As many of you have followed us for years; we love walking the historics at Laguna Seca every year.
I've often said that if I had the chance, I would love to crew one of turbo cars and put our experience to work. I think we know more about turbo race car tuning and the past years of hands-on work have been priceless.
This year I received a call to look over an historic BMW driven by Reknown driver - David Hobbs. I took the opportunity to look at the car and was asked to crew the car during this years historics. I was very happy, but could not make them any promises as I have other projects to complete.
Last edited by Hoover; 05-02-18 at 06:15 PM.
I was sent this picture of Hans Schtuck and Milt Minter that raced this car in 1977.
Last edited by Hoover; 05-02-18 at 05:54 PM.
From what I remember, interesting car.
Back when cars were easy to drive.
You definitely wanted the car pointing straight when the power hit.
I envy you for getting to spend time with a fun piece of history.
The motor will be gone through and assembled to specs that we know work for turbo cars and getting away from the on/off HP through proper turbo sizing.
One of these days you may see a picture of us at Laguna with this car and the next generation will see that this piece of mechanical history raced one more time.
One of the mechanics of that period told me that the intake technology of the airbox was near worthless, and was used to minimize damage to the compressor wheel. I've been given permission to simplify.
The turbo is mongo size which equals narrow power band. The owner will may allow us to put our know-how to make the power band more linear.
In the future, we may see chassis #1 and #2 with his guidance.