Quote Originally Posted by Big Baller
Thanks, like I said I've spent a lot of time on that track. The car has a lot to do with it as well, it makes good power and torque for just a downpipe and a tune. It has its fair share of problems as well, it lifts the inside rear wheel and I had to compensate by changing the line to get the power down.

There were a lot of very talented drivers there including some new guys.
Good to hear someone who really knows what they are talking about. I could tell just from reading what you typed you have had tonnsss of seat time and experience!
You should come up to a BMWCCA or Chin event sometime and come hang out. I'm always up for a passenger with his or her own personal advice and opinions of my driving. I believe i'll be taking my instructor certification sometime late summer/fall time 2009 (if I can muster the cash).
As far as the E36 M3 goes, it is possibly one of the best out of the box chassis of all time, they are very easy to drive fast at the limit. I love them and I've probably driven atleast 10 of them on track. They are always a blast to drive.
Amen. Absolute blast to drive and so fast for the money spent. I clocked 43's on Road A and my car is 3200lbs w/ bilstein shocks/springs and R comps only!
McCoy clockes 45's on street tires and he has the same mods - 61whp and street tires!
Oh the rewards when Z06 owners and E46 m3 owners (on slicks or what not) would come up to the rig and ask waht all was done to my E36 lol.

MattAPM, Those Koni shocks are fine and so are the hoosiers, you just need to be a lot more aggresive and get some heat in them. We usually see tire temps of over 180 degrees when I run my racecar on hoosiers, You might can run that specific compound even hotter, you would have to check with one of the teams. If you don't have a temp probe to check tire temps you need to get one, surface temp is totally different than the actual tire temp. You also need to be checking the inside middle and outside temp to see if you need more or less camber.

If anyone wants to learn more I help instruct sometimes with Siegel Racing and Driver Education at Little Tally. His classes are very reasonably priced and you will get all the track time you can stand.

If anyone wants private lessons, or would like me to help them with car setup you can always PM me.
I've driven on Hoosiers a few times and they're damn good but lord they do need heat to be good. I had to play with pressures to get some heat (like you advised) in them but honestly, for D.E's, there are other tires that last longer, communicate better for people who may only have a few events under there belt and will stick "easier" if you get what i'm saying.

Quote Originally Posted by Jaimecbr900
Who?

On a side note, I'm not here to bad mouth anyone's driving skills. Everyone seemed to have a good time and to be honest I'm a tad jealous I didn't get to drive this event. Will the next one for sure.
Oh i've met you and I know you'd never do that. I was just backing up what is one of the best road racing cars/chassis of all time. It seemed as if you didn't think it was possible, when in reality it's still a contenda with everything 15 years newer ..

Hopefully i'll see that sexy turbo lex out there doing some hot laps in the future.