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1988 Atlantisblau Euro/Japanese 325i Cabriolet
1989 Schwartz 325i - now M50 powered! - now very dead
1998 Toyota 4Runner Limited
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Originally posted by Mr. Burns View Postripping out a perfectly healthy and solid engine and drivetrain to take on an engine swap...so far it's been fun/frustrating but i'm facing way more downtime than I had originally expected.
Everyone is out cruising in their summer cars, and i'm here with my e30 vert on jackstands test fitting driveshaft measurements while I still gotta install an entire wire harness...
don't fix what's not broken.
^^^listen to this saying^^^
oh and two years ago had a no fuel issue with my e30 for a couple of weeks.
tore everything apart only to learn the gas tank was empty.
added fuel, fired right up lol
AGREED
Ive considered swaps for my e30's, but when you consider how much fabrication is involved, it's not worth it. It's worse when you get a shop to install it since they will charge you crazy amounts for labor.
These project threads on R3v make swaps seem far too easyIf it's got tits or tires, it's gonna cost ya!
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Originally posted by Mr. Burns View Postripping out a perfectly healthy and solid engine and drivetrain to take on an engine swap...so far it's been fun/frustrating but i'm facing way more downtime than I had originally expected.
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Originally posted by Mr. Burns View Postripping out a perfectly healthy and solid engine and drivetrain to take on an engine swap...so far it's been fun/frustrating but i'm facing way more downtime than I had originally expected.
Everyone is out cruising in their summer cars, and i'm here with my e30 vert on jackstands test fitting driveshaft measurements while I still gotta install an entire wire harness...
don't fix what's not broken.
^^^listen to this saying^^^sigpic
1987 - 325i Convertible Delphin Auto [SOLD], 325i Convertible Delphin Manual [SOLD]
1989 - 325i Convertible Bronzit m30b35 swapped [SCRAPPED], 325i Sedan Alpine Auto[DD]
1991 - 325i Coupe Laguna Manual [Project], 535i Sedan Alpine [SCRAPPED]
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most recently
-I put drop hats in with my 50mm drop springs. car rides like shit now, haven't had time to put stock hats back in, so i commute on being constantly bottomed out and high center all the time.
-I bought a e30 on a whim(a year ago) with only test driving it in a parking lot. by the time i got home i found it to have a rod knock, and had frame damage i didnt see because i bought the car at night. sold it for a huge loss
-I let my lady drive my e30 for awhile, she smashed the fender in to a concert wall
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Originally posted by AwakenNoMore View PostWaiting to long to do the timing belt.
Ruined a very nicely maintained M20. I was 6 months overdue and I thought I was 6 months under the change interval.
Buying shitty Lencas lithuania bushings that didn't fit right and I need to replace again.
Re-doing the wiring from head unit to amp, cheaping out and buying wires that were too short, so I ran them up the trans tunnel, under the seat and drilled a pointless hole behind the seat to get it to the amp
Removing the carpet, sanding rust on the floor down, but using POR15 and not letting it dry before putting the carpet back in.
Punching my jack through the floor in the front right jack point. I cut it out and fiberglassed it in.
Left rear trunk pocket was rotten out when I bought the car. I burned a ton of extra paint/primer/fill off the body using a plasma cutter to cut it out, and welded a piece of a rusty parts car on, did an awful job of it, and now it's rotten again and never looked right at all anyway.
Rolled my quarters with a jack handle (out of desperation) and left a few dents above the lip on each side.
Bought shitty ebay HIDs for my foglights. 'nuff said.
ebay/"poland"/"projectsilver" camber plates before I smartened up and bough GC ones.
If it counts, I bought a euro E28 for $700 from a friend, then it got towed because it apparently looked abandoned. It would've been another $500 in towing/storage fees, and since it wasn't in my name because said friend never gave it to me, I never went to get it.
Way more that I could come up with, but I think that's enough.Originally posted by priapismMy girl don't know shit, but she bakes a mean cupcake.Originally posted by shamesonUsually it's best not to know how much money you have into your e30
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First week of owning my E30, god.. like 15 years ago.. went to reset the S.I. lights..found what looked like the diag plug (it was C101.. disconnected it, jumped two pins, and royally fried several wires under the dash)
Got to learn how to pull the dash and repair the main vehicle harness.
Yep... thats about it.
Oh, and breaking over 7 rocker arms on the race car so far.. same head still!
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Trying to start it up right as I was finishing the swap, the battery seemed dead
I decided to confirm it was the battery by taking the battery from the other car I was using, a qx4 (keep in mind I did my swap way out in the boonies and that was my only ride home) and slapping it in the e30, they're both 12v, what could go wrong?
Well the qx4 battery was unlabeled and it turns out the terminals were in the opposite place of the e30 battery, so I hooked up the qx4 battery backwards in the e30. Car obviously still didn't work.
Confused, I took the e30 battery and put it in the qx4 to test it, hooked that up backwards, and screwed my only ride home up. I figured it out eventually and after having a mild panic attack, "repaired" the main 100A fuse on the qx4 with some pliers and somehow both cars were fine.
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Hooking the fuel lines up backwards and trying to figure out the issue for close to a month, it was my first engine swap when I was around 18, that was almost 11 years ago and I cannot believe I am going on 14 straight years on e30 ownership, time sure flies!Last edited by F34R; 05-20-2015, 07:41 PM.~ Puch Cafe. ~ Do business? feedback ~ Check out my leather company ~
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Using the wrong size screws on the instrument cluster, and putting the screw right into the si board.How to remove, install or convert to pop out windows
http://www.r3vlimited.com/board/showthread.php?t=297611
Could be better, could be worse.
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Got chased in my e30 by an oinker after releasing some aggression. *Oinker never used the party lights. I thought it was my drunk redneck neighbor because it had a headlight out. Pulled in my driveway hopped out and hid and oinker couldn't find me and left. Haven't driven it in almost a year now. Fixing all the petty shit before i drive it again ugh.Last edited by kye; 05-21-2015, 09:25 PM.
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