As the new year is beginning so is my story, the past year was a year of both good and bad fortune, I was side swiped while going at highway speeds by a "fellow" motorist so the car spun and I hit a traffic barrier that cut the car like a can opener
Had I done anything to recover the spin the traffic barrier would have hit the drivers door and the consequences would have been...tragic
So I began parting out the car, because I didn't want to build an other E30 as the parts are getting harder and harder to find and the chassis dynamics are less than perfect...
The right car for my requirements, about which I'll write later on, is E30's newer cousin the E36, so I went on and bought an unregistered one brought from Germany. A no frills, no options (not even a sunroof) bone stock 320i just a year younger that my E30. I especially wanted a clean rust free, unmolested car.
Then I promptly put on some winter tires and went out drifting...
Afterwards I took the E36 to it's first competition an autocross, but it was rather boring because I couldn't drift the car.
I came up third (I'm the first to the left and one of my good friends came second in his E30)
And now the E36 requirements.... I wanted a street car that I could drift and rally semi professionally and the E36 is simply the best car in my mind for this. So with that goal firmly in my sight I went on and bought a few parts needed for a race car, mostly race safety things and a nice set of wheels that came by cheap.
Here you see a set of BBS RC 040 wheels, a Sabelt race seat, a Momo steering wheel, a FIA 6 point safety harness, a Wilwood hydro brake, a master switch and 4 pot Porsche calipers.
The rollcage has been ordered and will arrive soon enough. The are happy times ahead... I Hope
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