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Post Tue Sep 27, 2011 6:19 pm

My first BMW e30, taken after a quick clean a few nights ago

It has ATM:
BC racing coilovers front and rear
sump guard



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Eddie25
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Post Tue Sep 27, 2011 6:23 pm

Looks lovely and in the best colour winkeye

What are the wheels? More pics? :D
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Post Tue Sep 27, 2011 6:32 pm

Thanks mate, they're axis 15'' :)

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Post Tue Sep 27, 2011 6:39 pm

Very nice :cool:
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Post Tue Sep 27, 2011 6:44 pm

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Post Tue Sep 27, 2011 6:59 pm

That cars been on here before :D

http://www.e30zone.net/modules.php?name ... 77&start=0
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felt so proud,even tried it with a E30 325i and got put in my place.. :o:
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Post Tue Sep 27, 2011 7:05 pm

yup, got it from the chap on here when it was for sale :)
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Post Tue Sep 27, 2011 7:23 pm

Nice well looked after chariot 8)
Cypriotgeeza wrote:I done both my mates in my old 318is
felt so proud,even tried it with a E30 325i and got put in my place.. :o:
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Post Tue Sep 27, 2011 8:40 pm

thank you
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Post Tue Sep 27, 2011 8:52 pm

agreed very pretty car, like the wheels too, small wheels ftw!
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Post Tue Sep 27, 2011 9:19 pm

That's a real looker, I like that :cool:
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Post Tue Sep 27, 2011 9:51 pm

That sits really well and its mega clean. Good to see the build thread from the previous owner too! Seems its gone to another good home
I'll check with the manager
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Post Tue Sep 27, 2011 10:03 pm

Thanks a lot chaps, really appreciate them, although I can't take credit for how it's been looked after for the past 20 years :)

Will get some under body shots this weekend as it's pretty nice and clean :)
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Post Tue Sep 27, 2011 10:12 pm

I remember this one from when the last owner had it on here, a nice clean body iirc and very well cared for.

was up for sale for quire a high asking price i think?

Ripe for a m20 or m50/2 :D
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Post Tue Sep 27, 2011 10:16 pm

M52 yes :D
All in good time haha
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Post Wed Sep 28, 2011 11:13 am

That paint puts mine to shame! :(
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Post Wed Sep 28, 2011 11:19 am

See that car at awesome fest looks cool
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Post Wed Sep 28, 2011 1:38 pm

Cheers guys
VW-will wrote:See that car at awesome fest looks cool
haha really? 8O

was carrying all the tyres for my brother (karan's) car, he was drifting his ps13 v8 there :)
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Post Wed Sep 28, 2011 10:44 pm

ooooo that is beautiful!!
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Post Thu Sep 29, 2011 12:37 am

lovely example, just needs some nice leathers to finish off.
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Post Thu Sep 29, 2011 9:14 pm

very nice !
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Post Sun Oct 02, 2011 12:10 am

i like this, looks clean !!
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Post Mon Nov 07, 2011 5:06 pm

I like that alot!!!! Those wheels are class on it and I'm normally not that keen on those kind of centers.


How do you find the BCs? I'm using them on my cars and fitted a good few to E30s.
M42 rightness above 6500rpm, nobody can hear you scream
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Post Mon Nov 07, 2011 6:14 pm

The wheels are right........very cool.

What's that front spoiler??? same on the red touring above ^^^

I'd like one for my touring.
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Post Tue Nov 08, 2011 9:15 am

smart e30 :thumb:
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Post Tue Nov 08, 2011 10:34 pm

Dave_M3 wrote:I like that alot!!!! Those wheels are class on it and I'm normally not that keen on those kind of centers.


How do you find the BCs? I'm using them on my cars and fitted a good few to E30s.
I can't really say as I don't have anything to compare them to. How do you feel about them?

Front spoiler is the 318is lip spoiler
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Post Thu Nov 10, 2011 8:53 pm

savagehenry wrote:The wheels are right........very cool.

What's that front spoiler??? same on the red touring above ^^^

I'd like one for my touring.

Just a nice 318iS lip. Can get them from cotswolds on here for around 100 quid or so I think.
M42 rightness above 6500rpm, nobody can hear you scream
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Post Thu Nov 10, 2011 10:05 pm

Dave_M3 wrote:
savagehenry wrote:The wheels are right........very cool.

What's that front spoiler??? same on the red touring above ^^^

I'd like one for my touring.

Just a nice 318iS lip. Can get them from cotswolds on here for around 100 quid or so I think.
Hi mate, what do you think about the BC coilovers?
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Post Thu Nov 10, 2011 10:25 pm

Thanks for the lip.........I'm new to BMW's so I'm not familiar with BC TBO. I was just going for middle road coil-overs on mine (like all my past cars) but now I'm hearing lots about the vulnerable height of e30 sumps when dropped and coil-overs not going down enough because of this. I've ran a few low golfs and sumps were close but being steel, pretty tuff and more or less pence to buy it's never been an issue for me.

I can't wait to start my stancing objectives soon, I just need to make sure my touring is given a clean bill of health first.......get the thing on the road first I fear.

You don't get much for free in this current climate. :D
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Post Thu Nov 10, 2011 11:42 pm

Looks very well. I like the wheels aswell. Best of luck with her dude
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Post Thu Nov 10, 2011 11:42 pm

Double post :o:
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Post Fri Nov 11, 2011 9:48 pm

I find the BCs brilliant. I fitted them to a couple of E30s and was very impressed with them and likewise were the owners.


I had Bilstein B8s and Eibach springs on my iS and I'm ditching them for BCs for when its back on the road as I reckon they're better in both comfort and performance... plus having so much more adjustment of course :cool:
M42 rightness above 6500rpm, nobody can hear you scream
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Post Sat Nov 12, 2011 12:09 am

Cool

Also, I have a sunpguard on this, and I an tell you that it has saved the sump many a time :)
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Post Sat Nov 12, 2011 4:05 pm

what side skirts are on this?
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Post Sat Nov 12, 2011 10:38 pm

Se side skirts
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