Steff the 320

Post Mon Jan 17, 2011 12:45 pm

I just thought I'd post up the pics I took the other week when I gave the car a quick Autoglym SRP, she scrubbed up okay I thought

Post Mon Jan 17, 2011 1:02 pm

Looks great. What colour is it? Lasur or Royal blue?

Post Mon Jan 17, 2011 1:27 pm

Super

Post Mon Jan 17, 2011 1:32 pm

Good looking chromie, I think I've seen this car parked in the newtown, could be wrong.

Keep an eye on the meets section as there are loads of Zoners in this part of Scotland and we often have meets (sometimes up at the Falkirk Wheel). There will be one organised soon I think.

Post Mon Jan 17, 2011 1:45 pm

Ermmmm.......nice moredoor

Post Mon Jan 17, 2011 8:09 pm

Cheers, at the moment it's a £450 car with £100 of alloys so I think it's alright!

Tedswagon wrote:Good looking chromie, I think I've seen this car parked in the newtown, could be wrong.

Keep an eye on the meets section as there are loads of Zoners in this part of Scotland and we often have meets (sometimes up at the Falkirk Wheel). There will be one organised soon I think.

It's occasionally outside my mum's in Stockbridge when I visit, I stay in Granton for now

, I'll be back in Midlothian soon though

.

Post Mon Jan 17, 2011 8:23 pm

looks nice! and a bargain at £450

Post Mon Jan 17, 2011 11:20 pm

Looking good fella!

Post Sat Mar 03, 2012 10:05 pm

Just thought I'd update this seeing as there's been a bit of progress.

Last May I bought a 325 Sport engine and gearbox and swapped it in over a long weekend. For a £100 engine it went rather well and when I fitted a 4.25 diff it went better still. It gained a rather loud Scorpion exhaust and stayed like that over the summer. I think I did around 600 miles.
In September I helped break a 540i and got the engine for buttons with the view to building a bit of a sleeper. I soon decided that that it was a shite idea and wasn't going to end well.
I sold the engine (and made a decent profit) which was spent on an M52B28 crank and rebore for the old 320 block.
The idea was just to throw something fun together without going mad and spending loads of money.

Unfortunately when it found itself in a nice (cold) unit I got a bit carried away with the taking bits off and poking.

Looking through the forum it seems that I'm just suffering the usual parts, the the boot area seems suspiciously good though.

I've decided that I'm going to stick with it and fix it properly, I know it's a more-door

but I'm a bit attached to this car (which is dangerous, I know!).

The plans for now are to make it into a bit of an Alpina rep with a nice M20B28 up front.

A bit like this but in Alpina blau.....

Post Sat Mar 03, 2012 10:18 pm

Looks sweet £450 - wow (if it's in good nick as it looks)

Post Mon Mar 05, 2012 12:02 am

good luck

Post Mon Mar 05, 2012 7:25 pm

Cheers!

Another day of stripping it and playing the poking game has found some more nasties, the nearside inner arch finally gave in and burst through

, still, I'm not too upset about it yet, if I'm going to do this, I'm going to do it right. Seeing Grrrrmachine's and Jim's threads is giving me some motivation knowing I'm not the only one!

Engine's out...

Wiring loom's out, need to remember to put my old steering wheel on before the Tech is fucked with paint....

Quite a lot of parts in an old E30, spent more on boxes than the car it seems!

Found this on the bulkhead, hopefully it's not terminal.....

The battery tray finally gave it too, passed the screwdriver test but failed with the grinder

.....

Lots of metal to be replaced it seems but it should result in a very solid shell which should last me a while!
It should help my welding skills improve too, given they're a bit rusty.....

Post Tue Mar 06, 2012 9:58 pm

Good luck - hope the workshop warms up!

It's such a great looking car without the Alpina bits.