Sleeper E30 - Represent!

[az3579]

I came upon this site from Google and started reading the Kill Stories section, so I thought I'd share. I didn't see many E30 threads, so lemme add to the fire...


#1: The mall around where I live is infested with ricers; 80% Civics, 15% Acuras, and the rest of em' not worth mentioning. Generally, I try to avoid these places because ricer drivers give me headaches. Anyway, what do ya do when you need to buy something? So on the way out of the mall complex, there's this little section of road where it's interrupted by a stoplight. This road would go straight or you could go left to exit the mall area. It's a two-lane road and the right lane can also turn left, and I'm sittin' there in the right lane waiting for the light to change green. Up rolls this banged up, fartbox with loud rap music and the driver in the usual fashion of leaning over the steering wheel. The light turns green and I start to make my left turn. I start off normally, shift into second in the turn, and I hear the volume get turned up by the rice-burning exhaust to my left. I don't bother shifting; I'm revvin 1500 in 2nd gear, he's wailing his engine at a good 3.5k, probably in first, and we both floor it. He gained a little bit on me, but never actually passed; once I hit 2500RPM, he was dropping back pretty darned fast. That eighth of a mile, gone and a car length's worth to show for it.

#2: The road outside of the mall (this on a different day) that intersects the entrance/exit is also a traffic-light intersection. Before you hit that intersection (coming from my house), there's another traffic light. I'm sitting there, once again, minding my own business, when this old Saab 900 pulls up next to me with a bunch of dudes in the car, prolly college guys. Light turns green, I launch normally and after a few seconds, it occurs to me that they were actually flooring it! Quick shift to second, early shift to third and they're behind. Done.


#3: CT-15, Merrit Parkway. There's this section of road where it's pretty much straight over a rather long bridge and then up a hill. Before the bridge and on the bridge, there's usually no traffic and then after the the bridge the traffic picks up as there's an onramp after it. I merge onto the Parkway from an onramp before the bridge and I gun it past all of the slow people in front of me (onramp comes out of a really large, fast curve [that people always take at half the speed limit]) into the middle lane. The left lane is occupied by some slow guy with a brand new M6 following him. I gun the middle lane and the M6 pops in behind me and into the left lane. I'm giving him a run for his money because he's got traffic to deal with in his lane, but then a clear stretch of road in front of him (after he passes the lane-lane people again) allows him to open up the taps. He blows by me but I don't let up; he gets about a car length in front of me and has to slow down because we're at the end of the bridge and the onramp brings more oncoming traffic. There's a little bit of space in front, so I'm pushing it hard and make it past him; I slip into the left lane in front of the car that is blocking the M6 and cruise all the way to my exit, watching the M6 frantically stuck behind traffic.

#4: Dodge neon up a hill. Stock. 'Nuff said.

#5: Got owned pretty badly when I tried to take on an E46 325i up that same hill I mentioned in #3. We got up to a good 110 before my car just started giving up going up the hill. Afterwards it stayed pretty much at 110 all the way, almost bumped to bumper. My top speed suffers so he pulled ahead in the straight bits, but it was fun as hell to see the 325i come out of nowhere and have some fun!

#6: Also got slightly owned by an Acura Legend going up that same hill again (hey, at the time it was the way I took to go home from where I worked). Wasn't much faster, but that weight sure didn't help it get much farther ahead. This was before I chipped my car.



The car is pretty much stock; just have a chip (~140hp now / 190ft-lb torque), aftermarket air filter, and a slightly less restrictive, custom tuned exhaust. Looking at it, it looks stock as hell apart from the black kidneys and the halos.

[nick_318is]

E30s rock. Save the racing for the track.

[Dr1ve4fun]

E30's ftw.

[Neilsen]

^ftw. it cant be said enough. god i need a manual

[az3579]

Originally Posted by nick_318is

E30s rock. Save the racing for the track.

Actually, I've got a track story too. lol




I know people who do this crap every day. All of this is all that has ever happened over the course of 2 years since I've owned the car. Shows quite a bit of restraint on my part.

[Sam]

hey Nielsen is your e30 bronzeitbeige metalic? I am trying to redo the original paint on mine, any suggestions would be greatly appreciated.

[celsdogg]

pics of the e30 or ban!

[az3579]

Tomorrow. I promise.

[Numark318i]

nice.
e30 ftw.

my 318 has been through hell and back, i raced everything i could for the first 3 years of driving. its fun stuff in a car so light.

oddly when i got my 330 i stopped racing people. still drive fast but, no racing really.

[celsdogg]

^^^ i think i'll be the same way whenever it is i get a new bimmer.

it sounds childish, but i just feel like i have to let people know that even tho the E30 is old, it should still be respected.

case in point, the other day, i had this E92 following tight behind me on a highway spur off I95. once we got on to the beltway and it was wide open, i was third gear redline.

[denyo77]

the eta is a great car, and it's underestimated even by fellow Bimmerists
my bro has one, and I can say that thing's got some nice torque and a generally different, but very pleasing feeling compared to mine

[Dr1ve4fun]

I love my eta . At least when it isn't breaking from being an unmaintained POS before I bought it.

[Darkhatred69]

So there is a four land road ona long straigh stretch that leads up to a stop light. At this light the two right side lands become one lane on other side of light.. u have maybe 4 or 5 car lengths where the two lanes merge into one..
Once they merge its a two lane road that basicly leads to nowhere. lol
So there i am in my 325e waiting at the light with a brand spanking new toyota tacoma SR5 next to me. I knew he wasnt goin to just let me go first and get infront of him. So it was on! light went green and i punched it. So did he lol.
Man it was a close one for sure.. but 2nd gear and about 5k rpm i got him!
He never saw it coming lol.. i love my car people just dont know what im packing..

The second time i ever really went all out to prove a point with my car was against some asspipe in his Honda civic rice powered POS.. ooo i have a body kit on my honda and cold air intake im the man! psh lol

was on a nice long straight road that not many people travel down..
from a dead stop at red light brought rpms up to about 1500 or so just o build some oil preasure.. i hear him just rapping his shit out waiting for the green .. what a noob.. light goes green and we are off... at first he started pulling ahead of me . those hondas have some quick starts .. But by the time i hit 5k and shifted down to second it was all over for him.. BYE BYE honda..

Third time was doomed from the start and i knew i was gonna get smoked!
sitting at another red light when one of those damn turbo neons rolls up next to me.. I had the same type of neon tear my old crx appart to so i knew what was about to happen.
But why shy away when conditions are safe looking.. Light went green i gave it all she had but all i could do was watch as that neon took off like a bat out of hell! lol
Damn stupid dodge neons how gay!

[az3579]

Of all the cars people decide to mod for performance, they choose a front wheel drive car... must torque steer like a pig!

I got owned pretty brutally by a white SRT4 neon that must've had some kind of supercharger. It was a one lane road and he was coming up behind me. Red light; we both wait to see what the other's gonna do. Green, punched it. It looked like he was at the same performance level because he didn't seem any faster, but as soon as (coincidentally) we got on the freeway [nobody was around], I was flooring it and he just flew past barely even trying.


I knew I would get smoked the second I saw his body kit and recognized it as a SRT4; nobody puts a body kit on an SRT4 and doesn't mod it for more performance. T'was fun though.


I did notice that above 4.5k rpm there is no grunt whatsoever and you can tell it's just revving for the hell of it, despite the fact that it revs up to 5500 rpm (maybe more, never hit the limiter). As much as I want to resist shifting below 4.5k rpm, it's necessary. Loooooots of grunt between 2000-~3750 rpm.