Time for elections!

Post your name and what position you are running for in the title.

Positions - President, VP, Treasurer, Secretary, or something else if a valid argument can be made for it.

Tell us about you and why we should vote for you. Tell us what you think was done right this year and should be continued. Tell us what was bad and what needs to change. Propose some new ideas and really let us have an idea for what you plan to do! Do not give false promises. We've all been around the block and have an idea for what is realistic. Be ready to answer questions and be ready to be probed, prodded, and poked. You're on stage now.

Please limit discussion of the MM Racecar idea, it is not as important as it seems at the moment. Focus more on how you will run the clubs day-to-day operations, events, and members
All together, have fun! This is a great opportunity!

Requirements
- Must be a paid member in the club for the 2016-17 year
- Must have an account on the forums
- No joke posts please

Voting
- Voting will take place on April 5th in ISAT 350 or online via a PM to James Watkins (EclipseTurbno93) before that day with the names and positions of everyone you are voting for. Please vote for every position.
- These two options are the only valid options for posting.

Location : EnGeo 1202 (formerly HHS)

Time: 7PM - 9PM

Agenda:
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March VIR
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Karting was discussed. Meet in R1 before 7:30. Rides finalized and details discussed about dinner/lunch. Plan for randomizing teams discussed and almost nailed down. Collected money and added a few late additions. BE SURE TO BRING LONG PANTS, CLOSED TOES SHOES, AND GLOVES TO USE WHILE DRIVING. IT WILL BE COLD!
- Leave before 8AM
- Arrive and check in before 10AM
- 10AM-12PM Kart (10 or 11 teams of 3)
- 1:15 Eat Lunch at a place to be determined
- Before 4 come back to the burg

March VIR was explained a little more. People going arranged rides among themselves.

Car Show - Talked about loose ends and final prep.
Tentative schedule
- Before 8 - Setup
- 9:30 Registration Opens
- 10:30 Food is cooked until 12:30
- 12 registration soft close and judging begins
- 1 PM winners announced, prizes handed out
- 2 PM show ends officially, cleanup begins
- 4 PM Cruise
- 6 PM Dinner at O'Neils
- 8 Party Setup at Taylor's
SUNDAY
- 2 AM Clean up puke
- 8 AM - Leave R1 for Verona, vroom vroom

Rough work schedule for volunteers. Big Wheels may not happen so those people will be extra hands for whatever pops up.



Hyperfest

Showed Hyperfest thread and described event to raise interest. Lost of members going. Starting to arrange camping details.


Elections

Election threads are up and voting will be head Wednesday after Car Show in ISAT 350. Only in person ballots and absentee votes via a PM to JAMES WATKINS (EclipseTurbno93) will be counted.

Well, after a departure with my first car, the 2006 Acura TL, it was time for something new. The requirements for this car were it had to be able to fit my german shepherd, move me to and from college, and still be fun to drive. The first pick was an MDX, then an X3, and finally and GT given it was closest to a sport car while still maintaining adequate trunk volume as well as all wheel drive.





After a few months with the car, I started doing research on the forums and realized what my engine platform was capable of given a few modifications, and I was hooked. I immediately hopped down the rabbit hole and haven't looked back

While I was back for winter break, I realized I needed space during the winter months, and decided to pull some HGTV style garage makeover. I ended up clearing out everything in the two-car garage, and making space for my car to fit for the impending weather (news flash, we never got any)







I left a box of chocolates for the garbage men, and to my surprise, everything was gone other than paint cans when I got home from work. Thank god because I don't know what I would have done otherwise :bow:

My first idea was simply to go with a JB4 and downpipe, as I found a killer deal on the forums. After calling a couple of shops to see what they could quote for the downpipe install (I heard the subframe had to be dropped due to xDrive so I did not want to try this on my brand new car), I was sold on a whole new set up. I was told that the Jb4 was inconsistent with its results, and that I would not pass emissions with the decatted downpipe. So the new setup came about..

The new plan was a ecu flash tune by Frank Smith (Believe Stephen had this done on his m3), a decatted downpipe, and an intake. The shop owner(GTPeace in Chantilly) quoted me a killer price on the DP/Intake combo that I could not pass up, which made the price of the tune a little easier to swallow.

Fast forward a few weeks of research, and I come to realize that the stock chargepipe is made out of plastic and will most likely blow if I add any boost so I need to add that into my shopping cart. Well then I'm just one step away from full bolt-on, so I might as well just add a bigger intercooler, right?

