March 6-7 Summit Point review with pictures (video added)

[Dado]

A very stressful couple of days before the event and several problems that almost caused us to miss the event. First of all Sunir's lightweight didn't get done, so, one of the cars in the team was out. While preparing the other two cars the night before the event (big mistake) the oil filter housing cracked. We tried to get another one in time, so we ran to the nearest bmw dealership to get one. With our "luck" the part that I needed was not in stock and there were only 8 available in the world and of course, they are all in Germany, the options I had were 3-5 weeks on boat or 3-5 days by plane which meant I wasn't running the oil cooler this weekend. We took the cracked oil filter housing out and installed the stock oil filter housing. Now we get to work on the M coupe oil cooler kit. Once again more problems. After installing the oil cooler kit, oil starts pouring out from under the car, this required us to take it apart again. We came to the conclusion ther one of the fittings was oval instead of round. This took 10 quarts of oil on the driveway to discover. Not a good week for oil coolers. We were able to fix the problem and use the last of the oil in the garage to fill the car.

The good news was that my diff from www.diffsonline.com came in very quickly and pro imports installed it just in time for the event. I really can't thank enough Dan from www.diffsonline.com for building me a diff as fast as he did, just so I could make it to this event. I got it in 3 days thanks to Dan scrambling for parts to get it to me. The new diff is a 2.93 with 60% lockup, it feels much better then my previous diff from blanton transmissions. DiffsOnline prices are more then competitive. While my other diff didn't even hold up for one event. The diff from DiffsOnline didn't have one problem, there were no signs of leaks, unlike the diff from blanton.

The hood from MA Shaw came in Friday afternoon and it was a perfect fit. Very impressive and it will definitely help cool down the engine with those huge openings. We have yet to install the louvers but with all the trouble we were having with the oil coolers. This was the least of our worries. A simpe mesh would handle the cooling needs for now.

We got the cars ready Saturday morning at 5am and we were off to the track with no sleep at 6am. My brakes had been seriously grooved from VIR and I was having some major problems with them. This required our techs to change the fluid often, almost every session, so it's time to get some new rotors. Other then that my car had no problems. The M Coupe ran great with no problems at all. It was nice having a chance to meet everyone and thanks for the ones that made this weekend happen especially diffsonline, pro imports, our tech's John and Carlos (took the pics too), David, Mark, and everyone else that helped us at the track. Well my lip is gone from loosing my brakes going down the chute, so it's time to call www.mmstuning.com for another lip

The Car Guys event was very well organized and the track time was around 2 hours a day. Thanks to the Car Guys crew for making it a safe and fun event.

While we are here testing the East Coast team, our 4th car in the team driven by James Sofronas in the West Coast is 1st place in BMW Car Club Racing
For more info on the 4th car click on the following link.
DTM Power West Coast Racing Team - the 4th car


Here are the pictures from this weekend at Summit Point, enjoy.

DAY 1
http://www.dtmpower.net/pictures/sum...y1/page_01.htm

Day 2
http://www.dtmpower.net/pictures/sum...y2/page_01.htm

Here is a link with a video from the weekend.
http://www.dtmpower.net/videos/SummitPoint.wmv

[hammerfang]

very nice Dado, i like the pic of u over taking the duster, r u ever gonna be at any races around philly of nyc?

[bizlur]

like the new hood, looks bad ass.

[hammerfang]

now that the car is no longer really "street lega"l r u planning on swopping out the gas tank for a fuel cell?

[TomM]

Dont give him ideas!

Great pictures Carlos.

[bimmerdriver99]

nice job dado looks like you guys are doing well. i saw in the pics that you went off track is that because you had breaking problems? i saw the 1 pic the mms spoiler flew off any other damage to the car? hope not anyway the car is lookin sexy with that new hood and the bigger opening keep up the good work.. oh by the way can i come over and wash your car its just alittle dirty hahah just kidding

[Dado]

the lip cracked on the corner and it's an easy fix, it popped right out and I ran over it. I was probably going about 5-10 miles when I went off the track. That was the only damage.

lol washing the car, it's a pain in the ass most of the stuff on the paint doesn't come off.

[ReDc0aT]

nice pics, hope u all had fun

tom, u goin mud boggin in ur mini again? haha

[caracas_e30]

i love taking pics, while dado is off driving and john is busy sleeping since he had no sleep...i just take Dado's camera and run around the track taking pics.

i had lots of fun and it turned out to be a great weekend. Tom thanks for coming down both days! i love hearing about your BMW formula things. Im going to try and come up to lime rock, id like it a lot to see you run.

That e30 m3 that locked up was having brake problems all weekend. The red e30 m3 had a 3.0l in it. very fast and sounded amazing.

-carlos

[m3ltw98]

here I fixed one of the pics.....here is my bro cracking the whip

[Dado]

mud everywhere, I saw you cleaning the wheels.

[caracas_e30]

haha i love that shit. nice work matt. You cant hear that car coming, but when it passes you its a whole different story.

[m3ltw98]

actually Matt said he heard a "tinging" sound from the back and wanted to make sure the bolts were still tight after I fixed everything. Didnt want to Matt to have another off road experience like I did.

[///M3Matt]

Boooyaaaah. Fix the car biotch!!!! Just kidding, if it wasnt for Jared, most of our track weekends would be cut short. Thank god for Jared coming through as always

[TheWiseGuy]

HAHA yeah thats true. I was there with you last time at summit when you went off. I was with sunir. Yeah thanks carlos for taking a pic of me sleeping you a..clown.