New for 2020, introducing my 2013 VW Golf R! Though I typically am against getting a car with a similar powertrain as one I already have (2L turbo awd), the Golf R turned out to be a good fit for a number of reasons. The main reason was that after crashing my Evo, I wanted…
Excited to formally announce my partnership with Red Line Oil for the 2020 racing season! They have time and time again proven to be the best wearing oil in all my cars and I am humbled to be sponsored by them once again. I track all my UOAs here and for the track cars, I…
Been a very quiet off-season with the Evo out of commission, but I finally picked up the car yesterday, after a month or so at the body shop, mainly waiting on various parts. The car looked like it was in bad shape, but once you opened it up – well it still looked pretty bad…
Been a quiet off-season with the Evo in repair & no changes planned for the M3 – my new catalytic converter, however, did finally arrive – 3 months after ordering the thing. It was the second part of a 2 stage process in me removing some knock the car was seeing – part 1 was…
Solid report for the M3 on the 50wt racing oil from Red Line, including 3 track days and 2 autocrosses:
UOA for the Evo with regular Red Line 5w30. Ton of hard usage ont he car, 3-4 track days, a few autocrosses, etc. The regular RL 5w30 seems to be showing a little weakness here again with the copper number. I may switch back to the race oil, especially given how well it did and…
The OS Giken differential swap & the larger rear sway bar are both part of an effort to shift the Evo’s balance towards neutral. Those are the two largest changes, with minor updates for everything else. I am switching to the RE71Rs after I do some 1-for-1 comparisons with the new differential on both track…
Hard to talk about this one – had an ice cold event today instructing with Laps, Inc. The track was cold, so each session I took a decent warm up lap. I had a solid lap during the second session, nailing a 2:45.45 – on the phone GPS, but the stopwatch confirms it. I was…
About as late of a “mid-season” update as I can get here. Quite a number of tweaks, changes, and upgrades for the Evo. Not as much for the M3, just some minor tweaks. Evo New upgraded sway-bar endlinks to fix the clunking, especially in the rear Adjustments to alignment (removed preload, later added a touch…
Going back full circle to my first track day at Autobahn South – I ran with the NASA HPDE group again, back from my nightmare scenario with the original brakes setup. Fortunately, I had a problem free 2 days of track where I was able to bring both the Evo & the M3. With NASA’s…
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