E30 Zone

coopman wrote: ↑
Tue Mar 01, 2022 7:42 am
The first post of this thread is gold.

"Id never seen an entire corner of a car held together by 3 spot welds and 4 tubes of tiger seal before."

Haha I think it was the official repair method of the late 90’s

rix313 wrote: ↑
Sun Feb 27, 2022 10:06 am

Is the Golf yours too?

The golf is my brothers! We bought them around the same time and his was far better to start with, but has also been refreshed over the years.

It’s a really nice 16v

ah wrote: ↑
Fri Feb 04, 2022 7:22 pm
When you look at the very first pictures of you car and now what looks like,a work of art,congrats !

Thanks! It takes a lot of love but they get there eventually!

miks15 wrote: ↑
Fri Feb 04, 2022 4:37 pm
Lovely looking car.

Can I ask what size wheels and tyres you've got on there?

Considering some alpina reps for mine, and looking at my options at the moment

Thanks!

They are 17' and the tyre are 225/40 Michelin Pilot Sport 3s.

Every now and again i remember that i made this thread, and feel the need to update you that the car is still alive! It spent most of 2021 in dry storage but i gave it a wash down over the weekend and hope to get some more miles in this year. https://i.postimg.cc/mDqj6yCP/IMG-1408.jpg https://i.post...

Nothing special to be honest, mostly basic maintenance. It has spent a lot of time in storage so probably covered less than 10k miles since it regained road legal status. The last big job was a new fuel tank, fuel pump, fuel pipes and fuel filler. I think that went in during early 2018. Rocker cover...

I hadnt logged into this site for probably two years, and then suddenly remembered i had a build thread. Cant believe i bought this car in summer 2010, nearly ten years ago already....longest iv ever owned a car! Its great being able to look back at the car coming together and the work carried out, ...

I'm going.

If you still need cars/have spaces then pm me otherwise I'll be in the main car park.

Rebuilt M52 tech 2 sport.

Cheers
Matt

We all know these cars are never finished, so spent the last few weeks tidying up a few issues with the car. Now clocked up 1k miles since it returned to the road! Had a small piece of luck in tracking down one of the missing pieces - http://i804.photobucket.com/albums/yy328/MattMi16/325i%20Sport%20...

Hi All, Thanks for the replies, and nice to see others who've owned their cars as long as I've had this one! Bss325i - thanks for all the info on specific points, very much appreciated. Hopefully I'll get chance to get the car out of the garage this weekend and start making a shopping list of what'...

Toward the end of last year we managed our first BMW meet, which was local to me and advertised on one of the M3 forums. The car got some very kind comments, and a snapper took these: http://i804.photobucket.com/albums/yy328/MattMi16/325i%20Sport%20Resto/28986866064_c8f0111ee8_b.jpg http://i804.phot...

Oh really? Nah im not selling, i need a few years use out of it first.

If i counted up the hours id also need to sell it for a few million quid to break even haha.

Iv just found a load of old photos of this resto so ill try and add some up over the next week or two to my existing posts!

Thanks all for the kind comments to date!

Great project, love the exploded views!

Do you have a link for the borescope...looks an interesting addition to the tool box!

I think i may have saw this on the A127 southend bound the other morning??

Never fails to amaze what is hidden on these cars.

But will make a lovely example, im in love with that interior!

If you pop out the mirror glass you can see 5 plastic rivets which hold the mirror casing to the metal structure of the mirror itself. I ran a 5 mm drill bit through the plastic rivets to break them free, and when it came to reassembly, used a strong PU bonding adhesive between the remains of the ri...

Good stuff, i can appreciate the work going into this!

Sometimes the morsels make for sound investment as they are so easily removed and sold on. If you have £2k spare in the bank earning 0.5% interest, why not blow it on the wheels, enjoy them for 5 years or so, and know that at any point you can re-sell for what you outlayed at the very least, if you ...

Super project, that made a lovely car, well done!

No there is plenty of clearance. They are a bit of a faff to strip down into component form, so the old set i simply painted the best i could, whilst they remained complete. Obviously you cant get a lot of paint into the 'hidden' areas though so it looked scrappy. The second set i stripped which inv...

Little Update on the E30. I had kind of rushed the paint work on the wing mirrors in order to get the car MOT'ed, and frankly they looked terrible in the nooks and crannys: http://i804.photobucket.com/albums/yy328/MattMi16/325i%20Sport%20Resto/DSC_0084%20Large.jpg So i picked up a spare pair, stripp...

How strange, iv driven past your house and admired your M3/Hartge, iv always considered knocking on your door for a chat!

I live literally 5 minutes away and have a E46 M3 and a 325i sport. They make an excellent pair!

Yours both look superb

Sure, ill bare it in mind. Seems a few people are after houndstooth interiors.

Beautiful day earlier so i trimmed down the excess wiring.... http://i804.photobucket.com/albums/yy328/MattMi16/DSC_0004.jpg And gave her a damn good bath.... http://i804.photobucket.com/albums/yy328/MattMi16/DSC_0006.jpg I can feel a photoshoot coming on, just waiting on a wheel refurb! :D

Why not? Lemforder still make E30 suspension parts for BMW. Exhausts require rustproofing and take up considerable space to store, demand is very low, tooling required to make them is huge, and that space on the factory floor is more profitably used elsewhere. And i may be wrong but most of Boysens...

True, all i know is it certainly wouldnt make sense for it to still be boysen!

I have to admit i dont understand the 'Genuine BMW' thing. A manufacturer will have a 10 or 15 year requirement to continue supplying 'OEM' parts to a manufacturer. These are parts that have come from tooling paid for and owned by BMW. If E30 stopped production in 1993, we are long past that cut off...

The standard exhaust weighs about a 1000kg. :muttley:

Thanks everyone :D The E30 has been laid up over winter in storage, but now that spring threatens us with occasional sunshine, i have a few items on the to.do list. The Eibachs id previously fitted were 'new used' but after driving the car the rears felt far too soft, the car was squatting really ba...

Nice looking car, but not meaning to be the barer of bad news, make sure you get it properly checked over for rust. My experience would suggest that if the rear arch lips have gone like that, there may be more or worse under the bodykit and in the nooks and crannies. Just have a good poke around as ...

Thats lovely! Interior is

Ohhh yeah i know it...its actually my least favourite interior haha so i might have to go for leathers instead.

Ill repair the houndstooth set and move them on, if i can sort the bolster its a very nice set of seats.

Good shout, i just checked the build details...

Color Delphin Metallic - 184
Upholstery Anthrazit Stoff - 0269
Production Plant MUNICH

My rudimentary german suggests anthracite cloth?? Would that be houndtooth or was there another variant?

Hmm i suspected the same to begin with. But then i was told that due to the car being an 88 build, it was blend of tech two/tech1. I.E using up whatever they had lying around at the factory.

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