New Tires

New Tires for my birthday gift. 

There are not alot of people that ask for tires for their birthday. I did why because Rally. 

Because i am in the stock class, i can not use rally tires. I must use street legal tires. 

After doing  a lot of research the best ones seem to be 

Firestone Winterforce tires.

 They can be picked up for best price i have seen at 

www.tirerack.com

found them there for $74.00 per tire which is a killer deal. 

this is what almost everyone uses these winterforce tires.

I told tire rack what i was doing and they sent me some decals to throw on my car as well. 

I think it looks good on my car. Thank you Tire Rack. 

First event with new e36 bmw

First event with new e36 bmw

This time i brought my brother along for the ride. Trying to get him hooked on rallycross. 

I did not get very many pictures of this event. 

We ran great the first few runs but kept hearing a knocking noise. 

We thought it was the rear suspension at first

but quickly noticed that the gear shifter had play and was bouncing all over the place. 

we finished the last round  of the morning runs and had 45 min before starting the second round runs. 

We noticed that the carrier bearing bushing was completely shot and broken. We both got on our phones and started calling all the local parts stores no one had it in stock. 

I was not going to give up right there so we put our thinking caps on and with spare junk in my van we took an exhaust clamp and som angle iron cut it in half with a grinder and drilled holes for the exhaust clamp to fit properly and got it to work right as everyone was lining up for the next round. 

We had no time to test it out to see if it would actually work. The first test was actually on the course. 

Amazingly it worked. 

This is a picture of our fix the new carrier bearing and the broken old one. 

Later that afternoon though it began to ran and the course got very wet and muddy, so muddy out street tires we were running would not do the trick and we got stuck. some others got stuck as well. It was just a mess, but AWESOME SIDEWAYS FUN.

even with us limping on a broken carrier bearing we placed 3rd and 4th place. 

Here are a few of the pictures we got that day. 

This is me next to the muddy mess of a car after it rained. 

 This is my brother Rick Cessna strapped in the Rally car. 

 Rick and i next to the Rallycar

 Towing it home we need a better trailer. 

MY BROTHER IS NOW HOOKED INTO RALLYCROSS AS WELL. 

New Rally Car

The New Rally Car

I was on craigslist looking for another car to rally.

I really liked how the last bmw handled before we blew it up.

I came across an ad for a 1992 BMW 325is 5 speed.

Had 160k miles and still ran like a champ.

 Even better it had no title i knew i could get it for very cheap. 

He was asking $800, i talked him down to $590 and he took the deal.

It was missing headlights, taillights and a radiator. No problem i have a blown up 328i that i believe that is compatible for everything.

I was kinda bummed the two tone color but now that i have it longer it is definitely growing on me. 

Thank you Craigslist.com

The First Rallycross

The First Rallycross 

We Finished the head and put everything back together. It looked good and we were excited and nervous, being our first time and never being to a race before.

Here you can see the car is all cleaned up and ready to go.

Jamie's dad let us use his truck and a friend of ours let us use is trailer to take it.

if you do not have a trailer, no problem find someone that does. 

Once we get there we were like little kids at a candy store looking at all the cars and feeling out of our league

everyone was very friendly and excepted us right away.

We all began to talk to everyone about our ride and adventure of getting it ready just in time. 

Turns out we were not the only ones  waiting till the last min. to get things ready.

We did not register or anything before coming out we just showed up hoping for the best.

they had a booth set up and we signed some papers paid 50 bucks each and we were off. 

all we needed was a car and a snell approved helmet. 

If you did not have a helmet the had loaner helmets there.

As soon as we got there we set up and we had an extra set of brake pads and rotors we had to quickly throw on the car before starting." like i said waiting till the last min.

Luckily we did change them when pounding on the rotors the one actually split in half they were so wore out.

Here we are lined up ready to go.

This is Lacey Cessna My wife and I she was able to ride along with me for the ride of our lifetimes. 

This is Jamie and his girlfriend Megan ready to go as well. 

We are next

and we are off!

We ended up blowing a hose off the radiator we were able to get it fixed quickly.

but only a couple runs later the radiator broke and water was sucked into the engine.

It did end up killing the car and blew the headgasket again. 

We are not done. we are in search for another car right now and will be back out there

even though we did not finish. you still get scored

we were running such good times with this car we ended up getting-

Jamie Lambert 2ed place

Mike Cessna 3rd place 

in the stock rear wheel drive class. 

It was a blast thank you ohio valley region scca

www.ovr-scca.org

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Fixing the head gasket on 1998 bmw 328i

Fixing the Head Gasket on our BMW
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We started working on the head gasket on the BMW

As you can see we are no pros at this. So anyone can really do this.
you do not need a fancy garage or facey tools.
 If you dream to do something, stop dreaming and take action.

after cleaning the head we found this.

Those 2 little cracks renders this head useless.
Luckly we found a blown engine in a local
junk yard it only cost us $80.00 which was a steal
for these heads.

We are in the process of putting everything back together now.
a little at a time. our dead line of april 29th is coming fast.

Parts we just ordered and on the way.

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