I've always loved the M535i. When I was at uni (about 5-6 years ago) there was one that I used to see every day on the car park, I loved it and even left a note on it's windscreen for the owner to get in touch if they wanted to sell it. She did email me, but wasn't keen on selling it unfortunately. ...

Did all Design Cabs come with M-Tech steering wheel and suspension?

Facebook was good, but is now getting as annoying as myspace was for spam, except this time it's not rubbish bands trying to add you, it's stupid applications trying to harvest your personal data! Personally, I'd leave the damn thing except that it's a useful way to keep in touch with some of my fri...

In 18 months and 20k miles, my 318i has only let me down once due to a refusal of the fuel pump that had mysteriously sorted itself out the next day (RAC insisted it was out of petrol but had 3/4 of a tank.... go figure). I kind of think E30s are from a sort of golden age when cars were modern enoug...

I'm looking to get a cab next year and want to do a tidy ICE install. Can anyone confim that the rear quarter speakers are the same size?

Beautiful car mate, top job.

I like what you're suggesting Andyboy, and I've seen the odd 525e around in the past, so it shouldn't be *too* hard to get a crank. Gasflowing, cam etc was stuff I was going to do anyway. One question - sure to highlight my complete and utter ignorance of engine mods - will the ECU (with Alpina chip...

I find my 318i fun to drive with decent handling, if not quite the quickest thing on the road (and that's from a former Porsche 928 owner!). Why not get a mint 318i, look after it and in a few years drop in a 2.5?

Ahh thanks for the welcome and the useful information. I guess it's a matter of weighing up constructing my own 2.7 or just getting a 2.5 and completely rebuilding it and kitting it out with some goodies. The plan is to drop whatever engine I end up with into a cab at some point, although the engine...

Thankyou for the welcome and your replies! I'm looking at getting started on it sometime next year, so I'm trying to do as much research as I can right now!

Hello - I'm a newbie on these forums so please be gentle! I've got a question about Alpina C2 engines - how do they differ from the 2.5 M20 engines? The reason I ask is that I'm considering getting hold of an M20 2.5 to rebuild and then possibly drop into an E30 sometime next year. I'd maybe like to...