still have this rear side door for sale. Figure at this stage that either I had the only rusted first gen Tundra in WI that needed a door, or the rest are too far gone such that swapping a door would be foolish. On the off chance that you know anyone with a first gen Tundra pass the info along. Thanks!
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Found another one, now 13+ quarts for $30
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I bought a pair of e30 325i front strut assemblies for the strut tubes last fall and have these bits left over: a pair of OEM front springs dirty with some surface rust ($30 obo); and a pair of front struts Sachs Advantage model 100 590 that still have some life in them (free). I have no idea on the mileage.
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Cleaning out the garage: I have two unopened 5 quart jugs, one unopened 1quart bottle, and one open 1 quart (topped up) bottle of Castrol GTX 20w-50. Additional full unopened bottle and partial bottle 1/4 full not shown $30 for all of it.
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Even with the bit of rust this was much better than a typical rolling shell given the full interior, other new(er) bits and general e30 inflation. Most rolling shells tend to be gutted. Sport seats alone even beat up have been going for stupid money. But as you said you got your asking and have money in hand (!!) so the deck is clear for other stuff. It will be interesting to see what the buyer's plans are: restore, or gut for race/track car.
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Tends to vary by organization.
Typically four wheels off and able to drive the car and in sight of a flag station you wave to show you’re ok and watch traffic and the corner worker to signal you that there’s clear space to get back on track.
Once back in track you’ll likely get black flagged and yes you go around the track, signal for pit entry, enter the pits and check In with the chief steward... who may calmly ask you wtf happened and depending on how stupid you were might allow you back on the track.
Four off in a NASA DE and if the car is ok you get back in track and continue the session and debrief afterwards. Freaked me out the first time in my run group when a guy in a Miata went off three times during the same session and it was no big deal. I was expecting to see him get reamed in the group debrief. Bmwcca event and he would have been gone.
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Plus side BFR has trees.... oops. Plus side hard to go 130 at BFR...for most folks anyway.
Advice to Brian and others: with the caveat that I wasn't there.
a) if you go off and even if you roll, stay in your car until the safety crew arrives. The NASA advice stated by the interviewer is NOT what NASA teaches at least for the three years I was racing with them. Yes they drill on quick escape door open and door shut. But you stay in the car unless it's on fire. Wait for safety crew if only to provide you with physical cover. Other idiots on track may follow you off and bodies standing outside the car are really soft targets.
b) if you drop a wheel off: do not try to turn back onto the track at speed, keep car straight and slow down, once under control and traffic is clear then gradually merge back onto track. He's doing 130, drops a wheel and from the video it looks like he tries to turn back onto track...not once but twice. NOOOOO!!!. This looks like it starts a tank slap, he tries to straighten it out, gets a reverse slap (is his foot still on gas, brake & clutch not clear ???), finally hits berm goes airborne.
Any way very glad he's OK and walked away from this.
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Looks like seller fixed the 944 ad. No longer 20x pics of the wheels.
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5 hours ago, B C said:It's also the wrong year to rent/borrow a helmet so I should work on getting my own.
Snell 2020 helmets will come out later this year or early next. The Snell 2015 helmets are being cleared out so deals can be had. The 2015s will be good until 2025.
Just a suggestion from your friendly neighborhood enabler.
- KaiserRolls, m42b32 and B C
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4 hours ago, S Jansen said:
facelift e46 coupe.
Rusty but trusty
Welcome! That's rusty??? Passenger side photo must be horrible.
Nice looking car!
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https://www.facebook.com/BadgerBimmers.org/
"Event updates! The E30 Picnic has been postponed. We'll post the new date once we know what it is. The June 8 Blackhawk Farms DE has been cancelled. Those who have already registered will be contacted soon with refund or credit options."
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Just to add to the reality. I found out this morning a good friend of mine in Sweden just died from Covid -19. He was very healthy and a fellow martial artist in his 60s. We've trained together over the decades in Japan and the US. He came down with high fever and difficulty breathing about two weeks ago. His wife rushed him to the hospital where he was placed on oxygen. His condition improved a bit and all signs pointed to recovery. But then he rapidly declined. His wife was called to the hospital today and she manged to be with him at his side when he died. She just let us know.
There will be varied perspectives on the virus and the response, models and projections, proposed cures and snake oil, opportunism and professionalism, frustration and fear, just to name a few. I just wanted to take a moment to share my hope that no more friends, family, and other folks I know die. I'm up to three so far--one of each--which yes is small percentage of all the folks I know. I hope that your numbers also stay low.
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14 hours ago, AsparagusMike said:
Had some some fresh rubbers installed over this last weekend. Last set was starting to become a bit of a hazard to drive on.
