Hate the E30 now! :(

[beemerbird]

To be honest, any £500 car is bound to come with its problems (found your newbie thread). The major difference is that if you spend money on your E30, it WILL repay you

[Jim320i]

Agree with Adit above on that... I would try one thing at a time as you may find you dont need to replace half the things you said, which in turn will save you a few quid.

Do tell us how you get on though.

[djscottfree]

sounds like his parents are going to help out, so id go for all the new parts

[Jhonno]

This thread is a wind up right...? Trying to start a car that has no oil in it..

[staley_turbo]

I was speechless when i fist saw it.

[Jon_Bmw]

Can't be bothered to read all the drivel, but if you are replacing the sump, check the big end shells whilst you are there.

In fact, as you are going to have to change the sump. Why not remove it now, and check them. If they are scrap, the crank probably is as well. Then bin it and buy a car with a three year warranty. At least you'll get three years out of that one.

[Jim320i]

I think its good to have forums like this to advise differ... Least he didnt have it running with no oil in...

But now he knows where to start, hopefully he gets it sorted.

[gareth]

What's the history? Was the sump damaged before you bought it? I'm just wondering if you've already got a screwed engine...

Whipping the sump off then checking the big end and main bearings would be my first course of action.

[German-Whips]

Can't be bothered to read all the drivel, but if you are replacing the sump, check the big end shells whilst you are there.

In fact, as you are going to have to change the sump. Why not remove it now, and check them. If they are scrap, the crank probably is as well. Then bin it and buy a car with a three year warranty. At least you'll get three years out of that one.

Guys, it's not a wind up thread!

I haven't bought this car as a daily at all, we've got 4 cars in the household and I've bought this E30 as a project to do over the course of a whole "YEAR".

The car is quite low, and the engine itself is fine, it drove fine no noise, pulled nice and no strange problems. It's just since I had the car parked over 3 weeks in one spot the oil must have leaked out of the sump. The sump is undoubtedly gone, my guess would be being too low and smashed on a few speedbumps.

I don't mind throwing money at it. Even though I know I will never get my money back, I'll harldy get £500 for it when I go to sell it. But it's not about that, I like E30's and would rather spend thousands on an E30 than buy a new modern car and run that, it's just something I prefer.

I'm expecting a whole lot of engine work to go into it, whole engine rebuild, new sump and so on, just to get it sweet again.
Body needs a total overhaul to sort out the nasty rust, and the old paintwork. That's going to cost around 2k+

Overall this car will set me back a good few thousand which I'll never see again, but I'm willing to pay for it as I;ve become attached to the car.

Even if the engine is gone, which I can't say anything about right now, I'll get it repaired at any cost!

Thanks for the sugestions guys!

[Cook318IS]

in that case considering its a project car, its rusty and the engine could be dead... strip the shell back, pull the engine out and completely renovate the shell. Then do an engine conversion?

[German-Whips]

in that case considering its a project car, its rusty and the engine could be dead... strip the shell back, pull the engine out and completely renovate the shell. Then do an engine conversion?

Its not that rusty, floors clean, scuttles clean and so on.

Quick fix of the rusty areas should make the shell good again, new respray and the body should be nice again. Engine's not dead, im pretty sure about that my neighbout took a look at it and he said it's looking good just needs a really good serivce and few new parts to make it mint again.

I'm a uni student so don't have much free time to do a total project, just something over the course of the year should do me fine.

Regarding the engine, no conversions, not even going there, not worth it in my opinion. If I do decide to do one in the near future, it's definitely going to be an Audi RS6 4.2V8 with a few nice tweaks pushing out numbers in the region of 700BHP. My uncles got an engine, but the labour's stupid money.

I think a 1.8 would do me nicely!

Thanks again!

[djscottfree]

don't mind throwing money at it. Even though I know I will never get my money back, I'll harldy get £500 for it when I go to sell it. But it's not about that, I like E30's and would rather spend thousands on an E30 than buy a new modern car and run that, it's just something I prefer.

well said

[German-Whips]

don't mind throwing money at it. Even though I know I will never get my money back, I'll harldy get £500 for it when I go to sell it. But it's not about that, I like E30's and would rather spend thousands on an E30 than buy a new modern car and run that, it's just something I prefer.

well said

I've had everyone say it's not worth it, I said to them I know, but it's not just a car, it's a lifestyle!

