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Hi there,

I've been reading this forum for a while now and I think it's time to introduce myself .

I'm Tom from holland and am very much into e30's.

I've been driving an e30 325e for two years which I loved :



After some years of circuit experience I decided to convert my road car to a trackcar with my dad and a friend. The idea was to make a nice trackday car. After finding a lot of rust on the car on critical parts we started wondering if it would be smart to go on with this body. At the same time we saw a nice body for sale on a local racing site. It was a four door type 2 e30 from '94 (yes ) :





"Eigentum BMW Werke" ( Property of Bmw )

The best start you can get so hopes were up again and we started building wat we still are doing at the moment. Here some picture's the last couple of weeks/months :

Cage welded in :


Painted :



The car is growing ;) :



The engine will be a M50B25, almost standard to begin with :


And for the e30 enthousiast, here some random pictures :








Today I had to say goodbye to my first e30. He did well


( We have a site : Rotoba-Racing.nl but it's in dutch. Includes many pictures though. )

Anyway, that's my e30 story so far. Sorry for my bad english by the way, I'm doing my best . See you on the forum

What an awesome project, it looks good so far, how long have you been at it?

New shiney parts everywhere

Your english is very good, perhaps better than mine and certainly better than a lot of the txt speak we see on here

We've been busy since a few months now, the problem is time unfortunately. Only a couple of hours a week, sometimes none.

And now I've got another distraction. An e30 316 carburator , bought it for a very small price and since my car is converted to a small block of metal at the scrapyard I have to drive something. But it isn't exactly driving at the moment so will have to take a look at it ;) :

that was a virgin body from the factory?

now there is a brand new e30

Wow. Looks like you have been busy. Well done my friend

Really nice..............post more pictures as the project moves along.

great!

Tom944 wrote: Painted :

May need some bigger wheels.

Welcome to the site, Amazing project you have there. Please keep us updated.

Wow, nice project Tom!! I'd like to do the same someday. Looking Good!!

That is brilliant! Looking forward to seeing more pictures.

Congratulations on the find, quality shell, I bet a few people here, including me, are very envious!!!!!

Awesome looking project with quality pictures too!!

Welcome to the zone, keep us informed of all the progress, will be watching with interest!!!

Thanks for the cool reactions! I will update with some pics then

robmpulse wrote:that was a virgin body from the factory?

Absolutely, not a mile . Maybe in some way it's wrong to use it for racing but then again, it was for sale a few weeks and I was the only one having contacted the seller.

tom wat a job! fair play thats exacly wat id like to do one day was it hard to source the shell my man??

and as stated your english is very good m8 good on you.!! looks stunning as said keep us all posted buddy...

Bloody hell! The new motor looks fantastic!

What a great opportunity to use a brand new shell. The workmanship looks excellent too.

Your English is perfect by the way.

Tom944 wrote:Thanks for the cool reactions! I will update with some pics then

robmpulse wrote:that was a virgin body from the factory?

Absolutely, not a mile . Maybe in some way it's wrong to use it for racing but then again, it was for sale a few weeks and I was the only one having contacted the seller.

where does one come accross a new e30 shell?

wow, everything is soooo new and shiny!!!
she is going to be a beauty when she is finished.

that is fantastic, loving the work being done, great find on the shell also, keep us updated

no problems with your English.. its better than most of ours!!

Bravo my friend,

took me a while to bother to look at this thread, not you thread personlay but im having issues with the zone bandwidth wise..

So glad i waited, exellent pictures dude and as asked already please update em as you progress...tis a brand new E30 in the making!

Tom

That is one serious project and it's looking really good - I love the rolling shell and the additional comments re the wheels

It's a wonderfull country you live in, I've been there a few times and had a 'great' time

Like to see the next stages and a report on it's useage.

Welcome to the Zone

Ian

welcome Tom944!

what a way to intorduce yourself

that project looks amazing, you and your dad certainly seem to be paying lost of attention to ensuring a high standard of workmanship. KEEP UP THE GOOD WORK!

Have you got detailed notes of the building process?I'm thinking this might make a great article for this site

Neil P

thats a true e30 owners spirit

good on ya mate
looks excellent, and you are so lucky to have a new shell to start with
look forward to future updates

your doing what so many of us dream of doing here in the uk

keep up the good work mate

and as said ur english is spot on

Thanks for the cool reactions (also on the english ). I will try to put some pictures here of the project. As I said, for more pictures you can always take a look at our site .

Kramer wrote:
where does one come accross a new e30 shell?

Pure luck, some guy in Germany had in on that cool bmw frame in a shed.

320Touring wrote:welcome Tom944!

what a way to intorduce yourself

that project looks amazing, you and your dad certainly seem to be paying lost of attention to ensuring a high standard of workmanship. KEEP UP THE GOOD WORK!

Have you got detailed notes of the building process?I'm thinking this might make a great article for this site

Neil P

We're doing our best But we don't have real detailed notes so far except in our heads and on the pictures. But if I can help with something, let me know .

Well the next step is the rear axle. At the moment, the subframe is at the coater and will be back by Saterday.
These subframebushes will be used :

along with these trailingarm bushes :

These will be used as rear shock reinforced tops :

And with these stabilizermounts :


Many updates to come

welcome mate,it certainly looks impressive so far

Helo mate looks like a very interesting project, good luck!

Last week we got the subframe back from the coater and put the new bushes in. Here are two nice pictures of it :




These bushes are a bit shorter than the original. With this you reduce the camber a bit when lowering the car.
Ofcourse we started building as soon as possible. Since we are putting the brakelines incar we didn't have think about them yet.




Here's a picture of the trailingarms with the urethane bushings in. Also you can see the reinforced plates for the rear droplinks :



A picture of the rideheight setup although it will be set up when we are going to weigh the car.



Rear strut with tower reinforcement :



Same but from above. Here you also see the towerreinforcement with the urethane bushes.



The rear under the car.



Can't wait to continue with the axles, dif, brakes and everything following.

dude, that is E30 porn your showing us right there!! Love it!!

Lol, doing our best This week we're hoping to have some evening time to continue

Every part a work of art - fantastic!

Hey, here some Belgium greatings!

I love the things you're doing there, I hope to do that some day too.
Respect voor all this and keep up the good work!!

Where in Holland are you from?
Cause this I want to see in real life!

Well, when the car is finished ( which will take some time since we do allmost everything in the late evening hours ) we will take it to Zolder a few times to test it in every way .

that looks brilliant, new shells are always interesting.... often wished of doing something similar. Good luck with your project

Yesterday evening and night ( ) we had some time to work on the car

We put in the CV joints and dif. It's a LCD with a ratio of 3.25, with the cover of a M coupe.




After that we put on the brakes. Ventilated discs and stock calipers. The hoses will be put through the car with a tilton in the middle.




A complete picture :



Hope to continue soon.

now thats nice

I am assuming that the m coupe plate has those fins attached as standard then?

your english is spot on better than mine! lol

Really enjoying the pics and watching it come together it will look awesome when finished! I'd love to do the same thing but with a 2dr shell but I guess in this day and age you cant be too picky lol!

You lucky Bastard!!!!
Thats an E30 enthusiasts dream come true to find a brand new shell!
Definatley the way to go though, starting everything from afresh.
Fairplay to you

Bob_S wrote:I am assuming that the m coupe plate has those fins attached as standard then?

Yes Bob, but at £120 from the dealer mine is on the long list of things to find at a breakers yard