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I'm having a local machine shop work over the bottom end of a motor for my IT car. This motor was overrev'd, but continued to run until it dropped a cylinder about 2 hours into an enduro. The head...

The ITAC/CRB is to be commended for doing the testing. They could have made a decision by fiat without any information gathering and that would have been that. But I'd maintain the testing was...

We interrupt your regularly scheduled endless discussion of the SIR with a request for a little tech:

Does an air flow meter care about its orientation? Obviously, direction of flow must be...

Thanks for the information; that's the same configuration I was planning to use. If I might ask, did you have to make fuel pressure or programming adjustments to make the configuration work? I...

A buddy of mine has KY in his track toolbox. I didn't ask questions... :o

tom

Not sure I follow... there are E36 racers who are not convinced that the SCCA is taking the a proper direction with classifying the car. Isn't it a reasonable course of action to evaluate the venues...

Yay. Rant mode. Always a sign of helpful comments to come... :)

I don't like to use unfair, it's one of those terms that seems to provoke rant mode. A caution, though: be careful on the high...

You're right, it's out of bounds. My apologies...

tom

Does it only count as creep if the entire category is forced to buy, fab, or pay someone else to do something to the car? How about just a subset? If, say, for example, just spitballing,...

It runs! Rob, it was your suggestion to check reversed fuel lines that got me thinking... I was verifying that the fuel pump was running and producing pressure by using the fuel test port, but I...

Ground Strap: Good suggestion. I'll check that again. I know it's there but I should verify its condition.
Crank sensor: new, but wouldn't the ECU throw a code for it?
Cam sensor: not replaced,...

The motor did come from an automatic. I used the car's original (manual trans) wiring harness.

tom

I had some engine trouble on my '94 325is IT car (dropped valve, piston damage, ventilated block, spark plug pushed up out of the head, etc). Since that motor was obviously less than healthy I...

May Fastrack

I'll stop by to watch you kids work and drink your beer.

tom
(always willing to lend a hand)

Curiousity drove me to look up the Snap-On Crud Thing. What makes this thing such a godsend? It appears to be visually similar to a common angle grinder for which a variety of wire wheel styles are...

Jeff --

Moving forward, will all comments on policy or rules be met with an encouragement to leave the SCCA or just those from BMW owners? Just wondering what I can expect. I'm not weighing in...

I thought the intent for the class was the same IT rules of today with a change to ITR wheel width (specified in 17.1.4.D.7.a.6) so there'd be no provision to eliminate motec from ITR alone.

tom

No.... and I've never tried to justify the car at that weight. Me personally, I can see the rationale and data for an adjustment. What I've had a problem with is the proposed (now implemented)...

Bill --

(I gather -- and please, correct me if I'm wrong -- that you are saying that the move of the E36 from ITS to ITR won't make a difference because the whining will just move with it. If I...

I assume (since it kinda touched off the ITR discussion again) that the E36 325 is included in the new class. Is the idea to have the car listed at some weight spec unrestricted in ITR and delist it...

<gentle prodding>
Quite true, Jake... but for me to state that it works at this point would be pure conjecture as well since nobody&#39;s seen fit to release representative test results and can&#39;t get my...

Ahhh, so I was supposed to read the question you actually wrote rather than the question I thought I read. See, that&#39;s where I got lost. Sometimes a quick refresher with grade-school reading...

Sorry, Earl, I never answered your question. This relatively newb E36 pilot would probably take the weight. Two bits of reasoning:

1) I think it&#39;s fundamentally not IT to run these SIR things...

This got me thinking about some notable rule changes in the past like the remote reservoir thing, the threaded-body coilover rule, SBs. The effect of these changes was to change the definition of...