its been a long time coming but i feel i must let you all know what i have been upto.
began the year badly i wrote off the sierra i had bought to drift in an incident at wheels raceway, then griffo morgan and my self bought a v6 manual granada first time out it sheared the diff.
next time out it put the crank through the sump so it ended like the sierra on the scrap pile.
anyway cut a long story short about work etc, morgan and i stumbled accross this e30 325i on the bay, a quick phonecall found out a few more bits and revealed the seller as being an honest enough bloke all be it that he wouldnt end early doh! so whilst on holiday in newquay with the ade of an ipad (cheers sue) and morgan doing the bidding on his home comp i won the car (to the annoyance of the seller it only just met the reserve)
pics on the way home from luton
so got it home thrapped about for a week getting used to it and discovered a few things wrong as you do, car cut out on me and suspected fuel starvation led me to pull the pump change the filters etc
filter looks about as old as the car
pump filter looked lovely and clean
after
next to do was remove this
ive replaced it with a sparco wheel i had from my 200 a while back, the wheel is for sale if anyone fancys it???? 10 pound
then the finally problem, the previous owner had said the disks etc had only done one tour of the ring with about 10 laps the year before, i will never put these disks or pads on my car anyway but this is pretty horrific if the useage is true
changed to these not the best but at least it stops now without making me feel sick
then had this happen to the exhaust lol oops
changed that out for a stock part much better no pics whilst with josh down the garage it had a new gearbox prop mount so now my prop doesnt want to enter the car at whatever rpm its spinning at.
mate sharkys jag and the beemer at the garage
now the good bits, i needed to make the bbs on the car redundant and drift wheels only so i started hunting out a set of reasonable priced sized and widthed wheels, whilst scoping the small ad's on edition it threw these up
16x7j et40, the et was proper weak but i thought meh spacer will see it right so bought these
did some tests
tried one of my 15x10.5j on the back... think there a bit o.t.t
happy that the wheels were gonna fit i ordered the tyres, whilst i waited for them the car went to my mate mat's unit and had its diff mig'd up, mat bleeds vauxhall so it muct pain him having this much german attitude sitting outside his unit (2 x e30's an e36 and an e12 haha although off shot is his senny)
tyres arrived got fitted and the wheels were ready
took it for a test run 3 up to star city saturday and it rubbed like a mother fucker so sunday morning after making the brekkie and persuading the misses to give me a hand we ghetto rolled the arches
first you load the boot with as much heavy **** as you can
then heat em
then you use a jack handle or something of similar diameter and stick it in the arch (between tyre and arch) whilst one controls the pole the other reverses backwards and forwards until the arches are rolled to desired spec
they dont rub now unless it has 10+ wheels in it and under heavy acceleration
there you go one write up i shall add to it whenever
parting shot cheers for the sticker bryce
