Project: Budget Beater

[Digitalwave]

You should cut those big fat steel beams out of the insides of the doors too.

[arsevader]

But his seats have CARBON FIBER BACKSS!!!!!

And we all know Fiber is good for you.

[Charlie]

If you knock out the pass thru from the trunk, another 14oz of weight savings...In your world that's 5 rwhp.. Also rear seat belts, rear deck cover, OBC, there is surplus weight everywhere...
Remove impact bars from inside of doors!!!
Use Aluminum bolts for harnesses!!!


PS...what is all that shit on the floor behind the seats? Part of the uber-secret under development cornering shrapnel kit?

Take a sawzall to the fucking roof. Make it a "budget beater" e production car.

-Charlie

[rwh11385]

Yeah a 4 point is really just asking for some nasty injuries.

The way I understand it is as follows.

If you have a racing harness you need a racing seat because stock seats aren't designed to work with racing harnesses. And due to the fact that racing seats aren't designed to protect the driver in the same way, stock seats are, you then need a roll cage. And now you have a roll cage, you also need a helmet because nothing says fur raze like a nasty head wound from taking a corner too fast.

It's a long slippery slope. But of course this car has about as much chance of being allowed on a track as I have of being allowed back into the US.

The forum logic is that "Hey, I'm sliding in my leather sport seats... time for four point harnesses...let me jeopardize my life and neck by strapping myself into a device which will submarine myself and possibly rupture my liver instead of just buying better seats"

just talk to Wells about his.


There's a local is a C5 with leather comfort seats and a 6 point harness WITH THE ANTI-SUBMARINE BELTS TUCKED UNDER, not even used!!! and no roll bar. Fucking idiots

[rwh11385]

fuck you budget beatoff. my seat cost less than $50



but the harnesses did not. still, they are "safer" than your off-brand ones.... even though I sold them after considering the risks of such install

cg-lock cost me $42 shipped and worth every fucking penny. it plus my SRD hold me in so well for Auto-X i don't even think about harnesses and just focus on driving

and a reclinable recaro is safe. and so is cg-lock. S - A - F - E

[Charlie]

I love how on this site, everyone is point out the glaring idiocy of this "project", yet in his "official" thread on e30tard, everyone is ignoring him.

It's funny.

-Charlie

[rwh11385]

that's not true Charlie.


there's probably a good number of people taking advice from him on e30tard

[delatlanta1281]

Hey thanks for ruining another e30. It's good to know that as the years progress and these cars become more rare there are people like you who have no problems totally fucking up an otherwise restorable car.
Thumbs up to you buddy!

[Charlie]

Hey thanks for ruining another e30. It's good to know that as the years progress and these cars become more rare there are people like you who have no problems totally fucking up an otherwise restorable car.
Thumbs up to you buddy!

I think this is now Project: "Theft recovery car".

Makes sense with those pictures taken in front of the section 8 housing the kid lives in.

-Charlie

[arsevader]

I think this is now Project: "Theft recovery car".

Makes sense with those pictures taken in front of the section 8 housing the kid lives in.

-Charlie

Removing the VIN from the panels adds +2hp

[delatlanta1281]

Removing the VIN from the panels adds +2hp

WOO HOO! New project for me this weekend! Screw snowboarding, vin removal=FTW!

[nando]

heeter, where'd you get the cg-lock? it is used to lock in the stock seatbelt, right? I can do it without one but it's a pain in the ass to get the tension right, and it comes unlocked if I move around too much.

[rwh11385]

heeter, where'd you get the cg-lock? it is used to lock in the stock seatbelt, right? I can do it without one but it's a pain in the ass to get the tension right, and it comes unlocked if I move around too much.

this is really hard to remember... http://www.cg-lock.com/
haha.

it locks the position of the beat buckle. it can be turned on and off so you can release and readjust as necessary... and can also be installed/un-installed easily

"locking" or snapping the stock belt is a PITA. it also tightens your arms and thsi only does the lap belt, so you can steer easily with no loss of control noticed.

great buy. much better fucking purchase than anything budget beatoff has done

[Jand3rson]

Those pics on the last page made me cringe. That poor E30...

[Dave]

I just scanned through the last couple of pages of his thread over at e30tech.

Holy shit - those idiots are all over this guy, fawning and praising his junkyard half-ass work.

Sad, sad, sad . . .