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I learned that quickly after just a couple of test drives in a 993 and 996, even coming from a modified M3.
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Better make sure to reinforce the subframe with TMS reinforcement plates when using the E36 at the track.
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Say it ain't so...Chad, who is going to be our lead man. Good luck with the sale. Hope you get what you need out of the car! Lots of goodies for someone.
P.S. - Do you think you'll change your mind? Ben is gone
Sorry to hear about this...you'll have lots of fun with the E36 as a track car...I've been in negotiations lately to get my brother to sell me his to turn into my track toy.
The deed isn't really done until you have $$'s in hand and the car is gone!
$35k is a good deal for your car. I would have asked more seeing how it's the ONLY non-sunroof 996 currently available.
I respect how you will not molest this car, good idea. Although, what else is there to do with a sunroof delete, wasn't that the intent? To turn into a more rigid race car?
I am surprised that in all the work you have done on this car, you did not get attached enough to keep it. How will you react if the next owner turns it into a track only car? Someone will get a beautiful car. Good luck with the sale.
Stefan
Best wishes with the sale. Someone will get a beaut.
I notice the one mod you
didn't
do: 3rd-center radiator. What water temperatures did you see at the track? Before I did this mod, my temp needle would go all the way to the max and the light would come on until I pulled off for a cool-down.
Tough to see her go I'm sure. What a lucky new future owner. You've got some serious guts letting her go for noble reasons.
Best of luck finding your track baby.
Guys. You're going to think I am crazy (I am beginning to think I am). I am pulling the car from the for sale list. I'm keeping it.
why you ask?
I just came back from my shop, and I had a smile on my face for the whole trip back. Screw it. I love this thing WAY to much.
Sorry folks that were interested. She's no longer for sale.
C.
Nothing will replace the feeling. I learned that quickly after just a couple of test drives in a 993 and 996, even coming from a modified M3.
Like that guy selling his 996TT for a 335/135/whatever... that's going "backwards."
Good choice...I have been weighing the same exact options as you....once you get an M3 to a reliable, non-unibody tearing state of trackable, you are in the realm of the cost of a 996 that is a lot more fun to drive.
Actually, I'm glad you decided to keep your Porsche. Knowing little about your BMW interest as a possible replacement, I felt you had really bonded with the 'white whale', and you performed so many mods so quickley to make her your track car and DD.Good choice in my book!
chad...good choice!! mod the heck out of it...isnt that what its all about. the sun roof delete was for the true enthusiast that plans to drive the car to its full potential...therefore all the mods to that end will compliment the car in lieu of diminishing its value and purpose.
Chad do whatever you want dude, but here is my input:
If you sell the car now before you go full on tracking with her and make further mods, you can get a pretty penny for it and your target audience will be larger.
If you mod it more and track it more, your target audience will reduce a lot and your sale price might be less.
But then of course you cannot have fun with it if you do not track it. You only live once so if you are going to something, don't dabble, go for it.
Again my 2 cents.
Chad, I was wondering when you were going to come to your
!@#$%^&*
senses!
Damn, the phrase
!@#$%^&*
works for all situations,like.... cussing out newbies..... bitching about anything..... and giving a fellow Rennlister crap because he was temporarily stoopid!
No...not at all. ok..maybe some. But I know what I got into upon buying her. besides, I am still researching some machine shops to work on an alternative solution to a full engine replacement. Stay tuned.
C.
Just as a reply to this...if any of you had your hopes up on a White MKI aero (I know I wanted one for the longest time prior to settling on red), I was at my local dealer today and they've got a '00 white factory aero car. It's a C4 not a C2, but I thought I"d pass along as a tangent to this thread.
no affiliation with seller other than I wish they'd give me better prices on parts.
www.byersauto.com
Andy
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