I did my first race on June 21 at an NCRC/ARC event at Thunderhill. The race was fun. I was bottled up behind a car I should have been able to pass. I need to work on setting up cars to pass.
In race 2, I blew a head gasket on the second lap. With the head off, the pistons aren’t quite what I should be running and the deck of the block isn’t flat. The 3.0 liter engine in the 1995 M3 is prone to blow head gaskets. And it’s the wrong engine for the IP class in BMW CCA. So I bought a used engine from a MZ3 with 42k miles. Bavarian Motorsport in Milpitas is doing the swap for me.