{"id":123,"date":"2013-06-20T15:32:00","date_gmt":"2013-06-20T19:32:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/projectsofdan.com\/?p=123"},"modified":"2013-07-03T23:11:56","modified_gmt":"2013-07-04T03:11:56","slug":"intro-to-car-stuff","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/projectsofdan.com\/?p=123","title":{"rendered":"Intro to Car Stuff"},"content":{"rendered":"

I’m gearing up for an autocross and a track day in the same week, so I figure its a great time to talk car stuff. I started wrenching on cars with my Dad as a kid and have been into it ever since. I caught the motorsport bug with my first autocross when I was in college and that really fueled the fire.<\/p>\n

When I think about it, I’m not into fancy cars or super cars. I’m not into old cars or show cars. What I’m into is figuring how the cars i have work and how to make them better. The test bed for these improvements is then autocross, track days, time trials, and hopefully someday club racing.<\/p>\n

In the past I’ve had a few projects, an ’04 VW R32, ’97 BMW M3, ’98 BMW 540i\/6…<\/p>\n

\"2004<\/a>

2004 VW R32<\/p><\/div>\n

\"1997<\/a>

1997 BMW M3<\/p><\/div>\n

Probably my favorite was the 1987 BMW 325is that i built to\u00a0SpecE30<\/a>\u00a0specs as a dedicated track car. Simple and easy to work on, great community, and a blast to drive. Oddly, I can’t find any good pics of this car… guess I was too busy driving.<\/p>\n

\"1987<\/a>

1987 BMW 325is<\/p><\/div>\n

Things changed a little a few years ago when I moved to Boston in 2009. I live in the city and have to be pretty grateful for even the driveway i have. No garage, no space for projects. \ud83d\ude41<\/p>\n

I needed a car that could wear a lot of hats. My commute is up to 2 hours a day and I take lots of road trips so I wanted something comfy, nice, good stereo, etc. Since I didn’t have easy access to a garage or tools it needed to be pretty reliable, preferably with a warranty. AND it had to be fairly sporty, fun to drive, and capable of the occasional autocross and track. I decided to buy a new 2010 Volkswagen GTI and its been making me very happy ever since.<\/p>\n

On to the Project GTI<\/a>!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I’m gearing up for an autocross and a track day in the same week, so I figure its a great time to talk car stuff. I started wrenching on cars with my Dad as a kid and have been into it ever since. I caught the motorsport bug with my first autocross when I was […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[12,11,10],"class_list":["post-123","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cars-motorsports","tag-autocross","tag-gti","tag-volkswagen"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/projectsofdan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/123","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/projectsofdan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/projectsofdan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/projectsofdan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/projectsofdan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=123"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"https:\/\/projectsofdan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/123\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":153,"href":"https:\/\/projectsofdan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/123\/revisions\/153"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/projectsofdan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=123"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/projectsofdan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=123"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/projectsofdan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=123"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}