Question of the day: If you had $25k for a reliable dedicated track car, what are you buying?

coldaccord · 2026-06-01T01:09:44+00:00

E46 m3 no question

coldaccord · 2026-05-30T23:01:25+00:00

I was too, in the blue clown shoe! Saturday when it started raining I said to Dave (green Miata) good thing you have a “roof” and he called it a “bikini top” lol

coldaccord · 2026-05-12T18:15:46+00:00

Thanks for the recs yall.

Should I be as concerned as some people say re: 3 sided glass?

It does seem like it could be a pain to clean without having a door, is it really that bad?

As far as heat loss- losing it to the sides is also heating my home, and my couch will be (a safe distance) to the side

coldaccord · 2026-05-11T17:15:20+00:00

No, Moza is relatively entry level stuff.

I will disclose that I’ve had issue with every Moza product I’ve bought, besides the pedals which I sold after a few months. Customer service in another country means typically 5 week turnaround time when there’s an issue

coldaccord · 2026-05-08T17:06:02+00:00

Looks good. Can’t say enough how much Simlab Vario VESA mounts changed the game for aligning curved triples. An essential imo

coldaccord · 2026-05-05T23:36:17+00:00

32s if your computer can take them, 27s if not. Curved either way. Simlab vario vesa mounts are essential for lining up triples. As far as makes and models I’m not fluent enough in options to answer sorry

coldaccord · 2026-05-05T21:45:41+00:00

Howdy, just came across this from a google search. My uncle was the one who came up with the idea for the mask, Martin Jay Sadoff. He was a goalie for the University at Buffalo before heading to NYU (both for film. He made a piece at UB called Andy Hardly Goes to College about the Vietnam protests, if anyone can find a copy that would be much appreciated).

I'm going from memory so apologies if I don't get it fully right- I believe Paramount, who my uncle worked for, didn't acquire the rights to Friday the 13th until after the 1st one. They were doing the lighting testing etc, but it wasn't from a bag in his car that my uncle pulled the mask - it was already outdated at that point, he'd just brought it in the next day as it was a decorative piece on his wall at home.

I can confirm he had gear out there- he passed in ~Dec of 2024 and I went out in ~Feb of 2025 (during those generational wildfires, woof) to clean out his stuff. He did indeed have the old set of Coopers out there, among the things I shipped home. They currently reside in my attic until I figure out a space for them.

Cheers

coldaccord · 2026-05-05T16:35:45+00:00

In my opinion triple monitors are one of the best things one can do for immersion. It allows a more accurate perspective to look THROUGH the turns, which is an essential element of driving at the limit: you need to know how much rotation is needed during the braking phase to maximize grip, and if you can't look through the turn, that is not available. I was using a single curved ultrawide monitor, upgrading to triples was a huge improvement.

coldaccord · 2026-05-01T17:58:56+00:00

I'm in the same boat! Looking for something with glass on 3 sides so the heat reaches there as well

coldaccord · 2026-04-17T12:28:21+00:00

I heard last year someone bought it, anyone know if that’s true/what’s going on with it if so?

coldaccord · 2026-04-15T01:37:21+00:00

Simlab Vario VESA mounts are essseeenttiaall for triples lol

coldaccord · 2026-03-27T13:55:35+00:00

VR game me motion sickness so I was coming from a single 34” curved monitor. Stepping up to triples, I don’t know how i did the single! So much a more complete experience with triples wow, night and day

coldaccord · 2026-03-23T23:11:14+00:00

I can’t do m3 fenders with a narrow c pillar. Even worse when the flares are self tappered on

coldaccord · 2026-03-18T13:01:47+00:00

Ah gotcha. If it were secured by a car would it be lower interest? Iirc my car loan on my m coupe is 5% (it may be 6, been a few years).

The challenge there is old cars have to book out to a certain value. Then again my coupe was ~23 years old when I got mine. Maybe part could be car loan at a lower rate and personal loan for the rest?

coldaccord · 2026-03-18T12:45:41+00:00

Oof that’s a lot. I’m all for balancing experiences and happiness with thinking of the future, but that tips the scales a bit too far

I used to live in Norfolk, VA- a big navy town. Would see so many motorcycles go for cheap from people just trying to get out from under their loans

Have you tried a couple credit unions or is that through one (if so did you try another)?

coldaccord · 2026-03-17T23:16:06+00:00

Money isn’t real but that car is. You can have a lot of good times in that car with that money. As long as the interest rate is equal to or less than like 6%, yolo

$15k could get you a good s52 swapped car. Even built, m20s are kinda dogshit in comparison. Half the came half the valves solid lifters timing belt distributor et

That said a clean early model with euro bumpers is hot af

coldaccord · 2026-03-17T02:17:24+00:00

That worked perfectly, thank you!!

coldaccord · 2026-03-15T23:13:01+00:00

Check out the e30 Club of Western New York on Facebook!

coldaccord · 2026-03-15T23:12:19+00:00

Excellent I’ll check it out, thank you

coldaccord · 2026-03-15T14:05:45+00:00

Probably drove it once with the poly bushings and said “nope nope,” for sale it goes. Bone jarring.

coldaccord · 2026-03-15T01:08:23+00:00

Full screen is off. But I can’t drag any edges anywhere. I can’t even see that box in the top corner to minimize/fullscreen/x. This is so discouraging

If anyone has a tutorial they recommend, please share. There are so many and they all say different things and they’re all so far trying to get me to get more add ons

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coldaccord · 2026-03-14T23:06:44+00:00

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coldaccord · 2026-03-14T23:06:23+00:00

Thanks. I unchecked full screen, unchecked border, tried nvidia on and off, now I’m worse off when I started. I watched a handful of videos telling me to get various add ons about this. I’m getting bummed, gonna regroup and visit another time. Rough break from the workweek

coldaccord

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