E30 Zone

Ive recently finished converting my e30 from a 1.8 to a 2.5 and decided take it out on some nice roads lynmouth upto porlock hill. Loving the sound of the straight 6

Nice. Are they banded steels?

Yeah they are, there original e30 steelies banded to 8". Im thinking about getting another pair done to 9" or 9.5" for the rear.

Loving the blue sky

so how you finding the m20.whats your fav thing about the 2.5.

Looking good mate....nice one..........Welcome to straight 6 heaven!

Moody backdrop!

ETERNITY wrote:so how you finding the m20.whats your fav thing about the 2.5.

Really enjoying it, I like the way it keeps pulling up high in the rev range, great fun leaving it in 3rd/4th in the twisties. I was expecting it to be really crap on fuel but its better than the m40 1.8 I had in there for sure and that wasnt running bad. These are the plugs from the m20 after about 400 miles seems to be running spot on.

ChelseaBoy wrote:Looking good mate....nice one..........Welcome to straight 6 heaven!

Cheers bud!

Looks a very cool car mate, good luck with future mods.

trevski wrote:Looks a very cool car mate, good luck with future mods.

Thanks nice getting good comments after the hard work .

Some more pictures of the engine etc on my build thread.
http://www.e30zone.net/modules.php?name ... 61#1878761

nice car mate!

Great stuff. Nice understated with beasty 6 under the bonnet. The steels are much cooler than bling. HOW GOOD is the scenery? Where is Lynmouth? What exhaust are you using?

good luck nice car

xavier wrote:Great stuff. Nice understated with beasty 6 under the bonnet. The steels are much cooler than bling. HOW GOOD is the scenery? Where is Lynmouth? What exhaust are you using?

Cheers xavier Lynmouth is on the north Devon coast. The exhaust is a scorpion system would of preferred a genuine bmw system but was to complicated to find out what I needed also the scorpion was pretty cheap at £400 including downpipe.

looks nice like the banded steels thinking about getting some for mine. and yea i no what you mean about fuel my old e36 1.6 drank more than my e30 2.5 dose sounds mad

Looks very nice, interesting choice with the wheels, do they ride well ??
Liked the thread about the engine build,
(Looking at the parts though, is that the right sort of cat for that 2.5 engine ??)
Keep the pictures coming,

Alpina99 wrote:Looks very nice, interesting choice with the wheels, do they ride well ??
Liked the thread about the engine build,
(Looking at the parts though, is that the right sort of cat for that 2.5 engine ??)
Keep the pictures coming,

Cheers, yeah the wheels ride fine one of them had to have a fair amount of weights tho, I would love to drop it a bit lower on them but id proberley end up regreting it living in bumpy devon.

You had me confused for a minute about the cat hahaha.