My Cabby project (Borbet B's fitted p3)

[tonybtonyb]

I got a spoiler with the kit i bought off BMW-Mad but him and a few others said the cab would look better without the spoiler on it, and i do agree.

Its your car at the end of the day do what you want,yes some cabs do look good without the rear spoiler but there is so many without they all just look the same to me.

[LUCAS_E30GB]

Hello kman82.I must say that my rims (pict 48 ) are very rare.They are genuine bbs rs 16 inch 4x100 (3 split rims).The center is 15 inch,but lip and inner barrel are 16 inch.All 3 pieces are bolted together with 30 bolts!(not 34 bolts,like other 5 stud 16 inch bbs rs).They are 8J all round at the moment,but i want to make them wider at the back by adding bigger 3 inch lip.Hope this will help.Cheers.

[kman82]

They're really nice mate. Do you mind me asking how much they cost you?

[choppa7]

Looks a completely different car fella

Personally I'd stick with the wheels you've got but thats just me

[Bfab]

[Bfab]

Your car looks amazing. which wheels you going for? The wheels looks fine and original. Im looking for a M tech 2 kit as well. Do you think a second hand one will be god enough

[kman82]

Your car looks amazing. which wheels you going for? The wheels looks fine and original. Im looking for a M tech 2 kit as well. Do you think a second hand one will be god enough

Thanks for the comments! New wheels are on hold for the time being. I need to change the suspension first becuase its just rock hard and too low. I worry about catching the front spoiler on every speed bump I go over and have scraped a few. Going to change it back to 40mm drop.

You'll find mtec 2 kits for sale on here, in the for sale section or try ebay. I think you'll be very lucky to find one in a perfect condition and if you do it will be very very expensive! You have to expect a certain amount of repair work which your bodyshop should be able to do for you.

[kunjani]

That is a lovley job.

Wish I had the space to undertake the same. Your post has just made me decide to have the spray job done proffesionaly instead of doing it myself.

did you fit the bumpers your self?

[kman82]

^ thanks. I got the bodyshop to do all the bumper fitting, repairs and respray. There's no way I could have got anywhere near as good a finish as they got and there was tons of welding!

Get it done mate, mine was worth every penny!

[maestego]

oh wow that looks nice and yep needs bigger wheels to suit,great job....

[kman82]

yeah defo needs bigger wheels! I've made my mind up i'm going to pass on the Lenso's and get some borbet b's on there - if I can find some!

[BackPeddler]

That looks brilliant, £1800 was cheap I'd of wanted more like 3k to reach that sort standard.
Have just done a lotus éclat to the same standard and for a similar price but no welding or rust on an éclat.

[jas025]

Looks absolutely great - you deserve to be very pleased with that.

As far as badges and spoilers go, I'd leave them both off - it looks spot on without them.

[Dezzy]

You motor look great as it is.

I wouldnt touch cheap copy rims though mate.

The motor deserves better.

The BBS look spot on imo.

Hold out for some genuine Alpina's/Hartge's. Big bucks but you'll better off.

17" wheels ruin the ride and feel of E30's imo

[kman82]

Cheers for the comments everyone, much appreciated!

I've actually refixed the 325i badge but left the boot spoiler off and happy with the way it looks

As for the wheels, I'm not a great fan of alpinas or hartges but have decided against the lenso / calibre wheels. The bbs I have on there look good in the photos but they're actually pretty knackered so they need changing. I would love some bbs rs 16 but don't think I can afford them so gonna keep an eye out for some 16" borbet b's, in 9j!!

If anyone knows of a set let me know

[MOycanooo]

This reminds me of my first project that i have just started this month...it is in similar conditions that your was... well done!!! hope mine stays like that one day!:)

[adit]

looking fab Keith. glad you're so pleased

oh, and +1 to Dezzy

[e-thirty]

some had work help me wiv mine dude

[kman82]

Havn't really updated here for a while so took some pictures of the work i managed to do in the rain today.

A few weeks back I changed all of the suspension to Bilstein B4's with eibach springs. 35mm drop. I'm still really pleased with the results as the car drives like a totally new motor!

I noticed while i was changing the rear though that the fuel breather pipe cover was rusted through and needed changing...




