04-07-2012
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Join Date: Oct 2005
Location: The land of the next-gen HMMWV
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Re: Want to race for real??
I think there will be a few. Probably not worth the trouble... we won't be there, too much to do on it!
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04-16-2012
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Join Date: Oct 2005
Location: The land of the next-gen HMMWV
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Re: Want to race for real??
Here we go, Road America this weekend!
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04-20-2012
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Join Date: Oct 2005
Location: The land of the next-gen HMMWV
Drives: A BMW
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Re: Want to race for real??
Locked and loaded!
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04-23-2012
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formerly ecoli
Join Date: Oct 2003
Location: On the dyno
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Re: Want to race for real??
We got 4th out of 47th cars at Road America on Saturday. Got beat by 3 BMWs. Our brakes were destroyed by the end of the day and our power steering blew up on the last stint. We replaced the calipers, knuckles, hubs, axles, ball joints, bypassed the power steering Sat night and got some Hawk HT-10 pads from another that put a rod threw the block of their D16 on Saturday. We were running in 2nd on Sunday morning when we came in for our first driver change, but then noticed that our brand new brake pads were all gone and that ended our chances of being competative. The same 3 BMWs got 1-3rd on Sunday too. We got back out there with some street pads, just to drive for fun and ended up having the trans or something(not sure yet) blowup 30 mins before the race ended.
One of the drivers on the BMW team that won on Sunday drove his McLaren MP4-12C to the event. Bizarrely at idle it sounds exactly like our Chumpcar.
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04-23-2012
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Join Date: Aug 2008
Location: Blaine
Drives: 1991 talon tsi, 1991 stealth
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Re: Want to race for real??
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Originally Posted by Shane@DBPerformance
One of the drivers on the BMW team that won on Sunday drove his McLaren MP4-12C to the event. Bizarrely at idle it sounds exactly like our Chumpcar.
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thats kind of funny cause i read this as the new topgear started tonight and the mclaren was one of the featured cars. |
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04-23-2012
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Join Date: Jul 2004
Location: MN
Drives: four tires
Posts: 1,608
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Re: Want to race for real??
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Originally Posted by Shane@DBPerformance
We got 4th out of 47th cars at Road America on Saturday. Got beat by 3 BMWs. Our brakes were destroyed by the end of the day and our power steering blew up on the last stint. We replaced the calipers, knuckles, hubs, axles, ball joints, bypassed the power steering Sat night and got some Hawk HT-10 pads from another that put a rod threw the block of their D16 on Saturday. We were running in 2nd on Sunday morning when we came in for our first driver change, but then noticed that our brand new brake pads were all gone and that ended our chances of being competative. The same 3 BMWs got 1-3rd on Sunday too. We got back out there with some street pads, just to drive for fun and ended up having the trans or something(not sure yet) blowup 30 mins before the race ended.
One of the drivers on the BMW team that won on Sunday drove his McLaren MP4-12C to the event. Bizarrely at idle it sounds exactly like our Chumpcar.
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4th is pretty cool, congrats to the team.
The winning team being a BMW and one of the team members owning(being able to own) the MP4-12C just doesn't seem right. |
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04-23-2012
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Join Date: Oct 2005
Location: West Des Moines
Drives: poorly
Posts: 4,358
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Re: Want to race for real??
Congrats on the 4th place finish! That's pretty impressive, how many BMW's did you beat?
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04-23-2012
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formerly ecoli
Join Date: Oct 2003
Location: On the dyno
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Re: Want to race for real??
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Originally Posted by asshanson
Congrats on the 4th place finish! That's pretty impressive, how many BMW's did you beat?
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Not sure, maybe 6 on Saturday. |
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04-23-2012
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Join Date: Aug 2011
Location: Lino Lakes
Drives: 14 Evo X GSR
Posts: 169
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Re: Want to race for real??
well done Shane!
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04-24-2012
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Join Date: Oct 2005
Location: The land of the next-gen HMMWV
Drives: A BMW
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Re: Want to race for real??
Thanks for the kind words guys. We'll get the brakes figured out and hopefully be competitive at brainerd in june.
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