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We had about a dozen cars meet up at the In-N-Out in Marina del Ray to caravan down, including an E30, a few E36's and at least 8 or 9 E46 M3's. It was fun pouring through traffic on 405 with five other black (or Carbon Black) M3's. Looked great. On the way into the park, I raced Peter briefly. His car, with the RMF motor, pulled on mine easily, so perhaps my car really is down on power. |
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Niko, who sold me the car when he was working for Beverly Hills BMW, came along for the ride. I hope he wasn't as bored as he looks here. |
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I couldn't get too motivated to take lots of pictures. Basically, all the cars looked the same, with varying degrees of after-market doodads on 'em. I forgot to bring my wide-angle lens adapter, so I couldn't shoot the QuickTime VR panorama as I had intended. |
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The event was quite well-run and well-attended, with ample food and a generous raffle. I won a 'carbon fiber look' locense plate frame. I gave it to a guy who had a carbon fiber rear roundel emblem, as I prefer my plain black frame. I had hoped to win either the evosport pulleys or the BMW ///M duffel. Oh, well. |
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Brad, Vadim and maybe a few other guys from evosport were there. evosport wants to arrange a group dyne to get baselines from a number of cars to see if we're all down on power or if some cars are weaker than others. My M3 seems to be about 25 hp low. |