Austin Meet?

8k3 · 02-23-2014, 09:10 PM

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Originally Posted by jchristianp

I had a nice time meeting everyone and seeing the work you all have put into your cars.

Sorry for any drool that hit the inside of the blown engine bays. Next time both myself and the baby will wear bibs.

Lol. You had a nice ride too, loved the exhaust, forgot to ask what it was!

jphughan · 02-23-2014, 10:13 PM

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Originally Posted by surlynkid

Should do a meetup at COTA on March 22.

I'm driving at that event, so let me know if you'll be there. People are allowed to catch rides with instructors even if they're not participants themselves, but considering how many people are likely to be there, passenger seat availability might be an issue.

jphughan · 02-23-2014, 10:25 PM

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Originally Posted by 8k3

Had a great time as well, nice seeing you all. The drive was awesome

Glad you liked it! If you ever get the itch to go out again, I've got a couple more routes I've put together that start closer to your neck of the woods. And if you want somebody to go with you, chances are I'd be down.

The first goes out to Johnson City and then on to Fredericksburg if you want to go that far. The first part can have some traffic and doesn't have great passing zones, but that clears up pretty early on. The Stripes in Johnson City is a decent break point, and Hondo's in Fredericksburg has amazing burgers. Fredericksburg itself is actually a historical German town and a cool place to kill an afternoon perusing the shops up and down Main St, btw -- especially with a significant other.

There's also a classic car dealer called Street Dreams out there that has a huge showroom with all kinds of vintage muscle cars and other classics, some going back to the 1930s.

And the second route is the one I mentioned earlier that's essentially a way to spend 3.5 hours getting to San Antonio. It's a ton of fun though, another mix of more open higher speed roads and smaller more twisty technical roads, with pretty nice scenery throughout. Again, the stopping points I marked are decent break points (one is just a rest area with a nice view and the other is a convenience store), and The Cove has some pretty good food.

Fredericksburg Drive

San Antonio Drive

SHADY1 · 02-23-2014, 10:29 PM

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Originally Posted by 8k3

Had a great time as well, nice seeing you all. The drive was awesome

never got around to getting a ride in your car

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Originally Posted by jchristianp

I had a nice time meeting everyone and seeing the work you all have put into your cars.

Sorry for any drool that hit the inside of the blown engine bays. Next time both myself and the baby will wear bibs.

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Originally Posted by whats77inaname

Had an excellent time seeing old faces and meeting new ones

Really enjoyed that split second of weightlessness, too *lol*.

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Originally Posted by BrewRifle

Great meet and ride today, folks. Looking forward to the next event! What is the facebook page with the other Austin BMW stuff going on?

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Originally Posted by jphughan

Well it was great seeing everybody! If anybody ever wants to revisit the route we took, here it is: https://goo.gl/maps/zonQR. I thought it would make a good mix of higher speed areas (mostly for the SC'd cars

) and tighter twisty roads to enjoy some cornering. We ran into traffic a couple times in areas where passing wasn't really feasible, but for the most part we had the roads to ourselves. Let's not wait this long to do it again!

Here are some pics from today they are not the best because I am no pro at pics

jphughan · 02-23-2014, 10:32 PM

^ Nice pics!!!

Brent Dalton · 02-23-2014, 11:07 PM

Wish I could have made it, but saw this a little too late. It looks like you guys had a good turn out. I am going to try to make it out to COTA in a few weeks. Look forward to meeting some semi-local M3 owners.

8k3 · 02-24-2014, 12:06 AM

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Originally Posted by SHADY1

never got around to getting a ride in your car

Here are some pics from today they are not the best because I am no pro at pics

Great pics Shady, thanks for taking them and posting!

My bad, I actually remembered half way home that I would let you drive my M. My gf was getting hot and wanted to grab a bite to eat. If in town any time this week let me know!

BrewRifle · 02-24-2014, 07:45 AM

Awesome photos! Did any of the video footage come out looking good?

surlynkid · 02-24-2014, 12:03 PM

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Originally Posted by jphughan

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Originally Posted by surlynkid

Should do a meetup at COTA on March 22.

