Nonsense Thread

[Northern]

I like the 'period correctness' of it, the fact that 2v engines have their own sound, and it's fun to play with pistons, cams and a good port and polish. I've even looked into an M30 swap.

Ultimately, 24v is cheaper dollar:horsepower

100% on board the M20 train again. I have 4 M52's right now including the one in the car, but I think my car eventually will lose the turbo'd M52 in favor of a nice sounding NA M20.
My car hasn't really run well since I went back to school because it needs a ton of parts and effort to get to a good place, so at this point I'm honestly regretting going turbo right before I quit my job because I've more or less been without E30 for 3 years now.
This revelation probably also has a lot to do with buying a motorbike this summer. I'm thinking more along the lines of a 2 car + x bikes life now. E30 for summer, and the 3.6R or similar for people/dog/parts/winter.

That said, I put some work in today on it. New battery (fuck me, I seem to burn through batteries on this car because I drive it so little... This is the fifth battery it's had since I bought it), and swapped out the left taillight because it filled with water and cracked. No idea what the hell happened there - had a new gasket but still was collecting water somehow. If this one does the same thing, it's getting a drain hole drilled on the backside (one exists for the reverse light section, but not the turn signal?)

Re: battery, I also bought a new "smart" charger/tender to hopefully make this one last. I need another for the bike this winter.

[Northern]

what the actual fuck, why was my post flagged for spam

[LowR3V'in]

i don't like the 24v sounds it sounds like very buzzy and honda ish.
even straight pipe the 12v doesn't have that buzzy stuff going on.

[roguetoaster]

what the actual fuck, why was my post flagged for spam

UR spam.

Must be the reason.

[2mAn]

No idea, I approved it though.

I AM starting to see more of the features we used to have start to show up, hopefully the reigns will loosen up a little on the stuff that gets flagged. It certainly has gone down since the original update, but I cant see any reason why that one got flagged

In other news, it appears that things are starting to wind down with the Roadster and Im looking back at the E30 and I totally want to build a 2.8 M20 using Johns (WOTtech) forumula, but I have my "fast" car and with the E30 being the daily, theres another swap Ive wanted to do forever and I feel like my eta sedan is the perfect car for this.

[Motheye99]

I've been seriously considering the M20 again, I'm part way through a M54 and sure it makes more power than a 2.8L but the sound wont even be close.

The only thing holding me back is the money required for it.

this video:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y8tBGppPSTk

[varg]

even straight pipe the 12v doesn't have that buzzy stuff going on.

I dunno about that... Sound dependsentirely on what you do with the exhaust with these cars, straight piped M20s sound really bad. If you've been to a spec E30 race you'll be familiar with the fact that the field sounds pretty bad in general, straight piped is worse. Not as bad as the straight piped M5X car I heard at the track last year, but still really bad. You have to have a muffler in there that will kill the rasp or it sounds like a Honda with 2 extra cylinders, 12V or 24V...

[Northern]

What is with so many motorcycle youtube channels having a "bible verse of the day/week" or randomly reading scripture during reviews or blogs? I've never seen this with car content but it seems very common with bike stuff and has caught me off guard a few times

[Melon]

What is with so many motorcycle youtube channels having a "bible verse of the day/week" or randomly reading scripture during reviews or blogs? I've never seen this with car content but it seems very common with bike stuff and has caught me off guard a few times

Because Harley Riders love to quote scripture, and them ride 15mph under the limit?

[Melon]

No idea, I approved it though.

I AM starting to see more of the features we used to have start to show up, hopefully the reigns will loosen up a little on the stuff that gets flagged. It certainly has gone down since the original update, but I cant see any reason why that one got flagged

In other news, it appears that things are starting to wind down with the Roadster and Im looking back at the E30 and I totally want to build a 2.8 M20 using Johns (WOTtech) forumula, but I have my "fast" car and with the E30 being the daily, theres another swap Ive wanted to do forever and I feel like my eta sedan is the perfect car for this.

2.8L stroker eh.

Hmmm

I could do this with shit I already have. Would just need the rotating parts, and a cam.

[ForcedFirebird]

I dunno about that... Sound dependsentirely on what you do with the exhaust with these cars, straight piped M20s sound really bad. If you've been to a spec E30 race you'll be familiar with the fact that the field sounds pretty bad in general, straight piped is worse. Not as bad as the straight piped M5X car I heard at the track last year, but still really bad. You have to have a muffler in there that will kill the rasp or it sounds like a Honda with 2 extra cylinders, 12V or 24V...

Listen to Wayne's e36 (black car with the big wing), or the ITB m20 I did a few years ago - both are ear-gasmic. The problem with most of the exhausts is the fact that they are 2-1 with a single muffler and/or resonator - I prefer to build them true dual, with an X pipe and twin resonators.

[Reichart12]

I wish I got some exhaust clips of my stroker. Once you got it above 3500 rpms, it would sing a beautiful song. And the 284 cam at idle was great. Exhaust was bav auto long tubes into a 2.5in single with Vibrant resonator and muffler. I have it on my stock m20 now.

[nando]

I dunno about that... Sound dependsentirely on what you do with the exhaust with these cars, straight piped M20s sound really bad. If you've been to a spec E30 race you'll be familiar with the fact that the field sounds pretty bad in general, straight piped is worse. Not as bad as the straight piped M5X car I heard at the track last year, but still really bad. You have to have a muffler in there that will kill the rasp or it sounds like a Honda with 2 extra cylinders, 12V or 24V...

Straight piped anything, except maybe a V8 or V12, sounds awful. I think with the same exhaust setup though, the M20 definitely sounds better than the 24v motors.

Now the cool thing to do is cut off the muffler, install a stupid "burble tune" (yay, backfires?), and if you have a modern BMW, "tune" the fake exhaust sounds coming out of the stereo...

[rturbo 930]

and if you have a modern BMW, "tune" the fake exhaust sounds coming out of the stereo...

Please tell me this isn't a real thing. The burble pop tunes are bad enough.

[Melon]

Please tell me this isn't a real thing. The burble pop tunes are bad enough.

This is a real thing for most modern performance oriented cars.

GTI, Mustang, BMW, they all do it in one form or another. Either noise pipe, or digitally.