Im back, where's BEN?

[HippyEarly]

I liked BEN

So its been awhile since i have chatted with the E30 community. I see a few still around like Mariano, where is Uberpanier (sp?)? I got into toyota crawling pretty hard but took a break and got hooked on the 30 again.

Well to start, heres the ride.





I've owned the car for more than 10 years now and it was my first car. I've done some things im not happy with but allot of other things i love.

Suspension is prokit/tokico and has worked well enough but will change in the two year plan.

The 6th month plan is to get all that little shit working again. one piece at a time and i'm sure i will fall in love again.

[Farbin Kaiber]

Danny banned it.

[Danny]

Danny banned it.

Danny Schilling likes this.

[accident]

lolz

[Jesse30]

too many will not know what you're talking about

[Avus E30]

haha be careful

[HippyEarly]

I guess i don't have to ask who Danny is cause your here, so heres a lollipop , cause i don't really care what you banned.

So after a long time of not liking what i had done i finally fixed my issue. Don't get me wrong, I always loved driving my 30 because as long as the glass is clean everything looks good from the drivers seat. But walk to and from, you all can imagine, a person starts to hide from themselves.

So i did what any sane person would do. I ripped that shit off and drove bumperless for a couple weeks. Better, way better, happy in my new found enlightenment but still not acceptable.




A brand new car. Still no bumpers but i could feel it, something good about to happen. Worked on a couple small things for a couple weeks and one random day I CL'd everything bumper-wise from an 86 es. I just wanted to get something decent to get by until i figured out what to do but i got everything that i foolishly took off that the factory gave me.


Amazing what can be done when you start to love again and give it a little effort.

Many things to do and a deadline of a trip, Portland to Newport CA via 101 in the middle of may. Plan is to get everything on the car purdy (not beautiful) and functional so that i can start playing with more suspension. And i imagine many say this but i have always wanted to dodge cones. This being my sunday driver things will go slow but as ive shown, im learning.

[reelizmpro]

There's actually still a BEN board but it's not the same as it once was in the Gustavo Melo days.

[Invisible Saddle]

you making a trek down to visit e30 motorwerks????

[Ryan...]

I sense a deep history with this "Hippy Early" character...

[HippyEarly]

There's actually still a BEN board but it's not the same as it once was in the Gustavo Melo days.

I remember being 15-16 and reading BEN nightly. Then a short stint in the (can i say it here?) DTMPowa days and i moved to the city and parked the e30. Walked away so to speak.

Needed a couple parts i found on local craigslist, meet a few people that helped re-inspire me. Happy to see a good community, was a bit rowdy back when, Fuc i sound old, pics.....

[JeffNJM3]

Looking good!

Ex-Ben member checking in ( I think I was Jeff86325is or something like that)

[HippyEarly]

you making a trek down to visit e30 motorwerks????

Not planned as of now, but maybe. A cousin is getting married and me and my car are long over due for a road trip. I've just been driving deep into the woods for the last few years.

I sense a deep history with this "Hippy Early" character...

Naw, Im simple.


This post is mostly about the help i may need along my journey. Maybe we will start with fenders. I've got a crease in my DS. Im weighing my options on putting another clean one on or fixing what i have. Both fenders have what i assume to be a factory "weld" at the seam to the firewall gutter system. Because of this should i value my current (assumably oem numbered (maybe not numbered but the idea) never removed) fender more than a replacement and fix what i have? Either way i would need to paint because as you can see with the kit, i didn't (<--past tense for Danny) care about factory, and i repainted my own color.

thoughts/ emotions?

Other items i haven't been able to locate are bearings or bearing sets or full rebuild kits for transmission and or differentials. I plan on going through both of these in the months to come but haven't sourced possible hardware. Dealer, Turner, this Blunt guy you speak of?


Thanks for helpin the daft

[HippyEarly]

Looking good!

Ex-Ben member checking in ( I think I was Jeff86325is or something like that)

i was probably Black Sheep ## of Jeeves ##. Was Gustav the ice racer? I feel as though it was someone else. Bad with names but he was from norwayish and raced his 4door 318is on a frozen lake. thought it was the coolest thing id ever seen.

[reelizmpro]

i was probably Black Sheep ## of Jeeves ##. Was Gustav the ice racer? I feel as though it was someone else. Bad with names but he was from norwayish and raced his 4door 318is on a frozen lake. thought it was the coolest thing id ever seen.

No, he was webmaster. Ove Kvam is the norwegian ice racer. lol.