It took 2 months for my UUC lightweight flywheel and clutch kit to arrive, and the rest of the parts I ordered (the DSSR and transmission mounts) didn’t work with the fresh factory parts I was using. There was precious little documentation, too.

I’ve had excellent experiences with TheBMWMiniPartsStore.com (BMW of Cleveland, IIRC). They have the absolute best prices I’ve seen, though their website really stinks. It’s great for when you need the an odd trim panel or brake duct that is overpriced and out of stock everywhere else.

You should give iRacing or Assetto Corsa a try. Laser scanned tracks.

I started watching his videos at the start of the Plan B project (it just showed up in YouTube’s suggested feed), and was certain that the Evora was going to end up a go-kart, nothing more. Props to Chris!

WHOA, that’s crazy; hood and fender total? For my old BMW, sure, but an NSX? Ouch.

Fair enough, and props for doing your homework. I’m far from a “body guy”, but I am pretty picky about paint work. Do you think that’s because of the aluminum construction?

Eh, a lot of the NSXs get repaired to like-new condition. Rob Ferretti (sp?) owns a beautiful ex-salvaged NSX from a forum rebuilder that I don’t think an Acura technician could tell had been wrecked and rebuilt.

“Wheel washing,” pre-ceramics, consisted of rinsing the wheels at the coin-op. car wash, applying a wheel cleaner of some sort (I like AMMO Plum), scrubbing with a soft brush, working the remaining cleaner in the crevices and bolts of my two-piece Cromodora wheels with an old wash mitt, and then rinsing and drying.

No, automatic I6 E39s are limited to something like 127. Allegedly, downhill will yield 158mph (GPS).

Psst. Use your grandparent’s accounts. They’ll pay for cable until they die in 30 years, and you set them up, anyways, right?

Yeah, I don’t know. Something about the older Roadkills felt more... special. Like the one where they put the new gasser-style chassis under Finnegan’s ‘55, for example. There was a journey, a little adversity, and a great reward at the end. Or when they rescued Pig Pen. Or whatever. I find the road trips to make the…

It sounds kinda like a BMW S62 from the e39 M5. Similar output, too.

Probably. Most analog, mechanical guagues can’t keep up with extreme, rapid movements. Imagine a turbo boost gauge twitching with each cylinder pulse. The LFA’s tach is probably twitching with each minor judder in the engine.

Having been on car trips that have gone through 49 of 50 US states (not on one trip) (excepting Hawaii, obviously), I wholeheartedly agree with this assessment. However, the invention of the iPod saved me and my sister from killing each other in the back of our Grand Caravan (and later, Tundra). The iPods helped to…

“Gonna have to give up the time gained!” Dude, yes. VIR is such a blast in iRacing. I love throwing the Ruf RT12 R RWD around the Grand West track in the late afternoon. Epic track.

Wow, there’s an obscure reference. I’m surprised I caught it, honestly. What was it from; a Golf or something that told you to upshift?

Ah, that would make sense. The car came with some awful run-flats on it when I bought it, and top speed was limited to 126 (135 indicated, IIRC). Now, it will happily exceed 145 indicated (though it does take an age to get there with just 225hp). Haven’t hit top speed yet, though. I still need to fiddle with my tune a…

Maybe, though I know for a fact that my sport-package 2003 530i was limited at 126mph (GPS) (I may or may not have been the person to delete the limiter...). Maybe because of the automatic gearbox.

Hehe, that’s where I learned that somewhere in the previous 13 years of my E39 530i’s life, someone deleted the speed limiter. It will wind the dial all the way to 155mph+ (at 3am, zero traffic aside from a truck about once a mile). Most non-M BMWs are limited at 200kmh/125, IIRC.

He means that the driver should use the lowest gear possible, let the speed rise a little, slow down with the brakes, let the speed rise, slow down with the brakes, etc. It allows the brakes to cool down before reapplication.