E30 Zone

for people who know me you will know I built this car a few years ago

but now have started something new ,this was going to be the same as my other car but decided to go a different route with the s65 m3 engine with 6 speed manual and this is where its at , at the moment after my body shop working there arses off over Christmas
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and these will be the wheels I will be useing

can this thread be moved just realised its in the wrong place thankyou

seen some cages and thats for real!!

What is the weight ??

Look forward to seeing more of this in new year

Looking good!

weight should be about 860kg its a full t45 cage shell has been dipped and every bracket removed which is not used carbon dash wings fibreglass bumpers nothing left of doors and it will only have what it needs to be road legal

Liking what I see, look forward to seeing more and love them wheels

Loved that car, going for the tic-tac livery this time?

Where would you like it moved to, engine conversions or members E30?

Nice build will be watching this one..

Judging by the colour are you going tic-tac colours or Watsons or something else?

Leigh

Simon wrote:Where would you like it moved to, engine conversions or members E30?

Moved to Members' E30s for now.

Stunning metalwork there!

I did hear stories that you were building another toy

Grrrmachine wrote:

Simon wrote:Where would you like it moved to, engine conversions or members E30?

Moved to Members' E30s for now.

Stunning metalwork there!

thankyou simon

Kos wrote:I did hear stories that you were building another toy

I have built a couple of toys since the e30 ,I did a e46 m3 csl touring and a lexus is 200 with monaro engine but that came to a sad end at 110mph the track rod end snapped but miss my e 30 so I bought this shell 6 years ago with the intention of building it with another monaro engine but the engine has been sat here 4 years also then a 13000 mile s65 engine came up so that had to be the engine of choice and I wanted to keep it all bmw this time

just a couple of old pics

I saw the e46 M3 touring ( possibly on piston heads )

I'm glad you're keeping this one all BMW, as fantastic as the Jaegermeister car was it just didn't feel right with the LS engine

bigbird76 wrote:Nice build will be watching this one..

Judging by the colour are you going tic-tac colours or Watsons or something else?

Leigh

was going tic tac but then changed my mind so instead of Castrol green I have gone for gt3 signal green wont be stickering this one as I thought the orange one looked better plain

This should be interesting!

Centre lock BBS as well!

Looking forward,,,,,

great project,

Why S65 ??

it have 20 more ponies ,, but lacks 100 nm on the S62

i know the gearbox DCT is great and more than that

Looks like I have to move away from viper green which was the chosen colour for my build lol

Did you get centre lock hubs/struts from the gorilla ?

S38B38 wrote:Looking forward,,,,,

great project,

Why S65 ??

it have 20 more ponies ,, but lacks 100 nm on the S62

i know the gearbox DCT is great and more than that

it is manual and just fancied using something different

Kos wrote:Looks like I have to move away from viper green which was the chosen colour for my build lol

Did you get centre lock hubs/struts from the gorilla ?

no dan has sold his and they would not fit under my shell without modding rear arches which I am against I want it to look bodily standard as poss but I have gone for wider front wings, I have bought a brand new set of hubs but not sure on them wheels now with the green might try to find some oz

I was trying to find what happened to your old m3 only last week after seeing a picture of it I took at the old BMW show at donnington. Think I had a pic of your white m3 too Kos from the same day. Must be 7-8 yrs ago?

Must be from 2005 or there abouts

my best friend still has it about 4 miles from me but he lives in spain 7 months of the year
I was going to buy it back but decided to carry on with this car as there were a lot of things that needed changing which I did not like on it even though I love the car, this was last year at castle coombe

OT,, the Performance, of the LS E30 M3 ??

compared to other FAST E30 M3 ,,and other fast BMW cars

ot what does that mean ?

OT - Off topic

I think he's like to know what the performance of the LS was like compared to other tuned / engine swaped e30's and compared to other BMW's like the e46 m4 and e39 M5

I'm guessing the LS car wipe the floor with them

Kos wrote:
I'm guessing the LS car wipe the floor with them

+1

Judging from the pics, LS engine was in the Lexus, not an E30, but I bet that IS was flying

E30 with a S65 and a manual will be EPIC.

zd3bx wrote:Judging from the pics, LS engine was in the Lexus, not an E30

The jägermeister M3 was built with an LS engine. There was a build thread iirc, but I think it was on the old Zone so has possibly been lost

yes the jagermeister car was built with an ls1 and would wipe the floor with most cars especially now it is running slicks 60mm lowe and about 520bhp with bigger heads cam and ls6 inlet with larger throttle body

That looks insane

It was a well executed build, period

Even the paint on the inside; on the floors etc was an excellent job

The only thing that I never liked was the black and grey cobra seats. Don't get me wrong, cobra seats are good and I run them in my track slag but the car did deserve to have recaro pole positions

Kos wrote:It was a well executed build, period

Even the paint on the inside; on the floors etc was an excellent job

The only thing that I never liked was the black and grey cobra seats. Don't get me wrong, cobra seats are good and I run them in my track slag but the car did deserve to have recaro pole positions

I totally disagree I could of spent a fortune on seats but I have had these in a few cars and are so comfy they will also be in the new car unless some recaro cs s come up but thanks for the comment on the car, the new car will be just as good if not better with much better parts and the paintwork is first class again inside out and underneath