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I do not typically post much but I have a little update on what I have done since this website started. I have followed everything and can't be happier how the stance community has grown. Endless inspiration in this forum. Let's start, I bought a 89 alpine 4dr e30 in high school drove it and modded it till mid-college.
Then of course at it's prime I was hit by a Kevin Fetherline type fellow with his Avalanche and totaled it. Never getting to really roll some fenders and spin the GC's down.
I fought the insurance company long and hard, the best settlement I could get without going to court was 2k and I keep the car. At this point I had quite a savings and parted the car out. Then I found my 200k 97 Techno 5sp Sedan. Garaged kept, 10k in receipts, only highway miles, I was sold.
I did the typical bushings, clutch, cooling system, brakes, springs and shocks which still left me with ugly wheel gap so I cut a turn out of the fronts, and tinted the amber's. I drove it all over the south to different bicycle shows and competitions. After putting another 30k on it I got nothing but perfection and reliability.
A little more saving, more shows, I bit the bullet and bought BC coils/style 5's. After polishing, painting, and plating this is where she sits.
I 100% plan on dropping the whole car probably another .75 -1 inch with a bit of camber and maybe 205's up front. But I got a contract with the circus and moved to Tampa so the m3 sits in a friends garage back home in Atlanta covered till September. I can't tell you hard it is to put all this work into something then move away for half a year. Ugh. But come September shits going to be cray. I'm torn between buying a TRM turbo kit or selling it and buying something different. Thinking along the lines of Lotus Elise or e60 m5....Long summer to think, any opinions? It's late too lazy to use proper grammar.
TL;DR Kid buys e30, mods, gets totaled, grows up, buys e36 m3, mods, joins circus
I do not typically post much but I have a little update on what I have done since this website started. I have followed everything and can't be happier how the stance community has grown. Endless inspiration in this forum. Let's start, I bought a 89 alpine 4dr e30 in high school drove it and modded it till mid-college.
Then of course at it's prime I was hit by a Kevin Fetherline type fellow with his Avalanche and totaled it. Never getting to really roll some fenders and spin the GC's down.
I fought the insurance company long and hard, the best settlement I could get without going to court was 2k and I keep the car. At this point I had quite a savings and parted the car out. Then I found my 200k 97 Techno 5sp Sedan. Garaged kept, 10k in receipts, only highway miles, I was sold.
I did the typical bushings, clutch, cooling system, brakes, springs and shocks which still left me with ugly wheel gap so I cut a turn out of the fronts, and tinted the amber's. I drove it all over the south to different bicycle shows and competitions. After putting another 30k on it I got nothing but perfection and reliability.
A little more saving, more shows, I bit the bullet and bought BC coils/style 5's. After polishing, painting, and plating this is where she sits.
I 100% plan on dropping the whole car probably another .75 -1 inch with a bit of camber and maybe 205's up front. But I got a contract with the circus and moved to Tampa so the m3 sits in a friends garage back home in Atlanta covered till September. I can't tell you hard it is to put all this work into something then move away for half a year. Ugh. But come September shits going to be cray. I'm torn between buying a TRM turbo kit or selling it and buying something different. Thinking along the lines of Lotus Elise or e60 m5....Long summer to think, any opinions? It's late too lazy to use proper grammar.
TL;DR Kid buys e30, mods, gets totaled, grows up, buys e36 m3, mods, joins circus
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