One of the E30's completed with Alpina styling
Posted: Tue Jun 21, 2011 10:47 pm
Thought I would post some pictures of one of the e30's I was bring up to scratch Some might remember me having it for sale but things changed and here it is looking stronger and better.
Bought this a few months ago wasn't sure what to do with it at first. But after a little push from the rest of the lads decided lets go down the alpina route anyway here's how it started. Car was a bog standard 318 which had covered over 200k but amazingly was in very good shape ONLY 1 previous owner which was a lady. But being a Non sunroof model made it a bit rarer than usual!
First on the list was to get rid of the nasty 4 pot m40 whcih went straight in the skip
I recently had a 325i sport come through which had drifted into a wall was a sorry looking turd felt sorry for the chap as it had cost him over 4k and he had only recently got it on the road was a proper old turd looked pretty clean but the damn thing was a proper rust bucket 
. I used the full running gear along with rear axle with lsd. At the same time uprated the suspension again from the sport. It had took a day and I plugged it all up and it fired up. Was running smooth for the exhaust i used a standard system and mated a scorpion lemans rear box is a little load so will probably get replaced with a standard box at a later stage. (Haven't got a standard one is stock)
Once the running gear was sorted I moved onto the the bodywork what can i say it was in pretty good shape only panel that needed some attention was the bonnet as there was the usual stone chips on it at the same time painted the kit and front spoiler and decided to keep the rear spoiler unpainted. Once painted was carefully fitted was well pleased with the end result
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Next on the list was the interior managed to sell the horrible comfort interior to a local chap and out came the sports black leather which again was taken from the sport I had now some may know the 4 pot e30's have a naff carpet fitted so decided to swap it with a good 6 pot carpet and then in went the interior also managed to fit a full 13 button obc kit, maplight mirror, rear blind and premium rear speakers and tweeter pods which I had stored away also switched the headlights with some genuine hella smoked ones i had along with front indicators never had smoked sides so put clear ones on. (still not sure if i should put the oem stuff back on). Also fitted a HLWW kit, Heated washer jets, heated mirrors, along with a genuine BMW top tint screen and rear pop outs (Stickers have been removed from pop outs
)
Now the car was finished just needed to add the final touches got the rear spoiler fitted then swapped the steering wheel and gear knob with some alpina items last thing to go on was the staggered alpina's
Was well pleased with the end result.
Here are some pics the first is how the car looked and the rest well what can i say we have brought it to life as it was a really dull looking e30 before.
Before
And after
One just before it came out of the workshop
Bought this a few months ago wasn't sure what to do with it at first. But after a little push from the rest of the lads decided lets go down the alpina route anyway here's how it started. Car was a bog standard 318 which had covered over 200k but amazingly was in very good shape ONLY 1 previous owner which was a lady. But being a Non sunroof model made it a bit rarer than usual!
First on the list was to get rid of the nasty 4 pot m40 whcih went straight in the skip
I recently had a 325i sport come through which had drifted into a wall was a sorry looking turd felt sorry for the chap as it had cost him over 4k and he had only recently got it on the road was a proper old turd looked pretty clean but the damn thing was a proper rust bucket . I used the full running gear along with rear axle with lsd. At the same time uprated the suspension again from the sport. It had took a day and I plugged it all up and it fired up. Was running smooth for the exhaust i used a standard system and mated a scorpion lemans rear box is a little load so will probably get replaced with a standard box at a later stage. (Haven't got a standard one is stock)Once the running gear was sorted I moved onto the the bodywork what can i say it was in pretty good shape only panel that needed some attention was the bonnet as there was the usual stone chips on it at the same time painted the kit and front spoiler and decided to keep the rear spoiler unpainted. Once painted was carefully fitted was well pleased with the end result
.Next on the list was the interior managed to sell the horrible comfort interior to a local chap and out came the sports black leather which again was taken from the sport I had now some may know the 4 pot e30's have a naff carpet fitted so decided to swap it with a good 6 pot carpet and then in went the interior also managed to fit a full 13 button obc kit, maplight mirror, rear blind and premium rear speakers and tweeter pods which I had stored away also switched the headlights with some genuine hella smoked ones i had along with front indicators never had smoked sides so put clear ones on. (still not sure if i should put the oem stuff back on). Also fitted a HLWW kit, Heated washer jets, heated mirrors, along with a genuine BMW top tint screen and rear pop outs (Stickers have been removed from pop outs
)Now the car was finished just needed to add the final touches got the rear spoiler fitted then swapped the steering wheel and gear knob with some alpina items last thing to go on was the staggered alpina's
Was well pleased with the end result.
Here are some pics the first is how the car looked and the rest well what can i say we have brought it to life as it was a really dull looking e30 before.
Before
And after
One just before it came out of the workshop