I'm driving at that event, so let me know if you'll be there. People are allowed to catch rides with instructors even if they're not participants themselves, but considering how many people are likely to be there, passenger seat availability might be an issue.

Yes. I am there is B group in a yellow GT3 all 3 days. My wife is in C group in an E92 M3 Sat/Sun.

SHADY1 · 02-24-2014, 09:59 PM

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Originally Posted by BrewRifle

Awesome photos! Did any of the video footage come out looking good?

Yes the Video came out good

but its 52 min long

it has to be edited

oh and I got my VF650 Superchager upgrade in the mail today from VF Engineering

bastards at UPS finally drop it off

BrewRifle · 02-25-2014, 07:50 AM

Oh snap, Shady! Can't wait to see that VF650 in action.

8k3 · 02-25-2014, 05:49 PM

Welcome to the club Shady! Two 650's in nearly the same town, hmm, time to hit the track! Wish I had bigger tires though :/

jchristianp · 02-25-2014, 07:27 PM

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Originally Posted by 8k3

loved the exhaust, forgot to ask what it was!

Just a Megan with a gutted primary cat. Nothing fancy but I really liked the sound.

By the way what was everyone's first names? I am terrible with names and only remember a couple. Just so next meet i'm not like..."heeeyyy... you".

I'm Jake, the other was Jason.

whats77inaname · 02-25-2014, 09:48 PM

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Originally Posted by jchristianp

Just a Megan with a gutted primary cat. Nothing fancy but I really liked the sound.

By the way what was everyone's first names? I am terrible with names and only remember a couple. Just so next meet i'm not like..."heeeyyy... you".

I'm Jake, the other was Jason.

Sent you a PM

silverE46M · 02-28-2014, 05:50 PM

Thanks for letting me hang in my E46!

whats77inaname · 02-28-2014, 07:47 PM

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Originally Posted by silverE46M

Thanks for letting me hang in my E46!

Damn, it's about time you registered, K *lol*

jphughan · 03-01-2014, 07:46 PM

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Originally Posted by 8k3

Welcome to the club Shady! Two 650's in nearly the same town, hmm, time to hit the track! Wish I had bigger tires though :/

M0da and I just finished our first day of the weekend up here at Texas World Speedway. Yeah, he's already hopelessly addicted.

8k3 · 03-02-2014, 01:23 AM

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Originally Posted by jphughan

M0da and I just finished our first day of the weekend up here at Texas World Speedway. Yeah, he's already hopelessly addicted.

Man, wish I was there. Agh, need to save my pennies...

silverE46M · 03-05-2014, 10:41 PM

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Originally Posted by 8k3

Man, wish I was there. Agh, need to save my pennies...

There's this in late March

https://www.facebook.com/events/626168617452336/

BrewRifle · 04-07-2014, 08:41 AM

Any update on the video from the Austin drive, James?

8k3 · 04-10-2014, 01:08 AM

I think the vid might need a bit of editing as it's prob large

jphughan · 04-10-2014, 01:24 PM

And here I clicked back into this thread after seeing new posts in it thinking we were scheduling another one.

Incidentally, this Saturday is the local BMW CCA chapter's Annual Bluebonnet Drive, which runs from South Austin out to the Willow City Loop (should be really nice with all the bluebonnets I'm seeing even here in Austin) and then down to Fredericksburg. It won't be as fast as the drive we took, but the roads are definitely great (it's my route

), the people are fun, and judging by the signups on the website there are going to be a LOT of people. Check out www.tejaschapter.org if you want to find it -- yes, we know the website is more than a decade overdue for a redesign.

Otherwise, if people are up for it I think it might be fun to do a route I came up with to San Antonio. It's all hill country roads with a mix of more open segments for all of you SC'd people and a few smaller, twistier roads for us trained drivers.

I ran it once with two other friends. They brought a BRZ and a 997 C2S, so we divided the route up into 3 segments and switched cars along the way -- fun mix of cars to jump between. Anyway, we decided to end the route with lunch at The Cove in San Antonio, and with the stops, the trip took around 3 hours. Anyone down?

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