$500 BMW beats $400,000 WRC racers!!!

Kai Noeske · Post by **Kai Noeske** » Mon Mar 22, 2010 4:23 pm

This is one incredible story about a guy with GIANT ones of steel. He's crazy. And I love it. What a spirit. And how much love for racing!!!

http://jalopnik.com/5497042/how-a-500-c ... lly-racers

breakaway500 · Post by **breakaway500** » Mon Mar 22, 2010 6:07 pm

It's good to read about such a hell bent for leather adventure coming out so positive... RTV and duct tape..

Dave_G · Post by **Dave_G** » Mon Mar 22, 2010 8:11 pm

"The most epic win in the history of ever."

So says one of the comments, and I could not put it any better myself. This is beyond cool.

This guy is my new hero.

agrabau · Post by **agrabau** » Tue Mar 23, 2010 7:12 pm

Unfortunately the article is somewhat inaccurate. He didn't beat any WRC cars. He was about 2 hours off the pace actually. He came in 3rd of 4 finishing cars in his class. There were 9 starters in his class and only 4 finishers.

More rain on the parade- an S14 motor in a $500 car? Probably not.. It's one of those special $500 cars with 10k in mods and 500 hours of labor in it.

Post by **chaos4NH** » Tue Mar 23, 2010 7:27 pm

WTG Alex. Next you will reveal the Superman was just a movie and comic book

breakaway500 · Post by **breakaway500** » Tue Mar 23, 2010 7:30 pm

Geez Alex..we all know there is some fiction in the story. But what a BLAST he must have had living the dream..

agrabau · Post by **agrabau** » Tue Mar 23, 2010 7:36 pm

If he breaks a 1 hour margin I'll celebrate next time.

Sorry, I ruined EVERYTHING!!

PS- I'm an E30 owner now. Which is cool.

breakaway500 · Post by **breakaway500** » Tue Mar 23, 2010 9:20 pm

"I'm an E30 owner now."

Does that mean you are thinking Baja?

If you need a crew,I'm a pretty good mechanic...

agrabau · Post by **agrabau** » Tue Mar 23, 2010 10:05 pm

Unfortunately it's only an example of my continuous retardation to the early 90s

jlwhorf · Post by **jlwhorf** » Wed Mar 24, 2010 10:25 am

Alex, Are you putting a evo engine in the E30? I recommended a friend at work to you guys, and he told me they you where putting an mitsu evo engine in a really old BMW.

eastcoastbumps · Post by **eastcoastbumps** » Wed Mar 24, 2010 5:02 pm

jlwhorf wrote:Alex, Are you putting a evo engine in the E30? I recommended a friend at work to you guys, and he told me they you where putting an mitsu evo engine in a really old BMW.

Chalk that one up to 'been there, done that' for the DSG guys.

http://www.dentsport.com/gallery/projec ... gallery=89

agrabau · Post by **agrabau** » Wed Mar 24, 2010 5:30 pm

Yeah I did that a while back. We're doing an SR20det in a 2002 right now. It's going to be a rat rod.

I liked the SR20det a lot more but if I ever do it again I'd just build the BMW motor for turbo since it fits just fine in there.

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