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OK, this is extremely hypothetical at this point and probably not very attractive to anyone here. hehe
I finally got our 318is running. Runs pretty good. Let's face it. It is never going to be a show car so it looks like it will earn "beater" duty. But what else could it be used for? We've already been asked about suspension so we're putting coilovers on it from AST shortly. The seats are beat so it needs some cheap shells at some point. We've replaced many of the bad parts on it shifter bushings, guibo, LCA bushings, hoses, all fluids, etc. It has custom VoMo poly motor mounts. Yeah! Buzzzzzzzzzz.
So the question is, is anyone interested in campaigning it in STS next year? There's been a lot of chatter that it might do well. It is light, good power, handles well (with suspension). The car seems to be pretty solid. I got up to 75 mph today.
Steering wheel was rock steady.
Let's say we got it 80% of the way, would anyone want to seriously campaign it? I'm not talking about driving it occasionally but try to win at Nationals in it. You buy wheels/tires, any mods beyond what we want to do with it. You can take your parts off when you're done. You'd have to be local to Dallas too. Just a random thought I had.
Here's some chatter on sccaforums about them.
http://sccaforums.com/forums/262566/ShowThread.aspx
DSP might even have a prayer with it, but that would require more prep. For STS, probably little to no power in it except a chip, no diff available for STS. BMW brakes are good. Just needs suspension, wheels and tires to start with?
I finally got our 318is running. Runs pretty good. Let's face it. It is never going to be a show car so it looks like it will earn "beater" duty. But what else could it be used for? We've already been asked about suspension so we're putting coilovers on it from AST shortly. The seats are beat so it needs some cheap shells at some point. We've replaced many of the bad parts on it shifter bushings, guibo, LCA bushings, hoses, all fluids, etc. It has custom VoMo poly motor mounts. Yeah! Buzzzzzzzzzz.
So the question is, is anyone interested in campaigning it in STS next year? There's been a lot of chatter that it might do well. It is light, good power, handles well (with suspension). The car seems to be pretty solid. I got up to 75 mph today.
Steering wheel was rock steady. Let's say we got it 80% of the way, would anyone want to seriously campaign it? I'm not talking about driving it occasionally but try to win at Nationals in it. You buy wheels/tires, any mods beyond what we want to do with it. You can take your parts off when you're done. You'd have to be local to Dallas too. Just a random thought I had.
Here's some chatter on sccaforums about them.
http://sccaforums.com/forums/262566/ShowThread.aspx
DSP might even have a prayer with it, but that would require more prep. For STS, probably little to no power in it except a chip, no diff available for STS. BMW brakes are good. Just needs suspension, wheels and tires to start with?
I had mine 'topped out' at an indicated 140 on the beltway. I swear I only lifted because I felt the cold touch of the grim reaper on my shoulder 
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