Progress on the bmw1602.com car ...** UPDATED 09/16/24 *

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That’s the goal....last race of the season! If all works out, I’ll be there on Friday.... to shake the car down, break-in the motor, diff and of course blast the cobwebs from my driving skills.... IF nothing starts leaking or falling off ....and the car & driver is up to it.... then I’ll be there to race on Sat/Sun in B-Sedan. Let’s see if the racing gods feel like throwing me a bone...

 

 

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No matter how much you try to avoid it..... when it comes to racing.... late night, last min. work is kinda unavoidable .... thanks again to Matt and the team @roninautowerksfor getting it together just in time for this weekend activities.... now let’s hope all the work will pay off and I have a drama free shake down/break-in day tomorrow at Willow Springs international raceway.... here we go.... I almost don’t believe it..... this is going happen....

 

 

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Beautiful day at Willow springs International raceway!!! Let’s do this! ... 

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Parts fell off the carburetor.... luckily, apparently I didn’t need them... time to plug up some holes with JB weld... more “street stuff” race cars don’t need.....jbweld to the rescue

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Well shit.... today was not in the cards... broken intake stud, we tried drilling it out... no dice. Had to pull the intake off to get it out .... ate up a lot of time and then when putting it back on we started to find more issues. I just decided to play it safe and just throw in the towel and not spend the money on the entry fee today. Didn’t want to push things and maybe cause more damage or DNF.... oh well ... not completely unexpected... 

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Going home with a good amount of “homework” next outing should result in more reliability and many more laps! Time to get to work! 

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It’s all about those small details...

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It’s all in the details..... thanks to @frank_franker for the perfect BMW classic roundel “horn” emblem.... I love the small details on any car.... I needed something to go where the horn used to go...

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❤️ #bbswheels ❤️ Thank you @frank_franker from Powderwheels for the immaculate BBS 13x6 1-peice Wheels ..... the only thing better would be some classic 3-peice BBS mags ..... I hope I find my dream wheel someday..... for now.... these will do just fine.... 

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Quiet race car making plans to make noise again ....

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Bummer I’m missing the first race of the year and that it’s a really fun one at Cal speedway.... things are a bit tight financially at the moment and I just got back from vacation.... just ran out if time to work on the car and get it ready. Good news is that now I have plenty of time to address all the issues, maybe dyno the car and do a few track days before the next race which is March 23rd at Willow Springs. Time to get busy!

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Got me a new Canon intake manifold to replaced my now cracked OEM version..... now time to race prep it...

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Whoever milled my old intake did a horrible job. For some dumb reason I never bothered to check and it’s waaay off!! Plus my paper gasket was just as bad!! This must of been costing me serious HP!!....the intake ports were just as bad....way smaller than the gaskets... time to start grinding my new intake and gasket matching it to my head and to the carb....

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The new Canon intake also had too small an opening! Swipe right to see the after.... should flow much better now! (I cut the gasket to match the carb throats)

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The benefits of having a CNC machine at my disposal.... got a 1/2” phenolic/Bakelite carb spacer from Redline... it is also cast for a 32/36mm carb. So we carefully Milled it out on the machine and it now matches my new canon intake perfectly .... the spacer adds a bit more volume to the mixing chamber in the intake and thermally isolates the carb from the cast aluminum intake