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2ManyZs - You should be able to camp along the road heading into the North Paddock, which will be in use. Email me tonight (wburstein "at" mountainmotorsports "dot" net) if you get a chance -- I am...

Make sure you check the rear suspension parts on the other side of the car, especially if you are running a rear sway bar. I had to replace many of the parts on the "other" side after a hit on my...

We never had problems melting the Kontrolle T/C bushings, but I turned one to dust when I hit a pothole off course at the ARRC a couple of years ago. I suspect that I might have bent something if...

We have been getting fairly even wear on the '04s, running similar camber settings to those that worked on the '03s. There is some feathering in the grooves, but I attribute that to the fairly wide...

When I bought our race car, it came with the eccentric bushings in the front control arms. There were no problems with binding, because the plastic bushing was destroyed ;-)

If you want to bend...

I'm with Rabbit07. We have been running Hoosiers for years and I just smile when I hear someone complain that they are only good for a few heat cycles. With proper care, we run them almost to the...

As per the GCR, the exhaust must exit behind the driver and away from the car. If you terminate the exhaust underneath the car, I think you need to point it down (away from the car).
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I'm with Joe on ARP fastners, especially rod bolts on an L-series race motor.

A fresh, properly built, IT-legal engine can rev to 7500 RPM, but if you are going to do that every lap, you had...

Jeff,

If you go to the trouble of replacing one the roll pins, you may as well do all of them. Often, when I do ours, I find that some of the roll pins are damaged, but had not yet failed.
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I run Hoosiers on my ITS 240Z. I follow Hoosier's recommendations on breaking tires in whenever possible. My fastest lap ever at my home track (Summit Point) was on a set with two full race...

For our radio system, I use molded earplugs, but have a set of the foam ones as spares. Both work fine, but the molded ones are more comfortable to me. They are very easy to keep clean as you can...

I'm kind of partial to Chet's win at VIR with the front end dragging on the pavement after t-boning an out of control RX7. That is the ONLY race that I didn't mind breaking my car because I got to...

Marshall,

Thanks for clarifying that -- it must be past my bedtime...

I guess one option that might make sense is if the BMWCCA ammended their rules to allow the E36 to run in ITS trim without...

I am really trying to understand this concern about restrictor plates affecting BMWCCA racing.

First of all, it appears that it should only take a few minutes to add or remove the restrictor...

At VIR as well as at the ARRC, Ed had mechanical problems during the races.

As I recall, Ed had the pole at VIR for both races. I am sure he was 1/2 a second faster than Chet in the first...

I would suggest that Ed York's car is at least as good of a benchmark for an E36. At VIR, he had at least as much power as Chet had (in Larry Stepp's car), but better handling. Not being at the...

Boy, I just got back from vacation and see I missed quite a bit ;-)

I think some of you are mixing apples and oranges. A 10/10ths RX7 or 240Z cannot run with a 10/10ths E36 under the pre-2005...

Chuck,

My point is that within the last five years, we had fields that were twice as large as today, and the reason for the large fields was that there was a choice of cars to run competitively.
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While most of the discussion has been related to how the 240Z and RX7 perform compared against the E36, there used to be some other competitive cars in ITS.

Well a few years ago (before the E36...

I want to address a number of points made on various posts:

- The reason that there are more BMWs than other cars at the ARRC is due to its performance potential. Lots of folks have either...

Let me see if I have it right.

Chet Wittel won the ARRC twice in a row in a 240Z. He then sold the Z to Larry Stepp.

Flash forward to the 2004 ARRC. Wittel wins followed by Stepp, both in E36...