New Member in VA Beach
Drink Up, Chumps
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From: Palm Beach Gardens
Re: New Member in VA Beach
Originally Posted by S52MC
Mine is Arctic Silver with all black interior and no sunroof. I have driven it extensively since November of '99 since a family member is the previous owner, so I'm pretty familiar with it already.
I know Dave from DP Motorwerks very well. He's a good buddy of mine. I hang out at his shop regularly (when not working at the Flag) and go to the race track, etc. I drove at VIR with Chin Motorsports in December - so much fun! I really want to get an old E30 and daily drive that/track it (and slowly build a SpecE30 car like Dave's). I'm not sure what is involved with Randy's kit, but if it involves welding, I'm going to take it to Dave Ellingsworth. I can't remember the name of his shop - it's right around the corner from Dave's.
I'd really like to see your car and ride in it sometime. Let me hear those Magnaflows before you take those off, too. I'm not sure I want to cut the stock exhaust - I was thinking of going with Eisenmann, but I haven't heard any aftermarket exhausts on a coupe before. Magnaflows seem to be a pretty popular setup.
This might be going too far off topic - I'll move my questions about your car to PM.
I know Dave from DP Motorwerks very well. He's a good buddy of mine. I hang out at his shop regularly (when not working at the Flag) and go to the race track, etc. I drove at VIR with Chin Motorsports in December - so much fun! I really want to get an old E30 and daily drive that/track it (and slowly build a SpecE30 car like Dave's). I'm not sure what is involved with Randy's kit, but if it involves welding, I'm going to take it to Dave Ellingsworth. I can't remember the name of his shop - it's right around the corner from Dave's.
I'd really like to see your car and ride in it sometime. Let me hear those Magnaflows before you take those off, too. I'm not sure I want to cut the stock exhaust - I was thinking of going with Eisenmann, but I haven't heard any aftermarket exhausts on a coupe before. Magnaflows seem to be a pretty popular setup.
This might be going too far off topic - I'll move my questions about your car to PM.
There's actually a couple people on here that are building spec E-30 cars. (Poindexter and DFTWizard) It's starting to become pretty popular around these parts.
As for Randy's kit, PM me your e-mail address and I'll give you all of the information about it. I met him down at Homecoming last year (you should go this year) and talked to him for awhile. Super cool guy who really knows what he's doing. The entire dual ear process takes about 40 hours with all of the paint curing time.
I've pretty much heard everything exhaust wise on the M Coupe/Roadster. (Magnaflow, SuperSprint, UUC, Eisenman, B&B, Remus, ACS) The Eisenman is really nice, but I don't think it's $1500 nice. I actually e-mailed Remus yesterday to see if they can make me a titanium version of theirs since they already have the template and make Ti exhausts for other applications. I haven't heard back from them yet. But I'm not in a rush to change mine, so I'll let you hear and touch it before I yank it off.
Originally Posted by S52MC
Ideally, I'd like to run 18X8.5 F and 18X10 R BBS LMs...I don't know if I'll ever be able to bring myself to pay that much for wheels, though. I had BBS RKs on my last car...loved them, so we'll see.
Go into their wheel classified section. That's where I found mine and they switch wheels like underware. And there's always a set of LMs on there.
Revenge of the Nerds
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Re: New Member in VA Beach
Originally Posted by S52MC
Just wanted to introduce myself and say hello. A friend of mine recommended that I check this site out. I just purchased a '99 M coupe that is currently in transit from Scottsdale, AZ to VA Beach. I should have it next week...can't wait! 
Wonder who that friend could be
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Re: New Member in VA Beach
Originally Posted by Black Nugget
Chad - over at Yota!
Originally Posted by Poindexter
Wonder who that friend could be
Last edited by S52MC; Feb 9, 2006 at 06:04 PM.