Dan's Motorsports Activities

As my VWVortex signature states: The rumors are true, this car rules! After owning the Golf GTi 337 (see archive link on right {coming soon}), this car simply competes in another league, even being 10 years older. I bought the car in July 2004 with 57k miles.

I know the e36 M3 is the first M car that wasn't hand built, and that internet naysayers claim that therefore it's not a true M, but this is simply NOT TRUE. The car flat performs, and while 240 horsepower isn't much by today's standards, it's perfectly mated to this car.

So far I've done the following:

- New Yokohama AVS all the way around
- Upper and Lower tensioners replaced along with a VANOS cleaning
- Oil changes with Mobil 1 Synthetic 0-40w
- Replaced rear trailing arm bushings
- New Stromung Exhaust
- New ZKW European Spec Lighting

Soon to be fixed, the annoying rattle from the resonators in the downpipe!

And here's the first M3 specific gallery:

M3 Glamour Shots on the Bridge - A March 2005 trip to Seaside (almost) brought us to this one lane bridge where Shana and I snapped these pics.

This is a car that Paul and I built for dedicated club days, and we hope to enter as many track days, autocrosses and hillclimbs as we can afford!

For now, I'll let the spec sheet do the talking:

- 2.0l bottom end, 1.8l 16v top end
- K & N Filtration
- Techtonics Race Downpipe and Race Exhaust (not a sleeper!)
- 9A Close Ratio Transmission, Sachs clutch, Volkswagen Motorsport Flywheel
- Falken Azenis Sport Tires (scca spec)
- Full Rear Disc conversion at the rear (soon to be removed)
- Willwood proportioning valves
- Autotech Stressbars and Swaybars w/ Eurethane bushings
- H & R Cup Kit
- H4 lighting w/ city lights
- Rabbit GTi front airdam and European Bumpers
- Sparco Evo II race bucket w/ Schroth Harnesses
- And all kinds of other stuff I'm momentarily forgetting!

This car is an amazing amount of fun and totally embarrasses other cars in the backfield at PIR, ask me how I know :D

2005 Audi Club Track Day - The Rabbit gets to sing for 2 full days, with back to back sessions with two drivers!

Larison Rock 2005 - Paul and I hit Larison Rock. What a great event!