So now I find myself having ordered a FMIC from CTS Turbo (group buy on the forums got me basically half off) and a chargepipe from FTP. Everything else was coming from the shop. Break rolls around the corner, and it's time to get everything knocked out.





I call up Jake as I heard he knows a thing or two about BMW's, and he agrees to help work on my car in his garage the night after we get back for break.

As we take off the bumper I notice some repainted spots along the bottom of it, but refer to my other post regarding that whole ordeal..

So we get to removing the intercooler and run into a slight problem...rust. The car is 2 YEARS OLD! HOW IS THIS POSSIBLE! Well, regardless, it's there.. So the bolts we need to remove are rusted out, and even with pv blaster, they're bound to strip.





We decide the first thing to do is to grab some bits for removing stripped screws from homedepot, and try to removed them that way. This did not work, but did help strip the screws even further which ended up helping somehow in the end.



Then Jake had the idea to try and drill out the bolts, as it didn't like his dremel would fit in order to carve the heads into some sort of square shape. Well other than almost setting my bumper on fire, this did nothing other than break some of his drill bits. I was able to drill through my bolt, but nothing really happened which I will get back to..

Well finally, I had the idea to just try every screw head he had in the toolbox at every possibly angle since the bolts were already stripped to hell. Eventually somehow, with on square head, and another allen head bit, I managed to get the bolts out. Now back to the one that I drilled out. The bolt head came off just fine, but it left the actual screw still in the plastic housing, blocking anything else from going back in..I'll get back to that again lol

Once the bolts and hoses were removed, we pulled the old intercooler out and the greatest thing I have ever seen happened. A full body of a bird fell out of my intercooler and inches away from Jake's head while he was trapped under my car holding an intercooler above his head. Never have I laughed so hard while working on a car before :lol:



Well after that, it was time to get the old chargepipe removed, and after about an hour of twisting, turning, banging, and bending, the damn thing came out.

I'll just leave this here


Putting the new chargepipe back in was a breeze, and all we had left was the intercooler.



We now remembered about that whole stuck bolt situation from earlier, and also realized there was only one new bold in the garage that could be used. Knowing that I would be going to the shop in 2 days for the rest of the install, as well as the fact that Jake swore by this as the official racecar technique of installation, we decided to zip tie the other side it. It was as sturdy as the thing was gonna be for the time being, so we put the belly pan back on, started the car to make sure we didn't break anything too badly, and called it a night.



The zip ties managed to stay in place until Monday when I brought it into the shop, and they were able to fix it for me before we brought it to the dyno for the baseline.



Now we went over to PTuning for a baseline on their DynoDynamic all-wheel-drive dyno. Now let me just say, I really did not like my experience there. The guys did not know how to put my car into a dyno ready mode, had to be told how to do it by the GTPeace owner(Galen) who came with me. They then proceeded to overheat the car and continue trying to dyno it, only to be stopped by again, Galen. Then once cooled down, managed to get one good run in before again overheating the car and this time fully disengaging xDrive and only spinning the rear wheels. Finally, Galen just told them to stop before they fully limped the car, and we were done. I have nothing against the guys at PTuning, but this was just my experience and I thought I would share because when I went in for my dyno at a different location afterward, the experience was completely different.

Well, after that whole fiasco, I had my heart broken by the dyno. I experienced a 21% drivetrain loss due to xDrive, putting me at the following numbers The N55 engine is 300HP and 300TRQ which is how I got the 21% number.



After that I left the car with Galen for the night, and came back the next day after work to pick it up. He had installed the catless downpipe, intake, new spark plugs, and full ecu flash for me so I was pretty exicted to see/hear the difference, and wow.

All I can say is wow, because that car was completely reborn after these modifications. The sound is more aggressive, throttle is more responsive, and overall the thing is so much faster even though it weights 2 Tons without me inside. I had a blast the next few days whipping it around town, doing some launches, but of course staying within the speed limits :wink: It really is a shame the car didn't come like this from the factory, but hey I guess they need to sell the M3 somehow right?

Well after a couple hundred miles of the ECU getting adapted I took it in for the new dyno to see what I had gained. I took it down to MD to Frank's shop since my experience with PTuning had no been so great, and since Frank himself had wrote the code for this tune. Side note: He is one of the smartest guys I have ever met in the car scene, and if you are thinking about getting your car tuned, just take an hour to sit down with him and you'll be blown away.