My uncles used to have quite a few nice cars in the day, oldskool 6's, E21s, E30 M3 in grey, a dolphin grey 325i sport when they first came out only to total it off a bridge a few days later, and a c2 2.7 alpina. He still prefers older cars, while my dad insists on a car thats "big" "new" and "mercedes". Just bought a new shape Eclass estate, and I said to him he could have bought 4 M3s with that but he ignored me!

I just love the E30!

Skint my pockets, but gotta love the E30!

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[djscottfree]

i work all my days off and holiday to fund my e30, all the chaps at my work rip the piss out me for throwing money at an old car, rusty old bmw, we buy any car and so on, but if that all they can resort to is insulting my car, it just shows you how narrow minded some poeple are. But come will the day when it will pay me back, hopefully ! saying that it pays me back everytime i get in it, as far as im concerned its only money and if spending on a old car makes you happy then go fot it !

[German-Whips]

i work all my days off and holiday to fund my e30, all the chaps at my work rip the pee pee out me for throwing money at an old car, rusty old bmw, we buy any car and so on, but if that all they can resort to is insulting my car, it just shows you how narrow minded some poeple are. But come will the day when it will pay me back, hopefully ! saying that it pays me back everytime i get in it, as far as im concerned its only money and if spending on a old car makes you happy then go fot it !

Im doing engineering in university aswell, so I have a soft spot for cars, especially E30s!

Doesn't make sense though, I should have chosen motorsport or automotive engineering as my degree.....BUT......I'm doing Aerospace engineering!

[adit]

sounds like his parents are going to help out, so id go for all the new parts

the attitude of bloody students these days!



p.s. posted your dashboard bolts today Scott

[djscottfree]

haha

thanks adi

pm me ur address and i will get those gear nobs posted at the weekend

[Jhonno]

You are an Aerospace Engineer in the making and tried starting a car with no oil in it...?

Even my missus wouldn't do that..

[German-Whips]

You are an Aerospace Engineer in the making and tried starting a car with no oil in it...?

Even my missus wouldn't do that..

Stupid moments, I do thinngs without thinking them over most of the time!

Just for the sake of it!

[cecotto479]

Doesn't make sense though, I should have chosen motorsport or automotive engineering as my degree.....BUT......I'm doing Aerospace engineering! :mad: :mad:

Well that's my flying days over.

[staley_turbo]

You would be surprised, most of the people that were on my aerospace course didn't know which way a bolt turned. Its not very funny when you have to fly to anywhere!

[SpencerLavery]

You would be surprised, most of the people that were on my aerospace course didn't know which way a bolt turned. Its not very funny when you have to fly to anywhere!

[German-Whips]

[e30maddog]

it sounds like a washing machine.... id take a rough quess that thats coz there is no oil in the thing and you say 'only 5 seconds' that 5 secs has prob just taken 50k miles off the life of your engine and a new battery went down? either your alternator is busted or you have one hell of a power drain... maybe both

[TouringTash]

You would be surprised, most of the people that were on my aerospace course didn't know which way a bolt turned. Its not very funny when you have to fly to anywhere!

'Its easy' I said to the Captain, when I was Chief Engineer on a delivery across the Atlantic, 'Lefty loosie, righty tighty'.

I have never seen a man go so green at sea before.

I didn't dare say that I some time get confused when upside down.






In all fairness I should add that I had an old Perkins single that I was rigging up as a 24 Volt Generator in bits over 3 workbenches and I had spent the best part of 2 days in the engine room pulling this lot apart only coming out to get food and to sleep.

[German-Whips]

it sounds like a washing machine.... id take a rough quess that thats coz there is no oil in the thing and you say 'only 5 seconds' that 5 secs has prob just taken 50k miles off the life of your engine and a new battery went down? either your alternator is busted or you have one hell of a power drain... maybe both

I know where you're coming from, but it's not going anywhere until the problems are sorted.

Regarding the battery, there was a but of a wiring problem, but it's all sorted now.

I'm going to have an engine rebuild done once the oil leak is sorted out to sweeten it up and rule out any problems, and so on.

[snakebrain]

You bought it off a mate with the sump in that condition? Have you any way of knowing that he hasn't already been running it dry?

I'd say with your respray, probable engine rebuild etc you're looking at 5k+ to have that car in any kind of shape.....

[TamTom]

how old are you mate?
Sound like ur a teenager, a second car maybe?