Detroit wrote: ↑Mon Mar 05, 2018 8:19 amThat's the thing about this car...it's just such a beast in high performance environments. Anything you buy will be a downgrade unless you spend more than double what the is worth.D Griff wrote: ↑Mon Mar 05, 2018 6:48 am Well, I tracked the Saturday and now I'm even more on selling it. The experience was excellent, the car was a beast and held up without any issue. All of the other guys in the novice class running with me were in Eurotrash cars and all of them were taking cool down laps, under the hood during breaks trying to find leaks, worrying about brakes crapping out. It really made me appreciate my car. I am on over one year old brake fluid, mostly just stock everything and the car was great fun and never felt made of glass. The only really shit thing was the damn seat. Wow. One of my sessions it just reclined suddenly and fell back against the wall behind the seats. It feels bad constantly.
I'm thinking that having the freedom of no car payments which could allow me to track whenever I want/have time, is a pretty nice situation.
I need to do some serious thinking in the short term. I'm definitely going to need new tires, I have to decide if I want to try to pursue a square setup or just some stock replacements if I'm going to sell the car.
That said, keep in perspective how much you'll actually do track dayzz and if it's truly worth keeping a car for that purpose. I bought mine thinking I'd be at the track 6 times a year...when I've managed maybe 2 a year since I bought it. Still a fun thing to do when you can...I hope to get out more this year.
Didn't you just buy new tires?
I really loved the track day and Allison was happy I liked it and laughed when I told her I'd already paid for another day at a discount. That said, you're absolutely right, realistically, six or eight days per year would be the best I'm going to get, likely less. I will
I wouldn't say I'd be exactly "keeping the car for that purpose", it's an all around fun car for mountain trips, tail of the dragon, track, putzing around. I certainly wouldn't go track car or anything, this (or the Cayman or Z or whatever) will still be my only car until I change jobs to something with a commute. It just made me really think about a car change. Getting a Cayman would be much more money, I'd have car payments again. My reality is that, sure, I could afford that, but it would certainly eat into my budget for things like track days, modz, etc. Is it really worth it to scrape less and have a bit of luxury? maybe, but . I also already have a bike carrying solution, maintenance up to date, most of the modz done that take the suck out of the .
Also, since I'm looking for a job, if I keep the as a "fun car" , I can go a little bit more for the "DD" when the time come, maybe an E90/E92, ATS or something rather than a used Mazda3.