cudak's cars [E36 & Z33]
Hello,
I started my journey with cars with e36 2.8 that I bought in june 2016. It is (still!) my first car, was driving it in every condition, snow, sleet, rain or sunny. As usual, after purchased I've changed oil, filters, fluids, stuff like that, nothing too fancy, new rims from e90 and fresh set of tires (205mm width).
After few months I tought: okay man, there's winter coming, you wanna go grandpa style and drive it safely from A to B or wanna slide af? The choice was obvious, so I didn't put winter tires on, and stayed on summer/spring tires. When it started snowing, I had to call my friend in his AWD Audi to come and pull me from parking few times... little embarassing
. Even tho, I was driving like that for whole winter, doing a lot of drifts on roundabouts, parkings, intersections, everywhere to be honest... Was pulled over by police few times, learned my lesson by "correcting one pole" that got my headlight broken, hood bent, front bumper destroyed a litte... But hey! I was keeping in mind, that it's my first car, doing what it was supposed to do, teach me how to drive and drift (a little!) without any frustration if/when I crash it, because it's cheap (yet powerful!). E36 got me tons of fun, really, when I tried to overtake in rain and the car starded to drift without my permission, or too late brake and barely fitting on the road, scary shit, e36 taught me patience and how things work in a car with no esp, asr, or other electronic systems, just my car - wheel - pedals and me. I managed to learn as much as I could... But then...
Then the spring 2017 came... Was stacking money since december 2016 for -nothing-I-can-thing-of. So I was having some cash for no reason, and was thinking about BMW M3 E46 (expensive AF!), or 4wd Subie Hawk-Eye, or even AR Brera... I really liked RWD cars tho, the choice was hard, but then my friend told me: man! 350z are not THAT-expensive, and I started to get interested in that matter, maybe z33 is the car for me?
Was looking for a 350z for like a 3 weeks tops. Did a check for first one I saw in my city (lucky!
) and bought it a week later. Now it's second/third day I'm driving a 350z and it's great! Much better than e36, for me and for now, it's really powerfull car that I can't just "put pedal to the metal" all the time, really fun to drive.
I'm still thinking about what to do with e36... Weld the diff? Insurance is pretty expensive tho (470-500 eur/per year), so dunno what I'm gonna do...
I will update and attach pictures of both cars after easter holidays, please bear with me
Photo of e36 with new rims, like 10minutes after we put new rims (+old used tires) on:
E36 in winter (new spring/summer tires on):
Spot I was parking on, and needed assistance from my AWD friend:
Just regular parking... nothing too fancy or too much snow, but spring tires wasn't able to pull me out of there...
Z33 just before purchase by me:
Next photos will keep coming after few days
Comment, ask, write whatever
I started my journey with cars with e36 2.8 that I bought in june 2016. It is (still!) my first car, was driving it in every condition, snow, sleet, rain or sunny. As usual, after purchased I've changed oil, filters, fluids, stuff like that, nothing too fancy, new rims from e90 and fresh set of tires (205mm width).
After few months I tought: okay man, there's winter coming, you wanna go grandpa style and drive it safely from A to B or wanna slide af? The choice was obvious, so I didn't put winter tires on, and stayed on summer/spring tires. When it started snowing, I had to call my friend in his AWD Audi to come and pull me from parking few times... little embarassing
. Even tho, I was driving like that for whole winter, doing a lot of drifts on roundabouts, parkings, intersections, everywhere to be honest... Was pulled over by police few times, learned my lesson by "correcting one pole" that got my headlight broken, hood bent, front bumper destroyed a litte... But hey! I was keeping in mind, that it's my first car, doing what it was supposed to do, teach me how to drive and drift (a little!) without any frustration if/when I crash it, because it's cheap (yet powerful!). E36 got me tons of fun, really, when I tried to overtake in rain and the car starded to drift without my permission, or too late brake and barely fitting on the road, scary shit, e36 taught me patience and how things work in a car with no esp, asr, or other electronic systems, just my car - wheel - pedals and me. I managed to learn as much as I could... But then...Then the spring 2017 came... Was stacking money since december 2016 for -nothing-I-can-thing-of. So I was having some cash for no reason, and was thinking about BMW M3 E46 (expensive AF!), or 4wd Subie Hawk-Eye, or even AR Brera... I really liked RWD cars tho, the choice was hard, but then my friend told me: man! 350z are not THAT-expensive, and I started to get interested in that matter, maybe z33 is the car for me?
Was looking for a 350z for like a 3 weeks tops. Did a check for first one I saw in my city (lucky!
) and bought it a week later. Now it's second/third day I'm driving a 350z and it's great! Much better than e36, for me and for now, it's really powerfull car that I can't just "put pedal to the metal" all the time, really fun to drive.I'm still thinking about what to do with e36... Weld the diff? Insurance is pretty expensive tho (470-500 eur/per year), so dunno what I'm gonna do...
I will update and attach pictures of both cars after easter holidays, please bear with me
Photo of e36 with new rims, like 10minutes after we put new rims (+old used tires) on:
E36 in winter (new spring/summer tires on):
Spot I was parking on, and needed assistance from my AWD friend:
Just regular parking... nothing too fancy or too much snow, but spring tires wasn't able to pull me out of there...
Z33 just before purchase by me:
Next photos will keep coming after few days
Comment, ask, write whatever
Post edited April 14, 2017 at 07:17:18 AM by cudak
