‘91 E30

SteelBlue

Looks like this thing shreds.

Car gets light in the front coming over that bend into the hairpin? (@ 0:21)

KaiserRolls

SteelBlue said:

Looks like this thing shreds.

Car gets light in the front coming over that bend into the hairpin? (@ 0:21)

Yea the track kind of dips down away & to the left, I just screwed the entry

m42b32

USAIR is by far the most fun Ive ever had at an autocross, also the most scary haha. Awesome driving!!

m42b32

I didn't see if you posted it, where did you get the solid lifter conversion from? Alien engineering?

KaiserRolls

m42b32 said:

I didn't see if you posted it, where did you get the solid lifter conversion from? Alien engineering?

Yes sir alien engineering.
Not totally sure if he keeps his eBay store up anymore, but he is super active on the boostede36world Facebook page.

mid post edit - looks like he has his own site now

https://www.alien-engineering.com/product-page/alien-engineering-bmw-m50-m52-m54-s50-s52-solid-lifter-conversion-shims

KaiserRolls

Car has been pretty solid since the last update, I did end up making a (crude) mount for the MS3 to get it out of the way in the glovebox

Finally got the car out to an HPDE at USAIR. So glad the new management is cool with these events. There was a morning and afternoon session, we only signed up for the morning. It was a total of 4, 15 minute sessions for $125 (afternoon would’ve been an additional $125) - autox out there is usually $55 for 8 runs- Ended up being about 36 miles of laps.

Car exceeded expectations as it didn’t break lol. Temps stayed in check the entire day. Coolant temps maybe peaked around 210/215 and came down very quickly on a cool down lap. Oil temps were maybe around 230 or so at their peak

The chase bays power steering reservoir with their “spill proof baffled design” did just the opposite, had to wipe that up between sessions.

Had one weird issue with the expansion tank cap, seemed like the orings/gasket had the worlds smallest leak and it would mist the intake pipe during the session. New cap will be here soon & expansion tank just in case. This was the quick fix trackside

car used maybe 1/4 tank of fuel, GFs evo x went through like 15 gallons of e85 lol

Nankang CR-1 were also a casualty, this event finished them off after 2 years of service, no complaints there—might try their updated 200tw compound “CR-S”

i only ran the racebox gps on 2/4 sessions, borrowed it out to a few cars on the other sessions-still need to get those laps overlayed but here’s some footage from the day

this was one of the last sessions so tires were pretty smoked

Next lapping day is in September. This one actually still had open spots, definitely recommend.

next on the list is to order up some tires and change all the fluids

Boris3

Great trackside fix!

HipMF

KaiserRolls said:

This last weekend was the first fvscc event at USAIR. For this event they ran the layout backwards which was a first for me. They also usually cap the event at 100 cars, this one had 137. Ended up placing 1st in XSB and 3rd overall raw time.
http://fvscc.com/results/2023_Summer/event2_raw.htm

here’s my fastest run of the day

gf brought out the e36 and ended up placing 19th overall

I missed this one. You've definitely progressed since the days when I was almost keeping up with you in my jalopy. Nice work driving the piss out of that thing!

KaiserRolls

Had another autox event as USAIR this last weekend. New layout this time around which was interesting.

i coned my fastest run, but still had a time on the books good enough for 1st in XSB and 3rd/132 total drivers

I’ll have to change the expansion tank out to my spare new one. Same-ish issue from the lapping day persisted even with a new cap. I think the neck/threaded portion of the tank is screwed

KaiserRolls

Changed out the expansion tank/paired with the new cap - unfortunately I think I’ll need to wait until an HPDE to see if the issue is 100% resolved.

Autox at Golden Sands last weekend. Fun site being a banked oval, even with limited course layout options

took 1st in XSB (small class) and 4/34 total drivers

Next weekend is the second local event, the site (fairgrounds) was repaved/made larger so will be interesting to see the layout

Rekpoint

The "FAWK" at the end

KaiserRolls

Rekpoint said:

The "FAWK" at the end

I couldn’t find any more time lol. 1-6 place was basically all within half a second from 1st

KaiserRolls

Local autox last weekend. Took 1st in XSB and 3rd/69 total drivers, car was co-driven & did well

@Rekpoint was there too

Next up is USAIR lapping day

KaiserRolls

GoPro crashed and decided to turn hypersmooth crap back on, but here’s a lap at USAIR HPDE

IMG_9219.MOV

car did great, weather was a little cooler this time around. Only did the morning run group (4, 20 min sessions for $100).

New expansion tank seemed to do better, so that’s neat. New tires are now oldish tires

next event is in wi dells/baraboo

Jdesign

I love that you are putting this thing through the ringer. So awesome to see! I did a USAIR Autox event long ago in a supercharged civic and had an absolute blast.

KaiserRolls

Jdesign said:

I love that you are putting this thing through the ringer. So awesome to see! I did a USAIR Autox event long ago in a supercharged civic and had an absolute blast.

I feel like I’ve missed a lot of events over the past few years (at least in an e30) so I’m trying to make it count ha

Jdesign

KaiserRolls said:

I feel like I’ve missed a lot of events over the past few years (at least in an e30) so I’m trying to make it count ha

Well it sure seems like you are!

KaiserRolls

Forgot to post this, 3/4 RTs had normal wear after the HPDE - 1 got smoked after the lapping day. Unfortunately, not uncommon with the RT. Luckily I have 3 decent condition take offs that I kept (2020) so was able to get it swapped out before the dells autox

KaiserRolls

Dells autox went well, 2 day event. Gf and I codrove the car both days. I took 1st/4 in XSB (7/84 raw) and she took 2nd/4 (14/84 raw) in XSB on day 1. Day 2 I took 1st/5 in XSB (5/92 raw) and she took 2nd/5 in XSB (15/92 raw). The 3 year old RT was in the rear and held its own too ha.

the lot was extremely bumpy so it was 2 days worth of lockups with no abs, adjusted the bias as much as I felt comfortable with, but just took it as an opportunity to get better at not blowing the fronts off over the large cracks/bumps