Our latest father son project is ready for the season!

[The Barvarian]

The E30 my son and I have been building for a Street/Autocross/Track ride.
It is a 1987 325is with 153k on the Odometer.
We bought it from a nice couple in Washington. The car was mostly stock except for an Anza exhaust about 3 weeks ago.
Since then we have put in:
Ground Control coil over suspension – It is corner balanced.
Koni adjustable shocks
Sparco stress bar
Ireland Engineering sway bars
Stainless steel brake lines
Cross drilled rotors
UUC Short Shifter Kit
Custom exhaust with Magnaflow components
Ellipsoid headlights
BBS RGR wheels with BF Goodrich KDW-2 tires (Kept the stock rims and they have Hoosier A6 tires)
Momo wheel
VDO gauges
Alpine head unit and amp
Infinity Kappa speakers
Kicker Sub and amp

We have been working none stop getting it ready for its first autocross on March 30th. The car is up for a cooling system replacement this weekend and should be completely ready for upcoming events.

A little side note on the car. It handles really nicely.


Questions and comments are welcome.




Stock:




After:

[Huff]

It feels a little mis-matched, but pretty cool. I like the rims for sure..

[Jean]

Nice (minus the cross drilled rotors and sub box). Rear springs looks like 650? what are the fronts and how much camber are you running ?

[The Barvarian]

Nice (minus the cross drilled rotors and sub box). Rear springs looks like 650? what are the fronts and how much camber are you running ?

The rear springs are what comes in the Ground Control kit. I think 650 is right. Suspension is set at the following:
Coner Balance data:
Left Front 823
Rear Front 747
Left Rear 711
Right Rear 696
Alignment settings:
Front Camber - 2.5
toe out 1/8 " total
1/8" toe in in rear
Rear Camber 2.3

This is a balanced setting for street and track. I used an esteemed race shop, TC Designs in San Jose.

[schmidty]

is it legal for you to adopt a 23 year old? cause I'd like to be your son!

[Ben Carufel]

Nice. The wheels need maybe a 5mm or 10mm spacer for the perfect "look" as far as aggressive stance, but other than that it's great.

[threlevenguy]

Very nice early model. My dad and I have a 67 Mustang, but we haven't touched that in months.

I don't know what the hell I'm doing.

[Mtriple]

Nicely done. In my opinion its not so much about the end result, its more about the time spent with your son.

Kudos!

[e30e]

I like the strut bar, its simple but unique probably was an easy job to make it different too. I can't wait till my kid is old enough to these jobs.

[chasiubao]

+1 on what super duper wrote

There were countless hours I spent with my dad in the garage underneath the car, under a hood because we had to-money was tight. I actually appreciate those times now because that was when we were able to bond, him telling me how life was, even using examples of working on cars (things don't rarely ever go as planned) as a lesson.

[Tree18is]

Dope!

DOPE! sweet car for the kid.
allthough mine ruind my entire youth with a drivers license (lsd factory)
haha, but nice car.

[The Barvarian]

spacers...

Nice. The wheels need maybe a 5mm or 10mm spacer for the perfect "look" as far as aggressive stance, but other than that it's great.

The wheels have 10mm spacers now. Are you suggesting maybe 5mm more?

[The Barvarian]

sons....

I like the strut bar, its simple but unique probably was an easy job to make it different too. I can't wait till my kid is old enough to these jobs.

Ryan has been incredible on this job. He is really into working on it and has great taste as well......

[smonkbmw]

good to see all new suspension bits and not ebay parts. clean car! what part of washington did you find it?

[The Barvarian]

Where from?

good to see all new suspension bits and not ebay parts. clean car! what part of washington did you find it?

It came from Whitby Island north of Seattle..... Nice folks owned it.....