E30 Zone

Spent today starting to strip the 318is down to bare bones.

Revealed some worrying rust in a few places

Was a good learning experience though. I now know how the front panel and wings come off. We took the tinted screen out of the is and put it in doddys tourer... found it was very easy to take out... but a complete bitch to get into his as we didnt have the special tool thing... I managed to stab myself in the hand with a spanner

And I got my new front panel, splitter, underbonnet cable tidy thing and a new fuse box lid.

Tomorrow we start on the mechanicals. (one of which is my new lsd ) By the end of the day it will be on bricks, ready and waiting to lift the engine out next saturday and go and put it in haths touring.

Very council, fill it with rubbish and weigh it in

mmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmm i see a matt black tourer

still plenty left to take off it yet... Once we're done with it it wont have any wheels so its being taken away by a scrappy friend of mine on a we pay you nothing, you pay us nothing basis.

Grim_Reaper wrote:mmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmm i see a matt black tourer

Parked nose to nose with one of the few cars that make it look good

munky30 wrote:

Grim_Reaper wrote:mmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmm i see a matt black tourer

Parked nose to nose with one of the few cars that make it look good

i didnt notice that 318

munky30 wrote:

That is councilness at its finest.

oh hell yes, the vast expanse of upvc, the maisonettes, the red brick sheds and railings... not to mention the 3 council cars.

I took that picture just for you jon as I knew it would make you feel homely.

I love it.

nah dude, you never had the 9" angle grinder on it though !!

320touring has some pics of me killing a car properly.

haha i got the same tool kitas you, £100 from halfrauds and with a lifetime guarantee! bargain

m-dtech wrote:nah dude, you never had the 9" angle grinder on it though !!

320touring has some pics of me killing a car properly.

We're not done yet

tomtomiS wrote:haha i got the same tool kitas you, £100 from halfrauds and with a lifetime guarantee! bargain

awsome kit only thing missing is that thing that lets you use use the sockets on a bigger rachet and an extension for more torque

m-dtech wrote:nah dude, you never had the 9" angle grinder on it though !!

320touring has some pics of me killing a car properly.

watch and learn...

"pikey mikey" at his finest

that rust looks bad- where was it?exactly.. so I can check my touring

its not my toolkit... my kit is a draper socket set, and lots of random bits and pieces.

Doddys halfrauds pro one was very handy, I love ratchet spanners!

Oh and more leverage can be obtained with a jack handle and the small ratchet ;)

Worked a treat to get the bumper off. (you'll be interested to know it was a piece of cake.. much like my track rod ends... I seem to be gifted (or lucky) when it comes to parts that are supposedly a complete pig to get off)

320Touring wrote:

m-dtech wrote:nah dude, you never had the 9" angle grinder on it though !!

320touring has some pics of me killing a car properly.

watch and learn...

"pikey mikey" at his finest

that rust looks bad- where was it?exactly.. so I can check my touring

Each end of the slam panel. It was nasty! worryingly not an mot fail, but in a crash a sh*tload of front end strength would be gone in an instant.

And the usual footwell/jacking point mess, along with the lower front beam or whatever it is.

munky30 wrote:

320Touring wrote:

m-dtech wrote:nah dude, you never had the 9" angle grinder on it though !!

320touring has some pics of me killing a car properly.

watch and learn...

"pikey mikey" at his finest

that rust looks bad- where was it?exactly.. so I can check my touring

Each end of the slam panel. It was nasty! worryingly not an mot fail, but in a crash a sh*tload of front end strength would be gone in an instant.

And the usual footwell/jacking point mess, along with the lower front beam or whatever it is.

Cheers dude- spent all yesterday cleaning that onthe touring- nice and sound

Its made me nervous... the front panel from the breaker is going onto mine, and I'm now terrified of what removing mine will reveal

Didnt get much done today through a combination of rain and problems getting the diff off... Rear wheels and discs are off, boot came off... that was about it.

But I did this.




Got a bit over enthusiastic with the parking by ear theory... and drove into a big wall at about 15mph. Front and back

The rear took it very well tbh, not so much as a hint of a dent... the front didnt.

i like your new lock-up

what sise tyres are on those wheels munky as yours look much lower profile but i was sure your running 15s a well

I am on 15's, honda civic fit 15's. With 45 profile tyres iirc. Much lower than they should be.

Those ones have normal e30 profile on them, no idea what and its raining so I'm buggered if I'm going to go out and look now.

fair nuff. think they would be either 205/55/15s or205/50/15s

That satin black tourer is MINT!

My missues really wants her saloon to be satin black if she gets one. Which is good cause its so easy to paint with. Looks evil as hell....!

its matt black ;)

munky30 wrote:I managed to stab myself in the hand with a spanner

lol hurts like hell don't it he he

The iS is dead.... well and truly so.

Took the engine out and the pedal box.

Then tipped it on its side to get the front subframe off. Its surprising how light an e30 shell is!

Then we set to work smashing it up, cant beat a bit of stress relief with a hammer.

E30 rear screen explode when you hit them hard enough, took me bloody ages to sweep up the glass that was all over the car park!

Doddy 'took out' the heater matrix in about 20 seconds flat with a hammer...

We dented it, lots, I wanted to burn my name on the side with a blowtorch but apparently thats dangerous in a car park full of cars.

Anyway, the pictures do the talking...

























Oh and in case you noticed, it was sticking out of the parking space a bit too much.

How do you move an e30 that has no wheels?

Like this...

Clicky

Munky, you really are establishing yourself as Chief Council.

Although that's a fitting end to some 4 pot wrongness!!!

should of rolled it completly on it's roof into the next parking bay and then phoned the concil to remove it - their faces would of been a picture when they turned up

They would have charged me... I have a pikey scrappy taking it away for free.

We were tempted to leave it on its side but I didnt want it to fall onto someones car/someone...

Rosc0PColtrane wrote:Munky, you really are establishing yourself as Chief Council.

Although that's a fitting end to some 4 pot wrongness!!!

nelt wrong with this certain four potted engine.. its the better one..

Still missing 2 cylindars

Those wing mirrors look pretty straight.

Worth ebaying?

munky i bet people in your area hate you!

well funny my nabours go mentle when i park out side their house! imagine the furry with that in a car park!

good man.

Nathan - The wingmirrors had that weird peeling paint that some e30 mirrors seem to get. So they were destroyed with the hammer, probably after those pics were taken.

ric - My neighbours love me. I dont complain about their various criminal activities, abandoned boat trailers (see my post in off topic about the recent fire), ridiculously loud music, feral children etc. In return they dont complain about me doing things like this.