This was one of the better ones of the 4 on the old set.
Wow talk about getting your money's worth out of tires. Well done!!!
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That is strange about the third wire. Where was the wiring cut? Is the connector where the replaceable sensor plugs in missing and that’s where you are shorting it?
re the light, since it’s all on the same circuit is the rear sensor good? Short both and see if that helps. Also I read somewhere that if both sensors are good (shorted or newly replaced) then it could be a solder issue with the resistor on the si board. I’ve never had to go that far, just shorted the front and rear.
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3 minutes ago, B C said:
Im imagining a zoo of identical sounding M20s + a helmet could very easily leave you bouncing off the limiter without a visual cue. I recently coded the tach warmup lights into shift lights. Cant beat free!
Hah! The m20s and more the Spec Miatas in the same run group. Like running in the midst of a hive-belching swarm of loud angry bees.
Good deal on the coding. Nicely done!
- KaiserRolls and P_Roloff
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Kind of stuck with your feet, so think about shoes. Heel and toe tends to be easier for me on track with the race shoes. Size 13 feet. Though my foot size does make traditional/ actual heel and toe easier that just foot roll version. Also depends on pedal setup in the car. For a street car you can look into driving shoes: narrower, thinner but hard soles.
Watching tach on track means eyes down rather than up. I’ve got shift light on the top of the dash that goes off so I can keep eyes up and also avoid bogging at rev limiter. Especially on race starts where it’s a zoo or when I’m passing someone deep in a corner and need to make sure the other guy behaves. Realize installing a light may not be the best option for street car. But even without a light you can practice listening to engine noise and getting a sense of what noise is what rev.
For heel and toe shifting I rely more on sound cues that help to develop feel than tach. This means an exhaust loud enough to hear the throttle blips while wearing a helmet and also the rev noise when you get it wrong.
Good habit on palm reversal for 3-4 shift. With 5-3 shifts I tend to row 5-4-3 to make sure I get to 3 cleanly. Though again this depends if I’m clean into a corner or trying to deep pass after a long straight into a slow turn (e.g., turn 5 or 12 at Road America ).
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8 hours ago, Rekpoint said:
https://phoenix.craigslist.org/cph/cto/d/phoenix-1995-bmw-318ti-335i-swap-twin/7109749204.html
Anyone interested in an n55 swapped TI?
Seems like a good deal to me.
Woah that's pretty wild. I'll admit I'm three pedal biased. Why with all the work to swap would you do this with an automatic transmission?
On another note on seeing the ti, and apologies for the thread drift, but anyone heard from Zach (ramplesauce) lately?
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Japan is a quirky and fascinating place, and I have been traveling there for all sorts of work and other reasons for almost 40 years. I expect there is extensive under reporting. The issue is not governmental control over reporting as in China but aspects of Japanese society and medical profession. Japan has an inverted population pyramid with a large elderly population often with little in the way of family support/check-ins. Many of them are shut ins and as such I expect there are illnesses and deaths at home that have yet to be discovered. Social norms about disease are also such that there would be patterns of self-isolation, and again the absence of check-ins. There are also community separations and histories of discrimination such that these communities would turn inward and the rest of Japan would not look to closely. This includes the economic lower class burakumin communities, areas with concentrations of ethnic Korean and Chinese, as well as more recent migrant communities that are employed under the radar so to speak and often lack access to social services.
Although there is a national health care system, there is a tendency of medical professionals to avoid reporting things they do not understand and in the context of the Olympic push I expect a pattern among higher ups to avoid looking for and revealing information that could have placed the event at risk. There is also a tendency of medical personnel to hide information from patients and family about causes of serious illnesses and death to avoid disturbing them with bad news. This has often been a pattern in cancer diagnoses, since the diagnosis suggested the sureity of death.
Now a more positive spin on the low numbers to date is that the Japanese practice of facemask use when folks have colds or allergies is extensive and their widespread access to masks may have acted as a check. Bottom line is that I would expect the Japan numbers to rise extensively.
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Hah! Nadar's rant against Corvair.
The 60s era bugs were "safe" in Europe but not in the US with the behemoths on the road. I remember one night being in the middle lane on the interstate on a sweeping curve and getting passed by a semi on my right and getting blown over one lane into the lane to my left. Just lifted/shifted the car. Fun times.
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Hmm, not low at all. Those must be some wild elevation changes. Maybe it's the picture or my eyes that makes your front negative camber look pretty intense.
Get underneath the car and take a look for scrapes. My skidplate looks like an angry tiger went after it with claw gouges in the sheet metal. I'm at 525/700.