{"id":1037,"date":"2016-04-06T06:58:56","date_gmt":"2016-04-06T14:58:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.vorshlag.com\/blog\/?p=1037"},"modified":"2016-04-06T07:01:08","modified_gmt":"2016-04-06T15:01:08","slug":"update-on-daily-driven-track-car-e46","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.vorshlag.com\/blog\/2016\/04\/update-on-daily-driven-track-car-e46","title":{"rendered":"Update on &#8220;Daily Driven Track Car&#8221; E46"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>We&#8217;ve covered another round of repairs and upgrades plus one more race weekend in our &#8220;Daily Driven Track Car&#8221; project in <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.vorshlag.com\/forums\/showthread.php?p=58343#post58343\">this latest 3-part forum build thread update<\/a><\/strong>. This is an example of a compromised dual-purpose car we tell our customers NOT to build, but they do it anyway&#8230; so we decided to give it a try and see how far we could push a car in NASA Time Trial that really was daily driven, had air conditioning, a radio, and other nice creature comforts.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/vorshlag.smugmug.com\/Racing-Events\/NASA-MSR-C-031216\/i-2tM4vHM\/1\/M\/P7A_2826-M.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/p>\n<p>This 2001 BMW 330Ci is finally getting more competitive after it&#8217;s 3rd track weekend, but we still have many more modifications planned for this car during the 2016 season. We took the car to another NASA Time Trial event at MSR-Cresson and won the class both days, but just missed resetting the old TTD track record. After this event we put the car on the dyno rollers for a &#8220;lie detector&#8221; test &#8211; where the bone stock, 160K+ mile mototr put out 195 whp and 200 wtq. That means we&#8217;re still 50 whp down, so plans are in place to fix that.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/vorshlag.smugmug.com\/Projects\/Red-2001-BMW-E46\/i-7RtGGXJ\/0\/M\/B61G9206-M.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/p>\n<p>The biggest upgrade on this car to date was completed right before this NASA event &#8211; the Powerbrake 4-piston big brake upgrade, shown above. The 330 is still running on the non-adjustable Bilstein PSS kit with upgraded springs, but it has too much roll &#8211; this car needs a LOT more spring rate and better dampers. Tune in next time to see that, but for now, you can catch up on this project <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.vorshlag.com\/forums\/showthread.php?p=58343#post58343\">starting here<\/a><\/strong>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We&#8217;ve covered another round of repairs and upgrades plus one more race weekend in our &#8220;Daily Driven Track Car&#8221; project in this latest 3-part forum build thread update. This is an example of a compromised dual-purpose car we tell our &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.vorshlag.com\/blog\/2016\/04\/update-on-daily-driven-track-car-e46\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1037","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-build-thread-update"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vorshlag.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1037"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vorshlag.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vorshlag.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vorshlag.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vorshlag.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1037"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/www.vorshlag.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1037\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1043,"href":"https:\/\/www.vorshlag.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1037\/revisions\/1043"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vorshlag.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1037"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vorshlag.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1037"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vorshlag.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1037"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}