09-26-2018, 04:42 AM | #1 |
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Track junkie, but first time with M2
It looks like I will be able to get some laps in before winter this weekend. I’m curious to know what to expect from the car in its stock form on stock tires.
Some background. This will be at Calabogie Motorsports Park, a track I have thousands of laps on, in a variety of cars and power levels. I don’t anticipate pushing too hard, given that I don’t know tha car very well at this time. Rob |
09-26-2018, 12:22 PM | #2 |
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Car will handle great in stock form, very neutral. Easy to drive with all nannies off. Depending on your level of driving, brake pads and stock tires may be fine or melt.
With the laps you have, you will likely be able to roll your tires onto their sidewalls and chord them within the day. |
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Stock tires are very easy to chord
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Tad understeer with stock tires/suspension and brake fade with stock pads. Also, you can track worry free with sport+/mdm as DSC keeps the car extreme stable/smooth and saves you from just about everything. Once you've learned the car, you'll start to realize how intrusive DSC is when you're trying to push the car past 85%.
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Wow! That was eye-open8ng indeed. No wonder I had to work so hard to keep pace with the M2s in my E46 M3. Even in stock form it is fantastic, though I had zero confidence in the brakes Fortunately that’s an easy fix.
I was easily 20km/h faster at the end of the long straight than in the M3, and that’s with braking at the 5 marker, not the 1, and not pushing the corner entering the straight. I am pleased with this purchase |
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I have raced my "stock" M2 in NASA TT4 against fully track prepared E46 M3s and the M2 comes out on top in spite of 500 lbs of extra weight. The car has near perfect balance, great power/torque curve and excellent brakes ( pads and fluid change of course)
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Took me some time to start beating my CSL laptimes in my M2. But IMHO it's a pretty honest comparison with the same tracks, each track visited multiple times with each car, and the same driver. I get slightly better laptimes quite consistently with the M2 now. But it's quite a huge difference in feel between the two on track ...
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I did one track day in the M2 (stock except for Motul RBF 660 fluid) and was pleasantly surprised how neutral and tossable the car is with DSC fully off. And yet, it was quite forgiving.
I started the day in Sport mode and found DSC to be super intrusive esp on exiting corners (typical BMW I suppose; my Z4MC was similar). Tried Traction mode and found steering and throttle not to my liking and DSC intervention was still there, though a bit less. I turned off DSC for my last session and it was driving nirvana. Brake pads did fade and like OP, I was braking early and taking it a bit easy as the car is still pretty new and I didn’t want to buy new tires at less than 2K miles 🤓 |
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Like the OP am a track junkie first time tracking the m2. Two questions: Noticed that it was mentioned that there's just a bit of understeer in the m2c with stock suspension and stock tires. Current setup will be -3 Camber Zero Toe Front, -2 camber slight toe in rear. 265sq re71r on stock suspension. Should i be expecting significant oversteer at track? Also my m2c comes with 4pot/2pot. How do they hold up with track pads? Am usually quite aggressive on brakes. Coilovers are on its way but wont be here in time for the trackday. Thanks all, Kevin
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Since you ran stock before, how does the stock suspension and brakes hold up, thanks! |
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The 4/2 pot brakes work perfectly fine, but swap the pads and fluid the fluids, like you've mentioned
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