Well been over a month since I updated this.
Being honest two weeks ago I was going to pull the plug on the whole build as the passion and heart had been ruined when my 3.2 engine started knocking after 4 laps of testing the car.....
BUT... Last Wednesday Kyle at Chizfab hq went with the decision to get the car built to be used so my old Jumanji weapons m50 2.5 was brought round on the pallet and put in. Within 2 hours the car was up and running. Epic work from Kyle and the team
Spec:
Standard m50 2.5 engine
Single paddle clutch and box from the m3 engine
S50 manifolds off the the m3
Ecu rev limit raised and ews deleted
Now we had a running engine and looking I would be competing in the garage Fu*k house street legal! Better get the rest of the paint done so Friday and Saturday my lads put in an epic shift in to get the paint done
So Sunday morning we rocked up at Driftland having driven the car up it's the most it had moved under it's own steam since engine went in.
Felt decent slight miss on limiter second and third gear felt so slow but it was getting used however it went.
Practice runs in the morning the car felt fine. Running the 17's was a bit if a gamble as the power wasn't really there and suffered from too much grip, too late to do anything about it. Qualifying my practice run felt mint then my two judged runs I wasn't feeling it. Many clutch kicks I still couldn't get it together. Only thing I had going was I had hit all but one clipping point.
Was nervous sitting waiting to hear if I got into top 16 of the 42 drivers as a lot of good drivers and didn't think I had done enough... But.! I just scraped in at 14th place was mega delighted and basically that was me I had gotten what I had hoped for and anything else would be a bonus.
Ended up getting knocked out at top 16 by the eventual winner but the fact I had my car running and was out drifting I was stoked
Car is now back in my yard and a decision on what I am going to do going forward with it will be made at some point, Kyles thoughts are vanos solenoid so will try that and see.
My s50b32 is booked in end of July with James at Reddish to get rebuilt.