E30 325i, from New Zealand

[nzbimmer]

Both cars are now lowered, white one has Alpina Replicas (16") and have moved the 15" Basketweaves onto the Grey 320i.

[//Rocky]

White one looks nice

[/// KAMI]

White one looks nice

[god-father88]

nice!! whats the white one lowered by?

[Alex]

looking good, ive never seen them 16" reps before

[bss325i]

looking good, ive never seen them 16" reps before

Look like a 16" version of the BK rep. Did BK ever do 16's?

[Alex]

looking good, ive never seen them 16" reps before

Look like a 16" version of the BK rep. Did BK ever do 16's?

thats what i thought, i think bk only do 17's and i think 18"s

[The_Diddler]

Ahhhhhh, brace of moredoors

[andrew320i]

Nice couple of E30's

[karimMSalama]

that was some good cars

[nzbimmer]

thanks for the comments guys.. i'm in New Zealand, theres a mag wheel shop here that sells them.. they are probably made in Taiwan or somewhere though.

[karimMSalama]

clean car

[nzbimmer]

Well.. its been a few years since posting, I sold the above cars about 2 years ago, however I had the urge to get another E30, there's just something about them. (Have just sold my E39 528i).

This is my current E30, owned for 3 weeks now, it is a South African assembled car.
It seems that this model came stock with the Sport Leather Seats, Tech 1 Wheel, 14" Weaves and as you can see its a slush box model.

It seems to go well for an automatic, I suspect the motor is in better condition then the last 325i I owned.



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[TPS]

Thats Lovely, A/C, Big Tool Kit, South African built, what a nice car, is there alot of E30s in NZ?

[nzbimmer]

Thats Lovely, A/C, Big Tool Kit, South African built, what a nice car, is there alot of E30s in NZ?

Thanks, yeah there is still plenty around, but its getting hard to find a tidy one for a good price.

The 2dr Tech2 325i's in good condition with manual gearbox are getting expensive here, ie $12000, which is why I only have a 4dr automatic one, however for $500 I can source all the parts for a manual conversion.

[TPS]

12000 Dollars thats about 6k?!, Big Money

[nzbimmer]

Time for an update.

The car has now been converted to manual, using parts from a 2dr Tech 1 Coupe that was rusted out.

So gone is that horrible auto shifter and now it looks like it should.



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I then decided it was time to give the car a power run on the local Dyno, to determine how many Horses had escaped over the years.

It made 138hp at the wheels, so its probably doing well for its age.



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I ordered some boring parts, such as replacement engine mounts, distributor, rotor etc as the old ones were rather worn out.



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I also gave the car a much needed valve adjustment and now it sounds like:



Its not perfect, but its improved.

A month ago or so I ordered a Miller Maf conversion, I installed this last weekend, however it causes the car to buck a little down low and some hesitation issues.

This was a WOT run with the MAF Conversion, it might seem ok on the video, but I could feel that it wasn't revving out as smoothly as it did standard, ie flat spots.



As a Temp thing I only have the POD filter on the MAF Sensor, however I have just ordered some parts to enable me to connect it up to the factory airbox, which seems bigger then most, it seems the south african E30 325's have a bigger one, I'll add a pic of it after.

I have ordered a new TPS Sensor, intake boot and some other parts, as I suspect I probably have vacuum leaks and a faulty TPS.

I have also ordered a B12 Pro-Kit Suspension (Joint effort between Eibach and Bilstein)
I went with this as I wanted the car to retain a level of Comfort while at the same time improve the handling.

They claim its tested at Nurburgring and fine tuned etc.


http://www.performance2.info/b12-pro-kit-en

[nzbimmer]

Engine Bay, as you can see, useless Pod filter sucking in Hot Air.



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However this is going back in next week.



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Yeap, its ugly that air box, but its bigger then the ones they usually have from what I can tell.

[nzbimmer]

Airbox re-installed, with the help of some 2.75inch pipe, I could do with another hose clamp on it, but its actually ok.



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[genozide]

Like your passion on the E30.

[razor4tuning]

very nice i like it

[nzbimmer]

Thanks for the comments.


This arrived today, Billstein B12 Pro-Kit
With some new Front Shock mounts and upgraded ones for the rear.



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http://www.bilstein.de/en-uk/products/s ... o-kit.html

[nzbimmer]

4x4 Ride Height removed.



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[bmw335icoupe]

the car looks really great on those eibach springs. What model is that and where did you buy them if I may know.
cheers.

[nzbimmer]

the car looks really great on those eibach springs. What model is that and where did you buy them if I may know.
cheers.

Heya, it was this set from this website

http://www.turnermotorsport.com/p-22130 ... ckage.aspx

It was on special when I ordered it, I see its gone back to the normal price now.

Cheers

[nzbimmer]

Today I Washed, Clay Bar'd, Waxed the E30 using

http://www.supercheapauto.co.nz/online- ... escription

It was on Special for $50, which probably isn't that cheap, considering it only came with 1 Clay Bar, but it did the job.

I could have done a better job with the black bits and the wheels, but the main focus was on the paint.
Took about 3 Hours, which isn't that bad.

[nzbimmer]

Its been a long time since I updated this.
Not much has happened, the car now has some Hartge 15" Wheels.

Sadly I have to use a proxy server to access E30zone now days and get the message " You have attempted to access this site with an invalid IP.

If you think this is a mistake you can contact the site webmaster at webmaster(at)e30zone(dot)net.

Be SURE to include the following information in any email!
User Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.1; WOW64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/30.0.1599.101 Safari/537.36
Remote Address: 111.69.155.116
Client IP: none
Forwarded For: none

I tried emailing the webmaster and it bounced back..

Anyway, here's a Picture of how it looks at the moment.

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[nickso]

Your IP problem is common....happens to me all the time overseas.....highly irritating.

Nice E30