{"id":869,"date":"2009-06-13T23:05:20","date_gmt":"2009-06-13T23:05:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.specr53.com\/blog\/?p=869"},"modified":"2025-02-01T22:15:25","modified_gmt":"2025-02-01T22:15:25","slug":"and-the-beat-goes-on","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gcomotorsports.com\/specr53\/autocross\/and-the-beat-goes-on\/","title":{"rendered":"And the Beat Goes On"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>It was a beautiful morning for an autocross. The National Capital Chapter of the BMW CCA held another points event at the MD State Police Training Facility in Sykesville. I was eager to get the BMW back on the road, so I gave it a try, even though the U-joint beats the drive-line like a madman. The 16 inch MINI wheels and R-comps are a bit too tall for the E30. I can&#8217;t quite get lock-to-lock without some rubbing in the wheel well. In the future, I&#8217;ll have to stick with the RA1s on the 15 inch wheels instead.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The steering rack performed flawlessly. It&#8217;s probably psychosomatic on my part, but it seems easier to steer and more responsive to input. Maybe that&#8217;s because the system is holding pressure and not just pumping fluid into the boots. The drive-line is something I&#8217;m going to have to deal with. I think I progressed backwards today: my fastest run was the first one; slowest the last. I found as I went on, that the vibration became worse and by the end, I couldn&#8217;t give it full power without shaking the whole car.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/farm4.static.flickr.com\/3341\/3623163569_1df621ac5c.jpg\" alt=\"Caliper Paint\"\/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>I also managed to finally finish painting all of the calipers last week. Red calipers must be good for .2 secs a run&#8230;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Update: 6\/14\/09. Just checked the results and I won my class!<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><a href=\"http:\/\/farm3.static.flickr.com\/2425\/3635080023_3faa74923b_o.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/farm3.static.flickr.com\/2425\/3635080023_596c9f60dc.jpg?v=0\" alt=\"In action\"\/><\/a><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Thanks to the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nccbmwcca.org\/index.php?option=com_weblinks&amp;view=category&amp;id=59&amp;Itemid=175\">NCC website<\/a>, I just got some photos of the Stealth in action last week at <a href=\"http:\/\/maps.google.com\/maps?f=q&amp;source=s_q&amp;hl=en&amp;geocode=&amp;q=slacks+rd,+sykesville,+md&amp;sll=39.384733,-76.949444&amp;sspn=0.023484,0.045705&amp;ie=UTF8&amp;t=h&amp;z=14&amp;iwloc=A\">Sykesville<\/a>. There are a couple of things to note in these photos. The first one is under hard braking, just turning-in to a fairly tight right turn, body roll isn&#8217;t bad and the front doesn&#8217;t seem to be really loaded.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The second thing I notice is how much better the paint looks on the door and front fender than the rear quarter panel. That&#8217;s because I haven&#8217;t painted the rear quarter panel yet. I&#8217;m also thinking that if I really want to stick with the whole black-out theme, I need to tint the windows and paint the chrome trim black as well.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><a href=\"http:\/\/farm4.static.flickr.com\/3191\/3635891542_13130591fa_o.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/farm4.static.flickr.com\/3191\/3635891542_ae53d80e61.jpg?v=0\" alt=\"turn in\"\/><\/a><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It was a beautiful morning for an autocross. The National Capital Chapter of the BMW CCA held another points event at the MD State Police Training Facility in Sykesville. I was eager to get the BMW back on the road, so I gave it a try, even though the U-joint beats the drive-line like a &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/gcomotorsports.com\/specr53\/autocross\/and-the-beat-goes-on\/\" class=\"more-link\">Read more<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;And the Beat Goes On&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[3,4],"tags":[48],"class_list":["post-869","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-autocross","category-bmw","tag-bmw-cca"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/gcomotorsports.com\/specr53\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/869","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/gcomotorsports.com\/specr53\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/gcomotorsports.com\/specr53\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gcomotorsports.com\/specr53\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gcomotorsports.com\/specr53\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=869"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/gcomotorsports.com\/specr53\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/869\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4314,"href":"https:\/\/gcomotorsports.com\/specr53\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/869\/revisions\/4314"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/gcomotorsports.com\/specr53\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=869"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gcomotorsports.com\/specr53\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=869"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gcomotorsports.com\/specr53\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=869"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}