@mazda616 Coolant temp gauge in the Mini. If it moves from its normal position, the head is already warped!

So, ive got the block back from the shop after a couple of months and now its back in the car...
Hopefully, it'll be back up and running in the next month or so now

New clutch, pressure plate and lightweight flywheel:

If its got numbers on the side, that means its a race car right
Finally bought some magnetic numbers for the Mini

@houstonrunner I'm gonna assume this will be built on the old Mercedes platform as well

Slightly used OEM shocks and struts, camber plates and front strut tower reinforcements installed on the Mini!
1st gen BMW Mini had issues with the top of the strut towers deforming too much so I fixed that too:

Basically hit it with a hammer till it flattens out Between the camber plates and the red colored strut "protectors" the towers shouldn't mushroom again.
I didn't have time to get an alignment today but im guessing I have around -2 deg of camber on the front now...time to order tires!
The ride has also improved a lot, something about not having blown shocks lol. It now puts down power better too, i floored it in 1st from a stop while turning right at a junction, it spun the inside wheel a lot before, now its just a hint of wheelspin!

So now, the entire front end suspension is 'new' on the Mini, I've replaced control arms, ball joints, tie rod ends, driveshafts and shocks springs in the last 20k miles. Poly bushings looked fine 10k miles ago so thats there as wel...

This meme always cracks me up lol:

@jminer who is that 1 person using a Blackberry to look at Oppo!!

Me and @RallyDarkstrike met up in Elite Dangerous to do some mining on a planet. It was as close to a "car" meet that ive been to in a while

It was also a lotta fun ramping my rover over Darkstrike's ship

Later, another guy joined us:

That isnt entirely true, I did 6 runs in 1 car and 1 each in 3 more cars
First up, the car that I was driving for the day....my friends E92M3:

I did 6 runs in this car and got a pretty good time on this run. The cars on autocross tires (Falken RT660), camber plates and Bilstein shocks.
It feels like a C5 Vette thats making half the torque in the mid range. And that can be a good thing! The M3 will rotate on throttle just like a C5 but unlike a C5, you dont have to lift at all in the M3 once the car rotates, just balance the car with throttle. In the C5s, I have to decrease the throttle a little once I get it rotated to settle the rear end.

Speaking of C5, next up I drove this C5Z06:

Just 1 run in this car and I was being cautious with it at the start so I ended up being a second slower than my M3 run...my friend ran the same time as my M3 time in this C5 so its definitely just as fast if not faster.
This C5 had wider tires, Koni yellow shocks and was putting down 430whp.
Me and my M3 owning friend agreed that C5/6/7 are just too good at autocross So much power and so easy to drive! The end of my run is testament as to how easy well set-up Vettes are on the limit

I also drive this Integra with a Quaife or Wavetrac diff (dont remember which) on slightly worse tires (Hankook RS4):

The diff is amazing, it pulls you into the corners if you go WOT. I need one in the Mini...

Also drive a S550 Mustang that the owner is still working on setting it up:

This was the most "funest" of the bunch...all it wanted to do was go sideways!

It was a fun day of Autocrossing

@tripper Bumper delete and then its good!

@chariotoflove ooh I wish...

@davesaddiction well it does by itself....but if its linked to an actual video, it gives the same error

@davesaddiction like hyperlinking the text? It does not. Example:

Just had an absoulte banger of a race with the Tony Kannan in iRacing!
His PoV for you guys:
https://www.twitch. tv/videos/1108368194?t=00h48m53s
(Remove the space between "twitch." and "tv"....Hyphen is being weird with Twitch links, not sure if @Curators are aware of this)

I'm in the #42 Lambo...
He got me at the start of the race but I was able to pass him back later!!

EDIT: This is probably the craziest pass I've done yet
https://clips.twitch. tv/PrettyIronicGoatFeelsBadMan-ZQ-m-Twr0pNS0-uL

@tysmagic It was tough tbh, just with the side of the car

@whoistheleader

Hello there

@junklemkvii Finally! We have a winner!
It was a Daytona IROC

@rctothefuture nope, its smaller than that (both dimensionally and displacement-wise)

@tripper Frantically searches how to vote for all 3