07-08-2007, 10:35 PM
(haven't been on here in a while)
I DD'd mine with Sparcos and a rollbar for a year and a half, and then took the Sparcos out to put em in the Subaru. I think it might be retired from track duty, maybe permanently ($$). It gets 37 mpg pure highway and 30-31 mixed on my 60-mile roundtrip commute to Herndon. Now that I have normal seats in it (boo) I have padding on the rollbar since I don't have lots of big italian seat to prevent my head from hitting it.
It's Konis with stock springs, and some bracing so that the car doesn't feel like it's going to explode every time it hits a pothole.
I'm hoping to sway it out for an E46 330i ZHP in a year or so but it depends on a bunch of crap happening. And if I can actually swing the ZHP at that point I can probably afford to start tracking it again...
So... cliff notes... perfectly fine DD. Just remember that top down sucks in 90 degree weather when you are stuck doing 5 mph on 495.
john
I DD'd mine with Sparcos and a rollbar for a year and a half, and then took the Sparcos out to put em in the Subaru. I think it might be retired from track duty, maybe permanently ($$). It gets 37 mpg pure highway and 30-31 mixed on my 60-mile roundtrip commute to Herndon. Now that I have normal seats in it (boo) I have padding on the rollbar since I don't have lots of big italian seat to prevent my head from hitting it.
It's Konis with stock springs, and some bracing so that the car doesn't feel like it's going to explode every time it hits a pothole.
I'm hoping to sway it out for an E46 330i ZHP in a year or so but it depends on a bunch of crap happening. And if I can actually swing the ZHP at that point I can probably afford to start tracking it again...
So... cliff notes... perfectly fine DD. Just remember that top down sucks in 90 degree weather when you are stuck doing 5 mph on 495.
john
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