Watkins Glen race track BMW e36 M3 car STOPTECH Brakes Zeckhausen Racing

[welsch41]

love the carbon fiber dash. where did you get that at?

fantasic driving by the way, i could only dream of driving like that.

[mercedese430]

good, i'ts beautiful carbon tacho and panel, where is possible to buy ?

[1unix]

Bonus is the feeling to teach all those Porsches Nice vid Excellent driving seems to be a well done car ...

[Nightss10]

love this, great driving!

passed my car at @ 4:59

[filobreaker]

dude your car sounds like megan fox on top of me.

[tihocleo]

I just love how the BMW keeps passing all these Porsches. Impressive driving!

[mooresalex]

amazing driving!

[Duriron]

Great video. I'm looking at preparing a US spec M3 e36 for track myself, I've added you as a friend so as to ask you a few questions, if it's not much of a disturbance!!

Thank you.

[lebunque]

That is some of the smoothest hand work I've ever seen. Beautiful driving.

[badbandar059]

Amazing Driving. U got a nicely modded m3. And ur driving skills are superb. Nice work buddy. Is that a euro M3 or us m3?

[TrackratM3]

@badbandar059 Thanks, its a U.S. e36 M3

[AbsoluteZanity]

i would love to see a video walkaround of this car with some interior and specs.. pretty pretty please! its awsome...

[TrackratM3]

@AbsoluteZanity I will do that in the spring, I promise.

[Pendemic]

How big are the brakes? Looks like they work well. Lol

[TrackratM3]

@Pendemic The Stoptech's I have on the front are 332, ideal for E36, they work great and are well balanced with the Stoptech rears or stock rears, for E46 I would recommend the 355's. I can go deep into the corners and have plenty of confidence, the price of replacement rotors are much more reasonale than most. For the track , I only use the Stoptech Aero rotors (slotted). Zeckhausen Racing has helped me greatly with pad selection and advise on everything involving brakes.

[TipoF129B]

haha i went looking for a decent video of WGI to use as i'm heading there this weekend and i found this......i used your monticello vid earlier in the year! good stuff thanks.

[evolvedperformance]

I love that you spend the entire time passing P-cars. :-)

[ChRiS00107]

what suspension do ya got? btw.. love that interior!

[TrackratM3]

@ChRiS00107 suspension is TCKline Da 600/550 springs,Turner sway bars,x-brace. -3 camber front,-2 rear.

[ChRiS00107]

@TrackratM3 thnx dude i'll try to get that for my e36.

[Qexon]

BMW the BEST!

BMW VOREVER!

[gastonb1604]

nice car

[onecraze]

where did you get the carbon interior?

[TrackratM3]

@onecraze Austria.

[miguelbmwm3]

bravo dude, I got one E36 before my E46 and I miss its aggressive way of take curves.

[screamineagle2003]

Dude, nice driving. I was just at Watkins Glen the 15-16th. I ran a 2:21 in my '99 M3

[TrackratM3]

The car dyno'd 290HP/270TQ  I am using Hoosier R6's ,upgraded brakes ,TCKline da suspension and the car weight is 2750. All that and being a BMW is what makes it faster on the track than some cars with twice the HP.

[PLAYmorePAINTBALL]

This car goes and stops like hell, you must be pushing a lot of power. How are you getting so much down after the apex. Its nuts, new RTABs? Or driver skills? lol

Cheers friend. Do you still race at the glen. Im trying to get on soon.

[Paulstathis1992]

wut upgrades u got?

[TrackratM3]

Too many to list.

[Paulstathis1992]

wow ur fuckin good man lol and i luv this car i got one =)

[buttskid]

Man I love this car!! u have skills too! So sunbelt cams are the way to go huh? Would you tell me your cam specs? I have a 98 with m50,cold air intake,full Remus exh, conforti and it has hardly improved the car so I figure I would try cams flywheel and titanium rotors

[TrackratM3]

Sunbelts or Schrick , will give you more power but you have to have your cpu tunes also. titanium rotors?

[jlubez]

i absolutely love bmw nothing else nice driving and love the carbon dash

[TheHoske]

Awsome driving loved the vid looks like youve been doing it for a while thumbs up

[bangnana]

The bit where you held your gear at around 0:30 was pretty impressive, seems like you know the track well. Still seems like you hit r3v limit coming into that corner though.

[TrackratM3]

Yea, I hit rev limiter, I have rasied it a bit and also I go into 4th there now.

[AM007009]

what kind of exhaust set up is on that car? best sounding E36 Id say I've ever heard

[TrackratM3]

Custom Kromer Krafter headers,no Cats,3" pipe to 3" Magna flow race muffler.

