Nonsense Thread

[roguetoaster]

I'd like to own an E39 manual, preferably with the V8.
Wouldn't be a long term car, but I'd like to see what all the hype is about!

The only thing that lets an E39 V8 model down is the steering, it's just a bit vague, and I'd argue that the rack equipped cars are superior.

On the plus side, the steering makes it feel more like a classic muscle car when you're shredding the rear tire(s).

[Panici]

I'd like to own an E39 manual, preferably with the V8.
Wouldn't be a long term car, but I'd like to see what all the hype is about!

[roguetoaster]

You guys might try your local public auction for some adventure. Ended up with two on cheeky low bids today, another SVT Contour (my 4th one), and a manual 2.3l 2003 Ranger. Even with fees and shipping they're cheap.

To cap the day off a friend offered their high mileage E39 530i sport M/T for a very low price, so I had to say yes to that too.

Three potentially fun vehicles for $2900, which becomes just over 4k after fees/shipping/titling.

That's less than the price of one scrappy E30.

[varg]

It's an interesting concept and I can see how the equal length makes it sounds better. I'm wondering if BMW didn't use them because of the added cost to manufacture, or the added back-pressure/decreased flow impacts performance. There's no way those squiggles are doing anything good for flow.

There's probably some measurable (with sufficiently precise instrumentation) pressure difference at the turbine outlets, but there's no chance it makes a noticeable difference in performance until you're making too much power to use stock sized pipes anyway. Changes like that don't tend to produce any appreciable result until you're pushing the limits of the flow area of the pipe.

Yay N52 talk! Someday, the N52 in my e30 will run, sigh. Looking forward to it, it is an amazing engine, and the engine isn't too much money, just everything else is to make it work in a car it didn't come in.
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2. Honda Fit, Manual - (again used, probably GE gen) Slippery fun slope to a slow but fun car, no engine swap, but suspension? Sure. It echoes back to the golden era Hondas but unlike those, not too much concern of it getting stolen.

N52s, does anyone make a viable standalone so you don't have to dick around with all of the integrated systems BS that OEM EMS comes with? I'm so spoiled by having had megasquirt in my long term cars that I almost can't imagine any project without fully tunable aftermarket EMS. As for the fit, I have a friend who likes his as a "don't care about it" daily/beater. Also in his stable are 2 classic BMWs I like and an FD, so I trust his judgement that it's fun on the twisty roads up in his neck of the woods and very useful.

I think almost everything I've been interested in for the past few years has priced itself out of contention (at least north of the border here)

Yeah it's hard to not get that feeling anywhere right now. Crappy E30s are several thousand dollars... I can't think of anything good and fun that's cheap. Just cheap and (maybe) fun but definitely crap i.e. 350Zs. With the prices consistently going up I'm angling for buying an FD, one of my all time favorite cars, before I'm just no longer able to afford one anymore. I keep hoping for something that will hurt the used car market in my favor, but instead we get stuff like losing a major port and disrupting the supply chain, again. Yay more scarcity pressure.

This forum software sucks major ass, multi-quote used to be much easier.

[roguetoaster]

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Giulia or Stelvio driver? They're significantly different around here.