Well, you seem to have enough money to put gas in your tank and race around on backroads....you have enough money for an autoX (not that you would ever show up and show off your "mad skills")Quote:
Originally Posted by jeysjdm
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Well, you seem to have enough money to put gas in your tank and race around on backroads....you have enough money for an autoX (not that you would ever show up and show off your "mad skills")Quote:
Originally Posted by jeysjdm
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Originally Posted by jeysjdm
That's not saying much.
lol @ "mad skills"
Anyways, auto x would be fun...
Thats my take on what car ya should get..
And I should come out to an auto x event sometime.
Maybe when I have some more mods to my pos I'll make it to one.
Well i got an idea. Bring your car out to an SCCA track day, I'll be your instructor and get some lap times, then I'll make runs in my car and we will see who is faster.Quote:
Originally Posted by jeysjdm
V-tak?Quote:
Originally Posted by jeysjdm
nooo. d15 FTL haha
At first I was like :eek: but then I was .. :(Quote:
Originally Posted by matthewAPM
and then i was like :thinking:
Ok if it's a D15B hatch, I had an EF D15B hatch race car, and I will tell you it's fast for what IT IS, but the other drivers have to be PRETTY shitty to get beat by it. I had a D15B2, it was an ITC race car I built, so it was quick for that, but against other cars at track days, nope, it was as fast as a mildly tuned up Miata, like shocks and springs and that's it.
I swapped in a D15B VTEC motor for Honda Challenge and it was quicker, but still not some balls out beast you are making it out to be.
A lot of the people in this thread have REAL experience, I ran Red Bull karts with MatthewAPM, Onureft does hardcore track days and I have ridden with him, Doppelgänger hauls ass at autocross, the others have experience I am just unsure of as I don't know them.
You THINK you are fast on the street, then come to a track and realize you are slow as shit. Sorry, it's just the way it is lol.
GET A 944!!!!!!!!!! perfect 50/50 weight distribution and a fucking blast to drive, cheap to fine, and not hard to work on, if you can score a 944 turbo you will be well in the 240hp!!!! do it!!!!!!!!!!!!
I hope it comes with a noose! BMW are the civics of German cars compared to them. Even when you know someone in the Porsche business parts are ridiculous. The NA can't get out of its own way with 140hp and the turbo is a 2.5L Audi engine so you know the parts are stupid expensive and questionable at best.Quote:
Originally Posted by larossa9
One with suspension work and a LSx wouldn't be bad though! :boobies:
well im talking to a guy with a 89 hatch
ahh yea, bmws are cheaper and easier to find parts for, but ill take my 944 over a 3series, i love the 3's, but driving a 944 is so much fun, i found a really good site 944forum.com and the owner buys used ones and parts them out, and i luckily have a friend that works down the street that has 2 junk ones, :) but and and yes an LSx wouldnt be bad lol, and the early na, yea does have like 140, but the later s2's and such have 200 right? the 3.0 liters?Quote:
Originally Posted by speedminded
they are very nice cars my old boss club races them
There's a couple Porsche junkyards in Georgia, far more than a couple cars being parted out...errr more like several hundred. I had a roommate that was a roll-back driver for one and he had a 944 Turbo...parts were still a bitch for him and he was around dozens of them every day lol!Quote:
Originally Posted by larossa9
I would love to go to a track day...
When I was in NC, I knew a guy who is an instructor at VIR and he wanted me to get into the NASA and SCCA stuff. I just never got a chance to go up there with him cuz I was working so much. He said I could work some events and get some free driving after awhile.
It would be fun as hell to go around a track.
People. I NEVER said my D15 hatch is fast. I'm saying that it is slow. So I would not like to do actual racing in it against you people at the track or auto x. I know how slow my car is. It's just all the people I have raced up and down some country roads (which is stupid of me and dangerous) I have beaten. When I get more on my car, I'll be down for a track day for sure. Not saying I'm a better driver, or that my car is a beast! lol
nope. 4spd d15b hatch lolQuote:
Originally Posted by OnURleft
Yep mine was the 4 speed too, technically D15B1 with a B2 head, it was built as high as you can for ITC.
