[Kelse92]

Well, I've built a bunch of cars... and never done one of these build thread things before , but I'm excited to share the process so here goes nothing!!

To go to the very beginning, I sold my now long previous e92 M3 track car in early 2021 and the plan was to buy an 86. I looked at this particular car at that time, but it was just too big of a project and I wanted to just learn to drive a car with low hp and low commitment first, so a streetable autocross-focused 86 that happened to dabble in track stuff was the move.

I ended up with with this



This little blue car has served me well as a TT5/STX autocross car for the last year and a half, including setting a regional track record at our home track Eagles Canyon Raceway & helping me win an autocross national championship, but I've been contemplating taking the next step on building something faster... As much as I wanted to do a Kswap on that car, it was just too nice of a street car to cut up, so this car came back into the picture:



This is a former TT4 record-holding build in our region has been sitting for a few years as the previous owner kept blowing up FA20's on track (surprise!) and he was over it 5 motors and life getting in the way later. (I don't blame him one bit) But he hadn't let it go just yet as he didn't want it parted out and wanted to see it get driven again. I feel very lucky I was able to pick it up this past weekend and we struck a deal that works out for both of us.

This chassis has had an amazing amount of work and engineering put into it already and just needs a reliable power plant to go after some records again. So a K24 seems like a no-brainer to keep the weight low, a Japanese 4-cyl in the car (sorry LS fans), and make future blown up motor replacements inexpensive cause the chances are with how hard we plan to drive this thing we'll blow up one or two again in the future.

Lots of work to go here and I'm looking forward in sharing the process.