Family Heirloom (1986 BMW 316 'Chromie')

[victim]

I'm not a new guy to the 3 series game having built a magazine featured E36



And being the current owner of my E36 325 Drift toy



However, after having to temporarily surrender my licence for a year and therefore being unable to drift, my grandad decided that I needed something to cheer me up and I was presented with a whole new 3 series challenge. The keys to his beloved E30 'Chromie'! I had wanted to get my hands on this for so long and now it's mine to do with what I see fit. What a gift!!!

The car is a 1986 pre-facelift E30 316 4 door in platinum green.







The moment I got home I was straight on Ebay shopping for parts.

First up I ordered a set of these





(reps I know) 16x8 and 16x9 staggered set up with 195/45/16 Achilles ATR’s to be stretched onto them and 25mm hubcentric spacers.



And a pair of fresh badges.

Trial fitted the wheels on the car last night







Tyres should be fitted tomorrow night so expect an update

[Queef|Chief]

Color of the car is shexxyy. This will be good

[244Brick]

Will the flares being chrome.. you should definitely polish those lips

[victim]

Cheers guys.

Got the tyres mounted up onto the wheels tonight and I love how they sit

195/45/16 on 8's and 9's

[1mellowkid]

looking to be off to a great start!
i can tell this car is in the right hands
Proceed

[victim]

Got over to the car and threw the wheels on for some Tractor stancing. High is the new low don't you know?! :P











Removed the towbar too whilst I was on.

[abraham]

If anybody ask's, just say its on air but you have it raised up

[aeok18109]

Clean car . Thanks SW. I might be getting into the Euro game -_- blast your sexy old cars.

[victim]

Photoshop is my friend :P

[victim]

Spent today using a combination of E30, E36 and Vauxhall Corsa parts to make the Chromie low

Got some second hand -40mm Weitec's along with a load of other bits for £21 on Ebay



Chucked them on to decide how much to 'modify' them by



1.5 coils were removed



Got some Corsa B -60mm springs for £10 and mated them to some E36 ride height adjuster cups that I have from my drifter



Chucked them all together and ended up with this



Nice and flush

[victim]

Chucked a little classic AA badge on the grill too just to add to the old man spec of My Grandad's old car :P

[victim]

Couple of pics of our bavarian driveway at home with the 3 generations

[OrangeBlue]

First i was like: Meh it's a 4 door...

















But then:


Maybe a lil' bit lower in the front?
What kind of trunkspoiler is that?

[victim]

Maybe a lil' bit lower in the front?
What kind of trunkspoiler is that?

I agree and I'm looking to go a little lower at the front soon.

It's a BMW M-Tech 2 spoiler which is too late for the car really but as it was my Grandfathers car before mine and he loved the spoiler, it's staying for the time being

[victim]

The classic looking Blaupunkt head unit looked so in place amongst the 80's dash but it lacked the features that I would have liked from a daily drivers audio system



It would have been a shame to replace it with something modern so a decision was made to retain it as the radio and run a hidden CD/iPod player and the glovebox top provided the perfect panel to hide one away.