The 3.2 Alpina Powered Chromie

[DanThe]

Cheers lads

Plenty more to do to it yet
Bodywork will be staying standard

[appletree]

Brillant thread Dan, Time Warp E30!

My uncles got a Z3 with the 2.8 ally block with the M50 manifold swop and wade a simular power think it was 239bhp, am i right in saying (as he did) that the ECU turns its self up and down for power or economy? he always says it gets realy good economey on the way to a track day but takes afew laps before the ecu turns everything up for power then if he resets the MPG its crap till about halfway home then starts to improve again

[Dave_M3]

Wow!!!

Had to keep scrolling back up over the pictures of the stripped shell just to make sure it really was that clean and not just the pictures looking funny!


Great way to mod a good E30 too... I agree with no point keeping it a 316 as no matter how clean, whats the point of something with a crap engine... If it was an Alpina, Hartge, M3 or something else that's very rare I might think different... but I'd even still be inclined to modernise the brakes and steering on some of those and just keeping the original bits in a box.

The fact you've kept it stock looking still makes it just as valuable in my oppinion in another 15 years...

Only difference is, it will be a nice car to drive rather than some sloppy slow 316, lol.

[DanThe]

Ive found the M52 management to be much more adaptive than the M50 but I dont think it turns the economy on and off, mixed driving I get up to 25mpg, I dont go very far without having a play but I estimate 30mpg tops for mway granny driving.
I reckon im just about at the limit for a standard ECU, now ive done 1000 miles of proper driving (not running in miles) ive started to notice the pinging at certain loads/rpm a lot more, I really need to get it mapped properly before Santa Pod

Cheers Dave, I wanted to mtech it at first but decided to keep it standard looking.
Cant beat handling mods, brake discs are now blue!

[djk]

Such a chariot, I wish I'd spent more time ogling it at the TBMW day - I didn't appreciate just how utterly clean the shell is, though I did spend some time eying the engine install - it just looks factory. Can't think of anything else I'd do to it if it were mine - it's just about perfect.

And all those saying you should mothball it in standard form, I hope they are eating their words now. I probably would have said the same, but it just goes to show, if you do the right things you can end up with something all the better. All it needs now is the reiger widearch kit...

[appletree]

Saw this beastat the pod and it does look great ment to get to chat to you buy you were busy doing somthing on the laptop.

How come you were selling the engine? are you going bigger?

[EThreezero]

Silky motor mate, I would love to do the tourer that colour, think it looks cool as fook.

[DanThe]

Saw this beastat the pod and it does look great ment to get to chat to you buy you were busy doing somthing on the laptop.

How come you were selling the engine? are you going bigger?

You should have just interrupted, computer always says no anyway
Bigger is the only way! Bigger by 400cc in this case, engine is spoken for now and just awaiting a deposit before it gets pulled

The colour is great, the only downside is it needs to be uber clean to look its best

[Dezzy]

330 M54 Dan?

[DanThe]

Nope, they are crap engines

Will update in due course

[dazleeds]

i have been seriously pissed off for a while now, not having an e30

but seeing this and a couple other chromies getting sdome love recently has reinforced my
plan to not dive into the first e30 that comes along and take my time and find the right car and add the right engine

DanThe absolutely love that car very jealous but love everything you've done
top work fella very very nice indeed

[gareth]

having seen some uber clean chromies lately... i'm planning my next car already
poverty spec chromie 2 door with a fettled M52, my Leda suspension (the M30 touring will have to give this up), and banded oem looking black 15x7.5ish steelies.

[DanThe]

Cheers Daz, I only had about 6 months of not being able to drive an E30 and I was going crazy

Good luck with your search

[dazleeds]

Cheers Daz, I only had about 6 months of not being able to drive an E30 and I was going crazy

Good luck with your search

i tried so hard to convince myself that i had enough of e30s,damp carpets and dodgy windows that wont demist etc etc
but life in anything but an e30 is so dull

current car dosent bare talking about it is pure and simple
transport to the shops etc lol

i was stupid to believe i could live without an e30 lol

ahh well lesson learned, so need to find a barn with the hidden minter and as you have done add an engine that can make the e30 go as well as it looks i'll find one eventualy

[Dezzy]

Your up to something suspect Dan arnt you? Excited to here your plan mate

[E30BeemerLad]

Had to come back for another look at this thread.

This car is the tits, hope I can get mine somewhere near

[e30topless]

Had to come back for another look at this thread.

This car is the tits, hope I can get mine somewhere near

inspiration Lee ?

Absolutley Love this car, was great to see it at the pod, totally rot free, awesome looks and ran great times ! what more could an e30 owner want ...400cc's more 3.2 ?

look forward to the update Dan

[trimmer]

Love this car, and just noticed the dealer plates and stickers - came from my local BM dealers

Top work

[DanThe]

Thanks, ive been after some replacement plates as these look a little bit tired, they have to be exactly the same obviously

Its in having the wing sorted, should be back tomorrow so I will put some pics up if I get chance to touch it before the weekend

[e30topless]

Thanks, ive been after some replacement plates as these look a little bit tired, they have to be exactly the same obviously

Almondbury doesn't exist anymore, it's now known as Sandal BMW

I will have a word with the parts guy when i am there next and see what he can do ?

[DanThe]

That would be great! If they have some old plates with the lettering hanging about, dont want any of this new style nonsense

Collected the car today and the wing is now mint.
Top job, you wouldnt know its been painted either

Will get some pics when I polish it

[Dezzy]

Pics??

[DanThe]

Still not polished it, well, I have but not all of it, didnt think a picture of the bootlid would be worth posting

[Dezzy]

Fair enough. Crack on though eh

[DanThe]

I finally managed to get my new wheels spic and span with some acid cleaner last week, touched up the chips and waxed.
New Toyo's fitted by Dezzy this last weekend

Also note the dent free wing

[Cook318IS]

those hartges look awesome on your chromie! Im not jealous... Cars looking really good!

[bss325i]

Nice.

Looks a little high though, are they 35mm H&R's?

[Daf318is]

I'm loveing tose wheels Dan Car is looking superb!

[Rav335uk]

Way toooooo high

[DanThe]

Yep, H&R -35

Must be because its so light weight!

One thing im not keen on is the massive gap around the centre caps

[DanThe]

Way toooooo high

When I wrote "bruvaz" rav, I was being sarcastic

[e30topless]

*New Rimz Bruvaz!!* <--------------was expecting the worst when i saw that ,

IMO you couldn't have picked a better wheel, looks superb

[eko]

Looks awesome Dan.
Reminds me of my old one now

[Rav335uk]

Way toooooo high

When I wrote "bruvaz" rav, I was being sarcastic

No sarcasm there Danny boy , You is hanging round ze right peoples innit "Bruv"

[DanThe]

IMO you couldn't have picked a better wheel, looks superb

I would have liked some 17 inch BBS splits, but with a 2k price tag and being a total c*nt to clean theyre not really practical!

For me Hartges were the next best thing, advantage is I can now fill them with brakes which will also look great behind them