E30 Zone

picked this up from giggz on saturday night, its an 1988/9 320, lachs silver, t&t, 6500k xenon hid's, stoopid exhaust, needs some work tho, got loads of spares with it too! all for £200

started doing a few bits on it yesterday with some of the spares that came with it

first off i had to get a battery for it yesterday

then i changed the bumpers from the black plastic ones to the colour coded jobbies

rear bumper


front bumper




looks better already!

next job on the list is too change this


got a standard system off giggz with the car which is going on on wednesday

Its starting to come along nicely......

don-king wrote:Its starting to come along nicely......

got loads to do to get it to where i want it mate

Colour coded look much better

Is the the big 6 project then?

colour coded is much better, coming along nicely already

Looks like a good project to keep u busy

Is Giggz just buying and selling E30's these days

cliffybabe wrote:Looks like a good project to keep u busy

Is Giggz just buying and selling E30's these days

Seems that way doesnt it. In actual fact these cars going through my hands are lame attempts at trying to replace my old motor!

One minute i dont want nothing more to do with E30's, the next i cant wait to get my hands on one!

Blitz877-i didnt look for the exhaust straps yesterday, sorry. Will have a search tonight.

Giggz wrote:

cliffybabe wrote:
Is Giggz just buying and selling E30's these days

One minute i dont want nothing more to do with E30's, the next i cant wait to get my hands on one!

you can have this one back for a grand mate??

no problem witht the straps mate, just give me a bell tonight

cheers

nice to see you back in an e30 mate i new you wouldnt stay away

cass1_5503 wrote:nice to see you back in an e30 mate i new you wouldnt stay away

mate iv done 400 miles since i collected it, so nice to be behind the wheel of one again!

small update-

spent yesterday afternoon changing the stupidly loud exhaust for a standard one, i had to make 2 hanger glamps for the back box until i can get my hands on some proper ones! but its all much quieter now but its uncovered another noise which is the diff whinning like crazy!! luckily i have a spare 3.64 open diff to go in place of the current one!

thats all for now, il post pics tomorrow

a little update for today

changed the exhaust the other day
loud crappy one!


to this, its a standard touring system which came with the car

its sooooooo nice to be able to hear myself think inside the car now and not get unwanted attention from the police!!

next job was the suspension, i had a set of lowering springs thrown in with the car too! its now 60/60 which is much better than the 4x4 look!!

front legs off



differing spring heights


and this is how its sitting



sits just how i like it now, i forgot to get pics of when i did the rears

more to follow tomorrow

ImysE30 wrote:Colour coded look much better

Is the the big 6 project then?

oh yes it is

just looking for a good engine and box

Looks like it has a few rust issues to me...?

aj_mckay wrote:Looks like it has a few rust issues to me...?

a few?? more like alot! nothing i cant solve tho mate

another small update

plan of attack-
change the whinny diff!

this wasnt much fun on the floor on my own but i got there in the end! linning the bolt holes took the most time tho!

getting the old diff out was quite easy being that it was a small case jobbie, heres the one thats going in-

a bit crusty i no but i cleaned it up a bit before it went in, i found out that its not a 3.64 but its a 3.73, dunno whether thats any better than the 3.64??

heres the two together


and a quick shot of underneath before i put it back in


next job on the list is g60 brakes and rx-7 4 pots and rear disc conversion

well done mate. excellent progress being made there.

another update!

took the carpet out the other day to check for rusty bits and stuff and only found these 2 holes

just in front of the throttle pedal


and just under the glovebox


nothing to major really tho.

spent saturday morning adjusting the tappets just trying to get them right!


then the final job was to fit this!


and here it is fitted


sadly the manifold will be up for sale as iv found an m30 with a manual box to go in there instead

keep up the good work looking good

just a small update.

recently bought and fitted a full scorpion system to the car, sounds quite nice, il put a pic up later

What sort of brackets are you going to use to mount the RX7 calipers? Seen some drawings of some pretty basic ones? Pretty sure that this is the way forward I'm going to go with my track car. Let me know how you get on with their performance etc

well done mate great progress on this

nice work

Looking good mate, cant wait the new engine go in... Im close to starting mine soon too... exactly the same as ur spec 320i silver with the luxurious rusty look

*UPDATE*

been a while since i updated this,

got the scorpion system on a while back which sounds quite nice if a little loud as it got no centrebox at the moment


also got some more goodies with thanks to spadge for sorting these out on the wekend
tech2 wheel which is sooooooooooo much better than the standard jobbie


and also got some disc rear arms to go on next weekend


some other bits to get on with soon too

Let mr know how smoothly converting the rear end goes. Im about to do the same but have never done anyhthing as detailed before! The brake lines worry me :s. ,,, looking good mate!!! Keep us posted!

*UPDATE*

got a few more bits courtesy of glenn,

fitted 325 front legs last night which was most fun in the dark!!
also will be fitting a M20b25 at some point soon too,

blitz877 wrote:also will be fitting a M20b25 at some point soon too,

only a B25?

gareth wrote:only a B25?

well spotted, typo, b27

blitz877 wrote:

gareth wrote:only a B25?

well spotted, typo, b27

good good

What happened to the M30??

Rav335uk wrote:What happened to the M30??

cant find one for my budget mate im afraid

unfortuanatly this is coming off the road for a while now due not being able to run the dam thing due to injury and lack of work!