E30 Zone

Has anyone here attempted this?

I have an itch to get an E30 again, I live in Dubai now so it'll just be a project for while I'm home.

These are the arches I will be buying: http://www.pesch.cz/en/category/bmw/bmw-e30-m3

That definitely looks mental and uber sexy I've seen it done to quite a few Tourings, so it's possible, but I would guess there's tons of work involved for the rear arches/doors.

Google 'vlad e30 m3 touring', it's all metal

I though that name was a dirty word in bmw circles.

There is a red one built a long time ago that is far better in there of workmanship.

HairyScreech wrote:I though that name was a dirty word in bmw circles.

What do you mean?

Vlad. Renowned con-artist and bodge merchant, who built an M3 Touring in that colour blue. The car looks beautiful, but the guy's a nobber.

Crazy amount of work I imagine, and can look very very wrong easily

I really have to say aswell that the fibreglass stuff is, well I have yet to see a good panel from Fibreglass. The bumper I have on my car is a p.o.s

Phill172 wrote:Crazy amount of work I imagine, and can look very very wrong easily

I really have to say aswell that the fibreglass stuff is, well I have yet to see a good panel from Fibreglass. The bumper I have on my car is a p.o.s

the M3 arches and skirts and also the Breyton valances and arches by raymond in scotland are good quality kits phil... me and davey b on here have had those kits supplied by him

Kit_L wrote: These are the arches I will be buying: http://www.pesch.cz/en/category/bmw/bmw-e30-m3

Last stuff I bought from them was not great quality, you had better be careful.

I would imagine a fibreglass kit would be a pain to bond onto a touring properly, and be able to witstant the opening and closing of the rear doors, plus you're going to have to box in the massive holes you'd see between arch and door skin when the door was opened, and work out how you're going to do the dogleg around the arch.

some of the finished ones out there look amazing, but i bet there are lots that get scrapped half way through.

The_Haywood wrote:

Phill172 wrote:Crazy amount of work I imagine, and can look very very wrong easily

I really have to say aswell that the fibreglass stuff is, well I have yet to see a good panel from Fibreglass. The bumper I have on my car is a p.o.s

the M3 arches and skirts and also the Breyton valances and arches by raymond in scotland are good quality kits phil... me and davey b on here have had those kits supplied by him

Do you have a link as I'd be interested

im quite interested in doing this to my touring would prefer steel rear quarters tho any one know where you can get them from?

Phill172 wrote:

The_Haywood wrote:

Phill172 wrote:Crazy amount of work I imagine, and can look very very wrong easily

I really have to say aswell that the fibreglass stuff is, well I have yet to see a good panel from Fibreglass. The bumper I have on my car is a p.o.s

the M3 arches and skirts and also the Breyton valances and arches by raymond in scotland are good quality kits phil... me and davey b on here have had those kits supplied by him

Do you have a link as I'd be interested

I'll dig out the links to our threads, but i don't have a link to a site for raymond, just his number, which i can pm you.

http://www.e30zone.net/modules.php?name ... 8&start=75

This is daveyb's build thread with it finished has both m3 arches and skirts and then breyton valances, all fg

There's a guy I know over here that's building a full metal body one from a bare sell resto and sticking an S62 up front with Z3m rear axle

It should be quite nice when finished

More updates needed on that one

what do you thing i good example of an m3 touring might be worth?

Love the look. Your giving me ideas.

fearlessphil wrote:what do you thing i good example of an m3 touring might be worth?

What someone's willing to pay, same with most project cars

ImysE30 wrote:

fearlessphil wrote:what do you thing i good example of an m3 touring might be worth?

What someone's willing to pay, same with most project cars

Indeed, in most cases, a lot less than the build costs !