Track forum general chit chat.

[redpriest]

Originally Posted by M3 Number 86

i was wondering where you mounted the mic differently because it sounded pretty horrible. hope you get it fixed!

LMAO, that's mounted in the center of the trunk - was experimenting with that today. Didn't want to dive bomb anyone with my GoPro mount falling off at 110 like I did to Ivan

[redpriest]

Originally Posted by M3 Number 86

nholmes i do 3 wheel motion every time so trying to find a way to keep that inside front tire down.

guys who went to spring mountain - can you check if my name is pre-black listed there?

SpeedVentures staff vouched for me pretty heavily so I think that helped me not get blacklisted for all time. If I had been a first time run with them I think I woulda been screwed.

kaiv was telling me he got blackflagged for a beautiful drift that I saw him do earlier, too.

[AriuSen]

Originally Posted by redpriest

SpeedVentures staff vouched for me pretty heavily so I think that helped me not get blacklisted for all time. If I had been a first time run with them I think I woulda been screwed.

kaiv was telling me he got blackflagged for a beautiful drift that I saw him do earlier, too.

well @kaiv is WANTED by fbi for excessive drifting in every event you can imagine

[nholmes]

Here's my fastest slow lap (haha) from Saturday:

and my two slides:

[admranger]

Ariusen: Nice vids! Thanks for including me. LOL at the S2k. Talent, it doesn't bolt on to the car... Come to think of it, that guy was probably the one talking smack at registration about how all the BMW drivers crash into other cars...well, if they do stupid shit like that then yeah, we're gonna smack 'em.

RedPriest: The good news for me is I was doing ~ the same speed into turn 2 as you were. The bad news is that I was on stones and you were on stickies... Dial that oversteer out a bit so you can carry more mid-corner speed. Setup your car like a Frenchman. No, not *that* Frenchman, I'm talking about Alain Prost. He always had a neutral to understeering car.

Since I brought Kaiv into the conversation; when the FBI interviewed me about Kaiv, I do recall answering "yes" to the question: "Is he pretty much a drifter?" Maybe they got the wrong idea...

Can't wait to see the video from Kaiv's run in the super fast E46M3. Epic time!

[AriuSen]

Originally Posted by admranger

Ariusen: Nice vids! Thanks for including me. LOL at the S2k. Talent, it doesn't bolt on to the car... Come to think of it, that guy was probably the one talking smack at registration about how all the BMW drivers crash into other cars...well, if they do stupid shit like that then yeah, we're gonna smack 'em.

RedPriest: The good news for me is I was doing ~ the same speed into turn 2 as you were. The bad news is that I was on stones and you were on stickies... Dial that oversteer out a bit so you can carry more mid-corner speed. Setup your car like a Frenchman. No, not *that* Frenchman, I'm talking about Alain Prost. He always had a neutral to understeering car.

Since I brought Kaiv into the conversation; when the FBI interviewed me about Kaiv, I do recall answering "yes" to the question: "Is he pretty much a drifter?" Maybe they got the wrong idea...

Can't wait to see the video from Kaiv's run in the super fast E46M3. Epic time!

oh good to know you were the red e46 guy! thanks for the suspension tuning help!!! gotta get that book too!

great line at spring mountain too...helped lose a few seconds by watching you =)

[redpriest]

Originally Posted by admranger

RedPriest: The good news for me is I was doing ~ the same speed into turn 2 as you were. The bad news is that I was on stones and you were on stickies... Dial that oversteer out a bit so you can carry more mid-corner speed. Setup your car like a Frenchman. No, not *that* Frenchman, I'm talking about Alain Prost. He always had a neutral to understeering car.

Well, another difference is that I'm still really a noob at heart (aka, I suck), haha. I did try to do the fine line between losing grip and putting the car into a slide, and what not through those long turns. Are you seeing that the car is a little too happy to go into a slide? How would you go about correcting this? Here's the list of things I think I can do to dial back in some more understeer:

Sway bar is in the middle setting - go softer?
Skinnier tires up front?
Less tire pressure up front?

Alignment is:
Front: -2.54/-2.49 camber, 6.95/6.82 caster, toe is 0.01/0.01
Rear: -1.8/-1.83 camber, 0.04/0.04 toe

Really do appreciate the advice. I think I could have done a lot better if I had someone who knew what they were doing ride along with me and give some tips.

[nholmes]

Originally Posted by redpriest

How would you go about correcting this?

I'm a slower driver I think, but I use this as a basic guide:



Looks like it's working now, redpriest

[nholmes]

Bah, photobucket is having server problems.

Check back later...

[dogbone]

Originally Posted by AriuSen

did some newbie video from my phone of my spring mountain trip!

Phew, I don't know, I would be pretty nervous running into these bandits in a dark alley……Looks like some shady characters at Spring Mountain! Quick, somebody, what's the number for 911?!

