4th BMW E30

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Lennerd320i
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Sat Nov 24, 2007 6:43 pm

It happend, our 4th E30 arrived. In our country/region (Belgium, The Netherlands) it's a good known car.

Meaning of the purchase, replace my Renault Clio, so in fact, become a Daily.

The pics I shot when I went to look for her:

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It was pure love, she would come to Belgium.

Last Tuesday was D-Day, we picked her up.

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And we started with the works (already yes :evil:)

First one shot near her dolphingrey sis':

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First things first, the analog watch had to dissapear

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Yep, I've placed a small BC (had 2 in my stock).

The sidemarkers, very subtile:

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Strutbrace in the back:

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A big mechanics box in the trunk:

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Next steps (day after):

Radio install...

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Remove the black headlights, as they don't pass the belgian "technical checkup" and reinstall chrome kidneys

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a M-design gearknob, not original, brand new and looks good (I think)

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And the day after (yesterday) I did some more work...

an overview before my house, do you think i'm a freak? :P

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The tourer went back in and some pics of the 3 others...

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The 2 white ones:

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Then the 318i itself...

The electric mirrors were dead, replaced the Relay and worked again :) lots easier :)

The fog lights didn't work neither, it seemed to be a broken switch...

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Furtheron I did remove the Aerodynamic front bumper, she'll become a M-tech and prolly a complete respray will follow as well ;)

that's it so far :)

Enjoy :D
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Sat Nov 24, 2007 6:45 pm

Nice.

At first I thought I could see an intercooler.
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Sat Nov 24, 2007 6:55 pm

Very Nice Mate!! :D Cool Pics too...
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Sat Nov 24, 2007 8:09 pm

that's an idea... make her intercooled...

only 1 problem, the belgian police will like to see me coming + yearly checkup will fail :( (i do have problems with belgium :) )
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Sat Nov 24, 2007 9:48 pm

nice e30s you got there. :cool:
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Sat Nov 24, 2007 10:03 pm

tnx!
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looking good. you have 4!!!! cool
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Sun Nov 25, 2007 4:11 pm

Nice nice.. Look's like a good find fella.
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Sun Nov 25, 2007 5:08 pm

she's hard, and drives very good...
Went to the guy that does the paintjobs for me and maybe she'll go to him within a month to do some finishing touches ;)
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Mon Nov 26, 2007 7:46 pm

You know what you are doing m8, 4th E30, E30s all the way!!!!!!! :D Nice cars 2 m8, there were plenty of E30s along that street on the first pic!!!!!
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Mon Nov 26, 2007 7:51 pm

yeah on the day I took the ride to go see the car, they organised a tourride (dutch E30 forum).

You can or can't believe it, but in the head it's all about E30 :) even the girlfriend goes with me lol
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Mon Nov 26, 2007 7:59 pm

lol sounds like you guys know ur cars over there!!!
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Wed Nov 28, 2007 5:37 pm

very nice i love a white e30 :cool:
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Wed Nov 28, 2007 7:24 pm

whats the bodykit on there?
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Sun Dec 02, 2007 6:54 pm

the front wing is in fact a rebuild Aerodynamic one, this will be removed to fit on the other white ;)
the back wing is a AC schnitzer

And to continue, I did some more today, have to go to get her on our belgian roads tomorrow morning... And she has to be ready :)

What still had to be done this morning?

* check the seats, they weren't stable + pieces lost to have someone on the back seat :)
* replace the rubber to hold the exhaust in place
* change 2 wheels (rubber had his best time :) )
* check the brakes on the backwheels
* reinstall orange markers
* it's forbidden to have tinted front windows, so had to redo that as well

picca's:

This is how it looks like without Aerodynamik wing

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Let's start with the exhaust...

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That's what was left from the old fitment :)

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And how it looks now (not yet really centered but hell...)

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And then the car had a strange noise when you wanted to reverse withit. The previous owner did a doublecheck and couldn't found anything wrong, at least I could find a bolt that was loose. and the noise is gone, at least at this very moment

something not ok? click here to see a little movie :)

The interior has been replaced with a M3 one that was installed in my grey car.
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in the meanwhile this one got a green card, so the homologation can continue :)

first check was bad... had to replace the backlights and one of the brakes in the back wasn't 100%. But that's all fixed :)
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Mon Jul 28, 2008 8:36 pm

it seems that I do need to update this one once again :)

installed xenon:

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other frontvalance + IS-lip, lowered 55/35 with kw, shadowline side windows that can be opened, remus exhaust (waiting for another one at the mo) and installed Borbet B's:

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2 pics from a shoot that i've done once:

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Mon Jul 28, 2008 10:17 pm

Thats looking good Lennard, some nice shots there mate

And christ didnt it rain Sunday night, i thought i was in a scene from the Band of Brothers as i walked from Brugge back to the campsite, thats the loudest thunder i have ever heard, and the lightening sure did crackle.
ive never been so soaked.
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Mon Jul 28, 2008 11:40 pm

nice cars mate :cool:
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Mon Jul 28, 2008 11:46 pm

Nice collection of cars 8)
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spook wrote:Thats looking good Lennard, some nice shots there mate

And christ didnt it rain Sunday night, i thought i was in a scene from the Band of Brothers as i walked from Brugge back to the campsite, thats the loudest thunder i have ever heard, and the lightening sure did crackle.
ive never been so soaked.
those pics have been made a few weeks ago (already).

In the meanwhile we bought a 324td tourer as extra car ;)
ow yeah, the grey one has been sold already 3 or 4 months ago
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Tue Jul 29, 2008 9:21 pm

those borbets are pure sex :cool:
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Tue Jul 29, 2008 9:22 pm

It looks really good now... especially with the Borbet's. Man, you love your E30's - keep it up!! :D
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Wed Jul 30, 2008 12:09 pm

tnx all :)

i've posted pics of the new tourer
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Tue Sep 02, 2008 7:32 am

once again, some updates:

the original exhaust with ACS end, emptied:

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small movie:

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the sound s****, but when turning without stress she's a little louder, but when you're driving her, she screams. Not to hard though, but yeah.

and at least, a typical old skool look:

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Tue Sep 02, 2008 1:03 pm

wooo were did u get those borbets from ...
do you were i could pic some up from ?? :?:
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Tue Sep 02, 2008 7:04 pm

I got them in Germany, for me it was a 8hr drive.

You do see them often (what's in a name for a set that's rather rare to find) on ebay.de
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Tue Sep 02, 2008 7:11 pm

Nice Lennerd, nice, and we all love a screamer. :)
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Tue Sep 02, 2008 7:17 pm

tnx gooner...
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Mon Mar 30, 2009 6:42 am

this one has been sold.
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Mon Mar 30, 2009 10:16 am

GREAT WORKS DUDE!
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Mon Mar 30, 2009 7:05 pm

lovley to see an ace little privot colection. wot is the rear valence?
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Tue Mar 31, 2009 11:32 am

rear valance was an ACS one.
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