E30 Zone

Been following this build for what feels like forever, I've got to say I'm incredibly impressed with the thought and reasoning that has gone into the whole project. Everything looks to be beautifully made and carefully thought through and getting 300 brake out of a little 1.8 engine is an amazing ac...

Radar controlled cruise control!

Or maybe not.

not complicated enough i guess.

Uwe, I'll say this only one more time: I am sorry I bothered you with a little more technical detail than you wanted. I can assure you it was posted with the best of intentions and I had hoped it would make your work with stretch bolts easier in future. I made a specific effort to present my explan...

Great topic, and Geoff, just read your e30/R5 build. Excellent craftsmanship and stunning attention to detail. Hopefully you can get it on the road in SA - although as you say it's not really suitable for the road, the ability to do shakedown testing on local roads has to be a huge advantage. Please...

^^^ Use DHL or UPS, much cheaper than Royal Fail. Probably about a tenner to send - less if you know someone with a business account...

You must be feeling a bit crap now, but I'm sure that sight bought a smile to your face!

fantastic work as always. I'm just down the A31 (ish) in Winchester so hopefully I'll see you cruising about during the summer!

Woah! Awesome fabrication there!

Bet she'll go like the proverbial, nice smooth bends, you've clearly given a lot of thought to airflow, great to see such attention to detail!

Good luck - hope she goes as good as she looks!

WRT the CFD mentioned earlier; you can't do that on an e30, the modelling would be horrendous and then running the model takes days on professional mainframes even with simple components. would cost serious money and even then the results would have to be verified in a wind tunnel. Your best bet fro...

I've posted before, and once again have no guidance or advise, other than to say that this is such a fricking sweet project and I wish you all the best! :D Makes my monday logging onto this and finding out what you've been doing over the weekend while I've been drinking beer and falling over!:roll: ...

jaistanley wrote:LOL at the grammar nazi.

I'm personally deeply offended by person, or persons using the term 'big up' in any way, shape or form.

Thou shalt not express your surprise that Sharon got off with Darren in the club on Saturday night by using the term: Is It??

Lol, I bought my 205 GTI via a note under the windscreen, it's in great condition and was a bit of a steal! Guy and his wife had decided to flog it the day before I left the note! Guy seemed happy cos he couldn't be arsed with the hassle of advertising it! As has been said before, you don't ask, you...

no1_jazz wrote:
Toaster!!!

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what it is now (a toaster). not on the insurance DB so it's been weighed in!

daimlerman wrote:Drive further back from the car in front? After a foglight incedent with a slow fox I keep a better lookout for uninsured animals now....

Probably the best advice, especially on rural roads.

having said that, my last cracked windscreen was from a quarry truck driving the other way!

i blagged mine off an old boy who had it since new and its mint see him at a garage told him i was interested and got a phone call a month later. That's awesome! I still see some old lady tooling round in a 318is around these parts (I live in winchester so stratford is a bit far away to go tracking...

Alex, have you considered glueing your intercooler together or at least the end cans to the core? I found some Loctite epoxy with absurd strength (something like 20N/mm^2 adhesion to clean aluminium, tensile test. Stronger in shear), it was also stable to well over 100degC, resistant to water and o...

Was driving down the M40 from Stratford today, what did I see pulling onto the motorway at junction 12, crusing along at 60? Bloody MINT (and I mean mint) 325i sport. Bright Red, it must have been garaged, not a spot of rust anywhere. Paint work genuinely gleaming! All very well and good you say, b...

Was driving down the M40 from Stratford today, what did I see pulling onto the motorway at junction 12, crusing along at 60? Bloody MINT (and I mean mint) 325i sport. Bright Red, it must have been garaged, not a spot of rust anywhere. Paint work genuinely gleaming! All very well and good you say, bu...

Hope it's not a repost, but stumbled across this and thought you boys might like to have a look!

http://www.wlnautomotive.co.uk/prodpage ... N=18132751

POA...Guesses on price?

Stitch welding is like seam welding (as in you weld along all the joins in the chassis) but instead of doing it in one long line, you weld for say 30mm, leave a 10mm gap and then weld for another 30mm, etc etc. I could go into detail but its a pain in the arse to explain in the internet, any good bo...

For what it's worth (as a general bit of information) fully seam welding a shell will quickly lead to cracks, due to the build up of stress risers. What you really want to do is stitch weld, which reduces the number of risers and is just as stiff. Max respect by the way for driving such a monster!!!!

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