E30 Zone

For a cabby, or a normal road car then I'd just go for oe spec rubber. Poly bushes only really if you like to drive quickly and accept the extra noise / vibration they give in exchange for tighter wheel control. I would check the balljoints in the lower arms for play tools that can cause the wheels ...

Yep. Intake boot for certain. They're about £35 for proper febi ones. A temporary fix with tape will make it more driveable while you wait for a replacement. Just make sure you get one for the right engine / year as there are a few variations even though they all look the same. Mine did the same, wo...

Aren't these well known for fuel pump issues?

Why have you masked stuff up instead of removing like the windows, the door handles and locks, the petrol flap, the side skirts etc. What a waste of paint. Lol, I nearly got banned from a forum years ago for suggesting someone who posted pics of their respray should have removed their number plates...

They usually have a small hole in the boots so they can compress and expand with movement of the rack.

The boot is only there as a dirt guard, it's not designed to hold fluid. If rest any fluid in the the main seals in the rack are dead.

I hadn't noticed they'd been pcd modified. That'll teach me to skim read

The mod is just a set of wider lips. Ou could always sell them and fit narrower ones to make them more workable on an e30. Price is fair compared to other sets I've seen for sale, but is still a lot of money. More than I would want to spend on a set anyway. I you like them, ten that's the sort of mo...

Yeah, the 3.0 m3 ones have bmw motorsport on them, the evo ones have the recess for the little m badge between two bolt holes. Replicas usually either just say "motorsport" or have no writing and no badge indent, and won't have the bmw stamp or part numbers on them. I think most reps are 7.5in and a...

The non-standard paint will put some off, but the tyres all being the correct size with a bit of tread will help. I'd suggest somewhere around £250 would be fair to start with. They're definitely the evo version, and even though don't carry the bmw Motorsport script on the front are still often refe...

I don't know what it's a detuned version of, the only other more powerful 1.4 engines they do are turbocharged and were introduced afterwards. The 1.4 16v is just a 16v head on the normal 1.4. A FIRE engine isn't anything special, it just means the engine was assembled by a robot, which was quite im...

I don't mind these for a little shopping runabout. Made dad had a 1.2 as a courtesy car and it was a hateful piece of crap. Amazing how a few fairly minor tweeks can transform a car. My mum has a punto sporting with the same 1.4 16v engine and six speed box, and it can be hustled along quite nicely....

You can get a Porsche 911 or Maserati for not much more than £10k but who in the Zone has the balls and the wallet to do that ? A decent 996 911 won't cost any more to run than a decent e46 m3. If I could justify one I'd happily have a nice clean facelift manual c2. I'd love a Maserati 3200gt too a...

I'd rather spend £10k on something I could drive and enjoy. Not everyone sees cars as something to keep pristine and factory and never driven.

For £10k I can think of a lot of cars I could actually enjoy instead of spending y weekends polishing tyre treads.

Done properly it's fine. The standard roof is just spot welded along the gutters and screen openings and braised at the pillars. You don't cut the pillars off and bung a new roof on, it's just the quickest way to remove it from the donor while keeping it's shape. Once removed you would carefully pic...

No. The rust usually starts between the sunroof tray and the underside of the roof. By the time you see the bubbles the rust underneath and hidden inside this joint is a whole lot worse. You could grind out, treat and fill and re spray the roof, but you're only buying yourself a bit more time. It wi...

Dayco are oem fitted by some manufacturers and eom equivalent on others. I wouldn't have an issue using one. But if I had paid for a certain brand I would expect to recieve that brand.

Wow, ancient thread bump Chris :D How's things? The evo is now on over 232,000 miles. Still goes like stink, but think the clutch will be the next thing to need attention, it's getting heavy and the release bearing is getting a bit whiney. It's not had one in the last 100k, and I'm pretty sure it's ...

If you just want cheap ones to ruin then go for part wrongs or some nankang ns2. They're pretty crap, but less crap than some of the other horrors you see at that end of the market!

Had a couple of sets and all good so far. Undercut anywhere else I could find by a fair bit too.

Because people like their cars and want them to last. It doesn't take long for a couple of scabs to turn into a couple of holes, and in turn an mot failure.

If it's just a cheap shed to smoke about in, then no, it doesn't really matter.

Yes! Keep meaning to make a cover plate of some sort for mine. Worryingly easy once you know how.

If they're anything like e36 lights to only 'fix' is to leave the back off the inner lights, or drill a couple of small holes in the back of the bulb covers

It'll take hardly any water to hydro an engine, especially a diesel. A teaspoon in one cylinder is usually enough. Sometimes the engine will just stop. Removing the plugs and cranking over to clear the water can get them working, but if its gone with any momentum, or stopped and was spun on the star...

Worse have been repaired, and that was well before they are worth what they are these days.

It'll live again assuming the insurance company don't take it and crush it.

Well, the leak from the rack is bad news so that will need replacing regardless.

I'd start with that and see what happens. The pumps themselves are usuall pretty reliable. But yeah, it'll only work if the belt is fitted!

You don't need to bleed brakes just from pushing the piston back when changing pads, unless you've disconnected the caliper from the car or undone the bleed nipple while doing it.

Probably a good idea because fiat twincams have notioriously weak belts with short change intervals. I upgraded my lancia to evo pulleys and belts and still changed it every year for the £20 a belt cost after reading too many horror stories. M20s don't seem to have a cambelt problem. In fact I don't...

The wheels may be rare, but they're not worth a lot. The official bmw eBay shop was selling them off at £50 each not long back! Still, at least they're an easy fix. If you have space you'd be better off hiding them in a corner for another 15 years and see what happens. It wasn't long ago you could p...

They usually just screw into the main carpet.

Pretty confident they're all m10x1, same as the top left.

It's not that bad, an e36 m3 with a couple of options was £35k not far off 20 years ago!

And those fixings bmw sell for a pound probably cost a penny to make.

E36s have much quicker racks than the hideous oil tanker spec e30 racks. The casings are slightly different which alters the angle of the steering shaft and joints which can foul the exhaust depending on the rest of your setup.

As long as its off an e30 it'll fit.

Be careful, the e36 ones look very similar but won't fit any e30.

I'd say even 2.5 was pretty strong, at 3.5 I'd want something immaculate, but not necessarily low miles. Some of the really low miles, low owner time warp cars are making pretty strong money, but it doesn't mean every mk2 is worth a fortune. Maybe if it was really clean with standard wheels and susp...

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