New M3 owners

[ChrisH]

Hi,

Just bought my first E30 to add to the collection and what a cracking car it is.
Its a Cecotto with 73k km but unfortionatly just has a gap with a bit of sticky mess where the plaque I presume identifying (x of 505) should sit. If I got in contact with BMW do you think this is something they could source, or is it now lost forever?

It also came with 17" schnitzers 215/45 & 235/40 on the rear which of course aren't the standard size, but I believe from doing some googling that the tyres should be the same width front and rear?

I'm also after a set of the original 16" BBS alloys which so far, seem to be like rocking horse droppings to get hold of, and can anyone recommend a full carbon airbox/plenum as these look the dogs.

Sorry for all the questions in one hit, but any help with any of them would be much appreciated. You might be able to tell, I'm pretty excited

[gazm3]

Welcome Chris,

Loving the car. I love Macau.

All the goodies your after, I also seek
Im sure one of our E30 M3 experts will be along to inform us.

Cheers Gareth

[alexm3uk]

you wil able to source the carbon air box from http://board.s14power.com/ theres a group buy at the mo and i have seen some 16's on there to mate

go have a look welcome to m3 ownership

[Pal318is]

Looks Spot On Chris...Excellant buy! Loving the wheels too.....

Welcome to the Zone too

Pal

[1an]

im loving those wheels also, imo i wouldnt change them.

[harry_p]

standard tyre size on evos is 225 45 16 all round. although i have the same 215 45 17 and 235 40 17 combination as you on my car at the moment and prefer how it drives on them. a bit less sidewall flew and a lot more grip, yet it doesnt seem to have increased understeer, just means you get a wider neutral slidey area to play with. less sidewaysey, but no more understeery. which while not so great for internet bragging and pub bravade, does make it nicer to properly throw about allong some back roads

[e30bmlover]

lovely car, the schnitzers look the part, keep them!

[Shoomakan]

Lovely M3. What interests me more, however, is that if's that's a TVR in the background...

[josh-hocking]

stunnign car mate!! really nice colour! do you mind me asking what you paid?

[greentouring]

That's very nice, mate!


As a side note: Yesterday, I saw the first M3 I've even seen in 3 years if living in France!

[maxfield]

Lovely looking car. I don't think you can get a plaque anymore, I did once look into it.

Yes C/F airboxes do look the nuts but they sound even better!

[Jhonno]

yeah that is a cerbera in the background

Nice M3 also!

[snoops]

Nice m3, you're mad if you change those wheels, they look far better than the original bbs

[greentouring]

You mentioned your collection...........surely they're not all your cars in the b/g? TVR Cerbera is awesome and they sound like amazing!!

[maxfield]

www.e30shop.de

For the airbox.

[gazm3]

Are these airboxes a straight forward job to swap over?.

[maxfield]

With the C/F airbox you need Alpha-N so not really a straight forward job.

[harry_p]

i'll take the maserati

[dannyboy759]

When I had my Cecotto it had 18inch BBS Le Mans on it and i had the last 3 black Cecotto whell avalible from BMW and I was lucky that the spare was original.

[ChrisH]

Cheers guys, going to get the airbox asap. I'm a 'Ring' addict and all the M3's seem to be running them and the sound is to die for.

Yeah thats my Cerb, and the Maser is Dads.

[maxfield]

Hero!!!

Get a set of cams in there while you're at it! 284/284, C/F airbox and Alpha-N will transform the car into an animal!

[ChrisH]

Cams will come in time, just had to spend over a grand with BMW today ordering the last 4 in the UK (according to BMW) 16" rims to bring it back to completely original.

Anyone fancy 4 AC's with brand new (budget-ish) tyres?

[daimlerman]

Saw a Masarati like that in casino square,Monaco,this summer.The Americans in the party went nuts over a mere Ferrari!! The M3 is your car,fit the rims that you feel are right..and b"""""r the rest....

[maxfield]

Ouch! I would do the cams with the C/F airbox or before and then get it remapped with the Alpha-N which it will need anyway.

[ChrisH]

Saw a Masarati like that in casino square,Monaco,this summer.The Americans in the party went nuts over a mere Ferrari!! The M3 is your car,fit the rims that you feel are right..and b"""""r the rest....

Its always up to me to give the Maserati some stick, for its size it can't half shift.. It might be 100hp down on the M5, but around the ring it has no problem keeping up with the ring taxis.

[playo]

Cams will come in time, just had to spend over a grand with BMW today ordering the last 4 in the UK (according to BMW) 16" rims to bring it back to completely original.

Anyone fancy 4 AC's with brand new (budget-ish) tyres?

How much mate?

What offset are they?

Nice collection of cars you have there!