The Bimmer of Love!

[James0r]

Bought this badboy off ebay with no tax or mot for Ԛ£280!

Put it through an MOT next day it failed on an indicator bulb

it's a 316 with 1.8 Carb engine completely standard apart from some black tsw rims (bradz old ones) and clear indicators.

Heres some pics:





http://homepage.ntlworld.com/carol.kendall/bimmer5.jpg
http://homepage.ntlworld.com/carol.kendall/bimmer6.jpg

[Jamesb318is]

A deal, a steal, the sale of the f**king century!
Looks tidy!

[BrAdZ]

was an absolute bargain!! We did give it a bloody good checkover though!!

My old wheels look good on there!!

Very impressed with the engine, nice and revy pretty quick too.

[E30BeemerLad]

M10, now there's an engine that likes a turbo!!!!

The block in that engine was pretty much the item used in the 80's F1 Turbo BMW engine, 1500BHP all day long

[Mahmood]

Hi

Sound purchase.

How come you've got face lift rear lenses on an A plate car though?

[stevetigger]

Hi

Sound purchase.

How come you've got face lift rear lenses on an A plate car though?

Somebody at some point put that plate on me thinks!! Look's to me like a 'H' Plate really!!

[BenE30]

Looks good mate!! nice car!

[Zayyan]

Looks good, but....

http://www.e30zone.co.uk/modules.php?na ... ic&t=17256

[stevetigger]

Me thinks oops!!

[James0r]

surely if it was indeed a cut and shut would it still go through and MOT?

[bmwe30mtech]

I recon you should give it a check to see if its a cut and shut, but i doupt it is as it looks like a genuine 1990 or 91. And it must be worht 280 in parts anyway, cant go wrong at that price. Well done.

[stevetigger]

surely if it was indeed a cut and shut would it still go through and MOT?

Just all depends on the workmanship of the job! I doubt it is a cut & shut. Have a look under the carpets and stuff. Just dont be afraid to poke and prod........... A friend of mine did it with my car once. He pulled the carpet up in the boot. I had done this myself but he started to pull trim off and all that. He found what I didn't......... accident damage!

[James0r]

Prodded and poked all the way round and can't see anything out of the ordinary EXCEPT:

On the log book the car is recorded as a 316, where as the chassis is recorded as 318i ?

Checked it out with BMW Stealership and all chassis numbers (scuttle panel + front plate) both come up as BMW 318i 1984 in white?

So what could possibly have happened here? Engine transplant and DVLA informed?

Im confused although not bothered because its only a runaround!

Cheers!

[Richy325iTouring]

Prodded and poked all the way round and can't see anything out of the ordinary EXCEPT:

On the log book the car is recorded as a 316, where as the chassis is recorded as 318i ?

Checked it out with BMW Stealership and all chassis numbers (scuttle panel + front plate) both come up as BMW 318i 1984 in white?

So what could possibly have happened here? Engine transplant and DVLA informed?

Im confused although not bothered because its only a runaround!

Cheers!

something isnt right there or i have read that wrong
you say 1984 but its in a 1988 on shell

[JOSEMI]

Richy325iTouring wrote

something isnt right there or i have read that wrong
you say 1984 but its in a 1988 on shell

Yeah, the front lights may have been changed but the back lights give this away they can't be swaped that easily.

Jose

[stevetigger]

Just had a brain storm!!!!
It is an 1984....... But in 1988 the rich owner broke it on a wall!
He went to bmw, he was going to by a new car anyway....upgrade to 318i
but bmw convince him to reshell the broken car and place a new 1.8 into it! Just my opinion! A friend of mine did it with his Nova. It was an SRI on a K plate, he put it in a ditch............The insurance company said they would repair it not write it off! So he told the repair shop it was a GSI.
It got fixed using GSI parts instead of SRI parts.
Just think, In 1988 the car was only four years old so still worth lots of money!

[James0r]

but it looks like its a 318i shell but with the 316 M10 Carb engine with manual choke.

[James0r]

any more ideas anyone?

[stevetigger]

any more ideas anyone?

What I said but without the engine change!! You can get 316's with a 1.8 anyway!!

[Zayyan]

You can get 316's with a 1.8 anyway!!

How do you mean you can get 316s with a 1.8?

All E30 316s were 1.8s.