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Some new thingies 11/2009 -->
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Hello all!
I though I’ll present my E30 cabrio to you all. It’s originally a normal ”˜87 325 with ~415 000 km on the clock.

I bought the car in 2005 and after that I’ve been building it. I stripped the car completely to bare shell and built it with new or retrimmed parts.
I’ve built almost everything by myself, only painting and interior trimming were made in a special shop.

I got the cabrio finally ready for this summer. It’s my daily driver in the summer, for now it has made ~7000km without any problems.

For future plans I’ve V8 swap coming next winter and some minor adjustments to suspension but nothing radical.



Specifications;
-M30B34 stock
-Sport getrag (from E12 528) with dogleg and 1:1 fifth gear
-2.65 LSD from E34 525tds
-Selfmade coilover setup, Bilstein Sprint shock absorbers
-BBS RS 8,5 + 10x17”a
-Complete, original M-tech2 bodykit
-Smoked lights and indicators all around (MHW, Hella)
-Retrimmed interior (real leather and alcantara)
-M3 instrument cluster and gear knob, Z3M gear stick, M-tech2 steering wheel and rearview mirror
-And lots of minor things..

More pictures can be found here.

Enjoy!
-Joonatan H.
Finland
Joonatan84@hotmail.com

impressive man, hats off to you

Joonatan,

That is simply delicious my friend! I love it!

proper nice,

how did you get 17" rs's on there, change the hubs? or use adaptors?

thanks

That looks very nice! Get more pics please.... engine bay, interior, etc

Nicest cab I've ever seen.

Top job mate

Really beatifful cab!!

Amazing car!!

looks realy stunin' u comin to Santa pod on september 20-21, this is reallty a beauty! white pearl

Thanks for positive comments!

w17led wrote:how did you get 17" rs's on there, change the hubs? or use adaptors?

Some welding and drilling ;)

Mandeep_VW wrote:That looks very nice! Get more pics please.... engine bay, interior, etc

There is a link in the first post for additional pictures.

Here're couple of interior shots.

snooka wrote:u comin to Santa pod on september 20-21, this is reallty a beauty! white pearl

Little bit too long way to come

Here's one night shot

Very, very nice. Especially like the wheels

Very !

that looks so cool

nice

Very Very Nice..!! Loving the 3rd pic...

I would give my left arm for those wheels!

jase325isport wrote:I would give my left arm for those wheels!

I think i wud give my left arm for the women Nah seriously i luv the look of this car, can see how much it is luved very easily. Nice!!!

Seen this over on E30Tech also, very very impressive, credit to the owner...

Lovely car.....

stuunnnning!!!

AMAZING................. its lokking WICKED

Jonsku, personally not one for convertibles, but this one i like alot, looks awesome mate, you can see that you've put alot of effort into it, and it does look stunning... loving it

As already said on BF.com, your car is amazing. If only those silver BBS logocaps were gold on black....I think that would look REALLY lush!

Nicest cab ive seen!! congrats mate!!

Jonsku wrote:
Here's one night shot

Where would i find one of these accesories for my passenger seat? Really finishes the car off

Wow!! thats awesome!! The BBS really suit it!!

Quite simply one of the nicest E30's I have seen. The seats are a work of art. Clearly a lot of hard work.

perfect buddy.keep up the good work

Welcome and thank you for sharing this beauty

Thank you all.

Next week i'm going to strip the car (again.. :-/ ) and start the V8 project. Can't wait to get my hands dirty again

What you going to break it....

Why not just buy another car and sell this one, i would buy this and i dont even like convertible much...

Jonsku wrote:Thank you all.

Next week i'm going to strip the car (again.. :-/ ) and start the V8 project. Can't wait to get my hands dirty again

If it had been anyone else that had said that, i would have condemned
them as criminally insane, but in your case i think you may even improve on an already beautiful work of art.

Still think you are slightly mad though.

stunning mate, keep up the hard work...

Hehe, well now i've had one week holiday, and:



Couple more pics here

edit; thought i've been around here so long that i'll start project topic on "engine swaps" - side. Link.

thought i bump this up, to find out hows it coming along mate... how far you got, any more pics....

Spote on mate, did the wheels go straight on or did you have to mess about with then