Coast to Coast, an e30 American adventure

[benwalsh91]

First of all let me start by saying how sorry i am for being so behind on this and also i feel super bad about missing the meet, we ran into a little issue and also i completely didn't realise what day it was!!

If you’re in LA, shoot me a message. I’ll have some free time and hopefully we can still meet up

For sure, i am in LA for i think 3 more days, we may head out today to the last day of the LA county fair.

This is RAD! I did a 6,000 mile, coast to coast road trip in my E30 (Chicago - Montreal - New York - etc etc etc - Oakland) in the summer of 2016. I love, love, LOVE seeing E30 road-trip stories. Bummed to have not seen this thread, and missed you in Oakland! I live literally 1 mile away from Oakland airport. Best of luck in your journey. Do you have an IG that we could follow?

Thank you man its been a crazy couple of weeks and been so busy i have had no time to update this or even reflect back on the things that we have done.

My Instagram is benwalsh91

[freeride53]

This is RAD! I did a 6,000 mile, coast to coast road trip in my E30 (Chicago - Montreal - New York - etc etc etc - Oakland) in the summer of 2016. I love, love, LOVE seeing E30 road-trip stories. Bummed to have not seen this thread, and missed you in Oakland! I live literally 1 mile away from Oakland airport. Best of luck in your journey. Do you have an IG that we could follow?

[2mAn]

If you’re in LA, shoot me a message. I’ll have some free time and hopefully we can still meet up

[jgilber0]

Oh we will be at the meet I am literally about to drive to LA right now. I shall be there in an hour or so.

We have the correct pressure rated hoses on it all now thank you

Great!

[benwalsh91]

Oh we will be at the meet I am literally about to drive to LA right now. I shall be there in an hour or so.

We have the correct pressure rated hoses on it all now thank you

[jgilber0]

...Also, as we was about to start the car the fuel line had exploded. Seems to have normal carb fuel hose so we have now just replaced all of that...

Make sure that you used EFI-rated high pressure hose, or you could have the same trouble again.

[2mAn]

we will continue the fatburger gtg in your honor

[benwalsh91]

Oh nothing to be alarmed I just entered a vista point to quickly and hit the plaster IS lip but there was some weird other lip underneath which my friend (who really knows e30s) had never seen before so will get some photos.

Whilst we have been working on it we found out that this e30 has offset mounted eurothene lower control arm bushes and the rear anti roll bar is 18mm in diameter.

Also, as we was about to start the car the fuel line had exploded. Seems to have normal carb fuel hose so we have now just replaced all of that. The rear sway bar mount had completely snapped off and I won’t get into the headlight wiring was a nightmare. But all done and fixed and back on the road. Could have been bad if the fuel line exploded if we was in the middle of nowhere. Thankfully it happened as I was trying to start the car in my friends garage.

Oh we also had a small fire but let’s skip past that.

Me and nicholl are fine personally just tired but tonight we head to LA!!

[uturn]

Probably hit the energizer bunny because everyone knows the jackalope hangs out in New Mexico. Or maybe it was that chicken crossing the road?

[alkkamai]

Yeah, what he said. I hope they’re doing alright, the hint at front end damage has me concerned for them....

Definitely concerning but, if they were harmed bodily, I hope he would have mentioned that in lieu of the ghetto mounts.

Dat valence waffleswaffleswaffles :(

[325e '87]

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Yeah, what he said. I hope they’re doing alright, the hint at front end damage has me concerned for them....

[MrBurgundy]

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[coldweatherblue]

Yo dude sounds like an awesome trip! if you have any questions about Chattanooga, north ga, the smokies etc hit me up.

[benwalsh91]

I’ve been taking notes and editing photos but I’ve had terrible cell service in this hotel that we have been in. Not enough to set up a hotspot for my laptop and the WiFi is shit. I am going to try and go to a Starbucks tomorrow and update you all day by day. Tomorrow is our first rest day and man do I need it!!

2man - don’t worry about the plate blank. I smashed the front valance off and had to fix it back on using only what the hotel handyman. It’s on now let’s say that much. But that will come in an update. My front plate is covering some very very ghetto mounts.

[Mike36]

Any updates?