{"id":135,"date":"2011-10-25T12:02:44","date_gmt":"2011-10-25T20:02:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/vorshlag.com\/blog\/?p=135"},"modified":"2011-11-04T13:42:06","modified_gmt":"2011-11-04T21:42:06","slug":"vorshlag-wins-at-grm-challenge","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.vorshlag.com\/blog\/2011\/10\/vorshlag-wins-at-grm-challenge","title":{"rendered":"Vorshlag wins at GRM Challenge!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/vorshlag.smugmug.com\/Racing-Events\/2011-GRM-Challenge\/i-z2k5bzD\/0\/M\/DSC5041-M.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><br \/>\n<em>This is our car with the CCW 18&#215;11&#8243; wheels (not used for GRM competition, of course!)<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Vorshlag&#8217;s own Fair, Amy and Costas towed 17 hours to the Kumho Tires $2011 Grassroots Motorsports Challenge over Oct 6-8th, with our little BMW E30 LSx V8. We had covertly added a new &#8220;BMW Art Car&#8221; theme with hand cut vinyl a few days before leaving for Florida, and that extra attention to detail helped us place well in concours among the 48 car field, where we placed 7th in judging. <\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/vorshlag.smugmug.com\/Racing-Events\/2011-GRM-Challenge\/i-W7wjVMj\/1\/S\/DSC5212-S.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Then with Costas driving, and our hard work testing and perfecting the rather compromised suspension set-up, we won the autocross event! That was a huge goal for us, and it paid off in a <em>big way<\/em> when the Saturday drag race portion was cancelled, due to rain. The drag racing was attempted, but shut down after a handful of cars made runs, including us (it rained all the way down the drag strip).<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/vorshlag.smugmug.com\/Racing-Events\/2011-GRM-Challenge\/i-NrjcpPb\/0\/S\/DSC5122-S.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/p>\n<p>In the end they threw out the drag times, and lo and behold the Vorshlag E30 was sitting on top! We&#8217;re extremely thankful to all of the volunteers that helped build this car, and would also like to thank GRM and the event sponsors: Kumho Tires, CRC Products, RacingJunk.com and NASA.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/vorshlag.smugmug.com\/Racing-Events\/2011-GRM-Challenge\/i-N39JwHK\/1\/S\/IMG3966-S.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/> <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/vorshlag.smugmug.com\/Racing-Events\/2011-GRM-Challenge\/i-wtFSJbC\/0\/S\/DSC5715-S.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><br \/>\n<em>Left: Our 1st place Autocross Trophy. Right: Our GRM &#8220;shrine&#8221; at our new shop, with the Overall Trophy + 2010 Magazine Spread<\/em><\/p>\n<p>You can<strong> read more<\/strong> about the GRM event at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.vorshlag.com\/forums\/showthread.php?p=56843#post56843\">this forum post<\/a>. This is an <strong>epic forum post<\/strong> that had to be broken up into 3 parts, due to size constraints by more forums. We have almost 1000 pictures and videos, including in-car video of our autocross and drag race runs, as well as video of other driver&#8217;s entries. Over the past 2 years of building this car, on the 5 forums we cross post the build thread to, we&#8217;ve now topped <em>500,000 forum views<\/em> on this build thread. <em>Wow?!<\/em> <\/p>\n<p>If this is what we can do with a BMW V8 for $2011, <em>imagine what we can build you with a better budget?!?<\/em> \ud83d\ude00 Vorshlag is now building turn-key BMW LSx V8 swaps at our new state-of-the-art facility, including BMW E36, BMW E46, and maybe even an E30 build or two. Shoot us an email and we can build your dream car.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This is our car with the CCW 18&#215;11&#8243; wheels (not used for GRM competition, of course!) Vorshlag&#8217;s own Fair, Amy and Costas towed 17 hours to the Kumho Tires $2011 Grassroots Motorsports Challenge over Oct 6-8th, with our little BMW &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.vorshlag.com\/blog\/2011\/10\/vorshlag-wins-at-grm-challenge\">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":[6,4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-135","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-build-thread-update","category-race-summary"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vorshlag.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/135"}],"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=135"}],"version-history":[{"count":14,"href":"https:\/\/www.vorshlag.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/135\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":147,"href":"https:\/\/www.vorshlag.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/135\/revisions\/147"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vorshlag.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=135"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vorshlag.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=135"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vorshlag.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=135"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}