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Also my 335 is my family wagon. It can't have any downtime. One day I had to put my carseat in my Eclipse - rear facing. I'm not joking when I say I had to put the baby in the car through the hatchback opening. But I'm not in any hurry to find another track car, so I'll just keep shopping. |
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Yeah, I'm in the DFW area, closer to McKinney, so unless it's Lonestar Park or Texas Motor Speedway I'm out. It's already a 2 hour round-trip to any event I go to, and that hour back after the event is brutal. But I'll go ahead and join club. |
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05-12-2015, 12:49 PM | #70 |
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Try and find ones already modded. 07 sv Miata with msr package should be around $10k
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05-13-2015, 09:03 AM | #71 | |
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I would also consider an older boxster/cayman, the price on those are pretty mid 15k ish. But I won't feel bad about pulling panels from the e36, while I probably would with an e46 or boxster.
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Quick question (I hope). Heading to the track this weekend (tomorrow...at 5 AM wheeee), was doing a last minute inspection of fluids and I noticed the clutch fluid appears to be super low. The reservoir is empty. I just had the car track inspected last week, so either they missed it, I've got a wicked leak, or it's fine. I picked up some brake fluid just in case, but I'm not sure what I should do.
Recommendations? EDIT: Double checked, it's not completely empty, the fluid level is just really low. Last edited by BmwFlooner; 05-22-2015 at 10:29 PM.. |
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05-25-2015, 08:15 AM | #73 |
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Rained the whole weekend. Got maybe 3 runs in where the track was dry, but the rest it was like driving on a slip'n'slide.
But a new challenger approaches for a new track car. A 2001 Boxter S with 70k miles. I hadn't been considering a Porsche, but it's being sold buy one of the track instructors, and I wouldn't have to do any work to get it track ready. |
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05-25-2015, 08:23 AM | #74 | |
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Brilliant handling mid engined car - takes trackdays in its stride IMHO. Keep it away from the stealers and use Equivalent service parts and its relatively cheap to maintain. Make sure you do your homework on oil seals, scored bores etc before buying to make sure you don't get a lemon. |
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05-27-2015, 12:43 PM | #75 | |
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Or just getting better tires and brakes for an M sport F30 and hammering on it? |
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05-27-2015, 09:13 PM | #76 | |
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So you figure I'd need sway bars, camber plates, exhaust, tune, at least 2 piece rotors and new pads...list goes on. Maybe coilovers, although wheel gap wasn't terrible. Wheels and some better tires (pss aren't great for the track IMO). It's a disease The nice thing about the M is you got a dry sump and the car shouldn't have over heating problems. Plus factory active rear differential and no major driveline upgrades needed. I did dig the M HUD mode. The vette is not really my thing, but maybe a new cobra mustang
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05-29-2015, 10:46 AM | #77 | |
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You'll never drive a dual duty car, especially an expensive one the way you do a track-purposed car. Well, unless you're very wealthy or careless. |
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05-29-2015, 12:24 PM | #78 | |
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EDIT: I read the article closely, seems like the only mods were wheels, R comps and kw V3... that's not at all an insane investment ! and not tracking a car you can't afford to stuff. there's hpde insurance too drob, what does a stage 2 S4 trap in the 1/4 mile? 117ish? that's close to the M3, makes sense you didn't feel much of a difference (especially if you had DSC on in the low gears and didn't rev to redline) Last edited by nicknaz; 05-29-2015 at 02:35 PM.. |
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Best stg 2 S4/S5 times are around 11.9-12@115 on pump and 11.6-11.7@119 on race gas (keep in mind this is under ideal DA conditions, the S4 is very sensitive to IAT's, and the TVS1320 is not very efficient at high RPM). Buddy of mine just ran 11.53@121 just the other day in not spectacular DA. But yea, I re-read it and I believe the similarities were from not hooning on the test drive. Feels a little d-bag-ish to hammer on someone else's potential car But I'm sure an F8x with any kind of power mods would be straight nasty. But I guess my ultimate point is I'd probably end up doing mods to the M3 also
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I daily my car and drive it in the winter...this year I'm doing 5 2-day HPDE's at big boy tracks...after 4 from last year. So we'll see how the car holds up. I'm ok with making a couple track focused mods at the expense of daily driving, such as running more than normal neg camber. I think the main bifurcation in the dual use car comes in the form of safety equipment. And also running serious tires like hoosiers or low treadwear r-comps. Once you're running the car hard enough, at a high enough level...it probably makes most sense to get a HANS and cage in there. That is ultimately why the dual use car fails. But until you are in the advanced groups, I don't see using your street car as a learning tool to be bad. It's not black/white of course, many constraints including money/space/sig other/kids etc. I will make the argument that going forward I won't be getting 335/S4 level daily drivers...just doesn't make any sense to have a car this capable while putting around to work or the mall. Would much rather invest that cash in a better track toy and then find something with good MPG for the 70 mph work commute.
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Lol, looks like we all want dedicated track cars
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I'm not sure what I'd do if I had to do it over again. On one hand I feel the 335's potential is being wasted, on the other hand it's already setup to be a great DD, and it's what I'll be driving 99.9% of the time. A dedicated track car that will see use maybe 20 days out of a year...that's the harder argument. And given my original requirements for a DD, the BMW was almost literally my only option.
But I know I wouldn't treat my DD the same as a track car the same way out on the track. |
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I have a DD 335 M Sport with a BBK. I want to use this for track + autocross until I purchase a dedicated track car, and until then, a new set of wheels and tires will be my only option.
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05-31-2015, 06:17 PM | #85 | |
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It's an easy fit and you won't get any appreciable performance gains from trying to stuff another centimeter's width under there. |
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Update: Search over, I bought the Porsche. Will be a few months before I get to hit the track because it's Texas and it's Summer and that means don't go outside.
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So track prepped 2001 boxer with 70k miles! Damn, that's a great move, congrats
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