OK, I'm new, well kind of. I travel a lot throughout the mid-willamette valley in oregon for my work (pharmaceutical sales -- yes the legal stuff, no not the fun stuff). About a year or two ago I saw a sick group of e30's in a parking lot and talked to one of the guys and he mentioned this site. I could have sworn one of the car's was Jordan's but his avatar says Texas so maybe not. Been lurking ever since and keep on telling myself to just buy an E30 and stop drooling. Well last week for better or worse I bought one poor condition e30 (85 325e) from the state surplus. Turns out it was a drug seizure, and when I had it towed home, there were actually empty little baggies, and piles of white powder in the console. I shit you not (i'll try to get the pics up). The auction is here:
Well the money is adding up in a hurry, who would of thought a battery would cost over 100$. Or that a cap and rotor could retail for over 100$.
The engine is really old ~240k miles. I like the idea of doing the project orca type swap. Interior is a mess, debating about going through the trouble of bringing it back to life, or just stripping it bare and calling it a track car.
Nice thing is, I have a company car for driving around so I dont need to keep this thing operational while I work on it, bad thing is that a ford taurus is anything but an Ultimate Driving Machine.
So that's my intro, thought I'd say howdy, already ordered the bentley book, as well as have the etk / tis programs up and running on the computer so I'll try not to ask stupid questions, but it is likely.
-browntown
salem, or
Well the money is adding up in a hurry, who would of thought a battery would cost over 100$. Or that a cap and rotor could retail for over 100$.
The engine is really old ~240k miles. I like the idea of doing the project orca type swap. Interior is a mess, debating about going through the trouble of bringing it back to life, or just stripping it bare and calling it a track car.
Nice thing is, I have a company car for driving around so I dont need to keep this thing operational while I work on it, bad thing is that a ford taurus is anything but an Ultimate Driving Machine.
So that's my intro, thought I'd say howdy, already ordered the bentley book, as well as have the etk / tis programs up and running on the computer so I'll try not to ask stupid questions, but it is likely.
-browntown
salem, or
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