Amongst many other cars I like E30's, mk1 & mk2 Escorts.
I've got a 2 door E30 325is as my daily driver and I absolutely love it
I've probably got about £4k in it so far.It's got H&R suspension, rebushed throughout, refurbished standard alloys and some horrible cream leather interior.
If I decide to keep the E30 then I'm going to have to do something about the noisy tappets (infuriatingly annoying sewing machine type noise at motorway speed
), get the gearbox recon'd, upgrade the brakes in time and ditch the, IMO, ugly interior. In other words, I'm going to need some spend some dosh on it.Sooooo, this then led me to think about engine transplants. E36 328, 4.0 or 4.4 V8 or E36 M3 perhaps ?
Question is, do I sink £x into the car to do the above and either refresh the current 2.5 engine or change it to something else or do I sell the E30 as it is and put £x towards and get myself a mk1 or mk2 escort instead ?
I'm not saying id get the Escort id want for the same money as what the E30 could cost me but it'd probably get me something quite good that would need tinkering with ?
Options then as I see it are: -
1, E30 + engine & box refresh and interior change
2, E30 + engine transplant to ????? and interior change
3, Sell E30 and get an Escort
What do you think ?
