Just become a member and Just bought a E30 1.8i, 1987

[basher136]

hey guys, ive just bought a BMW e30 1.8 black e reg 1987. its in my interest to do the car up with an m3 kit nice leather or sport interior and nice bbs alloys and finally take the car to shows. about the car ; its 1 owner from new, Garage stored ALL its life. 56k miles, 1987 made 1st of august. FULL original interior, alloys, badges, plate, engine and the factory fitted sunroof. its in next to Immaculate condition. i thought i'd dropped on a bargain when i layed eyes on the car. ill be needing Lots of advice and maybe some of your experience to help me make the right desigions throughout my project. ill take some pictures of the car sometime this week as im collecting it tonight. thanks, Ashley

[Morat]

Welcome to the zone
First up:



so show us your car

You'll probably find out soon enough that making your car look like an M3 is a bit of a mission because you can't just do it with bolt on parts. If you're a skilled artisan of the MIG then fair enough, you'll have to alter the angle of the rear screen to get it right.
OTOH, the standard E30s look great when clean. Did you get a two or four door? A two door pre-facelift in black looks awesome!
Morat

[Sanchez]

Welcome.

Turning a nice chromie into a M3 wont be easy and some of the purests on here will disagree.

There is a fibreglass kit for sale from a guy in Scotland.

[johnt0709]

Hi basher and welcome - youll get all the advice on here you need - great bunch of people. Just remember that sometimes you need a thick skin on here and dont take it personally. A lot of people will have things to say about replica M3s (Ask Imy - dont worry youll come across him) Anyway stick with us - its worth it.

Welcome again.

[Gert_8]

Welcome. Turning 1.8 into an M3 looki-like, me no likey! Don't do it

[basher136]

haha, dont worry being a joiner, seeing and hear the things daily ive sure got thick skin! you all sound a nice bunch, humm ok the M3 kit hasnt gone down very well with the Lovers or e30's so what do you all prefer?? i'd like it to look sporty in a way but bmw sporty not at all "chavish" as we all know i might aswel delete my life and flush my head down the toilette! its a 5 door e30 the pictures wil for sure be on her within the next cuple of days, the weather in yorkshires been awful as alot know. thanks again and look forward to speeking with you soon!

[Jim320i]

Welcome to the zone mate!


As most chromie owners on here will say, keep it cool & original, oem all the way with the prefacelift as it just adds 'class' to them.

Unless you got a facelift model, if thats the case, do what ever as they look boring just standard. In my opinion of course.


Looking forward to some pictures though, we love to point and stare at the new people.

[basher136]

haha im really amateur as goes bmw's my dads got abit of know how as he's got a bmw 5 series but stil its going to be a father n son project. ill have a good think about what i want to do with it tonight after a cuple of coffes sat on the drive stareing at the e30, im sure either way itl be a corker! just looked at a few photo's of members bmw's and wow absalute beauties!

[Batz]

hello there everyone, i'm new to the site, I have a E30 2dr 316i Hreg white ^^ standard no mods, & was wondering where i could get hold of some leather seats for it? The seats in it are kinda boring..

[Jim320i]

Hi Batz and welcome to the zone. You might wanna start your own thread to start off with as people will read it more then.

As for the seats, check out the for sale section, if there is nothing in there that takes your fancy, put a wanted ad up in the wanted section.

If you need any help, just pm me pal!

Jim

[Ajsingh]

Keep a chromie the way it is!!! They look soo much better and im sure you will turn plenty of heads with a mint standard chromie!!

By the way, Welcome!

[basher136]

ive had a long think about what im doing with the car now, im keeping it ALL standard Chrome but im going to replace the origional alloys with multispoke bbs alloys. ive just taken some pics this morning i will be uploading them within the next hour so keep an eye out

[zagorkaman]

Yeah you need a thick skin mate......I gotta more door !!!!! I like it and thats all that matters

[Tedswagon]

If you are keen to alter the car try having a look for tech 1 sport and try replicating that look - would be easier to do and I think it is a good look.

Boot spoiler, side skirts and valance.

[Tedswagon]

There are some photos in this thread

http://www.e30zone.net/modules.php?name ... ech++sport

[basher136]

i really like the look teds, simple but effective with style. do we know of anyone selling BBs alloys? preferably old multispoke

[polsta]

would be a very chavish crime to put an m3 kit on an old 1.8 chromie ..id feel like a fraudulent tit driving such a car, not to mention the costs involved !

get some pics up,and for 15" bbs xspokes browse a few pages of the sales section, or send a pm to adit, hes got some sets

[basher136]

look at the photo gallery ive just posted some pics from when ive just got it, no cleaning or tinkering. ive just today t-cut 4 parts and washed the beauty!

[dazleeds]

welcome along

good choice with a chromie

stay away from the plastic bumpered wannabe tat tho, chromies the only E30 to be seen in