Ryan's 86 car journal

[RToyo86]

Originally Posted by Petah78

Question, where do you get your car aligned?

There are a couple decent places around town, but I am taking it back to powersports garage at Calabogie motorsports park. Jay did a great job on the last alignment and I like that he uses the machine and string method. Plus he does enough twins that he can suggest settings and not let it leave until he's happy with it.

Originally Posted by DarkSunrise

Nice curious to see what you get. I’m planning on running this combo on my gen 2. That does look close to, if not -3 visually, which would be amazing.

Will update once it's all sorted! He rack read -2.3° with just the boltd last year. Pedders should add roughly 0.7° from my understanding.

[RToyo86]

Got the car on a rack.
My throw it together setting had camber the left front at -3.1°, right -2.9°. Mentioned he could probably max out left to -3.3, assuming right would be similar.
Dialed it back a bit to -2.6° front and left the rears alone around -1.9.
2mm toe out front, and 1mm toe in rear.

[DarkSunrise]

Originally Posted by RToyo86

Got the car on a rack.
My throw it together setting had camber the left front at -3.1°, right -2.9°. Mentioned he could probably max out left to -3.3, assuming right would be similar.
Dialed it back a bit to -2.6° front and left the rears alone around -1.9.
2mm toe out front, and 1mm toe in rear.

Wow that’s a good amount of camber adjustment. Any reason you didn’t go for the max camber setting in the front? Tire wear?

[RToyo86]

Originally Posted by DarkSunrise

Wow that’s a good amount of camber adjustment. Any reason you didn’t go for the max camber setting in the front? Tire wear?

I took the owners recommendation against max camber since I still use it as a daily and it will see winter use.
It's good to know the adjustment is there if needed. The added caster was nice with the top mounts.

Got to explore the new alignment settings on the drive home, a bonus of making an hour drive to a trackside garage is that the roads near the track are the best around

[Cephas]

Nice. I've got some Pedders in the shopping cart for my next round of stuff.

[RToyo86]

Cars booked for some PDR work this week. Getting a quote for roof and hood dings, and fixing the door ding. Also signed up for autocross this Saturday.

A Sunday wash to start the week. I have about three years on optimum DIY ceramic and it's failed on lower panels. I ordered Cquartz UK 3.0 and Cquartz SIC. Will be doing a combo with two layers UK and one layer of SIC as a topcoat.

The paint doesn't need much correction, just a quick one step all around and focusing on few areas with light scratches. The PPF on the bumper is done which will require a decision on whether to remove or reapply.

Edit: well things got out of hand while ordering carpro stuff . I ordered a BUNCH of their lineup. I am semi familiar with carpros lineup but a couple things are new to me. Essence, elixir, ech2o, reload on-top of the coatings. Doing a father day detail on the old man's 335i. Planning to give essence a try and top with reload for him.

Essence seems interesting since it's a finishing polish and primer for Cquartz or reload to be applied.

[RToyo86]

Day of autocross was a success. Weather was an absolute scorcher, 36° with the humidity. Plus you add 5° when standing on the asphalt while marshaling.

Kind of bummed everyone only got 3 runs in over 8 hours. Lapping looks a lot more appealing from drivetime perspective!

Car felt great, just grip limited due to old V105s. Will need to look into replacement options next summer.



Also organized a little twin club meet via Facebook group. Ended up having a good turnout with around 20 cars showing up.

I didn't think I'd see one of these bumpers on the flesh


Capped the evening off at a friend's place for a beer or two.

[RToyo86]

My bulk order of detailing supplies have shown up.
I messed up and ordered essence plus instead of standard essence. New bottle should be showing up this week.

[RToyo86]

Couple of shots from the event curiousity of MCOottawa photographer







Plus a bonus clip of two runs near the end. Little too much sauce on the first one.

[Petah78]

Auto-X in Ottawa, is it a whole lot of waiting around with only a few runs throughout the entire day? I recall it used to be like that, still the case?

[RToyo86]

Originally Posted by Petah78

Auto-X in Ottawa, is it a whole lot of waiting around with only a few runs throughout the entire day? I recall it used to be like that, still the case?

Yup. Massive turnout on Saturday, 92 participants, 8am-4pm...3 runs..

[Petah78]

Originally Posted by RToyo86

Yup. Massive turnout on Saturday, 92 participants, 8am-4pm...3 runs..

Thanks. That is exactly the case before. Sounds like hitting up bogie or shanny is the better bet! LOL.

[RToyo86]

Originally Posted by Petah78

Thanks. That is exactly the case before. Sounds like hitting up bogie or shanny is the better bet! LOL.

Agreed, CMP does a bunch of promo lapping nights as well which I will try to hit at least one. I believe it's $140 for 3 hours.

I missed slicks sponsored event this past Friday.

[Petah78]

Originally Posted by RToyo86

Agreed, CMP does a bunch of promo lapping nights as well which I will try to hit at least one. I believe it's $140 for 3 hours.

I missed slicks sponsored event this past Friday.

Yeah, I would normally hit up CMP lapping nights a few times a year but i have not done so yet this year since i am still breaking in my Gen2. Maybe late this season once i have more kms on the car.