anyone make a widebody kit (that doesn't look ricer as hell) so one could fit some decent sized wheels/tires under an e30?

4/26/2007 8:11:11 AM

youre gonna put a $6k+ motor and tranny w/ hard to find (and $$$$$$) parts in a $2k car?

whats your budget and plan/goal?

4/26/2007 8:58:04 AM

The project has phases.
Basically i'm going to use the stock motor and a stand alone for while and learn to tune then if i don't blow it up move to something nicer.
I want the light weight of the car and the sneakiness.

I still haven't really decided. I already have a d.d. and i can walk to work so that stuff really isn't a concern... i just want something to tinker on...
It'll either be a 60s mustang or an e30 or an 95 imprezza w/ sti swap
all of which would be stand alone efi because i want to learn how to program fuel injection.

4/26/2007 9:21:30 AM

I have no idea what my gas mileage is because the odometer doesn't turn.

4/26/2007 1:59:24 PM

my computer says 27 mpg, but since i have no odometer i have no way to check it

4/26/2007 5:16:07 PM

it's so hot in here,

someone should fix the a/c.

btt.

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6/16/2007 12:00:17 PM

rise from your grave [/altered beast]

8/30/2007 10:45:52 PM

props to my 270k E30 track mongrel surviving another HPDE Winning weekend.

i got a new ric0r steering wheel w/ some dish to space it toward me so i could move my seat back. I also got a pedal cover set and put on the brake pedal cover w/ some washers behind it to space the pedal up higher. left the gas pedal cover off. now my relative pedal heights are much better under hard braking and i'm in heel-toe nirvana.

ergonomics FTMFW. its a whole new car to drive. i can't shut up about what a change these things made to the whole experience.

9/3/2007 2:50:46 PM

Hey y'all.

9/25/2007 12:19:38 PM

Hey

I miss mine, it's still sitting at my parent's house in charlotte when I have a perfectly good garage for it now in raleigh. I just need to stop being lazy and get my ass to charlotte and bring her home.

9/25/2007 10:21:04 PM

Quote :

"I miss mine mine"

9/26/2007 2:42:18 AM

^sold it?

9/30/2007 10:10:18 PM

oh hah, nah. he just owns my old e30. funny enough, he's about to sell it to nah325i.

there are some slutty bmws in raleigh- let me tell you.

dan, give me a call or IM when you get a chance. I want to pick your brain about gutting these things.

10/8/2007 12:56:05 AM

E30+twin turbo 3.6L M5 engine=1048hp

http://tinyurl.com/2akn9y

10/9/2007 1:09:30 AM

I could not imagine an e30 ever needing more than 300hp. It would be sweet if it didn't have the twin turbos on that M5 engine.

10/9/2007 1:20:50 AM

Anyone want a nice airbagless 3spoke MtechI wheel? Its clean and in great shape.

$50, come get it.

11/17/2007 12:05:28 PM

what did you replace it with?

11/17/2007 5:48:57 PM

MOOMOOOOOOOOO.

got some deep dish goodness to space the wheel closer to me. its awesome

11/18/2007 10:52:57 AM

new or used? link?

11/18/2007 12:48:08 PM

12/5/2007 11:10:58 PM

That is nice except for the "eye brows"

12/5/2007 11:29:28 PM

ohhhhhhhhhhhhhh E30s.... how do i love thee...

It sucks having one as a track car though because i never drive the POS.

12/6/2007 2:59:46 PM

my e30 > .*

12/6/2007 4:08:03 PM

Oh we back, and this time we got ridiculous sized European looking racks.

12/19/2007 11:44:53 PM

I'm once again in possession of my old bronzit e30. together again, at last- even if just for a day or two.

12/19/2007 11:47:43 PM

Thank goodness for my e30. If you saw my recent S2000 thread you'll understand.

12/19/2007 11:52:30 PM

^

Ever decide what youre going to do with it? Kind of put the far of god in me to not void the warranty in anyway. At least i have until 2012 before mine can crap a ring and I get overly upset.

12/20/2007 8:27:06 AM

Not yet. It was stressing me out, so I decided just to let it sit in the garage until the new year.

12/20/2007 11:55:45 AM

anyone know of a 318 w/ 5 speed and 4 doors for sale locally?

12/20/2007 1:25:44 PM

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12/20/2007 1:34:52 PM

why and how did you get that, callahan?

12/20/2007 2:37:05 PM

it's a LONGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGG story.

12/20/2007 4:45:56 PM

If I were to picture myself driving one of these, it would have to be to the music of:
Huey Lewis
Phil Collins
Billy Ocean
The Cure
The Cult
etc.

12/20/2007 6:30:16 PM

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12/20/2007 6:36:06 PM

WHO KNOWS WHAT THESE GO TO?!?

1/12/2008 3:45:35 PM

limited slips are for cheaters, dan

1/12/2008 5:22:59 PM

My rotors are warped as hell. Can anything bad happen as a result of that or does it just make it suck to stop?

1/18/2008 1:52:41 PM

They're cheap- why not just go ahead and replace them?

This just in- VIR < Laguna Seca.
Went there for a spece30 race today- first hot laps there.

And
OH MY

1/19/2008 9:09:16 PM

Oh yeah, well somebody put a Veyron on track @Road Atlanta with chin. Suck on that.

Besides, we have like 300 decent tracks, and collectively they're better than Laguna Seca... Oh hell, I'll come drive
your stinking Laguna Seca too. How's next Monday? <3 xoxo
Ahmet

1/19/2008 9:43:54 PM

whats the setup on a spec e-30 ?

1/20/2008 12:45:25 PM

http://www.nasaproracing.com/rules/SpecE30.pdf

But essentially- h&r race springs, bilstein sport shock, 2750 wet weight w/ driver, stock drivetrain, open ecu.

1/20/2008 2:08:14 PM

^no sir, stock ECU only

1/21/2008 12:51:43 PM

Quote :

"They're cheap- why not just go ahead and replace them?"

Time more than anything. No time to replace them myself and my S2k is crippled so I need to get it fixed before I drop the BMW off at Shadetree.

1/21/2008 1:13:52 PM

stock tune stock ecu is way rich that sucks.

1/21/2008 1:34:40 PM

if you have heat spots on the rotor, then it will shake bad. then it will transfer it to your pads. and your pads will be uneven.

turn them. pad deposits may also be there.

it will shake

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1/21/2008 2:54:21 PM

I'll do something eventually. It has been that way for at least 25k miles now, so it's probably time for new rotors/pads to start from scratch. It just keeps getting worse.

1/21/2008 3:49:32 PM

finally put the slave cylinder in the e30 318is and it is road bound again, time to get a chip for it to breath a little more life into the car. after that, its time to switch the e30 for the e36 in charlotte and pull the head.

1/22/2008 12:22:58 AM

finished the diff rebuild today. wootz.

I'll it back in the car one of these days.

The question is.... how many miles till it grenades?

1/27/2008 4:48:45 PM

At least 200k since it's in an e30.

1/28/2008 9:56:43 AM

certainly if it was stock. The one i just rebuilt had 270k on it and was working fine except for a shot pinion bearing. The other bearings and even clutches looked ok.

I'm questioning my diff rebuild skills If i screwed up itll chew itself to shit in no time.

1/29/2008 8:55:57 AM