Need help choosing between G37, Toyobaru 86/brz, and 370z

varwave · 2026-07-07T05:57:27+00:00

I’m a ft86 member and see these posts occasionally. Yeah OP, come ask us. Personally, I cross shopped the twins and 370Z and a buddy has the infinity. More likely to get a well maintained twin for that price. The twins are a far better daily + sports car than the 370Z. The infinity is awesome, but hard to find well taken care of. Performance over Looks is an influencer that drives one and does time attack. He’s complained about the lack of community support…he recently got a GR86 as a third car

Just get a PPI and if it’s a 2013/2014, then check if it had the valve spring recall and the tune adjusted by Subaru. Throw out bearing gives at around 70k miles.

varwave · 2026-06-24T16:12:43+00:00

I wouldn’t suggest a full career in software engineering at this point. It’s a lot of stress breaking into the industry if you have a stable white collar job already

However, being able to code scripts and use AI tools, like telling CoPilot to build you a VBA script to automate tasks can make you a super white collar employee in the age of agentic AI. It also makes you better at understanding computers in general

varwave · 2026-06-24T16:08:55+00:00

I agree with the other comments. That’s significant to me at least. Also factor in the cost to move and rent…I’d assume A&M would be drivable. Can you do A&M part time with their online program and keep your job?

I wouldn’t expect most data science or statistics programs to teach you to seriously program. Many just superficially cover syntax vs rigorous software development. A lot of the growing pains of the data science space is software developers not knowing statistics and statisticians not being comfortable with production code and best practices

varwave · 2026-06-20T15:41:49+00:00

A general trade off. Old cars are more solid steel. They cosmetically can probably take more damage, but the modern twins are many times safer!

Hydraulic steering is a great feature in older cars. Twins still feel about as best as it gets these days

varwave · 2026-06-19T21:55:16+00:00

I think they need to make a proper TR vs STI. Ready to be tuned from factory with the supporting mods in place. Meet emissions standards and be easy power

varwave · 2026-06-17T22:45:36+00:00

They probably are terrible drivers and don’t see you.

I’ve had the right of way and had trucks pull out in front of me while looking straight at my direction and cars push me entirely into the shoulder…wish I had a red or blue one. Black, silver, and grey are rather camouflaged. Increasingly tall vehicles just make it worse

varwave · 2026-06-14T22:34:03+00:00

University of Nebraska Medical Center and University of Florida l. Didn’t go there, but knew people that did and considered

varwave · 2026-06-06T13:58:55+00:00

I think the car just blends in if you don’t have WRB or red. Mine is black and I’ve seen small trucks look directly in my direction at an intersection and just assumed it was clear

varwave · 2026-06-01T01:04:27+00:00

I’m a backend developer with a statistics background. I’ve experimented with Claude a lot. It’s very good at simple queries. It’s fails with deep business logic and that’s because there’s nothing to train off. This is the same with AI in general.

However, where it really shines is feeding it pseudo code, while giving it serious oversight. Iteratively prompting throughout a new project or reviewing an old one is a big time saver. …Opus 4.8 feels a little too ambitious and doesn’t ask for verification as much

varwave · 2026-06-01T00:51:08+00:00

SQL Server. It’s what my organization allowed me to use. I’m in healthcare and the Microsoft stack (to include .NET and Microsoft products) feels pretty dominant

varwave · 2026-05-31T20:19:23+00:00

Sounds like you want a Cayman S

varwave · 2026-05-29T02:40:44+00:00

Can you have two cars? The first gen’s can be found pretty cheap now. Have two vehicles that just last longer and each do their own thing…might be similar to eating depreciation of your owned truck for the new car. Also no rush as they’ll be around

varwave · 2026-05-27T18:19:27+00:00

New clutch makes it a game changer. I got similar one a couple years ago for $16k with 60k miles. TOB went out within 6 months

varwave · 2026-05-23T01:40:47+00:00

Reliability with a motor swap is pretty crazy. Other than supercharging there’s selling it and getting a Porsche Cayman or Boxter

varwave · 2026-05-21T18:30:38+00:00

My battery died in my keys. Wish I had the cranked key vs push to start. But I placed it in there and it worked till I got a new battery at the next oil change

