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01-15-2022, 11:54 AM | #573 |
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Nice to see you opted for the motorsport style gussets! Those seem to be often imitated but nobody comes close to what Tony does. His cages are on another level. I've been paying attention the last couple years taking note of a lot of shops around the country and nobody builds cages that fit as tight as Tony's. When we did our seat fitting at TCD, I noted how i'd previously not had that much headroom in previous BMWs, but then noticed how tight the cage was to the chassis and it made sense.
Did you decide what you're going to do for the motor? I've done a ton of research for our E36 widebody S54 race motor and talked to a lot of racers in the country with deep pockets. It's interesting, not a lot has changed since I stopped club racing 15+ years ago. Feel free to reach out if you'd like more info.
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The lateral bars and main hoop itself might be a different story, but can't tell from the one picture. I'm sure the cage is well done, just thought what you said about tight fitting is funny based on the photo OP posted lol. |
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Those style gussets (for BMW Motorsport chassis) originally started on the E46 PTG/Schnitzer cars in 2001. Tony's are an evolution of them but very close to the original. They are meant to be a replacement for the FIA downbar. Talking to a PTG engineer years ago it was done to help clear space for ingress and egress for driver changes during endurance racing. Regardless I see a lot of cages you can fit your arm between the cage and the chassis in a lot of areas. You won't find that with anything Tony and Joe at TCD produce. I am excited to see this car's cage once it comes back from paint.
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There's plenty of clearance w the gussets. Love mine.
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If it blows up, I'll just get another. I'm very curious about rebuild intervals with this engine, so I'll also find this out.
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Very cool on the stroker motor, I bet it'll make big power!
I'm very interested to hear your experience with Carbahn. Will you be staying with the DCT? Do they tune the ECU in house or is that on you? Will you go to standalone like a motec or life racing and a sequential? Also curious to hear how you like dealing with the dry sump. I almost went that route with our race s54 then realized I would be really annoyed with the startup procedure of a dry-sump engine. But maybe Carbahn's system is essentially start and drive?
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Begun, it has. I went with the 4.6L versus the 4.7L at the expense of ~15 hp. The rationale is that the 4.6 is more reliable ... and if there's an issue with the motor, it's possible in some instances to save it via boring it out to 4.7L. We'll see. This is an enormously expensive science project, should be fun.
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I'd bet a carefully wrapped plenum underside, filter neck, and lower airbox would keep intake air temps a few degrees cooler and make up the difference.
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While there's some sentimental value in running the engine that originally came with my car, it wasn't worth waiting 3-4 months.
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track use voids warranty. OOF
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Do you have a date that you're looking for the whole car build to be done by? I'm really excited to see the finished product!
For people that are offended by the warranty: Most race parts don't come with any warranty at all. In this case, I think the warranty could be useful during the tuning process. For instance, you need to tune the motor, most likely on the dyno. Let's say there was a production problem with the engine. There's a fair chance the problem will show up on the dyno. You haven't tracked it or abused it, so technically the warranty could help. An engine builder can't be responsible for a guy with a 6-speed over-revving the thing and destroying it. Too many unknowns. DCT avoids over-rev issues, but you can still pound on the engine in other ways that could hurt it, or have it tuned with a really high RPM redline that is bad for it. So, I'm not surprised that the warranty doesn't cover the track/race uses. I've heard these stroker builds have one season in them before needing rebuilds. What have you heard?/What are your expectations?
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i hear carbahn doesnt care about HPDE stuff, but actual racing series are different.
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