Nat's 88 M3 mini restoration project

[Nats88M3]

Small (big) update just got done ordering all parts for the to do list except the steering rack, just need tie rods... it all should arrive tomorrow!! So maybe Sunday the tearing down starts!! I'll be taking pics i hope I can remember in the middle of the excitement.

[Nats88M3]

Thank you! I'm not going to track it but I want it to handle pretty well..there's an on ramp to the highway that its my little autobahn and love to hit this turn kinda hard right before the straight away.

[dude8383]

I need a little help! I'm looking for everyone to give me their .02 cents and also advice on the "to do list" on suspension and mounts? Please give me manufacturers and materials. Thank you!

If the car will be street driven stick to OE rubber.

If you plan to track the car every now and then you could do a mix of rubber and poly. For our customer cars we like to do rubber subframe bushings and poly trailing arm bushings...I do however recommend the poly RSM's though. The factory ones always seem to fail.

[Nats88M3]

I need a little help! I'm looking for everyone to give me their .02 cents and also advice on the "to do list" on suspension and mounts? Please give me manufacturers and materials. Thank you!

[Nats88M3]

The rear actually has polyurethane bushings everywhere except the sway bar links.... But already looking for everything for upfront!

[kmarei]

While you're doing work in the rear
Do what I did
I replaced all the rubber in the rear
Spring pads, sway bar links, sway bar bushings, and exhaust rubber mounts
Cost Less than 150 and made a noticeable difference

[RondoAcapriccio]

looks like the turner motorsports package that you buy with bilsteins and h&r springs.

[Nats88M3]

[Nats88M3]

Thanks everyone for the kind words! It makes me feel a little better after what i just realized! Well for starters, the "TO DO LIST" just got a whole lot longer.

Here it is...

Motor mounts
Trans mounts
AC Compressor + mounting bushings + hoses
Rear sway bar links
Front lower control arm bushings (the ones in the rear)
Front sway bar bushings
Power steering rack (now i know why it shakes like a MOFO)
Exhaust hanger (the one for the muffler) completely cut off
side skirt clips almost all gone
Shifter bushings.. i have some of those parts

I think that's it. Also it does have some type of suspension but no name on it who can identify it?

[kalib0y]

I love the way your e30 M3 looks. I think Im going to look for an M3 next

[SKNKWRX]

Looks great! Pics of the interior and the custom interior you have to install? Be prepared for lots of unpleasant surprises along the way but in the end it is all worth it! Congrats on the pickup.

[E30NJ]

congrats! what a beauty..

[pilotskillse30]

in for the progress..Congrats!

[markseven]

She looks great! :up:

[Ray Smoodiver]

I like where this is headed.