318iS Drift/Track 'bandit' - daqqer

[suvi123]

Nice. But still little more to remove under handbrake, rear side panels, doors, and so on.

Cool stickers on rear windows!!! Especially "Weld it, Burn it". Can't wait to get my car painted and put all kind of sticky stuff on it. I'm thinking about sticker front numberplate too...lose little weight:D

[daqqer]

Allright, today i got 2x 4-point OMP racing belts, and finally recieved the adapter for my Sparco seat.

I installed the adapter, then had to drill 2 holes for the seat in the right position, and put the seat in car. Yummie. Then also installed drivers OMP belts (witch are btw better than Sparcos own belts, because the joints where you can tighten the belt are way better, they dont go loose by themselves).

Also got a pair of the Sparco softening pads, because my right collarbone cant stand much pressure.

Did a little test run, omg i love it, so much better. Pluss the racing seat is about 8 kg-s. So it should be about half the weight of the original or smth like that.

[daqqer]

Ok heres some pics of the interior. I cleaned the back seat a bit yesterday, a bit still to do but i ran out of the paint cleaner.







And a little pic from outside then also.

[gearheadE30]

Nice rims! I'm not really feeling the crystal turns or the multi-colored front end, though. Your car has a lot of nice bits on it:plaid sport seats, adjustable lights, crank windows, casette holder, and the rims. If you weren't across a rather large body of water, I'd be trying to buy a bit of it

[daqqer]

Nice rims! I'm not really feeling the crystal turns or the multi-colored front end, though. Your car has a lot of nice bits on it:plaid sport seats, adjustable lights, crank windows, casette holder, and the rims. If you weren't across a rather large body of water, I'd be trying to buy a bit of it

Yes, im waiting the middle cover part, and then i will be ready for repainting the whole front end. Also should paint the rear skirt.

As for the sports seats - i sold them to get two racing seats. Adjustable lights - dont work with the 'tuning' headlights, so i removed them completely. Crank windows - more reliable, less weight, good for me. Cassette holder - hahha, im trying to find the blank console part, but seemes there are none laying around. As for rims, those are my 15'', but i think the 16'' look a bit better. Just atm got good 15'' tyres on them so im driving with those.

[daqqer]

On Saturday i competed on a track day (OpenTrack, Sauga track). A big track with speeds 100-170 with my 318iS, dont think it ever dropped below 100, or 90ish. The car was really good, i didnt think it would be that good to drive my drift setup on a trackday.

Yesterday we did a little drift evening also (Rapla track), same track as linked before in the rain. And yes, it was rainy again so didnt wear out my tyres. At some point i was about to crash into a concrete wall tho, that was not funny at all. I guess i got over confident and the angles/speeds went too big.

And since yesterday i have a daily-driver also, so good time to start some bigger works on my 318iS.

[daqqer]

A pic from Saturday also

[serrano]

any plans for a rollcage?

[daqqer]

any plans for a rollcage?

The thing with rollcage is its not expensive, but its just not street-legal here. So if id put rollcage in i would have to install pitch-black window tint also and id still have the chance of getting busted by some cops. So not so good idea atm, unless in the future i want to register my car as a sports-only car, and drive only on the days that some events are listed (not street-legal cars can drive around on training days and competitions that are officially listed).

[daqqer]

Tales from the traaaack again, Sunday

[daqqer]

Does anyone make custom ITBs here in the forum ? Something like dbilas does. Like from some bike inline 4 engine one (Yamaha R1 looks quite good).
I could do the flange for it myself, and i could do the intake muffler myself, would need the ITB part made by someone who knows what he does and what would work for an M42.

Not much progress on my car atm. Gearbox decided to break and at the same time i bought a superbike, so not much time for car. Tho now its spring and too cold to drive with bike, so gotta start working on BMW again.

[daqqer]

On Friday got new gearbox installed. Also put on a number of polyretan mounts and engine aluminium mounts. Next tried to put aluminium mounts for gearbox also... its not doable. Also gearbox broke because it has uber weak mounts on it. To make it work the gearbox should be reinforced first. And a friend of mine who makes 1000+ hp cars occasionally in his workshop told me he never uses aluminium mounts for gearboxes, that wont never work. Ok, welded the gearbox together again and installed it with stock mounts. When all was finished i tried to start the car... wtf the car wont idle at all, and works like with 3 cylinders, wtf, ok reset... same thing, damn. The problem was one vacuum hose had flewn off, jeeeze. Got that fixed and started the engine.... ummm.... its rather insane, the vibration is all over the car. I tried it on Saturday on a racetrack, yes i think there could be a little power gain there tho. But the vibration is nuts.

[suvi123]

On Friday got new gearbox installed. Also put on a number of polyretan mounts and engine aluminium mounts. Next tried to put aluminium mounts for gearbox also... its not doable. Also gearbox broke because it has uber weak mounts on it. To make it work the gearbox should be reinforced first. And a friend of mine who makes 1000+ hp cars occasionally in his workshop told me he never uses aluminium mounts for gearboxes, that wont never work. Ok, welded the gearbox together again and installed it with stock mounts. When all was finished i tried to start the car... wtf the car wont idle at all, and works like with 3 cylinders, wtf, ok reset... same thing, damn. The problem was one vacuum hose had flewn off, jeeeze. Got that fixed and started the engine.... ummm.... its rather insane, the vibration is all over the car. I tried it on Saturday on a racetrack, yes i think there could be a little power gain there tho. But the vibration is nuts.

I assumed that vibration will be quite insane, but handeling should have improved quite a lot. No inertia forces caused by engine movement. Do you have any pic's of transmisson form where it got broke? Did it brake when you were driving? I think aluminum subframe and differential mounts are also needed to use aluminum transmission mounts. (I think too much flex from rear axle broke you transmission)

[daqqer]

I assumed that vibration will be quite insane, but handeling should have improved quite a lot. No inertia forces caused by engine movement. Do you have any pic's of transmisson form where it got broke? Did it brake when you were driving? I think aluminum subframe and differential mounts are also needed to use aluminum transmission mounts. (I think too much flex from rear axle broke you transmission)

Nope, it broke on installing. The final tightening. It just cant work like that. There needs to be atleast somekind of polyretan or something softer in it. BTW the rear end is on all Powerflexes, so not very loose. Im going to put a Powerflex polyretan gearbox mounts also.

And sry no pics of it.

[daqqer]

but handeling should have improved quite a lot.

Havent had a chance to test that out yet. But hopefully soon getting on a trackday again, lets see what the times tell us.