What do people think

[HartgeH27]

Break - buy 325 ...........not worth the hassle of rebuilding. Money you get from breaking will offset the cost of a decent 325.

[m3ben05]

Break it, buy a 325 and stop pretending

Seriously tho, if you know vauxhall's better, id either sell the replica or break it and buy a vauxhall....... or save up to buy a real m3

[m3ben05]

was only joking mate, i agree, car looks good.

If you like the way it looks keep it and save for the ones you want.

[Turbo-Brown]

Could bung a 3.5 in it for good measure

Not teaching you to suck eggs or anything, but one car's pretty much the same as another and anything you know about Vauxhall's will to a greater or lesser degree be applicable to your E30.

Would be a shame to scrap that M3 rep shell for the sake of an engine swap too!

[stevetigger]

I dont know shit about engine conversions but look at me! Mbloody50 going in. It will be easy to change from a 323i to a 325i m20, or go the full hog and get a bloody M50 in there

Go on, ive convinced two other zoners to do it!

[m3ben05]

kit looks awesome! Definately see why you want to keep it! Maybe buy a cat d/c salvage car with a good engine and transfer the kit?

[hammoj28]

That car does look very nice.

[stevetigger]

Im sure there's loads of people that would help!

Get yourself an engine and put up a wanted "help" post and watch them come flocking.

[Widge]

You'll need to do somthing about those front wings won't you mate?? The engine swap should be easy, especially if you have a donor for all the little fried bits. Hire a trailer and borrow you long lost uncles pick up truck, you got yow self a convoy!

[Widge]

Go for the 323 mate, then at a later date you can go silly and do a cam and throttle bodies so it will actually look more M3 ish under the bonnet, or more like a racing/track car, would sound sweet too.

[hammoj28]

323i was meant to be quite quick? Glad your keeping it.

[hammoj28]

Yeah my mates dad insists that the 323i's were quicker than the 325i's. haven't a clue wether this is true though.

[stevetigger]

I think its the gearing that makes them quicker to 60 but not top end, I could only get 125 out of my old 323i

[hammoj28]

Ahhh, i though it must be something to do with that.

[Widge]

Short shift conversion for 1
The just give it a really good service, timing belt, set tappets and a rocker cover gasket, oil change, Box and diff oil, clean the icv and TB - BBTB would be a really good mod - and maybe some new hoses.

[mrLEE30]

you will also need to change your sig .. old beemers dont die they just set on fire!!!

the car looks good, go for the engine swap and fix the wing.... better the devil you know and all that!

mrlee

[gary]

Tng I'm replacing an offside wing on my Sport Evo. It has a small bit of rust at the bottom of it right on the arch. is this any good to you

[Widge]

short shift good idea, daz said lightened flywheel, 325i tb, any other simple little things people can suggest?

Go BBTB, even better!!!, you'll need to play with the manifold though if it's going to actually make any difference. You could just got to a 2.5 inlet maniflold. Chip would be good too, although I'm sketchy how that would work on a 323... Ant???

[dazleeds]

see mate
its all coming together now

tng asked me about different injectors etc but i have no idea

anyone??


not sure whats poss with chips on the l jetronic mate??

[Widge]

Wouldn't bother with changing the injectors mate unless you went to ITB's and mapping, um as for the 325 inlet manifold you'd have to port the head to match otherwise ther would be a step which would make it all pointless, depends how far you want to go - you could fit a cam. Depends if you want to get it back on the road asap, or if you can take the time whils the shell is being sprayed to do the engine. E36 steering rack???

[dazleeds]

you could always go a bit further

i had a similar plan for this engine to go into my grey 320i

Iain temple had some very good ideas for upping the power and making it into a 323 that would rag 325s

it may be worth asking him his oppinions

my plans did involve a cam change and 3 angle grinds on the valves etc
but would have put pout some nice power