help! e30 m3 track or showcar?

[darronwall]

just been in the right place right time....purchased 1989e30 m3 70k miles and never seen a bodyshop and as straight as possible ,not very far off mint really,now i bought it to track but now ive got to love it i really want to concourse it,sad i know.
I also have a 2000 996 which ive tracked many times even though ive been a little frightened of stuffing it.Which one should i hammer?Ithink of the m3 as a car that is fragile and rare and deserves keeping for the next generation.
Am i just looking at the m3 through rose tinted glasses?

[sleep envy]

an M3 isn't 'that' fragile but there are better examples to track that the one you have

you'll kill it's value

IMO I'd still use the 996 as the track car

Edited by sleep envy on Wednesday 12th December 20:54

[LittleBro]

Ask the same question on the Porsche section and I dare say they'll say "track the BM". If its genuinely mint, it seems a shame to track it.

[sleep envy]

LittleBro said:

Ask the same question on the Porsche section and I dare say they'll say "track the BM"

unlikely, check my profile

[belleair302]

E30 M3's if looked after are rare....Munich Legends recently sold a Sport III for 27K!!!

Use the Porsche for track work, keep the BM for fast sunny Sunday rides and car shows etc...maybe a magaine shoot or two!

[JezF]

Or buy a Seven/Elise as well and save a tonne of money on tyres/brakes etc!

[MarkM3Evoplus]

M3 sounds too nice to track.....mine is looking nice now too, but already stripeed out, so off to the track it is!!

[kiko]

I'd do it like I do it. I race cars but I track the M3 e30 Evo II AND I track the Porsche!

Basically I've got a concours (and I mean concours) Evo II with 70k miles and FULL BMW service and ALL invoices since new (over 150). Still, the car's got a big brake kit from Hispec, bilstein/h&r suspension, eibach bars and a set of spare original 16' wheels with a set of Toyo R888's. When I track the car I use a protective film on the front, bonnet and windshield to prevent pitting.

I use Motul 300V Power 10W50 and change the oil very often. The car did dozens of track days and I decided to replace the rod bearings and oil pump as a preventive mantainance measure and the shells looked almost as new.

So TRACK her on Saturday and wax her on Sunday, it works for me.

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[RLK500]

Track it, that's what it was made for. It won't thank you for being stuck in a garage all day and you'll always be thinking what's it really like on track..............

[trackm3]

i have seen a lot of people start a track project and once stripped they find all the RUST etc, i have always been a the first to say start a track car with the best one you can find ? M3 'S make great track cars and if that is what you want to do then i say go enjoy.

[RLK500]

Personally I wouldn't go down the stripping route. I have seen a lot of people do it, then get hacked off with the car because they become unbearable for road use. If you are going to track it think more along the "RS Lightweight" Porsche theme rather than stripped road car theme. If you want to build a racer then build a racer and race it, but for track cars, keep the majority of the interior so that's it's still a usable road car. At the end of the day track days are for enjoying not trying to get down to the final 10th of a second.

[The old fella]

E30 M3's are a great car, keep it for your sunday drive. Buy a Straight E30 and turn that into a track warrior that you wont be afraid of thrashing, I have seen too many M3's that have been modified and tracked, they are all beaten up or wrecked. Keep your M3 Beutifull!
Graham

[trackm3]

The old fella said:

E30 M3's are a great car, keep it for your sunday drive. Buy a Straight E30 and turn that into a track warrior that you wont be afraid of thrashing, I have seen too many M3's that have been modified and tracked, they are all beaten up or wrecked. Keep your M3 Beutifull!
Graham

you can build a nice track car, its all down to the base car and how much you enjoy track days ?




my old car was great fun, cost about £12k for car and build and was as quick as a lot of supercars on track !

[PolarExpress]

Unless it is already in concours condition, track the M3.

It is a lot cheaper than tracking the 996.

And if you bin the M3, it's only a max 10k write off (more or less for a mint E30, non-Evo)

Edited by PolarExpress on Wednesday 26th December 02:45

[MarkM3Evoplus]

I've seen and been driven round in TrackM3's E30 M3 - I prefer the stripeed out caged track car look, if well executed to the standard road car - and that car sold for good money, as people will pay a premium for a good M3 trackcar.

[trackm3]

Just building the E36 M3 now Thnaks to ETA Motorsport

[Crook]

trackm3 said:

Just building the E36 M3 now Thnaks to ETA Motorsport

That looks a good cage. ETA did my friends E30 that's in (I think) Performance BMW. He's really happy with the work they did.

To the OP, track it. You don't have to modify it, change the pads to something more suitable and give it a hard time. They love it.

[trackm3]

it's nearly finished now, whos cage did they do ? Uwe's ?