DirtE30 - 1990 BMW 325i

[Jake]

Glad to see you/it out there and nice improvements in your times from the sound of it!

The car is unstable under braking because of both the goofy spring/shock setup (which you are fixing) and the one rear wheel still having mega toe compared to the other (which you are also fixing). Get the alignment corrected - the easy button is to have Deren weld in those tabs and align it for your intended uses - and finish your suspension install, and I think you'll be surprised at how much better it feels.

The HPS is a fine pad for early HPDEs. Run 'em until you are down to 1/3 of the pad life and then re-evaluate which pads you want. I had HP+ on the Miata for a time and they were better performers, but super noisy on the street. If you want to street-drive this thing on nice days, keep the HPS for now.

My pace lap was conservativeish given the alignment issues but yeah, we didn't die in a fire and the car responded as asked so I was pleased. It's fascinating how much more connected you feel in the older cars. Going from the E30 to Brandon's F30 was stunning.