01-24-2024, 01:52 AM | #23 |
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Welcome to the forums and glad you’re enjoying the car!! It’s always surprising to see new owners because I can’t fathom someone ever selling this car! (kidding).
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You must be fast. I currently have a 01 sv650 and a 09 R6. I just do TD these days. Back in the day was a 89 Fzr400/90 600 novice racer. I had a whole mess of other bikes inbetween. Congrats on the car, its a wonderful machine and track tool Its too bad we cant drag knees n elbows |
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01-27-2024, 11:40 AM | #28 |
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Welcome. The F87 is so much fun on track. In car instruction and some great lead follow go a long way to dialing in the line. Seat time is everything. Enjoy it and share some video in the Track Video Catchall thread in the track subforum.
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02-07-2024, 10:22 PM | #29 |
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Hey All. I'm enjoying learning this modern M2C. I went to a great track day with Audi Club a few weekends ago and enjoyed driving in the wet. I slowly built up speed and confidence and was finding 7,400 RPM a few times before shifting. As you know I'm a old schooler. With my motorcycles and previously owned Honda S2000 I would check the oil via the dipstick after each hard run track session. With this S55 engine there doesn't seem to be a dipstick. So I checked the oil status via the iDrive menu after each track session. It reported OK every time. How trustworthy do you all find the electronic oil level reporting for track day use?
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02-08-2024, 09:36 AM | #30 |
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https://www.bimmerworld.com/GT4-Engi...t-F8X-S55.html - add a dipstick
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02-14-2024, 09:51 PM | #32 |
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Hello All. I had my second track driving experience in my M2C last Saturday. I drove my M2C at Thunderhill 2 Mile on Saturday. Turn8 was the organizing group. The track was hot at 9:00 AM and ran until 3:00 PM with no breaks. I consumed 2 full tanks of fuel. I drove 200 miles "on the track". That's roughly 100 laps. I was exhausted by the end of the day. But had a wonderful smile on my face. And my tires are done. I convinced myself I need to invest in tires, chassis, and handling components before I even consider increasing my horsepower. The car has plenty of power for me at this stage. So camber plates and sticky tires are the first items on the list. Maybe a front anti-sway bar.
Unfortunately, as I was coming up on two slower cars in front of me, one spun off the track and kicked a lot of dirt and rocks back onto the racing surface. The second car went through the rocks and dirt and peppered the front of my car. One of the rocks of course hit my windshield and cracked it. Low on the passenger side but approximately 14" in length and it runs to the edge of the windshield glass. Anyone know what the success rate is for replacing a front windshield in an M2C? Should I go BMW glass? Or try Safelite? Even though I had the windshield damage I very much enjoyed driving my M2C on the tighter more technical layout of the 2 Mile THill course. The outside edges of my front tires are shredded and there is a quarter size chunk missing from the passenger side. The rear tires are completely torched too. Very enjoyable car. I'm happy with my recent purchase. |
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02-14-2024, 10:58 PM | #33 |
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Anyone know what the success rate is for replacing a front windshield in an M2C? Should I go BMW glass? Or try Safelite? I replaced my front windshield recently with no issues. Went with a local, independent shop with good reviews online. The glass options I had were OEM, Pilkington, or Fuyao. The OEM and Pilkington would have to be ordered, the Fuyao was in stock. I’ve read online that both Pilk and Fuyao produce OEM glass for BMW. OEM would have cost 800. The Fuyao ended up being 500. I’m fine with the glass. It’s clear, no distortion. Sensors are working fine. |
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Windshield PN is 51317273823 and OE glass is only like $325, so no real reason to use aftermarket. I'd see if your local dealer will match BMWPartsWarehouse.com, which is BMW of San Francisco's parts site.
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02-17-2024, 06:18 AM | #39 |
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congrats OP on the purchase and glad you are happy with the M2C, one of my all time faves
not to derail the thread, but as someone who hasn't ever even tracked a car, but only limited experience with go karts, I always wondered if tracking a car is more like playing a sport and less about enjoying the car it seems to me that when you are going so fast and at the limits of the car, you are not in a position to sit there and contemplate and appreciate the finer points of the car, rather you are in the moment driving your car to the limit so to me tracking is more like playing a sport than enjoying the finer points of the car, like engine sound, a nice manual, the fun of playful handling for the trackers in this thread, does this make sense? or is it more like a mix of both, enjoying the car and playing a sport at the same time? |
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An entirely different way to enjoy the car, you owe it to yourself to try it. |
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And while you’re conscious of the vehicle dynamics you’re enjoying at the limit, you’re also singularly focused on what you’re doing so for people with incessantly active minds it brings a quietness that is typically only found in other high risk activities like advanced alpine skiing or flying planes. You can have the most stressful job/life in the world but when you’re balancing the car on the edge, it’s all gone. If only for a moment. |
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I am rather competitive though too - and yes it can very much be a sport. Get into competition events like time trials or wheel to wheel and then that competitive itch that "traditional" sports used to scratch for me can now hit hard. I lost being able to compete at even rec level sports for the most part a couple decades ago after wrecking one of my knees and when I discovered competition on the track it brought all that I loved about sports back to me. Sure I will get a bit competitive during hpde/track days but that's really just bragging rights about basically the equivalent of who can have a wank the fastest... Once you start getting into timed or wheel to wheel events though the sports similarity immediately hits. It can still be about the experience quite a bit - I love racing in my E92 M3s for the pure experience of ringing those out. But the sport aspect is now very much a part of it. When wheel to wheel it takes that even further. The main thing is being able to push a car to its limit in a proper environment is absolutely amazing. If you haven't tried it you have no idea what it is like - it cannot be replicated in video or conversation. Every passenger that I take on their first track laps are shocked. After they stop throwing up they pretty much say the same thing - I had no idea...
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I spent the morning at an open house of Griffin Motorwerke in Berkeley. I met Terry and Curly. Solid buys. Solid business. I was impressed by the knowledge of Terry and Curly and by the cleanliness and organization of the shop. I look forward to working with them for track setup alignment on my M2C.
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Hello All,
I was watching a Chris Harris video about his M2C and I saw an image of his gauges flash across the screen with a different display than what I've seen on M2C. I paused the video and took a screenshot attached here with the red circle. Have any of you seen this display instead of the engine and steering settings? |
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