OEM Plush - Factory Fresh and Grounded

Post Sun Dec 05, 2010 9:18 pm

I <3 it! Looks lovely, cant wait to get the dished wheels and skirts on mine now!

Post Tue Dec 07, 2010 6:45 pm

hey man your car is very nice!!! are you keeping the small bean pipe exhaust or will you change it? ps very nice oem and afew slick touches wulllaaah quality mate well done! glad you stayed away from the council look!

Post Tue Dec 07, 2010 10:16 pm

Welcome to the zone mate. Cracking car and quality photo's !!! Keep the photo's coming as the weather allows.

Post Wed Dec 08, 2010 8:14 am

Look's lovley fella. Very good find indeed.

Post Wed Dec 08, 2010 10:37 am

Very nice!

Post Wed Dec 08, 2010 11:23 am

Sh1t, that is LOW!!!!

Sump guard must take a beating constantly (or did I miss something about not being driven on the road?!!?)
Looks fecking awesome but manhole covers must shake your spine as it whacks the sumpguard...!!!

Post Wed Dec 08, 2010 11:34 am

OMG i am in love lol, that is one awsome car i love it. would love my 318is to look like that

nearly there lol. what side skirts are they??

Post Wed Dec 08, 2010 11:55 am

They are SE skirts matey

Post Wed Dec 08, 2010 1:13 pm

hmmm gunna av to get me some of these lol!!!

Post Wed Dec 08, 2010 6:43 pm

Wow....what a nice car in a great color

Let stay the m40 in place

One day the m40 will be rare in UK

Post Wed Dec 08, 2010 6:56 pm

M40, M40, M40

Post Sat Dec 11, 2010 5:54 pm

suchy wrote:Sh1t, that is LOW!!!!
Sump guard must take a beating constantly (or did I miss something about not being driven on the road?!!?)
Looks fecking awesome but manhole covers must shake your spine as it whacks the sumpguard...!!!

This is my daily driver so it's never off the road! The sump guard does scrape now and then, but it's not excessive. I guess you learn where you can and can't drive and how to tackle speed humps. Pretty much all the cars I've had have been this low...I have issues

Pea shooter is staying...though I'm tempted to do a nice little euro single up-sweap next time I bust the welder out.

No pics, but I've spaced the wheels more...I'll take some soon.

Thanks again for all the love!

Post Sun Dec 12, 2010 6:10 pm

New spacers came: Final offsets are: ET 0 rear x ET +5 front.

Post Sun Dec 12, 2010 6:19 pm

Nice.. did you roll your arches? Looks amazing, and the M40 isnt a bad little engine, especially with the current fuel prices. I have an m40 for my daily driver

Post Sun Dec 12, 2010 8:55 pm

What spacers did you use?

And more pics please

Post Tue Feb 15, 2011 9:27 pm

Winter happened to my lip in a big way. It was always on borrowed time so it wasn't a big suprise.

Luckily it didn't get too smashed so I had it repainted.

Boom.

Tarted up a load of the air intake side of business; cleaned up the ICV, replaced some vac hoses and painted the cam lid (yeah, not exactly an M3 swap I know, but still getting 38mpg - MPG being the new performance...). Also plug leads - worth 15bhp.

Before.

After.

Full race.

I also completed my ICE install”¦

Yeah boi; old skool Sony walkman and in-car tape kit. I couldn’t bring myself to pull that sweet head unit out. Retro chic or a step too ’90s? Well, pretty much both and that’s why I love it.

Just fitting a new petrol tank at the min...that stuff's getting a bit expensive to leak everywhere. I'll miss the excitement of sparking the sump guard and wondering if it's on fire though....

Post Tue Feb 15, 2011 11:52 pm

Nice. Not sure I would have dropped it when it was that minty but each to their own eh!

Post Thu Feb 17, 2011 7:47 pm

Saw this today in Tamworth it looks lovely mate!

Post Thu Feb 17, 2011 7:49 pm

Is the OP in Tamworth??

Post Thu Feb 17, 2011 7:56 pm

I've no idea. I saw it on the car park by kfc!

Post Thu Feb 17, 2011 8:32 pm

Yes , rob is based in tamworth.

Post Thu Feb 17, 2011 10:18 pm

very nice

looks squeaky clean!

where did you get the sump guard? im after one for mine

Post Thu Feb 17, 2011 11:35 pm

+1 on sump guard

Post Fri Feb 18, 2011 8:11 pm

Spotted! Yeah I live in Tamworth.

Everything I have done to the car is a 100% reversable to return it to bone stock, don't worry.

The sump guard was from RPM motorsport. I bought it through their ebay shop.

Post Fri Feb 18, 2011 8:15 pm

you gonna head up tothe mids meet tomorrow, only in coalville, where are you in tamworth

Post Fri Feb 18, 2011 8:15 pm

racer86 wrote: The sump guard was from RPM motorsport. I bought it through their ebay shop.

thanks for that i will be purchasing one of those

keep up the good work mate lovely e30

Post Fri Feb 18, 2011 10:22 pm

The_Diddler wrote:you gonna head up tothe mids meet tomorrow, only in coalville, where are you in tamworth

Erm...didn't know there was one! I'll see if I'm, about!

Nice one!

Post Sat Feb 19, 2011 12:02 am

racer86 wrote:
The_Diddler wrote:you gonna head up tothe mids meet tomorrow, only in coalville, where are you in tamworth
Erm...didn't know there was one! I'll see if I'm, about!

Nice one!

Get on up there fella.

Really like the simple look of this car, wouldn't be able to resist chucking a different engine in, even an M42 would be good for this.

Post Thu Mar 17, 2011 10:12 am

I have to say this is probably my favourite E30

absolutley immaculate and looks soo subtle yet so mean. Great work, this is what i aspire to with my Black 318is ;)

Post Thu Mar 17, 2011 1:53 pm

Does look lovely, do those AXIS OG wheels turn up on ebay very often? i know that reeva wheels did them but they seem to have disappeared! Anyone know of any other places they are available in the uk?

Cheers

Post Thu Mar 17, 2011 8:15 pm

Self indulgent I know, but here’s a few rollers of the E30 shot by my wing-man Rog.

Needs to come down a little in the front...

Post Thu Mar 17, 2011 8:20 pm

Loving this E30!

Post Thu Mar 17, 2011 8:21 pm

Awesome pics, can't beat rolling pics!! Would love some of mine like that once it's on the road.

Post Fri Apr 01, 2011 1:58 pm

Looks awesome!!!!!!!!!

Where can i get a set of those wheels.............