E30 Zone

I bought a lemon which blew a head gasket and turned out to have un-fixable rust it it... but I love it sooo much! Here are a few pics to share before I part her out and search for a new 318i shell to strip and fit the good bits into:



















No doubt I will be spending hours looking through the galleries for inspiration!

Cheers,

Beavy (Melbourne, AUS)

ps. If anyone can tell me what the hell type of motronic system I have that would be great!
'85 325i ECU # 0 261 200 073 (078), "powerchip 2933"...

looks like youve got a job on your hands here

Picked up my new shell today





Engine + Loom swap is the order of the day!

Old and new:

let the fun commence

Good luck

keep it original cut a piece off new body and welded it into the old body

hey mate looks like u will have a lot of fun.

where about are u in melbourne ?? pm me if u need any help or parts

France, the entire section of the car would have to be swapped/welded and it's a bit above me for now. The rust runs from the fuse box all the way to the fuel pump so I think it would be futile to say the least as it would only come back.

Spikuzi, I'm in brunswick but the cars are in mulgrave at my work. I will keep a list of things I break or need, are you a collector as well? Depending on how long it takes I might need some help swapping things over one weekend if you are near mulgrave? Should be fine for now, thanks for the offer

i am in Carrum Downs in the weekends, not far from ur work. i might stop by one weekend and see how u going.
anyway i am not a collector, i work for asv euro car parts in campellfield, we do spare parts mainly for bmws and mercs and the rest of the europian cars.

I know Mulgrave well, Beavy. Where's your work?

Shell looks excellent.

Best of luck with your project.

BM OZ, in the workshop. Storing the car u the back with all the demo cars

Project is going slowly due to christmas/holidays etc.

A few pics of progress so far:

Wiring loom coming out:


Fixing some surface rust in the footwell:


Battery acid has eaten a hole, prepping for fixing next week:


Engine removal, will be kept for parts:

good job man, are u planing to respray the engine bay and the car ??? its a good time to do it while u have everything out of the car.i just finished fixing and spraying my engine bay. it looked worse than yours but looks much better now

No moneyz for the respray, spent it all finding a decent shell with a few bonus goodies (rad/lsd/stereo).







Things going well, both cars are stripped and waiting for the engine & loom swap next weekend. Floor/body all done on the golden car, very happy with my progress, however slow it may seem! For the guys hoping to drop by I work at the headquarters in mulgrave and they're kind of anal with security so maybe we should organise a meet once the car's done? Are there any aussie forums like this one?

Thanks for the supportive comments guys

Good work there looking forward to seeing the finished article!

Yes defiantly we should meet and maybe go out on a cruse. My car should be ready at the end of next month.

Where did u get the lsd from ?

LSD was a factory option, very weird as it has the small case! 3.45 fyi. I'm hoping to get the car done by my birthday (1st march), registered a little later, so I would definitely be up for a cruise or just so I can check out someone else's e30! Are they 17's spikuzi?





Engine + Body Wiring loom are across, just have to re-plug everything and do the interior, cooling system, fuel pump and lines, clutch slave, re-wire check control (didn't want to cut the interior to swap), swap the racks (to manual), install an immobiliser, ...the list goes on!

they are 17's Beavy.

defiantly we need a cruise sometime in march before the summer ends

why u changing to a manual rack ??

and happy birthday in advance

Beavy_OZ wrote:
Things going well, both cars are stripped and waiting for the engine & loom swap next weekend. Floor/body all done on the golden car, very happy with my progress, however slow it may seem! For the guys hoping to drop by I work at the headquarters in mulgrave and they're kind of anal with security so maybe we should organise a meet once the car's done? Are there any aussie forums like this one?

Thanks for the supportive comments guys

http://www.eurocca.net/forums/cmps_index.php

You'll find most of the guys on here.

Good to see it all coming along, man. Keep up the good work.

Cheers mate, I'll check it out.

Fuel pump, shifter and dash installed today. Coming along well, even a positive comment or two from the boss

Good to see the progress, mate. Keep at it! Looking good!