E30 Zone

Hello mate, i'm in St.Judes so will keep an eye out!

325i touring insured with Direct Line for Ã‚£295 fully comp (a little more with a few extras) 6 years protected no claims and i'm 30. Pretty pleased with that

Looking good mate! Will keep an ear out for it

White one was for sale on here a couple of weeks ago...

http://www.e30zone.co.uk/modules.php?na ... ic&t=54812

Hello mate, looking good with the full drop and reckon definitely go with the smoked rears!
A tidy car for the money, no doubt an absolute bargain!

Give me a shout if you want that passenger seat

Cheers

Hello mate, drive past your collection of cars all the time!! I surf down at Challaborough on a regular basis and drive a white 325i touring with m-tech 2 kit. Was wondering if that white number was a genuine M5 or an M535i for a while. Looks in good nick. Will have to stop and check it out properly...

I returned to an e30 325 touring at the beginning of the year after a spell with an e36 328 touring and honestly, the 328 was a great car but it drinks way more fuel around town, parts are more expensive and to keep up that all important service history with stamps from a reputed specialist cost me ...

Thanks Widge, parts arrived safely, quickly and well packaged!

Top man!

Another one here, top man indeed!! Sorted my bonnet out yesterday afternoon a treat! Good to meet you guys and see your cars. Yours looked menacing in my rear view mirror as driving down the hill!

Thanks again mate, cheers!

Hi all, just had a strange noise start from the back of my touring. It seems to start at slow speed, usually just in to 2nd, where it gets more intense and then disappears once moving quicker in third. Its a sort of loud clicking noise that increases in speed and volume as accelerating but goes when...

Smooth transaction with no hassles. Item arrived on time and just as described.

Would buy from him again no worries.

Cheers

Try Custom Car/Street Machine mags. Hot rodders always love a bit of louvre!

Where was the scrappy mate??

I've only ever had estate cars, i love em! I would have a collection of rare tourings from every model range, C2's, B8's, B10's, S3's, H35's etc plus a few non BM's like RS2's and RS4's without a doubt!

Good skills mate! Thought i hadn't seen it parked up for a bit.

Glad its all sorted mate and that's definitely a serious bonus!! If only there were more garages around like that!javascript:emoticon('8O')javascript:emoticon('8)')

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Thanks for that Iain, greatly appreciated!

Certainly a good starting point for what i'm aiming to do. Interesting point on the differences between the GSF and ECP cams as well. Thanks for the heads up!

Ok, I am the first to admit i'm not a mechanic in any way shape or form so bare with me on this one!! Where is the best place to start in getting my engine back to a smooth quiet unit? Re-build? New complete head? Cam, rockers, gaskets etc. or just keep an eye out for a known good low mileage comple...

Liners were changed from late '97 on. Go for a '98 on 323i sport touring if you can find a clean one. Factory fitted mtec kit and usually half or full leather sport interior, sport s'wheel etc. Really nice car and nikasil won't have been near it!

They never actually made an e36 325 touring, the e30 touring was still being produced when the e36 saloon and coupe was launched. E36 tourings came along in 1995. 320, 323 and 328 (if you want a 6 pot). My last car was an e36 328 touring and it was brilliant but not cheap to maintain that vital serv...

Cheers for that oze30, wasn't sure if there were any hidden bolts tied in with the hinge points. It's from a touring, same colour as was in mine but has rear headrests and is in much better condition! Sport front seats are a HUGE improvement over the comforts, just wanna get the backs and door cards...

Can anyone tell me how to remove the rear seats from a touring? Had a nice mint sport interior delivered yesterday (bloody couriers didn't show up until 7.30pm after taking the afternoon off work grrrrr) The bolsters are straight forward enough but not sure how to tackle the folding mechanisms of th...

Nikasil has been about from the first 328's to end of '97. Some were fine as Jhonno pointed out it was sulphur content that caused the problem. I'd still be careful picking up a 2nd hand lump. Most were replaced under warranty but if there were no signs of it a lot weren't. BMW didn't officially rec...

If you go M52 just make sure its post '97 (they changed the liners) or already had the short engine changed. There is a way of telling if its nikasil or not visually:

http://www.e36coupe.co.uk/forum/viewtopic.php?t=1770

Cheers!

Looking good!! Eun mate, you don't live in St.Judes do you? Seen an e30 lookin suspiciously like yours just around the corner from me and some of the streets in your pics are very familiar!! Did you use either of the well known specialists in Plympton for the engine work or did you do it yourself??...

Owned an M52 328 for the last few years and is an excellent engine apart from the flat spot at about 2500-3000rpm and nikasil! Probably better off with M50. Not as strangled and pretty much the same power output. If doing M52 defo get the M50 manifold in there and remap to get rid of flatspot! Hmmmm...

Looking good!! Eun mate, you don't live in St.Judes do you? Seen an e30 lookin suspiciously like yours just around the corner from me and some of the streets in your pics are very familiar!! Did you use either of the well known specialists in Plympton for the engine work or did you do it yourself?? ...

Cheers mate!! Thanks for clearing that up been going round in circles in my head for awhile now!

Hmmmmm yeah i realised that there is a difference between the bm sports and the recaros but if you had the e30 recaro subframes would any other recaro seat fit to it in theory or where the seats that recaro made for bmw tailored to bmw subframes?

Cheers for that. Thought that maybe the base was universal to Recaro and only the variation was how the base fitted to the car. Guess i'll be keeping an eye on the parts for sale section then!

Hi guys

Will any model recaros fit the e30 recaro subframes?

Been offered a pair of cossie front seats and want to make sure they will fit the e30 bases!

Cheers

Thanks all for the welcome! As geeman said, might as well keep 328touring as i'm here! Not sure what has been done to the suspension, definitely not factory though unless its completely shot!! Hopefully have a chance to check it this weekend. Gonna have a dig through old posts about touring suspensi...

I'll do that then. Soon to be re-appearing as... not sure yet but will think of something!

Cheers

Thanks guys!! It is indeed the one in the link. Can't wait to get all the little niggly bits sorted. Its so much fun to drive compared to the e36 and i've certainly got plenty of fun roads around here to play on (i'm sure you'd agree eko?)!! By the way, registered as 328 touring before i bought the ...

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Did a search but couldn't find anything. Anyone got any cures for the above?? Front end fine but over the boot the headlining has started to come away a bit. Is there any way of re-sticking it? All suggestions welcomed!

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