After a 4 year break, it feels good to be back in an E30. I had an 87 sedan from late 09 to 2014. It was my first car and a complete pile of shit. Head gasket blew twice, it was on its 9th owner and third paint job, etc etc. I had a lot of fun with it and it taught me a lot.
Since then I've owned a plethora of other cars including a stupid clean 98 Techno M3 vert, an 05 Porsche 997 and a Mazdaspeed Miata. I bought an FJ62 Land Cruiser last year that is my baby and will keeping that in addition to my latest acquisition:
It's a 91 Calypsorot Coupe with an S52/ZF swap out of a 97. GC/Konis, all rubber replaced, the works. It even has working AC! The PO was super meticulous and documented the whole build here: http://forums.vwvortex.com/showthrea...achine-project
The only mechanical issue I've found is that the car runs a bit hot with the AC on full blast sitting in Atlanta traffic in summer heat. I already have a larger pusher fan on order that will hopefully fix this.
As far as other short term plans, I want to do:
IS lip
Mtech 1 wing
Plate filler
Euro ellips
Euro grills
Crack free dash
Maybe Ronal LS or similar
Longer term, I honestly can't think of many mods I'd want to do this car doesn't already have. It drives absolutely incredible and is way quicker than any 26 year old car has any right being. I'd like to think that if I got an itch for more power I'd look into an AA supercharger kit, but that'd be way down the road.
Since then I've owned a plethora of other cars including a stupid clean 98 Techno M3 vert, an 05 Porsche 997 and a Mazdaspeed Miata. I bought an FJ62 Land Cruiser last year that is my baby and will keeping that in addition to my latest acquisition:
It's a 91 Calypsorot Coupe with an S52/ZF swap out of a 97. GC/Konis, all rubber replaced, the works. It even has working AC! The PO was super meticulous and documented the whole build here: http://forums.vwvortex.com/showthrea...achine-project
The only mechanical issue I've found is that the car runs a bit hot with the AC on full blast sitting in Atlanta traffic in summer heat. I already have a larger pusher fan on order that will hopefully fix this.
As far as other short term plans, I want to do:
IS lip
Mtech 1 wing
Plate filler
Euro ellips
Euro grills
Crack free dash
Maybe Ronal LS or similar
Longer term, I honestly can't think of many mods I'd want to do this car doesn't already have. It drives absolutely incredible and is way quicker than any 26 year old car has any right being. I'd like to think that if I got an itch for more power I'd look into an AA supercharger kit, but that'd be way down the road.
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