Yes, I still have an E30.

[Farbin Kaiber]

Ive seen this car in person, and its the perfect E30. Gods Chariot.

BTW Fred looks nothing like his Avatar. Dont be fooled.

Are you trying to tell me that's not Fred in that sombrero?

[FredK]

[FredK]

Well hello there R3v, my car is still kicking after 60,000 miles on the engine swap.

I think this picture is from 2013 or so, at New Hampshire Motor Speedway's road course:



The following year, r3vlimited's tame racing driver, Wh33lhop came to Massachusetts and obliterated me at driving my own car at NHMS. I recently found his AiM data on an old computer and compared it to my own times and I've started to improve, but the dude is very talented and has set a very high bar, given it was his first day there!

Here's señor Wh33lhop's video:


Here are a couple of photos from more recent times. I got some Apex ARC-8s, expecting to go with bugg breaks in the front. I did, but then the rotors developed extreme pad deposits. It was like operating a jackhammer when hard on the brakes.

I got caught in an extremely isolated hailstorm while at work last summer. I watched my car pelted with quarter sized hail, so now my car probably looks like Misty's haunches. jk





I'm tracking my car again this year with COMSCC, a time trial group based in Massachusetts (mostly). I forgot to take video at a lot of events, or forgot to charge my camera, so here's a vid from last year at NHMS, with the chicane configuration rather than the oval configuration as shown in the above video.

[LateFan]

Clean.

[Court M3]

Haha Misty! Car still looks great man

[ak-]

Stroot coot goors in the trans?
I miss seeing this car - Natedogg is talented.

[FredK]

I think the gear whine is an artifact of cameras being mounted to the rollbar and picking up the sound through the chassis. It's just a regular ZF trans and E30 differential.

[agent]

The correct answer was "Of course it has straight cut gears. It's a racecar."

[M-technik-3]

lies lies and lies, That was Fred Kim's car. I saw you testing it way back in 13....

Looks good, I'll drop my spare shell off and you can start to build that.

[dude8383]

Damn that looks like a fun car to drive.

Is your camera mount on some sort of gyro? I noticed it self centering every now and then...

[Kershaw]

I like how the original post apologized for cell phone pics. That's all anyone uses now, how much changes in 3 years.

Also, 60k in 4 years?! That's some serious driving.

[FredK]

lies lies and lies, That was Fred Kim's car. I saw you testing it way back in 13....

Looks good, I'll drop my spare shell off and you can start to build that.

Damn that looks like a fun car to drive.

Is your camera mount on some sort of gyro? I noticed it self centering every now and then...

It really is great fun to drive, especially on the track. Around town, I drive like a grandma. When you can stretch the the revs, it feels pretty awesome. When I first started tracking the car I assumed that getting on power too early would cause a spin, but the car is very predictable and you can really put your foot down.

The camera is hard mounted with an inexpensive RAM mount. I'm using a Sony ActionCam which has some kind of image stabilization, and maybe that's what's kicking in?

[M-technik-3]

You sure? I can wait a year or two. General Auto still has a nice low mileage example.

[FredK]

I need to build a garage at my house first!

[2mAn]

Whats the interior look like on this bad boy? I see a roll bar and lots of track days