As for the 944...$$$$$$..I learned with the 914 no Porsche is "cheap" even if it has a tuned VW motor lol.
And for the 944's are slow comment, umm no. They are pretty damn fast on road courses, a properly setup 944 will be SECONDS faster then any spec Miata or spec E30.
Yeah, I'd love to get a first gen b16 sometime with no mods under the hood of my hatch. Keep it clean, and stock.
Or, I'm just going to get sohc ZC
E30 all the way. With a few suspension mods they run like they are on rails. They are a pretty light car.
exxxxxactly ! :cheers:Quote:
Originally Posted by simontibbett
yea they do cost quite a bit to maintain but when you get a proper autocross one that is well built they are fantastic, they handle o so nice!!
True!
With a few suspension mods, they will be classed with cars that are much more competitive. Also, he is looking to learn, so mods would have to wait.Quote:
Originally Posted by E30 auddie
^ yup im new to all this type of driving and im loking into a 89 hatch for cheap right now and the only thing that we be done for awhile is problay new bushing all around it
WTF... here is a good deal on a auto-x car...
http://www.soloatlanta.com/forum/vie...php?f=7&t=2007
Gotta be a member but holy shit that is a good deal with all things considering. Quoting it for those that can't see it...Quote:
Originally Posted by Doppelgänger
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Originally Posted by gmiller on soloatlanta.com
wow. hmm.....
Holy hell good deal on the Neon, I'd grab it and road race it if I didn't just buy another car.
I'll even offer a discount to the PDX/Track Trial event that I'm running at Roebling Road next weekend if our friend comes out :taun:Quote:
Originally Posted by matthewAPM
http://www.motorsportreg.com/index.c...D66095DAD85854
PM said discount :DQuote:
Originally Posted by Tirewarmer
Are you trying to pose as the backroads dorifto King? :police: That discount was for him to show off his mad skillz.Quote:
Originally Posted by speedminded
If any of you guys are at all interested in coming, we are basically offering this track time at our cost for the weekend.
Someone with no prior track experience can get on track with an in car instructor assigned to them for every session for $160 a day for two days. We are offering a ton of track time, with 200 minutes spread over 10 sessions. You won't want any more tracktime after your last session on Sunday afternoon, you'll want a nap instead.
Can I run and pay you payments? ;)
That' a great deal and Roebling is plenty forgiving for novice drivers. Although I would absolutely drift the hell out of Roebling I first became an SCCA crew member in 2004 and that would probably be frowned upon lol!Quote:
Originally Posted by Tirewarmer
Yeah, that Neon is pretty sweet!
how bout a s13 or s14 w/a great suspension all the way around. And plus if you want you can always throw an SR20 in it down the road.
Successful 240's on road courses are so few and far between. Go to a club race event and see how many there are out there. Considering it's one of the cheapest RWD's "sportcars" you can pick up you still rarely see them out there...Quote:
Originally Posted by E46_Ace
I'd say Erin on here has one of the quickest around but he rocking Tein drift coil0-overs and an LS2, lol!
Only if you have a really hot sister or girlfriend that I can "borrow."Quote:
Originally Posted by santacruz77
Oh, don't forget to post pics. :boobies:
That was me posting from his..oops...lol.Quote:
Originally Posted by Tirewarmer
Will rent you my sister for one day of track time. What about flag one day drive the other?
If you wanted to do that, I would reccomend flaging on Saturday, and taking the free breakfast, lunch, dinner and hotel room that you will get, then paying for one day for Sunday. You make out getting more bang for your buck with all of the saturday perks for flagging, than you would if you took the discount that we give on Sunday's entry for working on Saturday.Quote:
Originally Posted by simontibbett
Does that make sense? Drop me an email and we can chat if you'd like to about the event. I'm sure that we can find a way to get you down there.
Anyone else interested? Have questions? Fire away.
[email protected]
Oh, almost forgot, pics of sister please. :boobies: