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Had a great day with Speed District on Friday at Buttonwillow. It was my first time on RS4’s, and first time on track with the new Ohlins R&T setup (track day kit from 3DM). The dampers were amazing along with the added negative camber up front. I had so much front grip. Rear grip was a bit less present and I think maybe I needed to drop tire pressures in hindsight. It was only my second time at buttonwillow and I noticed it’s a track that really rewards slow in fast out, which is my weakness. I like sending it in deep and sideways haha. I posted consistent 2:05’s but my goal was to break the 2:00 barrier so I have work to do. I had forgotten how much I like Buttonwillow and hope to get at least one more day there this year. My last on track experience was Porsche Experience Center where my instructor was really focusing on chassis rotation. I was really happy with how the car felt and my ability to apply what I learned to place the car where I wanted using what I had been taught.
I got to meet Gabe out there and watch his awesome E90 race car lap. I also got to lap alongside a 992 GT3 Cup which was cool. My buddy was out there with me in a 991.2 Carrera GTS (7 Speed) and we were very equal up to the esses but his ability to put the power down out of the sweeper and through the esses was much better than me and that’s where he would gap me. He was able to get into the 1:58’s on his first time out there which I thought was quite respectable.
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On that note, I think I've finally gotten my MCS 2 Ways dialed in for the current spring rates/sways. I'm still not loving the body roll in transition, might bump up the rates/nitro pressure a smidge... Was able to put down a 1:51.8 first session but kept fiddling with shocks in later sessions and couldn't break 1:52. Still blown away by the progress I've made with the chassis in just a few months! I know there's grip left in Bus Stop & Riverside, anyhow... Here's video of the lap... predictive lap timers + sunset are an evil combo, had a high 1:50.xx exciting esses and I tried to be Superman. https://youtu.be/Jcw2z_4GJOI
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My buddies and I had fun watching you out there. Didn’t see you get passed once all day. We typically run in your group but knew without experience at Buttonwillow we would be in the way, even if predictable.
I think I did around 80 laps over the day.
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Haha I dunno about that! That's epic though, speed district is great about seat time... I was beat after my 6th session, I ran 50+ laps, can't imagine 80!
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Yeah there was definitely a pair of white Porsche's (911 and Cayman) that would point my buddy by in his GTS and then not point me by, so I would just pass them around the outside of turns, haha. I kinda like the "no respect" attitude towards BMW drivers.
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Went back out and did my first weekend event with Sebring (I’ve never driven back to back days before).
Managed to cut out 15 seconds to get to a 2:41.76. There’s still probably an easy 3-5 seconds for me to cut out once I can get more comfortable driving at speed. Few things that were unsettling: 1. For the first time I started feeling a soft pedal at the beginning of the braking zone which then firmed up dramatically to what I’m used to about halfway through the braking. I just bled the brakes before this event, but I’m wondering if this could be knock back as it’s mainly happening at turn 17 which is very bumpy. 2. I’m still having power issues when I go full throttle coming out of corners across the entire RPM range (with some lateral g forces, not prevalent on the street). This started after I installed the active autowerkes x pipe and on both oem and stage 2 alpine tune. Since it happens on a full and empty gas tank I don’t believe this is fuel delivery related. Going to take apart exhaust and reinstall to ensure no install issues but can’t think of anything else that’s causing these issues. Would love any feedback! https://youtu.be/1gCubhD5LDQ
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For the rest, I think it's a matter of figuring out how much speed you can carry through some of the big corners as I've heard quite a bit of maintenance throttle. If you're using MDM, it might be inducing some understeer so that will limit your speed in those long corners.
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for me getting new pre-cat o2 sensors helped a lot with getting some of the power loss back. then i did new spark plugs. also make sure you're using new donut gaskets when installing the xpipe.. never reuse them as it will cause a leak. now not to spook you.. but i did big willow back in September and i was noticing my power cutting out on the back straight and front straight as per my data my throttle input was not at full despite foot down. i could visible see the input shoot up to 100 then back down to 80 and then back to 100... it was crazy... turn out my Throttle Actuators took a shit lol. i would just plug in the alpine software again and run a cel check to see if there are any hidden codes.
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and i understand what you mean, when you replaced said TA's... but i also don't want to scare you. I highly doubt you experienced oil starvation during high G turns also, but who's to say that could not be a problem either... then again considering some of the faster guys who are pulling higher G's that me aren't experiencing it... if youre able to just log some basic data while on track you might get an idea of what is happening. which you should be able to do with bimmergeeks just gotta set up the parameters.
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i wouldn't worry too much tbh, could just be a freak incident.
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Bought my old NT03 back from a friend and mounted up some RE71RS(pre heat cycled from TR!). Can’t wait to set some PBs. I guess these Enkeis are about as light as you can get at 17.2lbs each.
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