It really was rusted through



and made a right mess getting off the car



Luckily everything behind looked ok So replacement part purchased



I also needed to fit the dust covers over the B4 dampers so had to take them back off the car and fit. I managed to get the covers from BMW at a stupidly high price - £14 per tube! and they're not even made of metal, they're rubber.



rebuilt the dampers back up, was a bit gutted when I first got these that they're all black but they work really well.



And finally all the shiney bits back on the car



Cars booked in to a mechanic friend of mine next week to have the clutch master and slave changed but more importantly having my E46 rack fitted! cant wait!

[kman82]

Some of you may have seen my other thread about getting My Borbet B's fitted. I got them back from Lepsoms in Swindon yesterday and I'm over the moon with them!! Obviously had to fit them straight away.




I had the wheels dipped in some kind of Acid to strip all the paint off,repainted on the backface and outer face, some work on the rims to get them all the same and then the outer face and dish diamond cut. They said they couldn't do the centre caps which i was a bit disapointed about but I'm on the hunt for some brand new ones from Germany. The old ones dont look too bad though and i dont think you can tell from the pictures.

I went for 215 x 40 Toyo T1r's in the end. At first Lepsoms wouldn't fit them as they said they are too stretched. I managed to convince them to do it but they made sure they took all reference to the fact they fitted it on the paperwork as they reckon its illegal???? They said it was a right pain in the ass to do it and took the best part of an hour! I must admit it is much more of a stretch than i was expecting...




I went for the 215's because i was worried 225's would catch on the rear arch but i think i could of got away with it. If anything the wheels look a bit lost in the arches but i'm not going to lower the car any more, think it looks quite cool like that.

some pic's on the car...

[tonybtonyb]

They do look really nice could do with a little drop to finish off.

[THEHOOD]

Looks , I'l keep an eye out for this around oxford.

[kman82]

that's what i'm thinking but the car is already dropped 35mm on the eibach pro kit and billy b4's. It's hard enough as it is and didn't want to go any lower as it scrapes the cills. what drop is yours on Tony?

[Rav335uk]

Did you use spacers up front?

[adit]

happy now Keith? so what's next?

BTW: i assume you sorted the rear arch gap to the Tech2 rear bumper ok? or did i miss that bit?

[kman82]

Did you use spacers up front?

yeah Rav, I tried fitting them without but they caught on the caliper so had to use 3mm spacers in the end.

happy now Keith? so what's next?

BTW: i assume you sorted the rear arch gap to the Tech2 rear bumper ok? or did i miss that bit?

ha ha. yeah happy for now Adi! All though i need to get an LSD at some point.... oh and an M52 2.8!!

Yeah we managed to sort the rear arch gap, had to make up some shaped black plastic panels that screw to the rear bumper. You can just about see them in this pic...

[lyricalnut02]

very nice, the borbets really suit the car

[Jozi]

Love the wheels, they look perfect after the refurb! The caps don't look out of place at all on them, at least not in the pics.

Also just read your whole thread, you've done a brilliant job transforming the car to where it is now! Is the girlfriend still embarrassed to be seen in it?!

[adit]

Is the girlfriend still embarrassed to be seen in it?!

Jozi, you've missed the point of the whole thread i feel.
his girlfriend now has nice big chunky wheels and a bodykit

[170sport]

Nice job mate !!! I've got a tech 2 sport coupe which I'm restoring. And the factory tech 2 body kits do look smart, however just to finish urs off, If it were mine id stick a pair of the tech 2 rear light clusters on And maybe "offer up" a tech 2 rear spoiler and see wat it looks like as it may look good with the roof down but might be a different image with it up...

Otherwise good job !!

[Jozi]

That won't work or fit without lots of work. His cabby is a pre-facelift car which had smaller rear lights (amongst other things), if you look at the space between the lights and the bumper you will see there's much more metal there than on a post facelift e30.

[170sport]

That won't work or fit without lots of work. His cabby is a pre-facelift car which had smaller rear lights (amongst other things), if you look at the space between the lights and the bumper you will see there's much more metal there than on a post facelift e30.

Indeed I see now, just looked at the back of mine at ur right the mk1 is smaller. Lol well scratch that idea then

[170sport]

Although kman82 ur new wheels are amazing, i was just thinking of some overtime at work to get some on mine once it's rolling, but I'm keeping it standard with the original bbs rims.