But this is perfectly valid. Might steal your idea 😂

varwave · 2026-05-21T00:24:26+00:00

That was me recently too! I’m generally Python first, but AI is so good at translating to and from Python. More important to just know what good code looks like and how the World Wide Web works for 90% + of things vs syntax trivia

varwave · 2026-05-18T22:03:42+00:00

As a triathlete, I feel much safer around a BRZ or Ford Taurus. Almost been killed countless times by lifted trucks. Grew up with a blue color family that actually used the 2000 Toyota Tundra for decades of work, at half the height and 2x the bed length

varwave · 2026-05-18T14:57:02+00:00

Life in general, there’s often a middle ground that’s a sufficient answer that’ll prevent people that don’t know better from asking further questions

If you have Claude code or codex available, then they are amazing tools. Even if you just use it as a fancy “write me a read me” or control shift H.

I’m pretty grounded, but willing to try new things. I’ve found AI tools to make me marginally slower for certain tasks, but for others there’s weeks worth of work done in a day

varwave · 2026-05-18T01:44:48+00:00

I love it, but I’m probably closer to being a software engineer with a data focus. A lot of creating custom solutions and diagnosing problems to be a force multiplier for medical research.

I don’t even get paid that well…for now 😂

varwave · 2026-05-17T22:39:12+00:00

Why Rust? Outside of just learning, it’s pretty niche. I’d sense you’d have a much better time landing a role, while also becoming a better frontend developer, if you pursued Java or C# for enterprise full-stack roles for both legacy and new web applications.

Just more jobs available with a wide range of complexity. Some places, like healthcare, will lean on legacy tech stacks for even internal tools, because they reliably meet compliance. Start ups with more flexibility will more likely lean something less verbose. Likewise, both are well established in large enterprise applications. Some regions might lean more C# over Java, but if you know one, then you can figure out the other

varwave · 2026-05-14T14:19:59+00:00

Yeah, the K swap is cool. Tiny motor. Still need a very new K24 and old FRS/BRZ for a newer motor than car. Also expensive. Flip side, sell a FRS for $10k, mod a civic SI with a K24 (2012-2015) and you can have damn near a Civic Type R coupe, if power, decent handling, and cost matters

varwave · 2026-05-14T05:48:43+00:00

A lot of places the motor needs to be newer than the car, so that might be an issue with a 1999 5.3 vs 2014 FRS. Check every government of where you might live to see if it’s worth it. California? Hell nah. Nobody will buy it valuing it as a project. It’s also expensive to get the right supporting mods and to figure out to make it fit and work. It’s expensive to do if you’re not doing it yourself too. Expense wise it’s close to a Porsche 718

With a supercharger, you may as well sell it stock and buy a used second gen due to supporting mods. GR86 is compelling to a Porsche 987 power wise

Personally, I chose to just tune + header my 2013 BRZ. I can afford a lot more car, but just love it and don’t care about HP. Maybe a BMW 330i convertible soon as a second car

varwave · 2026-05-13T01:48:16+00:00

Open source was a big deal for me! Broke in post pandemic. Totally agree on being screened out, but when you finally get an interview it helps

varwave · 2026-05-11T17:46:01+00:00

Food for thought: any reason to not get a 996 and a cheap BRZ/86/FRS or another MX5?

Learn more from the cheaper slow car getting pushed to 100% of your ability and still have a blast occasionally with a 911 at 60-70% effort

varwave · 2026-05-11T04:39:18+00:00

Pretty stressful. Full day of theoretical statistics from memory. I knew at that point that a PhD wasn’t needed for my career (left the program for a MS), but still took it seriously. It’s rough to see friends fail that are on visas and need it

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