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Did the doctor go out and buy himself a 2008 135i? Or find a rent a ride in Toledo to replace the busted down RX7???

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I am Chris Hammond.
Going2Colorado.com

yep...

Bought one...he was wanting a new car anyway and the Rx7 won't be fixed in time for Toledo.  (Diff casing is split in two).  

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Beth McClure-Strelnieks
SM2 11, '93 20BT Rx7 R1, Black
DS 11 '08 BMW 135i
05 AMG SLK 350
01 Honda S2000 for sale

Congrats, see you in Canada, I mean Toledo.

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I am Chris Hammond.
Going2Colorado.com

Rx7cat:

Bought one...he was wanting a new car anyway...

Congrats.

 

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Karen Kraus
2005 SCCA SEDiv FS Champion
2007 SCCA DSL National Champion
2008 SCCA ProSolo L1 Champion

Thanks y'all   Erik's really liking all the plushy amenities it has, and bonus (to him), his street car is now once again faster than my street car... 

And if anyone is interested in a 2001 Spa Yellow S2000, we'll be putting one up for sale pretty soon. 

 

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Beth McClure-Strelnieks
SM2 11, '93 20BT Rx7 R1, Black
DS 11 '08 BMW 135i
05 AMG SLK 350
01 Honda S2000 for sale

Chris Hammond:

Did the doctor go out and buy himself a 2008 135i? Or find a rent a ride in Toledo to replace the busted down RX7???

It's the SEB company car....

DaveW

Chris Hammond:

Did the doctor go out and buy himself a 2008 135i? Or find a rent a ride in Toledo to replace the busted down RX7???

Nice car. I nearly held out on buying mine for a 135i. What do you think of the eLSD?

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Jason P.
Indy Region Moderator
STU - M3 e46

The Nebulizer:

Nice car. I nearly held out on buying mine for a 135i. What do you think of the eLSD?

So far the little I've driven it it seems good, but we only picked it up Tuesday night, and at this point it has 500 miles on it, so we really haven't pushed it hard yet.  We've been randomly driving around for the past two days to get mileage on it.  Should have a better opinion in a few days  I'm sure Erik will post something later tonight when he gets home from work.

 

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Beth McClure-Strelnieks
SM2 11, '93 20BT Rx7 R1, Black
DS 11 '08 BMW 135i
05 AMG SLK 350
01 Honda S2000 for sale

The Nebulizer:

Chris Hammond:

Did the doctor go out and buy himself a 2008 135i? Or find a rent a ride in Toledo to replace the busted down RX7???

Nice car. I nearly held out on buying mine for a 135i. What do you think of the eLSD?

So far, it seems very trick.  It really feels like a car with a LSD, as you can break the rear end and work it with the throttle.  I am interested to see how stickier tires affect the system.

Erik

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Erik Strelnieks
93 3-ROTOR RX7
01 Honda S2000
05 SLK 350 AMG
08 BMW 135i

Looking forward to runnning against you again, this time in DS. It's been a long time!
FM

Dying to see how you like it at speed on R comps.  It may very well be my next car, especially if it stays in D-stock.

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-2006 Lotus Elise- SS
-2000 Honda S2000- AS
-2009 Mini Cooper S- GS

CosmosMpower:

Dying to see how you like it at speed on R comps.  It may very well be my next car, especially if it stays in D-stock.

It looked painful.  Hopefully Erik or Beth can weigh in on what the prep level of the car was (it could be bone stock with stickies for all I know), but it looked very soft.

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John Vitamvas
stranoparts.com / TeamWTF.org '04 Z06

It sure as heck was impressive watching it launch...

IIRC I heard someone state over this weekend it had shocks.. but I have been known to be wrong... many times today alone.

 it's 60ft times were matching the R32 and even beating it in some cases. great looking car and it sounds amazing.. love it's growl @ idle.

 

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Brian Huber
06 Cobalt SS-SC (retired to DD Duty )
02 Z06 ( Whole new ball o' wax )
#??SS

Darkhelmet:

IIRC I heard someone state over this weekend it had shocks.. but I have been known to be wrong... many times today alone.

DA Konis

Front sway bar

OE wheels with Hoosiers. 

Alignment, which was changed for each session at Toledo.  Erik is not known for leaving a car's setup alone for long...

--Andy 

 

Thanks, Andy... at least I wasn't totally out there on my assesment.

And from the limited time I've known of Erik and his cars, and had pretty much came to that conclusion as well.

 

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Brian Huber
06 Cobalt SS-SC (retired to DD Duty )
02 Z06 ( Whole new ball o' wax )
#??SS

erik made some alignment changes in the rear on sunday that made him slower off the line and arguably slower on course, everyone seemed to find time sunday, including himself, just not as much as the rest of the class/other classes.  I expect once the car is a bit more developed (it was mentioned the car had quite a bit of development already) it could put up bigger margin wins on the current cars in class.

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Scott
07 Mazdaspeed 3

I'm guessing Erik would have done pretty well in a Type R, MazdaSpeed, etc. too.  It'll be interesting to see results from a course with more slalom/transitions but without the Pro launch.

Jeff 

 

 

 

Beans:

 I expect once the car is a bit more developed (it was mentioned the car had quite a bit of development already) it could put up bigger margin wins on the current cars in class.

You could say that. 

Or you might also observe that the driver of said car has a closet full of nat'l champ jackets, whereas the rest of the field in DS at Toledo had nary a one.  So Erik's car might have actually been *slower* than the others but driven better.  And more development might just make it more equal.  Until we see more drivers in these cars, we won't know how much is driver and how much is car.

Just a thought.

--Andy 

I have no jackets, so I nod to the better driver, I don't doubt his talent one bit, but I still feel if the car was better understood the margin gained sunday (by erik) could have been greater.  The fact his 60's got slightly slower on day 2 (a bit over .1 per side) show the margins might have been larger.

 At DC the 135 could have won as well, but snow fell .173 short of feinburg in the end.  The car is so new, how can we assume its already reached its full potential?

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Scott
07 Mazdaspeed 3