That car has been around for a while, if available. Asking price started around $90K, IIRC. I think $50K is about right.

BTW, when I said BMW for racing, I meant racing a BMW with BMWCCA. I hear it is a well run program, and know a couple of people who ditched PCA to go to start doing club racing with BMWCCA.

I agree with Nader, BMWCCA is a great bunch of people. I'm running in SE46 so I'm a little bias. That said, SpecE46 is a nice platform and works well in many sanctioning bodies. BMWCCA, NASA, SCCA, and AER. A SpecE46 just won T3 at the SCCA runoffs this year. In other words, you can find and run in a race nearly every weekend of the year.

The SpecE46 chassis are plentiful, relatively cheap to operate from a consumable standpoint. Motors are pretty stout, no need for crazy rebuilds (lesson learned), just buy a junkyard motor, refresh the head and call it a day. My "built" brand new race motor made 222hp, the junkyard motor out of an automatic Z4 made 219hp. One was very expensive to build, the junkyard motor was $600 bucks. One Fikse Porsche wheel costs as much as a full set of race wheels.

Not to mention the SpecE46 has large fields. We typically have 20+ cars at most events. Hyperfest will see close to 40 cars.

Also, contingencies are great. I haven't paid for a set of Toyo's in 2 years. Plus, we get discounts and contingencies from Bimmerworld, PFC, Hawk, HMS, MCS, etc.

Some action from October at WGI with me not driving well and dealing with a failed secondary fuel pump:

SpecE46 does sound like fun.

Junkyard accessible parts, reasonable cheap consumables, and an active and friendly community makes a compelling case. On the other hand, I've always found a 944/924 more enjoyable on the track than E30/E36.

Maybe this is a try before you buy situation? A good test to see how welcoming the various communities are too.

Never done spec Ford or spec Miata, but known a few who have. Seems like a decent community at a reasonable cost.

That sounds AMAZING and PCA Vintage Class may the right place to be for you (and knowing Lynn too)

Could get an E car and start in vintage then transfer to E when the time is right.

There were/are a few for sale right now

Also you said you wanted a car that can do 1.22s because your in red now but in reality even doing 1.25/26s at summit can still be enjoyable and not have your arm out the window the whole session.

What about this? You could be the next DE champion for years to come.

https://www.racingjunk.com/Other/183...Prototype.html

already been done... and was very unsuccessful

Not the car...

I understand my elbow will be forever safe and unused if I had one similar, but above my budget. Probably amazing to drive.

I am less worried about my Red lap times as I want to consider racing...