The Good Question and My Answer.

[DCColegrove]

So there is Dan the Camera/Brains, Dan the powerplant constructor, and John, the fabricator? Is this the whole of Zen?

Do you have other nimbly-bimbly cohorts secretly hiding in your corner?

I have dozens of cohorts (and a few just plain horts) from different parts of the industry... Mostly just friends doing our own thing and we cooperate on projects here and there.

Dan Marx and I go back the farthest, we did 510s together out of my toy shop in the 80's.

[Farbin Kaiber]

Awesome. I'd like to see what nifty products the Zen crew can come up with for some other reigons of the e30 upgrade program.

[rwh11385]

Awesome. I'd like to see what nifty products the Zen crew can come up with for some other reigons of the e30 upgrade program.

Maybe Zen can make a product that fixes the problematic Zen seal kit...

[DCColegrove]

Awesome. I'd like to see what nifty products the Zen crew can come up with for some other reigons of the e30 upgrade program.

Like what?

E30's are pretty well played out and the stuff we're really good at is too pricey for what some of the guys I know call "e30 Lizards"

I was just talking about adapting a negative crank case pressure system for the e30 and was told I was insane... Because nobody that turbos an e30 knows why they'd need one...

[DCColegrove]

Maybe Zen can make a product that fixes the problematic Zen seal kit...

I'll give you that one....

It did indeed go to shit...

A product is only as good as it's manufacturer...

My supplier hosed me, I tried to solve it and got hosed again...

They don't exist anymore.

[ieatpeople]

Like what?

I was just talking about adapting a negative crank case pressure system for the e30 and was told I was insane... Because nobody that turbos an e30 knows why they'd need one...

i know what its for, i would buy it if i turboed my M20. better ring seal equals more power, and less oil leaks.

[DCColegrove]

i know what its for, i would buy it if i turboed my M20. better ring seal equals more power, and less oil leaks.

Okay... But would you pay upwards of $400 for a system?

That's what Marx's ones cost.

[rwh11385]

It's all about cost / benefit analysis. What gets the E46 crowd going is they have money usually, but not necessarily always so much sense. Look at the pointless crap some vendors sell.

A "vendor" that does come up with a lot of neat solutions here is george graves. He has things people are interested in, creatively makes and then sells a solution, and behaves well. Cost-effective upgrade for having a dimmer light = sweet idea and props to him.

There aren't that many problems with the E30 that could be hoped to be solved or people care enough to do something about. Not to mention many people don't track as much as these are dailies so "weaknesses" to some are not that relevant most of the time. Even if someone comes to the table and says there is a problem and he has a solution, they ought to know there needs to be hard proof of not only a problem but it being worth the while to care about, and finally that the solution exists and has a benefit and is worth the cost.

Simply coming here and saying "Wah Lah... buy these" or "You wouldn't know the problem, trust me" is pointless. You need to give the average E30 owner the benefit of the doubt of not being gullible. Hell, THR got push back about their eyeball arms and the geometry it provided.

[DCColegrove]

I don't think e30 drivers a stupid... I should have put quotation marks on this:

"Because nobody that turbos an e30 knows why they'd need one..."

Dan Marx thinks we're all stupid... He has a PHD so maybe he's right...

EDIT: I didn't start this thread to play push me shove you though.

EDIT II: I dig George's stuff as well...Pretty cool and I've told him so.

[rwh11385]

I don't think e30 drivers a stupid... I should have put quotation marks on this:

"Because nobody that turbos an e30 knows why they'd need one..."

Dan Marx thinks we're all stupid... He has a PHD so maybe he's right...

EDIT: I didn't start this thread to play push me shove you though.

You had a pretty strong assumption similar to that and treated JGood and george graves and stereo installer like idiots when you started slanging braces like it was the cure for cancer. They couldn't possibly understand and it was insulting to your greatness to be questioned.

Let me know how acting like you could walk on water, because you used to race cars and are a mechanic at some hole in the wall shop, worked out for you. No one gave a crap really if you talked bad about a vendor who sold crap from China... people have flamed you and will continue to because you act like a complete and utter, attention-seeking and mentally unstable, douche. No uber cool brace or product will change that.

Sub 2300lb 318is with A/C and full interior pic or Ban.

[DCColegrove]

I'll give you that as well...

Everyone knows I'm an asshole... Even me.

And if you think I'm "unstable" now you should have met me before I wound up sober.

[Farbin Kaiber]

uh oh. Looks like heeter finally busted out the claws. Dan, it's too late with him now, you'll never get any respect from him now. Hell, he still calls me a pothead. It's a good thing his opinion does not count for much, otherwise a bunch of people would have offed themselves by now.

[NC325iC]

but farbin, he has 14k posts!


EVERYONE IS AN ASSHOLE ON THE INTERNET HEETER, Get over it

[DCColegrove]

but farbin, he has 14k posts!


EVERYONE IS AN ASSHOLE ON THE INTERNET HEETER, Get over it

I'm pretty much the same in person...but I can talk a little faster than I type.

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Oddly... So far no one has ever asked me about the e30 rear towers and braces in between there...

I used to be one of the guys that said "what the hell is that for anyway".

Is everyone already convinced of their usefulness?

Or are you just not interested in what was happening back there?

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[z31maniac]

Proof of the ~2255 lb A/C'd, full interior having M42.