Road Atlanta thread

#1

The schedule has Lightning and Thunder Sunday toy races as separate events. Interesting.

Parking for this event is always a zoo because the Enduro guys take our parking area. I’ll get to RA around 7PM Fri and I’ll do my best to create a zone where lots of SpecE30s can park, but I fear I’ll be too late to do much good. If anyone is arriving early Friday, or better yet, is arriving Thur night for the enduro, speak up and lets figure out how we can protect our parking area.

Party starts Friday at 7PM. It’s always a bummer to show up at the paddock Fri night with a cooler of beer and a trailer full of umbrella girls and find that everyone has already gone home to their hotel rooms.

I’ll be bringing my grill. As long as I’m not in a maintenance crisis I’ll grill up some brats Sat for lunch and find some other things to go along with it. Any help others can provide such to improve upon this lunch together scheme Sat/Sun like MidAtl and NE have been doing, would be cool.

Sign up so far:
Hoshmandy, A.R. 1989 bmw 325is red
Palacio, Eric 1990 BMW 325i Yellow/Blue
Gregor, Davis 1988 BMW 325is White
Espinosa, Sandro 1991 BMW 325i Blue
Whitinger, Ryan 1989 BMW 325i Copper/White
GSS Racing East, Team 1987 BMW 325is White/Black
Gress, Scott
Manhood, Jon 1989 BMW 325i Silver / Grey
Morrison, Rob 1987 BMW 325i blue
Pitcher, Nathan 1989 BMW 325is White
Wilby, James 1989 BMW 325is Red
Harkins, Chris 1990 BMW 325i White
Parkhurst, Laura 1987 BMW 325is Black & White

#2

I see some new names on the entry list. Are any of those folks active here at Spec E30 .com ?

If so, please introduce your self.

RP

#3

These guys are all with us. I dont believe any of these guys are on this site.

Hoshmandy, A.R. 1989 bmw 325is red
Morrison, Rob 1987 BMW 325i blue
Pitcher, Nathan 1989 BMW 325is White
Wilby, James 1989 BMW 325is Red

Drive-gear.com

#4

Andrew are they getting ready for next year’s National event are just new MA racers for the next season?

RP

#5

A pretty full roster, 14 days out.

E30 — 13
GTS-1 — 4
GTS-2 — 5
HC-1 — 7
HC-2 — 1
PTD — 1
SM — 3
Spec944 — 2
STR-3 — 1
TR — 9
Grand Total — 46

#6

Gotta sit this one out. Shoulder surgery yesterday. Fun stuff

#7

[quote=“Ranger” post=74829]The schedule has Lightning and Thunder Sunday toy races as separate events. Interesting.
[/quote]Scott, not sure if you were there, but they were separate last year too IIRC. The year before, there were well past 100 cars on track at once. As fun as it sounds, it was really ugly out there. Amazing not a Talledega-style “big one”.

#8

What’s a championship race?
The Saturday race

#9

I believe all of the Group 3 gang is coming.

#10

Yesterday I finally got my car back from the guy that was straightening it out. That effort went pretty well. Spare fender is on. Beat up passenger door opens/closes freely. Hood straightened enough to open/close. The guy even straightened out my strut bar.

I pulled the RF suspension apart to swap the right strut housing but then found, to my aggravation, that rather then having a set of spare strut housings, I had 2x left housings. Zero right housings. I put out a call for help on SpecE30’s fb page and within 30min I had 4 offers of right housings to go in the mail Monday. A couple hours later Rich Bratton calls me up and asks…
“Dude, where are you”?
“I’m at Home Depot”?
“I’m at your house with a right housing for you, I’ll just put it in front of your garage”, Rich said.
“You are awesome, I owe you man”.

Family had to go see the latest Hunger Games movie last night. When we got back home I grabbed Rich’s strut housing. That’s when I found that I couldn’t remove my strut from the housing. The PO put these in, not me and he prob failed to put some oil in the housing so now the strut is seized inside of it. This morning I’m going to see if I can cut the strut housing off of the strut.

If I screw up the strut I have a spare but it’s threads are damaged. 2yrs ago when I removed the strut from Old #6 I’d had to weld an allen wrench on to it’s top so I could get a purchase on it’s freely rotating shaft. The welding buggered up the threads.

When I get to RA, I’ll weigh the car. Am crossing my fingers that my corner weights remain reasonable.

#11

Up to 19 so we’ve met the threshold for deep tire bucks.

Hoshmandy, A.R. 1989 bmw 325is red
Andrews, Ben
Flack, Wes
Palacio, Eric 1990 BMW 325i Yellow/Blue
Palacio, Julio
Stoops, Jared
Gregor, Davis 1988 BMW 325is White
Espinosa, Sandro 1991 BMW 325i Blue
Whitinger, Ryan 1989 BMW 325i Copper/White
GSS Racing East, Team 1987 BMW 325is White/Black
Gress, Scott
Manhood, Jon 1989 BMW 325i Silver / Grey
McKay, Scott
Lako, Steve
Morrison, Rob 1987 BMW 325i blue
Pitcher, Nathan 1989 BMW 325is White
Wilby, James 1989 BMW 325is Red
Harkins, Chris 1990 BMW 325i White
Parkhurst, Laura 1987 BMW 325is Black & White

#12

I’m bringing Bratwursts and a grill to make us some chow Sat and Sun. Would be cool if folks could bring a few other items.

#13

I am looking for one 14in ra1 rain tire to buy or rent.
Right side.
Hope to be driving in Friday night.

#14

Porsche 996 Cup in E3 running 1:35s? How is that right? Faster than some of the E0 cars