E30 Zone

See, part of it is the price. I paid $2200 for the thing 18 months or so ago, which is about 900 GBP. A 325i Sport is $16,000-25,000 (6,400-10,000 GBP) and a reasonable E30 M3 starts at 40K (about 16,000 GBP). $2200 is almost nothing for an E30, and to get one that isn't falling apart would mean at ...

I know for a fact that the water is comming from the wiper motor area, since when I put a tarp over it, it stops filling with water in the rain. I also know that the firewall is rotten, because when I pull the insulation away in the engine bay, its full of rust behind the battery carrier. My questio...

Passenger side: http://img138.imageshack.us/img138/9294/dsc000725mf.jpg Whole interior: http://img239.imageshack.us/img239/4091/dsc000733tj.jpg Driver side: http://img301.imageshack.us/img301/9346/dsc000746rq.jpg Driver side again: http://img95.imageshack.us/img95/6743/dsc000762af.jpg The little pip...

After getting tired of seeing daylight through the hole in the floor of my 85 318i, I ripped the interior, carpet, and noise deadening out of the car, and in a couple of weeks its going in to have nearly the entire floor replaced, and a full respray in Jet Black. As I took the carpet out, I saw thes...

Interestingly, a few of them seam to have fallen off the back of a truck recently, as a few builders here seam to have a number of them, including some brand new parts. Going price here is around $12K, but thats more along the lines of 5000GPB. Build it yourself, with your own specifications. There ...

To be completely different, there is always the little BMW M12/M13 with some nicely done pumbing and a decent sized turbo hanging off the thing. The other advantage is that it gives you the ability to completely run your mouth at anyone in the world that owns a Nissan Silvia, WRX, EVO, whatever. Own...

I've seen alot of people here do the Nissan SR20DET engine conversion here, with a great deal of success. Here in Australia I can get a mint SR20DET for less money that a second hand M20B23 due to the Japanese dumping ground effect. Don't know how you would feel about it though. Mind you, the cooles...

I find it hard to get excited over an E36. E46 definately, its beautiful. I rate the E30 second, but just can't see the 36 as something special.

They just all look too similar no matter what you do to them, and boring.

That said, the E90 cab is going to make the E36 look brilliant by comparison.

That's pretty wrong. A respray and some more tasteful wheels and it'd be OK, though you're knocking on the door of 7 grand by that time. Can get a real M3 cab for not much more. Still, for those who don't do LHD... I think the point is to have a nice looking, standout cab, not a fake M3. There are ...

We have a pair of E34 525i's running M20B25 engines (1989 manual, and 1990 auto). Its definately a better car in every way than the E30. Except it has 4 doors, and they never made a proper 6 series off it. It doesn't rust, which is nice compared to the hole ridden floor and boot of my E30. Interior ...

Thats called a Commodore ute.

The Monaro is a 2 door 5 seater coupe. The ute is a chopped 4 door commodore with a tray on the back. Those LS1 utes are standard issue for our government housing type people over here.

Either way, they're all Australian

The 924 wasn't a bad little shopping trolley for my mother before her E34, but 95% of them are a disaster. The major problem is that at least here in Aus, the 924s were a Porsche that a young man with little money could afford. Thus the vast majority have been thrashed. Second problem is though the ...

That car would sell for the equivilant about 2000 pounds over here in Australia. It scared me how cheap (or free) you get E30s in Great Britain.

There are a fair few around. A mob down in Victoria, Australia does E30 M3 and 2002 Turbo kits in a carbon fiber / kevlar mix that look extremely good, and bend under racing conditions. Theres a japanese mob that does some nice ones as well. Just googling, there is a British place that seams to do t...

Theres always the M3 cab kit as well...

I think the blue kit has the potential to look extremely good at the front with a slight change. One of the most distinctive features of the E30 front end is the lip bumper that is on all the stock cars, the M-tech 1s and 2s, and M3s. The lip overhangs the front spoiler slightly, and while on the M3...

Or you could just use non power steering. IMO it has a better feel, but I guess its a personal preference. The only time PAS really does anything is when parking, but if you have a bit of beef on your arms it makes no difference.

