Here is the car - so it looked when i bought it in december 2003.
It was a 320i, 1986.
As you can see it looked pretty shite, i dunno what attracted me but when i first saw it i knew that it's gonna be mine.
The first thing i changed were the seats - from ford cossie.
After a winted (i didn't use it in winter because of the salted roads) i had to get the MoT, so many things had to be repaired. I also bought other alloys - borbet R16, another steering wheel, the whole rear suspention from the 325 (now i have read disc brakes instead of drums), got custom made shotshifter, eyebrows etc.
After some time i got 17' azev alloys with mint toyo proxes.
And then one day i decided to take a look of whats under the mats. I was shocked when instead of the floor i saw ground... a bit of rust and lots of holes. I also took off sideskirts... there was nothing but the rust too, so i decided to go for a complete respray (including all the welding jobs). Afer 4 months i got it sorted out.
Rite from the start i decidet to go for an engine transplant. There were few ideas:
1) stock m20b25
2) m50b25 from e34/e36
3) m30b35 from 535/735
4) m30b35t from 745 e23
I decided to choose the m30b35, because couldnt find any 3,5turbo from 745. So far i have the car fully resprayed (including the engine bay). And I have already got all i need to go for the engine swap, but my technician convinced me not to go for the m30 (it's old, heavy) but to go for a v8 4.0/4.4 engine... so far i have decided to do it. So to be continued.
And here are the pics - rite from the beginning.
The day i bought it - 13.12.2003
Interior... the steering wheel from a tractor, rubbish window tints...
the new seats
The new steering wheel
New alloys
made the angeleyes by myself
last summer it looked like this - all the technical mess sorted out
New alloys once more :d
And then it started - what's under the mats? Ground....
...and under the sideskirts....
Sorting the mess out...
After the respray - notice the smoked headlights - also my work.
also went for the rear light convertion. with lexus style rear clusters.
Here are the new seats - i'll have to retrim them to match the interior colour code (it'll be black/cream).
And the new angel eyes - havent finished them yet.
now it's lowered - i bought a 60/60mm lowering springs/struts kit from weitec. waiting for the engine transplant to begin
Almost forgot to mention the cost of all this - 400 pound for the car and about 1k for all the jobs/parts. Lots of it done by myself... so it's not very xpensive..
