135i Race Car Project Thread - 1Addicts.com riding on board

[scottn2retro]

Originally Posted by Olivier_TFE

Nice! Nice!

Hehe, the weekend after Cal Speedway, we had the car at the Bimmerfest event at the Rose Bowl

[scottn2retro]

On the banking at California Speedway
(photo by CaliPhotography)

[scottn2retro]

Hi All - For the upcoming races, I'm going to be trying these wheels from APEX. Will save me about 5 lbs. per wheel, so we'll see if Ralph can feel the difference. I'll get a picture of them on the car at SPOCOM this weekend.

http://www.apexraceparts.com/

[scottn2retro]

Was at SPOCOM on July 18th

[Olivier_TFE]

Nice! Nice! (The Apex wheels )

[Superfly]

Originally Posted by scottn2retro

We think the Dinan software, oil cooler (and not racing as few times as possible in 100+ deg. temperatures) will help.

We also have some Total oil/ elf racing grade products on the way that may also reduce engine temperatures, so we'll be keeping everyone posted on how that works out. We are going to try the Total Quartz 10W-50 racing motor oil. A shop that we trust and have been working with since 2004 is starting to use it in all the race and M cars they service saying they have experience lower engine oil temps.

Hello,

Can you tell us what is the result concerning temperature with this oil ?
Thanks in advance

[scottn2retro]

Originally Posted by Superfly

Hello,

Can you tell us what is the result concerning temperature with this oil ?
Thanks in advance

Well, as hard as we drive the car, with the Dinan oil cooler and the Total Quartz 10W-50, we have only gone into "dynamic rev limiter" mode only a couple of times over the last 3 years on only the hottest of days. So we are happy with it.

What a lot of people don't realize is that the 'limp mode' is actually triggered off of the water temperature. Pretty soon here, we should get the chance to try a new increased size radiator from HP Autoworks.

More from SPOCOM

[scottn2retro]

Originally Posted by Olivier_TFE

Nice! Nice! (The Apex wheels )

Hehe, sure

More from SPOCOM

[Superfly]

Originally Posted by scottn2retro

Well, as hard as we drive the car, with the Dinan oil cooler and the Total Quartz 10W-50, we have only gone into "dynamic rev limiter" mode only a couple of times over the last 3 years on only the hottest of days. So we are happy with it.

What a lot of people don't realize is that the 'limp mode' is actually triggered off of the water temperature. Pretty soon here, we should get the chance to try a new increased size radiator from HP Autoworks.

More from SPOCOM

Thank you for your answer

[scottn2retro]

More from SPOCOM 2010 (the Tuner Conflict Girls)

[scottn2retro]

Hi All -

The TOTAL eStore now has shirts available with our 135 on the back:

http://www.total-estore.com/consumer...TTL-R-PC61-BMW

[wareagle5693]

Awesome car Scott!!!

You coming back to Road Atlanta anytime soon?

[scottn2retro]

Originally Posted by wareagle5693

Awesome car Scott!!!

You coming back to Road Atlanta anytime soon?

Thanks! Actually, next year's Oktoberfest races are at Barber Motorsports Park in Birmingham, if we make the trip.

[wareagle5693]

I hope you make the trip!! That would be easy to make!

Keep us updated!

[scottn2retro]

End of August 2010, we were at the BMW CR Oktoberfest races at Road America in Elkhart Lake, Wisc. Very nice countryside to put a race track on, but on the down side, with a 4 mile course with hills in the middle, it's hard to see much of the track from any one spot.

Here are some pics I took as I show you around part of the track:

Our car crossing the start finish line heading South towards turns 1 and 2


Turns 1 and 2 are medium speed right-handers. From Turn 2 (in the background at the far right), you have a high speed section thru the Sargento bridge,



and on to turns 3 and 4 (at high speed) toward the hard braking zone for the left hand Turn 5



If you can slow the car sufficiently and make the turn 5 left hander, you head uphill to the Toyota bridge for a left hander that you can't see until you crest the hill



From Turn 6 you make a downhill run thru 7 towards 8



You make the left hander at Turn 6 and it's down the hill thru 7 towards 8



Turn 8 is the left hander before the carousel and is usually a place to pass into the braking zone after getting a run on a car from Turn 6. The go-kart track is over in this area of the track.



Once you make the left hander at 8, you go under the Johnsonville brigde and on to the Carousel and the back part of the track

[scottn2retro]

Here's a couple of shots of our car at Road America taken by Alan of Ti Speed

[pixelblue]

no videos?! we like to see this bad boy in action!

[scottn2retro]

Originally Posted by pixelblue

no videos?! we like to see this bad boy in action!

I'll have to ask Ralph is he has put a bunch of them up anywhere. He recently had an issue where he had a bunch of them deleted.

[scottn2retro]

We were at Laguna Seca during Monterey Jazz Festival weekend, so that was kind of fun. After getting back from the track, we could leave the hotel windows open to hear the concert from the fairgrounds

It was a little wet on Saturday morning

[scottn2retro]

But it did dry up after the first sessions on Saturday morning for a great weekend at Laguna Seca

[scottn2retro]

Wow, somebody found this pic on the Wind City chapter site. Nice brake rotor glow in the daytime:

http://www.windycitybmw.com/photo.aspx?moid=21238

[sonofnyx]

Well, for my taste far too much useless weight aboard. Why would you want the backseats in a racecar - especially when you have a rollcage. The passenger seat is also just useless weight during the race, so is the whole interiour design - you don't need that in a proper racer. A german team recently finished their 1 series coupe based hill climbing race car. I mean - I don't know the regulations you need to have an eye on, but for me this isn't a serious race car. It tries to be both - all day driver and race car at once but by trying that it fails doing both.

If you're interested you can have a look at that project. The texts are all in german, but the pictures actually give you a very good impression: 134 Judd