E30 Zone

Hey guys, is it too late to sign up? I'd love to bring my OEM+ 318iS down to Gaydon: http://i1343.photobucket.com/albums/o797/mwggriffiths/_N2A6127_zps12bquzif.jpg 1: bss325i/325iSport/G341NGO 2: chewy320/318is/H674JLE 3. Keith / M3 / 666W - e30 M3 V10: 4: G1987_e30 / bmw e30 c70han chromie bbs rs 5...

Mine had a fight with the metal stop for an electric gate which peeled the leading edge of the second centre box back by an inch. I'd have expected it to split open like a tin can, but it was fine! Doesn't blow or anything! It'll certainly take some abuse! Mine replaced a powerflow(?) centre section...

I've got one on my car. It's not a bad option if you need a new exhaust, but I wouldn't bother if you were just looking for more power.

For what its worth its a stainless system MIG welded with mild wire.

What will fit on these guys with no arch mods Use this site to calculate the offset: http://www.1010tires.com/Tools/Wheel-Offset-Calculator By putting an 18mm spacer on you're effectively reducing the ET of the wheels by 18mm, so a set of ET20 wheels would look / fit like a set of ET2's (So in this...

Is this currently connected or disconnected, bet the bodger didn't change this connection when they removed the lambda. May cure your ills without refitting. If I read that correctly my car with no lambda needs the connector connected? If so then the bodger isn't as bad as he first seemed.... excep...

Cheers Mark, so the AFM and ECU shouldn't need changing? Sounds a fair bit easier than expected!

I went for the MOT yesterday, and while it passed on emissions (1990 car so less stringent) the lambda reading was around 1.2 at idle! I think my car was fitted with cats and a lambda from the factory, but the previous bodger / owner removed them to fit a SS exhaust, removing the lambda boss at the ...

e30bmlover wrote:Providing they're straight it would be £550 minimum. I think they look great but there's one set of E30 wheels that look better... Lol

pacerpete wrote:15"+ET 40 = cup of cold p1ss.

Good to see we're all in agreement as usual

http://i1343.photobucket.com/albums/o797/mwggriffiths/T2eC16JHJHwE9n8igtftBRP5hPmUlg60_58_zpsd79a0935.jpg I've just come into a set cheaply, the basics are they're 15x7.5 ET40 & the 5x120 so I'm think a set of ~20mm thick adaptors and call it good! But then I spotted this: Somebody on eBay clearly ...

It will out-handle most road going E30's with that set up, as long as you have renewed all other tired suspension components! I have the same set up, it's great 8) I'll back that up, last week my iS held its own in the wet against stripped out 318Ti Compact Cup cars at Mallory. Even with semi slick...

Sounds good! Do you hear a low rattling noise when driving in normal speed, for example about 90 km/h? If I listen carefully I do hear it, but it's almost so low that it's unhearable. Do you also have the problem that the chain rattles a lot when revving the engine to 3 000 RPM? Over and under 3 00...

Mines been rattling for 18 months and is still going strong, I gave it a new tensioner soon after I bought it and run it on quality oil and change it often and its been fine. Then again my PAS pump lasted a year too, and when I asked I was told it was weeks away from exploding! Maybe I just have mo...

Mines been rattling for 18 months and is still going strong, I gave it a new tensioner soon after I bought it and run it on quality oil and change it often and its been fine. Then again my PAS pump lasted a year too, and when I asked I was told it was weeks away from exploding! Maybe I just have mor...

Mine gets driven all year!

I was at Mallory on Friday and it was fine, I even drove home on my track Kumho V70a's which was a little.... interesting!

A picture from Jan:

You lot who are saying "it's no problem" must be McCrae wannabes. Mines got winter goodyears all round and its Bambi on ice. I was passed slithering and sliding up a hill this morning by: A Honda Jazz An Audi A6 A ********* Proton Something or Other The local breadvan. E30s are crap in the snow, en...

I think this sums my thoughts on the matter quite nicely:

E46 wishbones can be done:

http://retrorides.proboards.com/index.c ... 632&page=1

Its not exactly a bolt on upgrade though

My story: Someone drove into my iS 2 months ago, insurance valued it a £700 and tried to Cat C it (Based of Glasses Guide value for an E36 :eek:). I went at them with a two pronged approach: 1. I knew their valuation was as good as made up so I asked, in writing, for evidence of where they got their...