So we got my car all strapped up, and after just the first run, I broke everything. :mrgreen: My tires(stock continentals) made so much noise on the rollers, that the frequency knocked out the dyno computer, and we had to replace some chips on the circuit board. Apparently the only other tires to do this were drag radials, so I'll take that as a good thing!

After some good runs, I was left with some good and some bad information. First the bad, Frank informed me that my stock oil was terrible and was getting hot really quickly so I should switch soon, no surprise there. Next, Frank showed me that my car had been in an accident before I bought it...see my other thread for more details on that :dunno:

As for the numbers, well on the same number conversions for a DynoDynamics setup, I gained 80WHP, and 110TRQ which was awesome. I also had him convert to DynoJet numbers as this is what every tune and filter on the market advertises their gains as, just to see what it stacked up to compared to other tunes on the market. After that, I ended up staying for another 3 hours just talking to Frank about everything car and life-related, and it was truly an eye opener.





On my way home, I got a CEL for the intake, which was now the second time this had happened. This had been a common problem with the open-box intakes on these cars which I knew about before installing. It also had a rough idle which was attributed to the intake, and after a second CEL and rough start, I decided to take it off.

While I loved the spooling sound with the open box setup, I did not want to deal with any CELs or rough starts, so I swapped it for the stock box and a drop in K&N filter.

That brings us to the present! I now am back at college and away from the car, but cannot wait to bring it up to the car show and try it out at autocross! I picked up a set of the new Michelin PS4S's and I might throw them on for the autocross, but we'll see what the weather looks like.

I really want to continue with this car, but at the end of the day need to remember how big she is, and that I should probably be saving the money anyways so we'll see what happens.

Sorry for the long read, but I hope you enjoyed and you can now tell my why I shouldn't have done any of this to the car!

Also, I took some videos along the way so if you are interested in what I put on the car as well as how it sounds now, check out my totally legit youtube channel :thumbup:

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I am going to try and keep this short and sweet as I've been told I might be a big talker :wink:

I will be finishing up my first year here as an International Business major, and my first year as part of MM. To me, it was everything I was looking for in a club, group of friends, as well as mentor and alumni network. That being said, I do feel as if there are ways in which the club can develop into a more interactive and involved group of friends and enthusiasts alike.

1) I know the weather hasn't been great this year, especially with this so called "winter" we had, but the events for me have seemed pretty scarce. I would like to work with the other members to organize more formal as well as informal events for everyone to get together and hang out. Whether that be Grand Tour nights at somebodies apartment, more club dinners(oh you know I love dinners ), or simply organized wrench days in some poor apartment complex's parking lot for all of the member's current projects.

2) I think there is something behind the idea of an MM project car, and really want to help bring that into reality within the next year. There has been some scattered interest here and there on the forums but I really think it will be an awesome project for all members of the club, as well as something for JMU students to recognize us by in a positive light (so they hopefully forget about the whole bus incident). I would like to look into the legal and financial logistics of this idea further and really gauge the members to see how many people would be willing to participate in this.

3) I would like to find out if there is anything the members want that hasn't been addressed by current or former leaders of MM. I feel as if in the chat, it is always the same 5-10 people talking, yet I see 40+ members in the group. I am wondering if there are things people are interested in that aren't being discussed that the next exec team can look into. I want everyone to feel welcome in this club and would love to see more people involved in the discussions and activities we have.

I like spending time on things I really enjoy, and for me that would be cars and this club. Cars have been my whole life, all the way back to when my first bed as a racecar shell with a mattress inside of it. I know being in this position won't be easy, but I am willing to put in the hard work needed to help this club continue to grow and evolve.

Can't wait to see you all next year at the first meeting, and hope we can all possibly get together this summer for some sort of MM impromptu event!

So to start off, I bought my 2014 335xi GT in November from a reputable local dealer in MD which was rated in the excellence awards by BMW NA this year. I was originally looking on Manheim for a good deal but came across this vehicle for around the same price as auction and upon inspection seemed like a clean car and good purchase. The car had a clean CarFax, and was CPO'd by BMW.

Fast forward a couple of weeks, I had my car on a lift and noticed the front bumper had been repainted in some spots. I assumed this was due to some curb scrapes and minor incidents, so I brushed it off and minuscule.

Now a week ago, I had my car dynoed and was informed of some not so great information about my car from somebody who's been around these models for the past 20 years.

1) There had been a previously cleared code from the airbag system most likely related to either the bumper being removed without the battery disconnected, or an actual airbag going off.

