awesome looking car! Favorite color, and i love the Racing Dynamics Valance!
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Originally posted by NYCDelphin View Postbeeeeeautiful !
Did you rake all the leaves around the car for the pic ? jk.
Originally posted by TheWipprSnappr View Postvery nice e30! I think you've got some great plans in store for this thing to keep the original look while adding some nice modifications. Im very interested to see how it looks with OEM mudflaps, I think they would look great on this car. Also, what wheels are those? they look awesome on this car
Wheels are 15" Azev Type A
Originally posted by janice212 View PostGorgeous cars :)
Originally posted by RoundelFever View PostVery nice! I just picked up an e30 325i 4-door yesterday. I think I'll be trying to follow your example and hope to get the car as clean as yours.
A gig in the USAF and moving to Ohio... does that mean Wright-Patt? I'm in Columbus, so not far.
Originally posted by c0rbin9 View PostI wouldn't feel envious of late models at all. You've got an 87' 6-cylinder car in a good color - that's arguably the most desirable E30 made. Besides, you've got the cooler tail lights.
You may want to consider leaving the Euro bumpers chrome if you get some. It contrasts nicely with the dark gray.
Originally posted by spiDmang View Postawesome looking car! Favorite color, and i love the Racing Dynamics Valance!
Originally posted by squidmaster View PostBeautiful shots!
Originally posted by Nader393 View PostCool car. You named it Helga?
Originally posted by MrBurgundy View PostRead through everything, great find. Don't ever sell that car. Everyday it's harder and harder to find an e30 that hasn't been owned by at least 3 dumbasses
Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk1987 Delphin/Black BMW 325i & 2016 Mineral Grey/Terra BMW M235i
BMW CCA #485408
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Funny, I haven't spent much time on r3v in the last year and I decided to do some car-foruming on this Saturday night. I stumbled across my own thread with a ton of new comments, thanks guys! Since I last updated you, LOTs has changed.
I sold the M coupe in April 2015 to a nice man from Chicago. As I came out of Winter in early 2015 at my new place in Dayton, OH I realized I had two cars that I considered to be very special to me, neither of which I wanted to *have* to drive through winter. One had to go. Since my fiancee at the time (now my wife) HATED dakar yellow, and for a few other reasons, I saw fit to part with my M coupe. In the end, the E30 was (and is) more special to me. My first memory in a car was in my dad's delphin e30 back in the 80s.
I was due to be married in May 2015, and was in the market for an E46 M3 to replace my M coupe. I knew better than to buy a car for myself mere moments before my wedding (because no matter how much I wanted to replace the M coupe, I wanted to get married more!) so I bought my wife one instead. She had been driving an overpriced, horrible to maintain B5 A4 avant we found at a local dealer and she needed something more reliable. This was her wedding gift.
It is a 2015 Golf SportWagen TDI (yes, now a part of Dieselgate, and yes we're keeping it) and she loves it!
I took 2 weeks off to drive back to CO, get married and bring my wife back to OH with me before she started her basic training course (she commissioned into the US Army Veterinary Corps the day before our wedding, the day she graduated from Veterinary School). The day we got back from our 2 week wedding extravaganza, my boss came to my door (on memorial day) and told me I would be deploying for 6 months to Afghanistan in October. Yay!
So there I was, in absolutely no position to buy another car and with deployment orders. I decided to stick it out with Helga and continue to drive her until it was time to deploy. I spent a bit of coin last summer getting her as reliable as I could. A few of the projects I ended up tackling:
-4.10 LSD replaced with a 3.73 LSD (still have the 4.10 and intend to keep it)
-Installed a fully rebuilt driveshaft/CSB
-Rebuilt entire shifter mechanism, replaced loose Kormann shifter with Z3 1.9 shifter
-Replaced electric fan (found a rodent family in the old one!)
-Replaced worn strut bushings
-Replaced springs with H&R Sports (DINAN spring broke!)
-Installed 19# injectors
-Replaced LCAs & LCABs with Poly offset bushings
-Replaced RSFBs with Poly along with poly adjustable RTABs
-Replaced motor mounts with IE Poly mounts
-Replaced trans mounts with OEM
I'm sure there's more I'm forgetting, but it was a blast to have that as my only car for about 6 months. I even took it to the track with my good friend's J-stock M3!
The old BMWs at Mid-Ohio by Colby Gregory, on Flickr
This was a few weeks before pre-deployment training, so really the last hurrah. Then I went and did this for a few (6) months:
patience is a virtue by Colby Gregory, on Flickr
Deploying allowed me to save a LOT of pennies on top of the cash I had gotten for the M coupe. Enough so that when I got back, this was waiting for me, all paid for in war cash
Untitled by Colby Gregory, on Flickr
The M235i is a phenomenal car. I love how refined it is, it's a perfect match for the E30. I get bored with the "newness" of my F22, hop in the E30 and fall in love all over again. I long for something quick, easy and carefree and hop back into the F22. YES!
I picked up the M235i back in May so I haven't put much time into the E30. I've only driven it about 1,000 miles since I've been back and it's only been washed 2 or 3 times. Now that I'm well-used to the M235i (which still doesn't have a name), Helga is getting more love. I had driven her to the airport a few months back and when I came back, the cluster had an aneurysm so I pulled it and it's currently getting some love at Bavarian Restoration. I also happened upon a set of period correct Recaro SE seats located not a mile from my house, so those will be going in here in the next week or two as well. Once I have everything back together I'll do another shoot. Delphin & Mineral Grey are a fantastic pair!
More to follow, folks. Thanks for reading my novel.1987 Delphin/Black BMW 325i & 2016 Mineral Grey/Terra BMW M235i
BMW CCA #485408
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Update: The aforementioned Recaro SE seats ready to go in:
Recaro SE by Colby Gregory, on Flickr
I purchased a set of Massive adaptors to fit them to OEM sliders and they bolt right in! Car is stuck in its current position until the cluster is back from BavRest, so I have only done the driver's seat. I absolutely love these seats so far!
Recaro SE by Colby Gregory, on Flickr1987 Delphin/Black BMW 325i & 2016 Mineral Grey/Terra BMW M235i
BMW CCA #485408
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