How about showing them a classic car magazine price guide, e.g., the latest Practical Classics values 325i (E30) at £3600 (MINT/Dealer), £3000 Condition 1, £1250 Cond. 2, £500 Cond. 3. They don't list the 318is, however. My copy has a 325 Sport at £6000 condition 1 :o I've sent it to them, but I th...

Cheers for the replies guys :) General consensus here and on PH is that Glass's only covers up to 1992. So how they got a value from Glass's for a 1990 car is anyone's guess... As the for classic / agreed value policies: I looked originally but either I was too young or the car was (Both 21 at the t...

Hi All, My insurance company is trying to offer me £700 for my MINT iS as "that's the maximum Glass's Guide price". (Then they want to subtract an unknown amount to buy it back!) Does anyone have access to a Glass's Guide? Are E30's still even in it? If so what's the price for a 1990 318iS with leat...

If you are going through a third party claims management company then its likely you will get a BMW. Someone reversed into my E30 and cracked my grills and scratched my bumper, the guy wanted to go through insurance so i used the above and i was lined up to have an E90 320i M sport but the guy chan...

Eugh gutting... I think I would of cried or beat the jag owner with a jack. Emotional creature me. keep up the fight :cool: I went through rage and upset very quickly, within a couple of hours I'd accepted it'll be written off and I'm getting on with looking for replacements :( what a shame. it's g...

ah wrote:Is this any help!

http://www.classiccarsforsale.co.uk/cla ... 0-bmw-e30/

That's great cheers

That was for sale when I bought mine though!

www.e30zone.net/modules.php?name=Forums&file=viewtopic&t=219740 heres a cheap 'is' ^^^ also a black one in the cars for sale section. don't us pmk's or whatever his name is advert his is a fookin nightmare. Cheap? I was thinking sub £1k :o Then transfer all the good bits onto the new shell.... The ...

I feel for you buddy. I fooking hate shit drivers :( Much sadness at this Cheers guys :) Contact E30beemerlad ASAP. He earns his daily crust extracting the maximum possible £££ from cases like this. At a guess,the rear beam mount on the o/s is displaced/bent,it's possibly repairable if you can find...

I had a nice iS once upon a time: http://dl.dropbox.com/u/2659144/BMW/IMG_7492.jpg It was tidy as you like. http://dl.dropbox.com/u/2659144/BMW/IMG_7629.JPG Not a spot of rust on it! http://dl.dropbox.com/u/2659144/BMW/IMG_20120113_155841.jpg Over first 6 months I spent >£2k making it MINT http://dl...

what im going to do- is refurb the is one i have as its 5 years newer, and then just swap them over so what exactly is the best thing to do ? just open the top and re grease it and clean the contacts ? or is there more that can be done That's all I did, and it worked first time afterwards and has c...

I'm getting bored of saying this, you need to fit this or another of similar type (audi ones have cooling fins) cooling loop in the return line to avoid your PAS (ATF Dexron II) fluid overheating. You're talking to people who measure racks in lock to lock and fit them to the front holes instead of ...

Middle section to tailpipe then? Yup they're still available, still expensive :P I got a manifold-back system from Fritz's Bits for ~£500 after VAT and delivery, and they do a manifold for a further £500 :eek: it's a nice system, slightly freer following apparently (yeah right!) and uses all the or...

Three points for this: 1) You say you want to go engine to tailpipe, but the manifold for the iS is no longer available :( 2) I seem to remember getting a quote for the rest of the exhaust at around £800 for the parts alone from BMW in December last year :eek: 3) You've then got to add dealer prices...

Rav335uk wrote:OP, you're looking at about £2k for rims like that, or you could by some reps for a few hundred

Are the wheels in the OP genuine or reps? How can you tell?

That was actually almost as easy as the internet guide made out - now there's a first! Some things I did differently though: I undid all 3 Philips head screws (two on the passenger side, one on the drivers) holding the wiring loom backing plate on, and dropped it as far out of the way as possible wi...

although..all it seems he did was take it apart and re-grease ,and didnt mention anything about cleaning electrical contracts ? do you think it would also just benefit from putting the newer motor in aswell ? , its from a 1991 is, where as my car is a 1987 Having read the wiki maybe my mate was tal...

I need to do the same, I've been saying for months I'll do it when it stops raining

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