The whole idea of using a cheap bit of cardboard with some plastic clips holding it on under the dash is just stupid in itself to be honest, but such is life. Especially when the clutch and brake have to slide into little slits in the bottom of it. Not that I'm questioning German engineering or anyt...

You can just use wood screws. Get them a tight fit with the slot that the plastic screws go into it good and solid. The footwell end of my panel got stuck behind the clutch and broke two of the three plastic screws, so mine are normal metal ones now. Its not that hard. Paint them black on the heads ...

I'm going to replace both earth straps definately. Do you think the negative terminal to valve cover direct would be ok though? It just seams to be the most direct route, and shouldn't be different to going the long way around. It would be a 3rd earth, to compliment the existing two, rather than a r...

I've just managed to get my M10 318i to work again after almost 6 months. What happened was it had badly flooded. To solve it, I pulled the fuel pump relay, and cranked it over heaps while jumpered to a 525i. After about 5 minutes of cranking, it had passed all of the fuel in it, and as soon as I pu...

After the 2.7 the sport is still a modified sport, but an Alpina, is... well, its an Alpina isn't it?

The wank factor definately comes into play, and the pina has it in spades.

The pina styling looks brilliant as well. Its unmistakable.

Its even more confusing buying them for E34s. The early E34s, from 87-91 use the E30 spline, and don't seam to have airbags.

The E34s from 91-96 have the later E36 spline.

So you can buy an E34 MTech 2 and it may or may not fit your E30 depending on the year and other factors.

To be honest, I've always considered the tourers to be rather ugly at the back. That one has about changed my mind though, between the wheels, kit, red lights, and the nice exhaust.

Not bad, not bad at all.

The red definately makes a big difference.

When I changed my knob for a nice woodgrain one, I couldnt figure it out, and someone here told me to straddle the center console and pull over my shoulder to not knock myself out. That worked well getting the knob off, but then I fell backwards and cracked the rear ashtray and coin holder when my a...

I'm thankfull you're not a car thief Brian ;) The upside is that the vast, vast majority of tea leaves have never been in, let alone owned a BMW, and would find it far too complicated compared to their Vauxhall I spose taking the coil to distributor HT lead would be a fairly sure fire solution. I do...

Well, the steering lock works. Its simple, but still a rather effective method of keeping theives at bay (I mean the factory steering lock thing, where with no key in it, you turn the wheel and it locks up). One of my mates has a Mercedes 190E manual, and his method is pretty simple. He has a steel ...

There are more than one. Mine has two relays in it. One is a very tall relay, which is black. That is the fuel pump relay. The other relay is silver and very short. NFI what that is to be honest, but its not the fuel pump. You may have more, you may have less. But with any luck it will just be those...

Its on all E30s I think. I just checked and its on Bootyman's M20 as well as my M10 so I assume its standard. His is chrome and shiny though, not black ;) http://www.e30zone.co.uk/articles/memberse30/mod/booty/engine10pd.jpg Can you see on that picture, to the left of the shock tower brace, and just...

You sure you don't have that forward L shaped box near the AFM, and towards the headlights of the fusebox?

Oh damn mate is that yours? The black, black, black, and more black, with the black tail lights and the polished BBS rims with the black BBS wheel centers looke brilliant. You know, one of those Heckspoilers in black would round our that back end even nicer too. Those wheels were just made for that ...

Porsche Fuchs black with polished center star and rim. Ever since I first saw them, they gave that "German muscle" look. Polished rim and deep black dish , with some more polished metal just for fun :) This particlar wheel is a bit grubby, but in good condition, I love them. http://www.terovirta.com...

Yea, its fairly easy to do lol.

I considered reading through the wiring diagram to find the ones I needed to kill, but I figured that when its not connected, it has the effect I wanted, so I used a multi-gated trigger switch, and cut all 7 or 8 wires going to the fuel pump relay holder, and wired the switch in series. The control ...

Ah now I get you. I use my unloader for that reason when its being left for an extended period.

You can't take it anywhere without the fuel pump so its a perfect method. For simplicity, pull out the relay.

Ill see if I can find a picture.

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