[AriuSen]

Originally Posted by redpriest

Well, another difference is that I'm still really a noob at heart (aka, I suck), haha. I did try to do the fine line between losing grip and putting the car into a slide, and what not through those long turns. Are you seeing that the car is a little too happy to go into a slide? How would you go about correcting this? Here's the list of things I think I can do to dial back in some more understeer:

Sway bar is in the middle setting - go softer?
Skinnier tires up front?
Less tire pressure up front?

Alignment is:
Front: -2.54/-2.49 camber, 6.95/6.82 caster, toe is 0.01/0.01
Rear: -1.8/-1.83 camber, 0.04/0.04 toe

Really do appreciate the advice. I think I could have done a lot better if I had someone who knew what they were doing ride along with me and give some tips.

ill ride with you next time =)
dont go skinnier tires on front.
you got sway bar on rear? or front and rear?
before you change anything i would love to ride with you and we can maybe change sway bar settings at the track

[OpusX]

It was nice meeting some of you guys this past weekend and thanks AriuSen for the pro instruction!

Nice video! Some of those pictures look amazing. Mustve been taken by a pro other than Doctor_3vil

[roastbeef]

redpriest, i found a sticker for your side window so you can keep both hands on the wheel as you pass the corner workers...
http://www.ebay.com/itm/like/1414967...&ul_noapp=true

[admranger]

Originally Posted by roastbeef

redpriest, i found a sticker for your side window so you can keep both hands on the wheel as you pass the corner workers...
http://www.ebay.com/itm/like/1414967...&ul_noapp=true

[admranger]

Originally Posted by AriuSen

ill ride with you next time =)
dont go skinnier tires on front.
you got sway bar on rear? or front and rear?
before you change anything i would love to ride with you and we can maybe change sway bar settings at the track

I didn't know you wanted someone to ride with you RedPriest or I'd have done that.

I'd fuss with the shock settings and tire pressure before the bar. Bars are harder to adjust at the track as you need both wheels up in the air and you have to set the the end links while the wheels are at the correct ride height (ends need to be level with the ground while the car is at rest).

Rest assured, you were faster than me overall, just saw an opportunity for you to go faster.

[admranger]

Originally Posted by AriuSen

oh good to know you were the red e46 guy! thanks for the suspension tuning help!!! gotta get that book too!

great line at spring mountain too...helped lose a few seconds by watching you =)

Glad I could help. I do enjoy helping others go faster.

I don't have the stones you guys do to take it to 10+/10ths anymore. I was impressed by the driving I saw through 1&2. You, Eli, Kevin et al were wringing every last bit out of those cars. It was fun to watch.

[redpriest]

Originally Posted by admranger

I didn't know you wanted someone to ride with you RedPriest or I'd have done that.

I'd fuss with the shock settings and tire pressure before the bar. Bars are harder to adjust at the track as you need both wheels up in the air and you have to set the the end links while the wheels are at the correct ride height (ends need to be level with the ground while the car is at rest).

Rest assured, you were faster than me overall, just saw an opportunity for you to go faster.

Only because you weren't pushing it I don't have adjustable coilovers unfortunately - still on stock suspension. Only differences are camber plates and now swift spec r springs, so it has to be changing the bar or tire pressures.

[kaiv]

[macdude357]

I was in the purple group at Spring Mountain. Both of our afternoon sessions got cut in half because of drivers going off course. Pretty disappointing. I got a total of 5 laps in the whole afternoon.

The real bummer was that an instructor approached me before the last session and offered to ride with me but that session only lasted two laps. I've never done Speed Ventures before. Is this a common occurrence?

Anyone doing the NASA event at Buttonwillow next month? Wondering how bad the heat gets there in June.

[redpriest]

Originally Posted by macdude357

I was in the purple group at Spring Mountain. Both of our afternoon sessions got cut in half because of drivers going off course. Pretty disappointing. I got a total of 5 laps in the whole afternoon.

The real bummer was that an instructor approached me before the last session and offered to ride with me but that session only lasted two laps. I've never done Speed Ventures before. Is this a common occurrence?

Anyone doing the NASA event at Buttonwillow next month? Wondering how bad the heat gets there in June.

I had 16 laps for the entire day, and they weren't always clean. I don't think I had a single session that ended on a checkered flag - with 3 sessions ending on waving black flags, and then I got black flagged on my last session out.

People going off happens all the time, but this is the first time I've seen it end an entire session so often, and I don't think it always Speed Ventures drivers fault; at least in my sessions, I saw a couple Radicals off track, or spun out.

[kaiv]

Here's my session driving my friend's E46 M3. Such an epic car!
Vid has some glitches in the beginning but it gets better.

PS: GIVE US BACK M3FORUM

[M3 Number 86]

Originally Posted by kaiv

Here's my session driving my friend's E46 M3. Such an epic car!
Vid has some glitches in the beginning but it gets better.

PS: GIVE US BACK M3FORUM

HULKSMASH - or used to be

nvm see lsb in side mirrors.