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Best of luck with your SM season - I know you'll have a ton of fun, and the competition should be fierce.
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2017 M240i: 25.9K, 28.9 mpg, MT, Sunroof Delete, 3,432#, EB, Leather, Driving Assistance Package, Heated Front Seats | Sold: E12 530i, E24 M635CSi, E39 520i, E30 325is, E36 M3 (2)
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04-24-2019, 11:42 AM | #90 |
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I'm officially making the car available for purchase. I'll be taking it out one last time this weekend to get the suspension settings sorted.
Here is a link to the ad. https://www.2addicts.com/forums/show....php?t=1607481
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Nice build btw! I take it you've sold the car by now.. |
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03-08-2020, 01:30 AM | #92 |
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This thread has been an emotional roller coaster. The ending is super harsh.
Basically the TL;DR is "Buy a Miata." OUCH! But seriously, thank you OP. Being a fairly new M240i owner, I take much away from this thread and I appreciate your sacrifice. As an xdrive owner, I am sort of scared how much worse it can be to track it often.
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Same but with BM3 93 Stage 2, VRSF Catless DP... 11.84 @ 114 |
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03-08-2020, 09:48 AM | #93 | |
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On a more interesting note, if you take your car to a handling track, run as hard as you can, and then look up the Spec Miata record, you may find yourself asking: "How do they do that!?!" They're not exactly slow around the high-speed tracks, either. Our cars aren't particularly suited to going fast around circuit tracks. Their weight alone is a handicap that can't be overcome, and weight is the primary enemy of lapping quickly. As far as going fast on the straights goes, the fun and the challenge is in the braking zones and the corners. Nevertheless, circuit tracks are fun in anything that's running, so I'd urge you to sign up for an HPDE with one of your local clubs (BMWCCA clubs have excellent instruction for novice drivers). The Tracking / Autocross subforum has useful information on how to get your car ready for an event. Autocross is worth checking out as well.
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2017 M240i: 25.9K, 28.9 mpg, MT, Sunroof Delete, 3,432#, EB, Leather, Driving Assistance Package, Heated Front Seats | Sold: E12 530i, E24 M635CSi, E39 520i, E30 325is, E36 M3 (2)
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KW Clubsport 2-way is going to be installed soon. The only regret I have is that I didn't have money at the time for a 911 carrera gts or 4 gts. |
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04-11-2020, 07:25 PM | #95 |
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If you're interested in a P car for autocross, you're better off getting a Cayman than a 911. Don't get me wrong, 911s are beautiful cars and quite potent. But the mid-engine Cayman/Boxster design is much more conducive to auto-x than its bigger brother.
I haven't autocrossed my M240ix yet, but I know it won't be in the same league. I still want to do it just for fun. |
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12-19-2020, 03:46 AM | #97 |
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I read this thread again after the first time I read it a couple of years ago. And so much more fun and resonance I have reading it this time than the last time! I guess that's because I did a lot of track days with my M240i and miata in the past two years and now I can better understand what the OP had gone through. Thank you for sharing with us the route you have taken in such a detailed way!
After having the M240i in its almost stock form (only changed wheels&tires&brake pads for track days) for three years, I'm debating between replacing it with a new P car and building it further towards a track weapon. These days I mainly drive the miata for track and M240i only sees track when miata is down. As I get faster in miata, my feeling about the inadequacy of M240i suspension gets stronger every time I switch to it. M240i is just a car that has way more power than suspension as a track car in its stock form. Although miata is so much fun on the track and I learnt a lot & became much faster driving it, the lack of power feeling grows back on me from time to time (lol idk if OP has similar feelings after racing SM for a while). Every time I feel like a little more power from the miata, I start thinking about modifying my M240i, then I would quickly waive that thought off by saying to myself "it's probably not worth it. I'd better off getting a new M2 or Cayman S". Reading this thread again reminds me how capable this car can be on the track if proper suspension mods are done. Although the mods are not gonna be cheap, probably still cheaper than getting any new stock car if the lap time is the goal. My original plan was to replace the M240i with a Cayman S as a street car. Now the idea of having another high horse power track car in my track fleet together with miata also seems not bad. |
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