Track day.... lol
 

LOL so i got "pressured" to track the X5....all it took was one person saying "Hay Haithem i thin....." and me cutting him off saying "TRACK THE TOW VEHICLE" ...lol

If any of you know PIR in portland, or....I was hitting 134 on the back straight and 130/1 on the front. With better tires and more confidence in the brakes im sure i could be much faster.....but i got the beast to oversteer hahahahaha So i can officially say i've drifted the car!! But yep....very capable on the track!

You need an e30 M3

OctoberFast is coming up at Road America the BMWCC in August. I have been thinking about taking the X5M up to it for giggles. I think it would be a ton of fun on the track. I am concerned about tires and brakes. Tires are $500 a piece for the 215 wheels. And while the brake rotors are over 15" in diameter, the calipers and pads are completely inadequate for the hard braking at RA.

Nah i got my 79 E21 that is widebody with a S14 2.5l bottom end and a 121t M10 Motorsport head with individual throttle bodies if i want to go old school!!

I wasn't even going 7/10ths.....and i felt it needed more brakes!!! The tires are very inadequate...they got goopy around 4 laps....so yeah....unless you want to get Rcomps and do a brake flush and get some custom made SS brake lines.....i'd only do a few laps!

Good track story and, Titz stable!
GL, mD

Kind of what I figured. Sure would be nice to see what it could do.

da3bous,
Do you run the Lotus in SCCA? What class?
M

Running it in Conference in the Pac North west next year. Its a new class that has a 1 to 10 power to weight ratio as the biggest rule. Even then it is wheel horsepower and weight with driver in the car. So a lotus exige puts out 240 crank which is about 210-220 wheel....the car stock is 2077 pounds without driver....I vary anywhere between 180-200 depending on much working out i do and then added weight of cage, fire system, full aero, wider rims with R comps, and some other goodies.

I haven't run the car yet, itll be campaigned next season, but the car that was competitive this season was an E46 M3, and not a single lotus run in the class. So i think i should be good!

Sounds like a blast! Still not an e30 M3 though :thumbup: Any pics of that bad boy?

No SAVs allowed on track at Oktoberfest :(

I didn't look. Interesting. They allow them at PCA HPDE.

M

Just curious, I track a CBR1000rr at PIR, but never took my M5 to the track. Do they run the chicane on the front straight for cars? On motorcycles they almost never do and it makes for some 170+ mph braking for turn 1.

Awesome man! Would be great to see some in-car vids. :)

In September I'll be taking the X5 to a semi-private driving event at a security specialist training installation (Blackwater). Here's some track info: U.S. Training Center We should be running the full course.

Did you ever feel the X5M start to roll? I know what you mean by the rear end rotating feeling, but haven't pushed hard enough to feel one side start to really lift.

I have pushed it hard enough to rotate it but never left lift. The suspension is adequate enough to not have a lot of body roll.

M

Yup, I had the tires screaming for grip but no lift. I think unless you change direction radically there won't be lift.

It would be interesting to see what happens with some sticky rubber like R compounds or Hoosiers.

I would imagine that having some slip in the tires is a good thing in the case of these SUVs

I'd be more concerned about the extra traction allowing it to tip a bit easier, especially if you hopped up on some curbing.

Probably something like this, only more upside-down.

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v1...p/551c6003.jpg

(That picture was taken when the car was on it's way back down, it almost got to a 45 degree angle.)

The entire crowd at the acu-4 course let out a quiet "oh fuck" all at the same time. Car had suspension, pads and 325mm wide Hoosiers.

Wow! Is that an E46 330i?

^^ exactly - even a car can flip with enough traction and lateral Gs - throw a set of those Hoosiers on an X5 and I'm afraid it would be like that on every corner

hahah

Got grip?

Yep, "the Flintstone-mobile with a rack of dinosaur ribs on the side." :D

My buddy Shawn said it might need a new driver's seat as he nearly soiled that one.

was it okay when it came back down?

There was no apparent damage, but he brought it nearly to a stop on the two wheels.

Sorry for going a little off-topic da3bous, I like chatting about this stuff. Hope to see some pics/vids in the future man! :)