Bought a POS, this is R3Vs fault

[2mAn]

Basically, the Bottlecaps had some HARD tires that were 6 years old. Sadly the SSRs cant/ wont make a return, so I went hunting and decided that I am going to aim towards SpecE30 mods. Decision was made to purchase a set of wheels from Phils Tire Service for a great price on Brand new wheels.

Bottlecaps are only good if you're building a Rally E30...



Hard to tell, but basically the upgrade was a net zero penalty in weight. Huge upgrade in grip, looks and function so I am happy.



Tires were provided by rcompoundusa, a set of 205/50/15 Nankang CR-S v2



The other 'mod' was to remove the beatup Sport Seats and install my Recaro SR2 seats on Planted Seat brackets.


VERY happy with this.


oh yea, I also bought this!


Got a lot more coming, but thats all for now... sort of

[2mAn]

I almost bought something fancy and expensive, then the sellers check "didnt clear," so to speak but luckily I had already spent a little time with the POS and was smitten with her charm...



Its a properly neglected E30, but it does have some goodies. As usual, I had a few ideas of what I wanted to do, but I also really needed to clean up a lot of faded plastics. Thats easy, so that was step one. A fresh bottle of SEM Trim Paint was ready for action.







The car didnt have a cat, but came with the factory downpipe that has a stock ETA cat. Called a friend to weld it...





While he did that, I wanted to see how hard it would be to remove the black paint from the bumpers. Shockingly, paint thinner worked fairly well!...





After that, I decided to use some more SEM Trim paint on ... trim.






That was a decent start, but it was time to actually spend some money!