Thanks, Yea, that's my dailey driver these days. Fallen in love with that car, though it's a slow poke compared to a Mini S.
I was toying with buying one....some good deals can be had. replace the air suspension with Bilsteins and put some fresh rubber on it and looks like fun
I always wondered why they did not hold their value the way the E30 M3 did. Now that I own a 16V, for the last three years, I understand why. This is the most archaic overly engineered car I have ever dealt with The Bosch mechanical FI in a frigging nightmare. But otherwise I think it's worth owning as people in the know really understand what the car is. It drives super nice, a bit noisy. Actually the rear suspension is hydraulic, off a pump off one of the cams. It's just a self leveling system and has little to do with ride. I hate doing much to the originality of this car, but agree, the suspension will be replaced SOON.
Breakdown of the GT1 this morning to prep it for New Hampshire in a couple weeks. Pulling motor and tranny and rear end. Lots to do.
I will be getting my suspension designs and whatnot up on the Vendor section as I will be making some limited offerings on some things. Well, not really "limited, but being I am a one man shop I can only do so many at a time. SOON!! :cornut:
Haha, sorta on hold with school being the priority. I'll have to chat you up about it sometime. Pick your brain a bit about my build with the type of stuff that overlaps with some of the stuff you had to do.
Good weekend at New Hampshire with the GT1 car. Ted, driver/owner, handled the weekend with great discipline in order to come out of the weekend with a stronger car then we came into it with. Our goal is to keep the car in tacked while we are still working out all the bugs. Qualifying went quick as we blew out a rear caliper. and while we replaced it we found a small leak in a transmission line. All fixed within 30 min. Ted started the first race in the back and finished third. Though turnout was low in really fast cars, we were quite happy to just get him through a whole race without any issues. Day two, race one, Ted stared in second and finished first. Car was so fast in the straights but Ted was slow in the turns and usually came out with a train of Porsches and BMWs behind him. He managed to win that race. Being I know most of the guys that were behind him, they talked with me, politely complaining that Ted was not letting them "race" I told them I understood and would talk with Ted. Knowing Ted was just taking it easy, I talked with him, basically telling him it was time to push. Last race Ted was on pole and by turn one he was maybe 10 car lengths ahead of the field. His game was on and at times he was alone, but for one very fast SPO corvette that was an Ex 24 hour daytona car which passed him and won handley. Ted placed second. Lime Rock in October and that's it for us this season.