Hi all!
I'm bit bored today, so I will start writing my thread in here. Previously I have written everything in Finnish forums, so I'm just copying all here and translating all in English.
Previous big build has been my 320i e36 which I have had for several years, and I still have as my daily driver.
I also made it to local magazine:
More here
But eventually it started to be "ready" and there wasn't much to do, so I needed new project. I have always wanted to build e30, but I didn't found any cheap enough starting point (I needed it to be cheap, because I knew that I'm going for complete rebuild and I didn't wan't to do real restoration). Then it was late fall in Finland and one night I was visiting my friends house, and his father said that some guy has old BMW for sold. Immediately I decided to go look for that, and luckily it happened to be -87 316 e30 which was in fairly good shape. There wasn't much rust, the panels were straight and almost ever part was there.
(I apologise the poor images in this point. Normally I use my DLSR, but some of the pictures have been taken with old phone.)The price was only few hundred euros so I bought the car. Later I found out that the paper work for the car was missing, and I couldn't get it registered. So I just ended up driving it in closed areas
Later I sold some parts to get my money back. For example my friend bough the old m10 engine because it was virtually like new.
Of course I still needed new project, so I went and bought this -84 pre-facelift 316 e30. it was the cheapest one i could find, and it shows.
Of course there was like thousand things that were wrong, there were lots of rust and every fix there was, has been done horribly wrong.
The reason I went with this old chassis is the Finland's laws. With this I don't need to add ABS brakes when changing the engine to bigger one and the emission standards are much lower.
Plan is to basically use the body from this and convert it to look like newer facelift one using the parts from the first e30. And of course there is ton of rust repair to do addition to this. And the engine, drive train, suspension and everything will be upgraded.
Here is some list of the modifications:
- facelift rear and sidepanels
- facelift front panel (the version which have vents for air condition)
- facelift plastic bumpers
- new doors, bonnet, and trunk lid (because of the poor condition and rust.
- 325i brakes, trailing arms, stabilizers and struts
- BC extreme drop coilovers.
- adjustable rear axle
- urethane bushes
- e36 328 (m52b28) engine (+turbo, injectors, megasquirt and other stuff)
- zf s5d 320z gearbox and e36 328 driveshaft
- typ 188 rear diff with 2.56 gear ratio, e36 cover and 325e LSD
- 3pcs bottlecap wheels
+ lot of other modifications.
I'm bit bored today, so I will start writing my thread in here. Previously I have written everything in Finnish forums, so I'm just copying all here and translating all in English.
Previous big build has been my 320i e36 which I have had for several years, and I still have as my daily driver.
I also made it to local magazine:
More here
But eventually it started to be "ready" and there wasn't much to do, so I needed new project. I have always wanted to build e30, but I didn't found any cheap enough starting point (I needed it to be cheap, because I knew that I'm going for complete rebuild and I didn't wan't to do real restoration). Then it was late fall in Finland and one night I was visiting my friends house, and his father said that some guy has old BMW for sold. Immediately I decided to go look for that, and luckily it happened to be -87 316 e30 which was in fairly good shape. There wasn't much rust, the panels were straight and almost ever part was there.
(I apologise the poor images in this point. Normally I use my DLSR, but some of the pictures have been taken with old phone.)The price was only few hundred euros so I bought the car. Later I found out that the paper work for the car was missing, and I couldn't get it registered. So I just ended up driving it in closed areas
Later I sold some parts to get my money back. For example my friend bough the old m10 engine because it was virtually like new.
Of course I still needed new project, so I went and bought this -84 pre-facelift 316 e30. it was the cheapest one i could find, and it shows.
Of course there was like thousand things that were wrong, there were lots of rust and every fix there was, has been done horribly wrong.
The reason I went with this old chassis is the Finland's laws. With this I don't need to add ABS brakes when changing the engine to bigger one and the emission standards are much lower.
Plan is to basically use the body from this and convert it to look like newer facelift one using the parts from the first e30. And of course there is ton of rust repair to do addition to this. And the engine, drive train, suspension and everything will be upgraded.
Here is some list of the modifications:
- facelift rear and sidepanels
- facelift front panel (the version which have vents for air condition)
- facelift plastic bumpers
- new doors, bonnet, and trunk lid (because of the poor condition and rust.
- 325i brakes, trailing arms, stabilizers and struts
- BC extreme drop coilovers.
- adjustable rear axle
- urethane bushes
- e36 328 (m52b28) engine (+turbo, injectors, megasquirt and other stuff)
- zf s5d 320z gearbox and e36 328 driveshaft
- typ 188 rear diff with 2.56 gear ratio, e36 cover and 325e LSD
- 3pcs bottlecap wheels
+ lot of other modifications.
Comment