E30 Zone

Two grand is way too much!

Mine (when finished) will have all of that minus the heated seats/aircon/multichanger. But it will have E36 leather seats, E36 steering rack, Mtec2 wheel, some nice 15" alloys, etc etc. 170k miles aswell. I'm hoping to get Ã‚£1200 for it

Hmm ok lets say 1300kg then, plus the stuff that's always going to be in the car when I'm towing - which is me, a heavy jack, two wheels and tyres and a load of tools, so call it 1400kg. So if I get a trailer that weighs 400kg and my drift car which is ~1000kg I'm right on the limit! Its looking lik...

Really? That's nowhere near heavy enough

How much does an E30 325i Touring weigh?

I'd like to tow my drift car on a trailer with it, but I need to know the weight to see if I need to abandon the idea altogether and get something heavier

I have washer fluid and coolant warning lights illuminated. I have since filled up both washer tanks, filled the coolant tank and replaced the coolant sensor, and neither of the lights will go out :? Do you have to drive the car at all before the lights will go out, or do I still have problems causi...

My last car, Skyline R32GTR, had 500bhp / 400lbft of torque on a single HKS T04R turbo, and was a complete beast to drive. Had no power below about 5000rpm and then ALL of it came in at once :twisted: :twisted: :twisted: It was complete rubbish to try and get down country lanes fast but omg was it g...

Two reasonably competant people, proper tools and a ramp.

Hour and a half?

Myself and my brother just took an engine out of a 200SX in those circumstances in that time, was wondering if a 325 engine out of an E30 would be approx. the same?

And how about just one person doing it on your drive?

Ah, 2.7, fair enough. Doesnt say that anywhere

Having seen the inside of my last car's engine (a Skyline) I know where you're at, and how satisfying a feeling it is to have built an engine yourself 8) Begs the question though - why didnt you just get a new engine? Wasnt an option for me (a complete running RB26 is about two grand, and quite rare...

pikey are you tight or do you not have the money? Neither. I will be paying Ã‚£700 for a 535 engine, M3 gearbox + prop, and all the associated gubbins, and an E36 steering rack and associated gubbins. With 225bhp I dont think I'll worry about my backside being caressed by supple cow hide :wink: Stu...

Sorry, no disrespect to you dobbie, I had seen yours and did think they were one of the few that did seem semi-reasonably priced

There's a complete Touring leather interior, recently retrimmed, for Ã‚£500 - which I can sort of understand as that's like brand new. Or cliffybabe's front leather E36 seats, again recently retrimmed so like new for Ã‚£250. But ~Ã‚£300 for a standard comfort leather interior with 100k worth of wear...

There's over 10 for sale on here at the moment, so they're not rare or in great demand! E30s are all over 15 years old, so they're not particularly new, comfortable, or highly specced (heated, electric etc etc). I paid just over Ã‚£300 in total for my car, so I'm loathe to pay that again just for fo...

Cheltenham to Exeter and back to pick up some wheels. To Southend and back to pick up an engine :) Also did 1000 miles in one weekend to do a drift practise night at Middlesbrough, then from there to a competition at Crail in Scotland, then home. 997.3 miles I think it was - in a stripped out 200SX ...

Get this - if I put a 'sports exhaust' on my 325 - they'll charge me Ã‚£75 extra :-x But if I swap in a later 2.5l engine (ie more power but NOT increasing the displacement) there's no extra charge!! :mad: Even if I put in a bigger engine with up to 40% more power (so up to 245bhp) - they'll only ch...

170,000 mile old 325i engine + BTB manifold + exhaust system (Sebring?) + E30Zone wild chip = 200bhp? Or am I going to need a cam / other tuning to get that figure? Its all just theory at the moment, because I'm having difficulty justifying buying a manifold that costs twice what I paid for the car ...

'lense'

That's an M3 colour isnt it? There's an M3 in that colour round my way, I see it every now and again and I'm sure its much darker than mine is. I think it maybe is Lachs Silver after all, seeing it under the lights in the workshop.

Car failed MoT on 22 items :mad: Most of which I was expecting, from driving it and from the eBay description, so its actually quite a lot better than I thought it would be! :) Rear tyres, rear wheel bearings, handbrake, headlights need adjusting, left washer jet, backbox hanger broken and frontpipe...

Yeah I think I'll look at other manufacturers, Ã‚£200 on four springs is a bit steep, lol

Apex, GMax and Spax all make springs for the 325 Touring for around Ã‚£100, which is more realistic

If that's all it is, then I'll go for the normal ones - the heaviest thing I'm going to carry in the back 99% of the time is my BMX :) I was just wondering if the fitment is actually different, cant imagine it is though! Cant justify more than double the cost for a bit of extra spring rate at the ba...

325i = Ã‚£96
325i Cabriolet = Ã‚£176.99
325i Touring = Ã‚£208.99

Why the hell are the cab/touring springs so much more expensive than the normal ones??

Motul RBF is about Ã‚£6 a litre, I use that in my track 200sx and used it previously in a very high power Skyline, its good stuff

Mine do this too

'Harr je' (je as in the french for 'I', with a sort of silent J)?

or 'Hardge'?

or something else equally as difficult to explain? lol

ps please forgive all the n00b questions

Ok, how does the ecu know how much fuel to put in then?

Jon_Bmw wrote:it makes no difference whether you put 95/97/99 in. It will work fine on 95 ron fuel.

So that means I could get even more benefit from a chip specifically designed for use with higher octane fuel?

Are the chips designed for normal 95RON petrol? Or do you have to use 97/98/99RON Super?

SPADGE wrote:
Pikey wrote:
SPADGE wrote: If you need any bits for it give me a shout
Drivers door central locking solenoid is all I can think of at the moment
Should have a few mate get a part number and i'll dig one out for you

Will do.

I also need a headlining, as mine is missing but only from the sunroof back bizarrely!

Are Z3 racks quicker? Do they bolt straight on?

I remember reading something about using an E36M3 rack, but you needed some sort of coupler aswell.

Im 5'10. Bimmaman, might take you up on that offer

Hehe, all I know is a K&N panel filter and E30 Zone Mild chip reduced the 0-60 time on my '88 325iSE from a respectable 7.3 sec down to a pretty stunning (IMHO) 6.7 sec. Haven't tried it for top speed yet - waiting for the right night winkeye - but the car feels noticeably more torquey with the chi...

SPADGE wrote: Maybe releasing the clamp holding the column up and spacing it a little may help but you won't need much as it will make a bigger difference at the steering wheel end.

Explain that a bit more, sounds promising

bimmaman, yeah it's the 4 spoke one

Its very 'squishy'!

Standard drivers seat was totally knackered, that's in the bin! I'm using my brother's M3 seat, which is probably the same. But even if I were to sit higher, I find I'm too close to the pedals, so moving the column down would mean I can sit further back aswell

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