2007 Nationals set-up, with 18x10 D-Force wheels and 265/35/18 Bridgestone RE01R tires
The car that started it all! We'll outline our setup with this car. Realize that we're constantly developing on it, so things may change and not be immediately updated. Some people keep all these deep dark secrets about their setups. We won't do that. If we sell you a part and it doesn't make you faster, well, you won't be happy will you? So we'll let you know everything that we've done and why we think it works better than anything on the market.
1997 BMW M3, no options car with Alcantara cloth interior (rare), 119k miles
Weight: 2990 lbs with stock seats (2006 Nationals), 2948 lbs with race seats (at 2005 and 2007 Nationals).
Accolades (so far):
- 2007 STU Ladies National Championship, Amy Fair
- 2006 STU Ladies National Championship, Amy Fair
- 2006 STU Open 2nd Place, 2005 STU 6th place, Terry Fair
- 2005 STU Open TToD Day 1, Brian Hanchey, driver couldn't hold it together Day 2
Early 2007 season set-up, with 17x9 D-Force wheels (16.6 lbs) and 255/40/17 Yokohama Advan AD07s (probably the best wheel/tire combo we ran on the car)
Goals:
- Daily drive-able
- To be the best handling BMW on street tires
- Product tester
- SCCA and BMW autocross competitive
- Following the matra of "doing what works, not what's popular"
2006 set-up shown, with 17x9.5" CCW custom wheels (20.4 pounds each)
The Basics
- AST 4300 Coilovers, triple adjustable (have used TCKline Koni doubles, AST 4100 singles and AST 4200 Doubles)
- Vorshlag camber plates
- Vorshlag Poly motor mounts (have also used Nylon)
- Vorshlag 80/60 Stud Kit with black lug nuts
- Vorshlag RTAB limiters
- AST Rear monoball shock mounts
- 100 N/mm (~575 lb/in) Front Springs (up from 90 N/mm)
- 750 lb/in Rear Springs
- 27 mm front RD sway bar (mid-setting)
- 22 mm rear Dinan sway bar (full soft)
- D-Force LTW5, 18x10 wheels with 18mm spacers up front, 5mm rear
- Bridgestone RE01R tires in 265/35/18 size, shaved to 4/32" (switched form 255/40/17 Yokohama AD07)
- Mason Engineering Aluminum one piece front strut brace
- Mason Engineering Aluminum one piece rear strut brace
- Mason Engineering adjustable sway bar end links
- Fair Designs homemade cold air intake (don't laugh)
- Dinan software
- UUC tranny mounts
- UUC DSS shifter arm
- Header back custom exhaust. 2-2.5" high flow cats into 1 3" with a resonator and Flowmaster
- All other bushings are new stock replacements
- Euro floating rotors with Hawk HPS brake pads
- Sabelt "H Type" harness
- Front
- 1/8" total toe-in allows for 1/8" toe out at the track
- Street camber -2.3 degrees, -4.0 at the track
- Caster ~5.5 degrees, set lower to get more camber.
- Rear
- 1/4" total toe-in
- This toe allows you to put power down even when running big rear springs like we are.
- -2.0 degrees of camber
(pictures and updates added by Fair)
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