e30 build

[ShadowWabbit]

i always wanted an e30. do it up!

[Dutchy]

Adapters came!

[Dutchy]

Small update:

I ordered all new shift bushings and linkage which should be here sometime later this week or early next, along with the adapters coming soon. Hopefully then I can get this thing 5 spd and rolling on the d90's shortly.

[dav3design]

I <3 e30 builds!

[Dutchy]

wow, it looks to be a pretty clean start, or at least cleaner than the previous e30

Yeah the old one was worse underneath, but had a decent body, where this one has a clean underbody and engine bay, but rotten fenders and some rust from the idiot that screwed the skirts into the rockers.

It will get cleaned up for now, and over winter get new fenders and likely a respray.

[Burn535i]

wow, it looks to be a pretty clean start, or at least cleaner than the previous e30

[00bmw323]

great start!

[Dutchy]

Hopefully I can actually finish this car this time.

Some of you may remember my old car:



Well after some headaches and getting fed up with the car I drove a fairly stock mk4 jetta 1.8t for a while, then I stumbled upon the corrado:



It quickly got modded:





and I had some fun breaking stuff:



Needless to say it wasn`t the car for me, I missed my old e30 to much, not to mention RWD.

So I present you my new shitbox:



I bought it auto, and more or less stock, decided to drive it until I found parts for the 5spd swap, and as you can see above, I motivated myself to do the swap sooner by blowing up the tranny drifting around an autox event, 1st gear auto drifts FTW





Yes thats my old 1.8t jetta (parents bought it from me) towing my e30, like a champ I should add.

Of course doing a tranny swap isn`t the only thing on my mind, I bought some wheels off of s4cr which should be coming in a little bit, but god knows I don`t have that much patience. Which brings us to these wheels:





16x8 et 52 all around, falken 502 205/40r16 on all of em, 40mm and 50mm adapters coming sometime next week.

Here is the oldest picture I have of the car, I should have taken some of when i got it, but I was in to much of a rush to get rid of all the ugly crap it had (red bumper trim, no is lip, stock headlights and grills, zender skirts and mtech replica rear bumper)

This is it after I put on the following:

Euro bosch headlights
Euro girlls
Euro trims
Euro plate filler
Euro plate
Euro keyless glove box handle
oem IS lip
New bmw emblems
Removed 325is logo
Stock rear bumper
oem shadowline
Mtech 2 steering wheel




Low and what not to come soon, better quality pictures too.