Taking an indefinite hiatus from the E30

[Digitalwave]

Lately, I have been feeling the urge to buy an E36 as well

Do you even drive many? Most suck. Only a really niceyl kept and modded 325/8is stick or M3 would do it for me.

Only thing they are good at is fooling stupid girls to think you got $$ when they don't know how old the cars are, and falling apart.

E30s can't fool all but the dumbest girls, but are dependable and easy to work on, and are FUN.

I drive E36's all the time.

[rwh11385]

......and you still want one?

I can't stand the cheap-feeling doors and other things.

[DanGillan]

e36 m3 or bust, they've really grown on me, and i would trade my car for a decent one in the blink of an eye.

[Jand3rson]

I have a badass Ibanez bass and carwin amp if your interested ;)

Got pics? :D

I've today started considering putting the E30 under a car cover and into storage, along with all the parts I've still got to put on it including my shocks/springs, and all the posters in my office room and whatnot, and just forgetting about it altogether for like 6 months-1 year. Then, once I get the itch again to take up the modding again, it will be waiting for me, and I'll be all excited about it again. I've been thinking about getting a 4-Runner or a Subaru Legacy, something like that, for hauling around stuff and the little squirt when he/she shows up. :D

I have to say also, that I'm rather impressed with the large swell of support you guys are giving me about this move, it's making me feel better about doing it. In the last few days, I've already started to feel less stress and anxiety about it, not worrying about the car and buying shit for it, it's nice.

[Digitalwave]

I have a badass Ibanez bass and carwin amp if your interested ;)

Got pics? :D

I've today started considering putting the E30 under a car cover and into storage, along with all the parts I've still got to put on it including my shocks/springs, and all the posters in my office room and whatnot, and just forgetting about it altogether for like 6 months-1 year. Then, once I get the itch again to take up the modding again, it will be waiting for me, and I'll be all excited about it again. I've been thinking about getting a 4-Runner or a Subaru Legacy, something like that, for hauling around stuff and the little squirt when he/she shows up. :D

I have to say also, that I'm rather impressed with the large swell of support you guys are giving me about this move, it's making me feel better about doing it. In the last few days, I've already started to feel less stress and anxiety about it, not worrying about the car and buying shit for it, it's nice.

You just went a year without an E30, and you've only had the new one for what, 5 months? Why put it away? If you want to get another car, you should just sell the E30.

[Jand3rson]

I don't want to sell the E30, I have no desire to get rid of it anytime soon. It's just something I was thinking about, anyhow. If I end up getting a new place that has a large enough garage, I'll probably just keep it covered in the garage.

[nando]

I feel this way all the time about my car. I love driving it and would love to do a ton of shit to it, but investing seems like a better idea at the moment.

focus on two things: maintenance and keeping it clean. properly maintained that ETA engine should last forever (if you don't get around to a motor swap or anything for a while). and the gas mileage (and 87 octane) must be nice!

also, focus on driving. there's no reason you can't still autocross the car (at ~$25 a pop), and most people with tons of "mods" aren't nearly as fast as they think they are.

[Jand3rson]

I feel this way all the time about my car. I love driving it and would love to do a ton of shit to it, but investing seems like a better idea at the moment.

focus on two things: maintenance and keeping it clean. properly maintained that ETA engine should last forever (if you don't get around to a motor swap or anything for a while). and the gas mileage (and 87 octane) must be nice!

also, focus on driving. there's no reason you can't still autocross the car (at ~$25 a pop), and most people with tons of "mods" aren't nearly as fast as they think they are.

Yeah, I'm still going to auto-cross, and I just need to find a free weekend to put my new suspension in. Even though I'm giving the modding a rest, I didn't just spend $800 on springs and shocks to have them gather dust in here. I'll still put that stuff in, and have fun in the car, I'm just not going to do anything to it for a while.

BTW, the car is JimC chipped, so it's 92 octane only. But I still get stellar gas mileage.

[hamann318is]

Good for you. I'm glad to see you want more out of life than a nice E30.

I already hate my car a lot.

[rwh11385]

This doesn't have anything to do with Josh or his decision, but more with me trying to find a job and thinking seriously about education and careers, and also my car running into snags.

By really looking at jobs, I realized I'm not really going to likely get into the car-related industry as for the most part, it is ghey and bullshit. One of the good local tuner import shops closed down for lack of making profit. (On top of many failures, shady businesses, etc) I need to focus on mgmt, finance, and banking or real estate, not this car hobby.

Also, with a complication this week with the rear brakes, which I fixed.....and another instance, I'm not really too sure I can abuse this car on the track regularly and also afford to go FUH RAZE like I have aspired to in the past or have people encouraging to step it up a notch. Screw it. 300/475 may be waffleswaffleswaffleswaffleswaffles rates, but I'm no racecar driver, and they are decent on the street. Just keep it maintained and shit, and replace worn rubber with urethane.....just for the enhanced durability.

I love driving my car daily. Even with the noisy differential, and somewhat stiff ride. The feel, the sounds, its' great. I don't want to move the car to a special status where I won't drive it everyday. I will pick up an efficient and reliable beater G20 just to have as a winter car or 2nd car if I'm working on my car, but I don't think I could surviving replacing the E30.


So, I don't feel the need to get an "education" or "experience" at the track and with driving schools anymore, as a presequite for a possible further career as I was dreaming of before. (i.e. following in Will Turner's footsteps). I emailed him to get some more background than I got from the european car article on him, and it's just not possible to follow that path while in college full-time, etc. HOWEVER, I do want to go to the track for fun and as a hobby.

So instead of a must, or an obsession, my car is just a hobby, an interest. And I don't have to have the best setup or most go-fast parts, or whatever. Just chill out and tone it down and drive it. I was looking to maybe do 5 events this year, but now I figure 3 is plenty just for kicks. And all at the local track, no traveling far away.

I don't need to be crazy with my car now or anything, and will have PLENTLY of money and time to have fun with my car and M50 and a respray and stiffer suspension and stripped and no A/C and all that shit when I'm out of school with a real job. For now, fuck it. K.I.S.S.

[Jand3rson]

I totally agree with you Robert, that was very well said. It's got to be a hobby, not a full-time obsession. That being said, I've made up my mind on how I'm going to go at this.

I'm not going to go nuts and store the car away, and do away with all my E30 posessions. I'm just going to stop spending money on it for a while. It needs new tires (balding pretty bad) and the diff is making noise, but the tires are a necessity and the diff can wait, so that's that. I'm going to drive the car everyday as a DD, auto-x in it, and have fun with it.

I've also decided going to finish up with the cheap/no cost mods I have left, such as swap out the dash for the new one, put on my shadowline, fix my airdam and paint my bumpers. All of these things will either cost me nothing or a couple of cans of SEM. And I'll still be at the PNW E30 Picnic, I wouldn't miss that for the world. It's just time for a while to give the spending on the car a rest, and focus on other things, such as playing music as I said before, and most importantly, start preparing and saving for my new baby that's on the way, which I'm more excited about than anything in the world.

[rwh11385]

good stuff. don't even worry about the next step as people also ask about or we all plan. we have cars we like just the way they are. Modding just to mod is a disease.


and TJ, I can feel that an E36 is a nice and comfy car, but sometimes the ones I drive are maintained like crap and it shows. Just if you get one and have to replace your car with it, you may do a way with the old car feel, but you will lose a lot of the fun of the tossable, lighter E30. Plus, they have a lot of problems.

I agree with Dan though, go E36 M3 if you go E36. Or I would take maybe an auto 325 vanos if I was just going from place to place in a clean, comfy car.