I've always sort of lamented about my lack of drive to ever put together a proper build thread for any of my cars- for both the sake of my own record-keeping and the hope of perpetuating forum-based car content. Facebook has gotten ever increasingly annoying and the content just isn't the same when it comes to car projects and documenting them in any kind of organized way. I grew as a human and car enthusiast using forums on a daily basis- my first e30 (early model eta) sported an e30sport.net sticker around 2002 or so, a great forum that eventually went defunct as e30tech sort of took over. I used bimmerforums.com very regularly as I had e36s occasionally and the odd e21, 2002, etc...but the model specific forums were always better from the standpoint of focused information.
Anyway. Those were the days. Forums are dying because less and less people interact with them. This is my shot as an attempt to help, and I'll try to do better with involvement via this thread and everywhere else on r3v just like we always used to.
So....this is roughly 7 years too late and the car is already doing the things it was meant to do- so, this will be a sort of cliff notes from the beginning until now and I'll try as hard as I can to properly document future progress from here on out.
Here is the car we're dealing with, that started as a yuppie's front range Colorado daily driver (presumably), slowly moved it's way down what I'd casually call the "e30 ownership landslide of doom", and eventually ended up in the hands of one of my oldest friends as a DD, and then myself. It then sort of moved along the line- going from dirtbag boater/ski/mountain bike utensil, to more of a dedicated rallycross car, did some track days and the odd autox or two, picked up a turbo somewhere along the line, and eventually found it's new life as a caged stage rally/hill climb car.
Here are a few pictures as a start. I'll go through all my media over the years and attempt to piece together some sort of timeline for the car and try to keep the thread going for a bit just to get caught up with where it's currently at.
These are humble beginnings as a Central CO dirtbag "sport activity vehicle" as should be intended, instead of some goofy crossover SUV....
Did a bunch of Rallycross with my pal Seth, starting around 2015 (I think?) Pretty successful, nearly won our first season in Stock class, then moved our way up to Prepared and eventually Mod.
Anyway. Those were the days. Forums are dying because less and less people interact with them. This is my shot as an attempt to help, and I'll try to do better with involvement via this thread and everywhere else on r3v just like we always used to.
So....this is roughly 7 years too late and the car is already doing the things it was meant to do- so, this will be a sort of cliff notes from the beginning until now and I'll try as hard as I can to properly document future progress from here on out.
Here is the car we're dealing with, that started as a yuppie's front range Colorado daily driver (presumably), slowly moved it's way down what I'd casually call the "e30 ownership landslide of doom", and eventually ended up in the hands of one of my oldest friends as a DD, and then myself. It then sort of moved along the line- going from dirtbag boater/ski/mountain bike utensil, to more of a dedicated rallycross car, did some track days and the odd autox or two, picked up a turbo somewhere along the line, and eventually found it's new life as a caged stage rally/hill climb car.
Here are a few pictures as a start. I'll go through all my media over the years and attempt to piece together some sort of timeline for the car and try to keep the thread going for a bit just to get caught up with where it's currently at.
These are humble beginnings as a Central CO dirtbag "sport activity vehicle" as should be intended, instead of some goofy crossover SUV....
Did a bunch of Rallycross with my pal Seth, starting around 2015 (I think?) Pretty successful, nearly won our first season in Stock class, then moved our way up to Prepared and eventually Mod.
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