Simon Tuman
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Hello Ladies & Gents. My name is Simon, and Im new here. I knew about you guys in the past, along with various other groups, but after the event at 425 Motorsports I decided its finally time to get online.
Im a car nut just like most of you, but Ive never had the chance to take a car out on the track. I grew up in Northern California so Ive been to and dreamed about racing on Laguna Seca, Sears Point (not sure what they call it anymore), Thunderhill and also did some drag racing at Sacramento Raceway also. Ive always been a german car nut, but being a young guy who doesnt make a ton of money, ive always owned VWs. about 15 to be exact and most of them were about as old as me (im turning 30 this July).
Currently I have 4 cars, 3 of them VWs and just bought my first rwd car about 6 months ago. Its a 91 E34 M5. I love it, but I also am worried about repair bills so for now Im slowly going through all the maintanence work to make sure she is good to go. Right now she has ~126k. The other cars vary from a 78 2 door Rabbit with 260+k on the original motor, the other is an 80 Rabbit truck that was one step from being crushed and the third is my dream project. Its an 83 Jetta coupe with a hole in the back. The guy I got it from wanted to make it a rear wheel drive car and gave up. I have known about this car for all of the 5 years Ive lived in Seattle and it hasnt moved once. I told him a long time about if he gives up that I want it. The Jetta coupe is rare and Ive always wanted to build a rwd one also. Since he already cut this up, I figured theres no reason to cut another...
im going to stop an post some pics then ill talk about the future plans
I just picked up the 78 for all of $500 from the original family. It has a ton of cool parts on it. 4 wheel discs, neuspeed front upper and lower strut bars, boge struts and shocks along with neuspeed sofsport springs (stiffer springs , but stock ride height ), welded control arms, poly bushings and a tired, tired 8v motor. right now im on the fence whether to build up a cool 1.6 motor for it or throw my turbo diesel motor in it.
The truck isnt anything special, but my friend has some ideas on how to make it low. really low. its getting a hand me down motor and transmission and we are trying to spent as little money as possible on it! haha
pictures are deceiving, its not as clean as it looks in the pic
and finally the M5. not much to say, its got a Dinan chip and cam sprockets and a B&B exhaust. I just installed euro trim and headlights. Other than an aftermarket stereo its otherwise stock. You may have seen this at the 425 motorsports event this past saturday.
so I got excited after the event because I want to get into racing BADLY, but I dont know which car would be an ideal race car. the rabbit seems to be the best candidate if i rebuild the 1.6 but i was planning on making the jetta coupe my "race car" and the rabbit my "daily" but now it seems i should reverse that idea
sorry for the long intro... i could talk cars all day
Im a car nut just like most of you, but Ive never had the chance to take a car out on the track. I grew up in Northern California so Ive been to and dreamed about racing on Laguna Seca, Sears Point (not sure what they call it anymore), Thunderhill and also did some drag racing at Sacramento Raceway also. Ive always been a german car nut, but being a young guy who doesnt make a ton of money, ive always owned VWs. about 15 to be exact and most of them were about as old as me (im turning 30 this July).
Currently I have 4 cars, 3 of them VWs and just bought my first rwd car about 6 months ago. Its a 91 E34 M5. I love it, but I also am worried about repair bills so for now Im slowly going through all the maintanence work to make sure she is good to go. Right now she has ~126k. The other cars vary from a 78 2 door Rabbit with 260+k on the original motor, the other is an 80 Rabbit truck that was one step from being crushed and the third is my dream project. Its an 83 Jetta coupe with a hole in the back. The guy I got it from wanted to make it a rear wheel drive car and gave up. I have known about this car for all of the 5 years Ive lived in Seattle and it hasnt moved once. I told him a long time about if he gives up that I want it. The Jetta coupe is rare and Ive always wanted to build a rwd one also. Since he already cut this up, I figured theres no reason to cut another...
im going to stop an post some pics then ill talk about the future plans
I just picked up the 78 for all of $500 from the original family. It has a ton of cool parts on it. 4 wheel discs, neuspeed front upper and lower strut bars, boge struts and shocks along with neuspeed sofsport springs (stiffer springs , but stock ride height ), welded control arms, poly bushings and a tired, tired 8v motor. right now im on the fence whether to build up a cool 1.6 motor for it or throw my turbo diesel motor in it.
The truck isnt anything special, but my friend has some ideas on how to make it low. really low. its getting a hand me down motor and transmission and we are trying to spent as little money as possible on it! haha
pictures are deceiving, its not as clean as it looks in the pic
and finally the M5. not much to say, its got a Dinan chip and cam sprockets and a B&B exhaust. I just installed euro trim and headlights. Other than an aftermarket stereo its otherwise stock. You may have seen this at the 425 motorsports event this past saturday.
so I got excited after the event because I want to get into racing BADLY, but I dont know which car would be an ideal race car. the rabbit seems to be the best candidate if i rebuild the 1.6 but i was planning on making the jetta coupe my "race car" and the rabbit my "daily" but now it seems i should reverse that idea
sorry for the long intro... i could talk cars all day