2) The entire front side of the car had been repainted, see pictures below for proof.


3) The accident was more severe than I thought because the body panels now have uneven gaps on each side.

4) The driver's door does not close properly upon close inspection.


So here's my dilemma, I was under the impression from the dealership that nothing was wrong with the vehicle, and that they had performed a full check up to ensure this.

I do not know if the price was so attractive because they knew of these faults and decided not to disclose them to me, or if it was simply a good deal for an unwanted vehicle (given that is was a GT).

I am wondering what the best course of action would be, and if anyone has ever experienced something like this. I am not comfortable knowing this as it will affect resale in the future, and might cause issues with the car mechanically down the road. I am wondering if it is too much to request a buy back from the dealership, considering it has only been 4months since the purchase.


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Hyperfest is the ultimate motorsports destination and this year it's at VIR on May 19th and 20th. NASA Road racing, Drifting, Lawn Mower Racing, Burnout contests, RallyCross, Bike racing, car shows and much more! This weekend is the weekend most of us anticipate all year and there is NO reason not to make out. Hotels are on site and nearby, but the best action is camping out with everyone either in the camping area or the NASA paddock if you're lucky enough. DO NOT MISS THIS EVENT!

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Who all is going? I want to camp, but I'd like to camp in the NASA paddock so I can hang out with my buddies last year. Maybe I'll see if Laura will let me be on Sandwich patrol again.

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I'm a freshman here at JMU. Absolutely loving it here. I am majoring in Computer Science, but that might be changing soon... not quite sure yet. I currently do not own a car, mostly because of my empty wallet. I am on the Club Golf Team here as well at JMU...went to Nationals last semester down in Orlando, FL. Haven't really decided what car I want when I can finally afford one.... Leaning towards a Miata as a first car (Thanks Taylor), but we'll have to see. So yeah, feel free to ask questions!

Hey guys I thought starting an MM game of photo tag would be fun.

Basically someone takes a picture of their car somewhere around the valley and posts it here and everyone else has to figure out where it is. If you know where it is you go and take a pic of your car/motorcycle in the same setting and post it up on this thread with where you found it. Then you can go ahead and find a new spot to post with your car and everyone tries to find that spot and the cycle continues.

Rules:

The game for now should probably be limited to the Shenandoah valley area. Clues about where your picture is are recommended, especially if its way out of familiar territory.

Just gonna quote the rules from the original adventure rider forum thread -
Rule #1 "One tag at a time, the tag must be find-able and on legal roads of any type (paved, dirt gravel, etc). We don't want anyone trespassing to place or grab a tag. Include clues in your tag. Don't make the clues useless, not everyone is a Jeopardy contestant wanna be." Also be sensible. We want to be safe so don't stop in the middle of the highway to take a picture of mile marker 76 on I95 north as a tag.

Rule #2 No whining.


Anyone interested?

Hey guys!

Just wrapped up a 3 month trip living out of a Rooftop Tent with my Jeep and after going through cars faster than clothes I finally am settling down with vehicle number 16, a 2006 DCSB Tacoma TRD off-road in radiant red. Got a killer deal on a single owner car with all the receipts of every single piece of work done!

Current state:
100% OEM minus SportStickers Fly Fisher Male Sticker

Waiting to be put on:

• Treeline Outdoors Lodgepole Rooftop Tent
  Treeline Outdoors Annex
  Hi lift
  Jerry cans
  Maxxsa (maxtraxx amazon version that's done pretty well for me in the past)
  Viper 5806V two way security system
  Pioneer MVH-AV290BT
  ESKY Backup Camera
  Locking rear tailgate

• Pelfreybilt front steel bumper with full hoops
  Pelfreybilt standard rear bumper
  Pelfreybilt bolt on sliders
  Pelfreybilt IFS Skid
  Pelfreybilt Mid Skid
  Wilco off-road adventure rack
  Respray from radiant red to quicksand

• What suspension
  What wheels and tires

Ok guys cruise week is a few short months away and for those who don't know what it is a quick youtube of cruisin oc will blow your mind. A group of buddies and I go down every year and have more fun than I can describe, my family has a condo there and MM'ers are welcome, its on the same street as wawa where shit goes down. If anybody is interested in staying there just let me know, I need to make sure I have enough space for everyone who comes, shoot me a text and let me know if you're interested.

My car and my buddy's e90 m3 are featured in the cruise week video below.

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