Donnington 7/9/09

[Bealo]

Good day yesterday, well run by Nick & the BMW Car Club, with great weather too! Good to meet s.mac(Steve) & Steve Gill again and to meet azrael(Steve), lots of Stevens!:hahaha:

AlexGTT & Bealo popped over for the afternoon to to say hello - nice one fellas :thumbs: Also met danp & M5powered.

It was good being on track with so many other nice BMW - especially the CSLs! I seem to have no front brakes now, however, pads worn down to the metal! :banghead:

Yes it was a good day and was good to meet Rob (at last lol) Alex aand the 2 x Steve's. Met an Irish guy who is on here but forgot your name sorry, had a good chat.

I enjoyed being a passenger Whore for the afternoon and a big thankyou to all who gave me lifts.

Had a good look round Thorney's race car and very impressive it is too. Gutted i didn't get some laps in it but next time maybe.

CSL's were by far the best sounding on track but the new M3 and an old M5 pushed them close.

I have some photo's off the day and will post them up soon.

[Bealo]

Big thanks to John & Rich from Thorney - Rich did a superb job of tweaking my KW Clubsports to a better track setting.

Cheers :beer:

Like the forgetful sod i am i forgot to get these off you Rob, so please post them up ASAP as guess what????????

If i'm still in UK i've got a track evening at Snetterton on Thursday :thumbs:

[AlexGTT]

Glad I had chance to pop over (should have been working but never mind). :smokin: Should have put my lid in the boot.:sad:

Thanks for the laps and lunch Rob. Good to see you again and make plans for Nov Ring trip.

Nice to meet Bealo. Look forward to seeing you @Ring in Nov.

It was quite nice just spectating for a few hours. Good to hear so many CSL's on track. A very nice spread of cars all round. Enjoyed watching Steve Gill and John Thorne with there CSL Cup racers. :thumbs:

[azrael]

Massive thanks to John and his team @ Thorney Motorsport for saving my bacon again, whom without I'd only have had half a trackday.

Great day, beautiful sunshine, warm cup tyres, the thing dreams are made of

Enjoyed the final 15 minute flourish woth Rob & Steve.

[donkcsl]

Yes it was a good day and was good to meet Rob (at last lol) Alex aand the 2 x Steve's. Met an Irish guy who is on here but forgot your name sorry, had a good chat.

I enjoyed being a passenger Whore for the afternoon and a big thankyou to all who gave me lifts.

Had a good look round Thorney's race car and very impressive it is too. Gutted i didn't get some laps in it but next time maybe.

CSL's were by far the best sounding on track but the new M3 and an old M5 pushed them close.

I have some photo's off the day and will post them up soon.

it was me bealo, nice to meet you. your wheels really do look fantastic in the flesh:drool:. Have to say it was the most enjoyable trackday i have been to and my new nitron suspension was fantastic. we had to leave early to get up to stranear for the boat home, its was a long day 6am-4:30am but worth it

[Curly]

old snoopdog put a few pounds on

[donkcsl]

Looks like a fun day had by all...Some great number plates....GO CSL...is that a track plate or a genuine road plate..Cool if it is.

its my road plate andy but if you look closely it's g10 csl, i said i would do the plate like that until i got a i got stopped a few time and in 2 years i have never been stopped

[Bealo]

Hi Donk

Your car looked mean and the ride height was spot on, looking forward to trying your suggested front camber rates. :thumbs:

Some photo's

[windy]

CSL's were by far the best sounding on track but the new M3 and an old M5 pushed them close.

Hmm, dunno about that mate. From the pit wall, I think Ant's Kumho E36 (the white one) sounded a bit meaner that the CSL's on the induction side. Scarily rapid too. I managed about 10 laps in it before turning green in the morning :gayfight:

Was fun sitting on Thorney's tail a few times too...:whistle:

The new M5 sounded a bit normal - even down the pit-straight you couldn't really hear the V10.

Great day though, and weather turned out to be fantastic! I got home about 1 after putting Ants car to bed. Oh, and finding someone to make us a curry at 11.30 :drool:

[windy]

That X6 was wrong in so many ways.

[Mark CSL]

Was this quick ? this could be my next plan super charger :thumbs:

[Thorney]

Was this quick ? this could be my next plan super charger :thumbs:

Spat a belt.

Happened so many times he even has a drawing on the top on how the belt threads through so he can repalce it quickly. He always carries two spare belts with thim wherever he goes.

Answer your question?

[Thorney]

Both the E92's (ours and AC's) were both running Acrapovich exhausts.

Driving slicks down to cords isn't to be advised and Donny's noise limit is about as accurate as a Govt WMD report. 100db in am with race exhaust, we added two extra silencers and they recorded it at 104 (roughly twice as loud in theory). I had to short shift to get round it and then they came up and said it measured a 97db then a 109db on the same lap:banghead:

If they're going to have a system at least make sur eit works.

[s.mac]

I seem to have no front brakes now, however, pads worn down to the metal! :banghead:
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Glad to see John at Questmead got your pads sorted, just in time for Oulton :thumbs: I only just missed you ...

[s.mac]

Those pads were a nightmare to change :banghead::banghead::banghead: