E30 Zone

Christ, I haven't been on here for over a year, first thread I look at and the bullshit is still the same as ever! Love this zone.

Picked up a replacement (finally!) last Sat.... Piccies will follow when I've finished playing with it. E30 rightness ftw!

Sorry to see this dude! :( Any bits to be unbolted and saved? Cheers fella! I liberated a few morsels... Still looking for a replacement, been to look at 3 e30 cabs and they have all been tarted up junk. Why do people let you drive a hundred miles to see something that is obviously not as good as t...

Really? What budget are you looking at? http://www.autotrader.co.uk/classified/advert/201133410127215 That's been to the moon and back! I'd pay up to £4k for the right car, but they are mostly junk. I think I'm limiting the choice somewhat by looking only at manuals, but I really don't fancy an aut...

E39s are cack. I've been to look at 3 that have all been 'immaculate', and they've all been rusty junk - all 2000/01 models as well. Back looking for an e30 now, an eminently restorable 325 2door sold from under my nose this morning and had me punching the laptop... I officially hate old cars, ebay,...

Ouch.. Sorry to see that fella, looked clean. I think the ditchfinders were as much a contribution to it as anything from the look of it.. The crappy tyres were the 1st thing I noticed. Only 4 things keeping you on the road.. I do not doubt you weren't pushing your luck, but it goes to show the who...

Isn't there a piece that needs to be bonded to the windscreen that the mirror then clips into or something? I only ask as my Dad's cab came with the mirror in the glovebox and a poxy halfords thing stuck to the screen, and someone I asked at the time said that it was like this. We haven't bothered l...

Be good to here from drivers with plenty of experience driving in those years 1980s and before???? I don't know about pre 1980's but the E30 is the only car I have ever had with ABS and don't think I have ever used it. Been driving for 20 years and only one minor prang. I suppose it might be the wa...

I checked online and this car is registered as being blue..... I wouldn't necessarily read anything into that, we had an old Honda that the previous aged owner had had from new that was purple on the v5 - it's just what the tart who does the first registration puts on the form. You'd need to check ...

Biggest difference I've found on M20s is length of journeys - if it never geets fully hot, ie not just the coolant gauge, it will give cack mpg. 35 on a run is to be expected. I was getting high teens on my 8-mile commute though, in the 320 before it got smashed to bits. 325s are often etter because...

I watched a guy change the hood on my MX-5, which is generally known to be relatively easy, and that looked hard enough to do well. Would want to begin trying an e30 hood - if it takes days and ends up fitting poorly, it's going to be a bit of a waste of what you spend on the hood itself. Depends ho...

E-plate e30s are weird - the 88MY cars have loads of little detail differences to the pre/post facelift cars, not least the 'bulseye' headlights that a lot of them have. Interestingly, this car has the non-projector lights though, which suggests to me it was a pre-88MY car. Could have had the kit fi...

Roof isn't obviously warped, it's the shadow of overhanging trees in the pic. The door shuts are all out to lunch though, so the whole car is banana'd. Regarding the fuel/oil on the road thing, I'm not going to do anything about it - I don't think it would get me anywhere and would be a whole hill o...

was there diesel really? you can tell us you ran out of talent! Si with the best will in the world it's impossible to run out of talent in a spazbox 320, it must have been diesel on the track or ditchfinders? All 3 I reckon! If I'd been pressing on, I'd hold my hands up and say it was all me gettin...

I'll be back soon... MOTD!

Did plod turn up and is there a record of diesel being on the road? Well, they pointed it out without my prompting, but I'm not sure they made an official note about it. They seemed pretty disinterested once they'd recorded no-one injured, didn't even breathalyse me which I thought was pretty much ...

Caught me side on. Think I was pretty lucky to be honest, was a heavy impact, but ahead of the front wheels so I think a lot of the energy kinda 'glanced off'. The whole car's bent like a banana though, big crease in the spare wheel well and nearside c-pillar, even though the rear end just brushed u...

Rav335uk wrote:Long time no speak!

Don't worry, I now have a slushbox too, glad to hear you made it out ok

Good to hear from you fella - slushbox fail though. Did you get your e21 project together?

E30BeemerLad wrote:That was a tidy smack Doug, glad you're OK

I just can't handle the tyre shredding 320 powaaaaaz!

Your chromie's looking good, need to have a nose on your piccie thread.

Could of ended alot worse, Hopefully van driver doesnt stick a claim in for whip lash :eek: Well, nothing I can do about it if he does I guess. Bit annoyed with the insurance company tbh, they are obsessed with asking me to 'accept responsibility', without telling me what I would be accepting respo...

Had my first slush box at 21, wasn't the choice at the time, just what the 528i I bought came with. Grew to enjoy it, prefer manual when trying to get somewhere in a hurry, but in traffic / town it's great. On the motorway it makes no difference anyway. I've had my eye on e39 530is, much greater ch...

Got out fine, young lad in the van I collided with fine too, as were the two dogs he had in the back of the van (!). I nearly cried when the world stopped spinning though, it felt a bit like losing a pet. Keep saying 'it's just a car', but the sad truth is I loved it a little too much. Been getting ...

Pictures speak louder than words: http://i291.photobucket.com/albums/ll311/gurt_slug/BMW%20crash/DSC00737.jpg http://i291.photobucket.com/albums/ll311/gurt_slug/BMW%20crash/DSC00735.jpg http://i291.photobucket.com/albums/ll311/gurt_slug/BMW%20crash/DSC00742.jpg http://i291.photobucket.com/albums/ll3...

Momo and nardi pcd is different AFAIK, but a lot of bosses come with holes for both.

HTH

octanejunkie wrote:Nasty, thats what they are...
TSW Evo +1

Yup, TSW Evos, I remember these from the days when I thought Max Power was a good thing. I grew out of it long before I could actually drive a car!

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Noice. 2 things you must get - colour-coded 'jimmy hill', leather handbrake gaiter to cover the gap up to your e36 handbrake handle. Then, is finish

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Read the oilman stickies in tech help.

One other problem, if you are fitting this to a saloon, is that 320's only have a single tailpipe, so the cut out in the valance may not be wide enough for the 325 system's twin pipes. Only on prefacelifts do 320s have the single tailpipe, postfacelifts have twin pipes, as in my sig! What do I win ...

Unfortunately, BMWs always will appeal to the tossers of this world. I like BMW quality and driving dynamics, but I'm not a fan of the 'bimmer' image at all.

Basically, any 10W40 semi synth is more than adequate for road use. Better to spend money on regular changes than whizz-bang carlos fandango oil IMO.

Most M40 engines have noisy top ends - replacing the whole engine with a better unit is probably the most cost effective solution.

Whereabouts are you in Herts?

TBH, I would think if you put it up for sale as is, it will almost certainly be broken for parts if the shell is a bit frilly as well.

bss325i wrote:Basicly where ive marked on here?

If memory serves, that's quite a good spot then, everyone tends to come in through there? Trick.

Hi guys, Thanks a bunch for all the responses! have given it a nice service using some castrol and k&n oil and air bits (pannel filter) and also gave the throttle a good clean. I will have a look at the throttle cable when I get chance too. Dont really want to chip it or anything just personal pref...

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