[AM007009]

Magna flow race muffler? do you know where I could get one of those?

and again best sounding E36 id ever heard, and I just love the way you blew by those 911s

[dogikit]

i've never been to a track or seen a track other then professionals, but i keep seeing orange cones by all the corners. am i right to asume those are to tel you when to turn in and when to accelerate out of a corner?

[TrackratM3]

Besides open track,This event has a school portion also, the cones are there to mark the aprroximate turn-in Apex and track out areas for the novice drivers.

[StevoM5]

What kind of mods you running? Or were all those porsche drivers just slow?

[TrackratM3]

Im just an average driver but the CAR ROCKS.. Its my street car with lots of mods, 291 HP at the wheels, lightened to 2770 lbs, TCKline D/A suspension and Brembos, E36 M3 for life..

[StevoM5]

Yeah the e36 M3 is a beast.

There are at least a dozen or so for sale where I live prices ranging between 10-20 grand. I'd definetaly buy one if i wasn't in university.

BMW is my #1

[houdini69]

what mods does your car have ?

[TrackratM3]

Main Mods:TCKiline sus, Brembos,sunbelt cams,KK headers, J&E pistons,3.5 AFM,Oil cooler,Fluidyne radiator.

[houdini69]

hi again and thanks for the reply, i notice you are in usa ! over here in the uk there are very few companies who have any clue about m3 tuning, and the ones that are here are full of crap to be honest !, i have had my m3 for 5 years and i have done quite a lot to it including 3.64 diff, i have yet to do any engine mods because the guys im working with are finding out what are the best cams to use, they will probably be shrick though. what is your rev limiter at now ? how did you lighten it ?

[TrackratM3]

There are a few places here that can tune fairly well, I have a friend who is a BMW master tech who rebuilt the motor , cpu is custom programed. Sunbelts are the hottest cams right now unless you get into some kind of custom ground.I have no rev limiter, that was programed out,my shift light set at 7k, I shift at 6900 -7 mark ,a list of engine mods and cpu was sent to AA ,for programing, My friend will have software to be able to program OBDI and II soon.

[TrackratM3]

removed or replaced with lighter parts,Heres some of the things I did: lbs -70 seats -45 sunroof -25 AC -40 custom exhaust -15 e30 control arms -25 remove backseats -35  remove all airbags replace steering wheel -35 remove all sound system -50 SSR wheels -20 remove CC, traction control,air pump,whiper fluid container -50 remove carpet and sound material in back of car,tool kit. -30 opmtima battery -10 door panels

[houdini69]

thanks again, i have lightened doing most things you have apart from the battery , i wonder if i can get a lighter battery over here ? and bye the way most m3 owners dont know the air pump exists ! my engine will happily go to 8k where the new limit will be after chip, i noticed you said , sunroof 45 lbs ! holy smokes and i would definetly like to save 70 lbs on the seats , what seats do you use now, are they adjustable ?

[TrackratM3]

sry didnt see this comment..I have a kevlar seats(cobras) about 14 lbs each, I put an adjustable rail on the driver seat. I wouldnt run your motor much past 7300 wierd harmonics start happening and bolts can loosen up, im not sure if this is the case for euro motors but these ones, there is not much HP or TQ advantage anyway going that hi, TQ drops off after 7000 anyway.its nice to be able to go a bit higher if your in the middle of a corner though.

[rerebill11]

what kinda mods did you use to lighten it up? carbon fiber hoods and doors ect.?

[TrackratM3]

Cf hood,sunroof delete,ac delete,ltw exaust,strip most inteior,ltw battery,polycarbonate windshield...

[CROAGERM]

excellent car, excellent driving

[pimparuchi]

Yo man great video. Where did you get the carbon fibre accecories like the dash board and everything, I would like to get it for my e36 m3. Thanks and nice driving.

[pucsicsal]

spend that couple hundred bucks on a driving school instead, thats what he will tell you.. or at least I would.

[TrackratM3]

Thanks, most of the stuff you can find on Ebay,but you have to be careful, there is alot of crap on ebay , the dash piece came from a company out of Austria.

[blastds]

Well your sure as hell better than me ;)

[blastds]

You are one hell of a driver, and your in the best car! Keep up the good work!

[TrackratM3]

Its more the car than it is me, it is setup really nice.

[dkflipse]

very, very cool. I miss my E36 4DR!

[JohnDojah]

damn its like that thing wont loose traction. What suspension/tires?

[TrackratM3]

It has a TC Kline adj sus, set up for the track,tires are Toyo ra1 255/40/17