Hey everyone. My name is Chris and I just realized I’ve never posted on this board even though I spend quite a bit of time on it…oops!
Anyway, I’m from Rochester and I have a few cars - a '99 Nissan Maxima SE 5speed for daily/winter beating and parts hauling, and an '84 BMW 318i 5speed I picked up from Maryland this past fall as a project.
The Maxima is lightly modded - suspension, wheels, and some other small things. I hit a deer about a month ago so it’s not looking too good right now - still super reliable though, just passed 175k on it.
The BMW is 100% stock at the moment other than some E36 325is seats, which are being replaced because they give me ZERO headroom. I don’t think the current gangsta lean I have to do will be too good for auto-x.
Lots of plans for it though, and most of the parts are here…just waiting to get it out of winter storage so I can get to work.
It’s dirty as hell in the picture (came off the truck about 2 minutes prior), but it is a pretty clean shell - surface rust on the battery tray and that’s about it. Paid $600 with 78k on the clock, runs and drives great.
I also have a '95 Toyota Paseo (5speed…noticing a trend? haha) but that’s not worth talking about…it’s the rusty-40mpg-mobile for long trips.
I’m always out in the Buffalo area for work and other stuff so hopefully I can make it to some of your meets out that way this year.
#1 is getting new seats in there so I can drive the damn thing comfortably haha. I have some Corbeau reps already, just need to get the car out of storage and fab up brackets for them. I did a bunch of work on the interior when I first picked it up, so all it needs are the seats and a dash replacement (scored 2 crack free ones for $40 at Pick-A-Part in Auburn :)).
Body wise I have some i/eS stuff to put on, skirts, shadowline, BBS valence, Zender rear, tucked and painted DB’s, wheels, and a new suspension setup. The suspension I’m still searching for; unfortunately I didn’t do a ton of research before I bought it and didn’t realize it had smaller diameter front struts than later models. Finding the 49mm ones (or front 325 knuckles so I can swap) seems to be harder than I would’ve thought.
I had an iS rear disk conversion that I sold, and the beginnings of an E30 M3 5-lug swap too but I sold that to pay for the deer damage on the Max. Such is life I guess.
Eventually I plan to go the swap route, but this year I’m going to try my hand at autox and/or track events with the (lack of) M10 Powah!
Nice Touring by the way! I have to check that out sometime.
Thanks, but it’s a respray. :redface:
It had some clearcoat and other paint issues when I first bought it and they only got worse so I had it repainted in early 2007. It’s a factory color that came on ~900 1999.5 Maximas.
The rack is one of the best investments I ever made - so much nicer than messing around with a trunk rack.
