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[paco loco]

lol "paco", saying that makes me laugh.
good luck on your search and post pics once you get it

ok...you can't call me paco :)

Welcome to R3V.

Search some and you will find that 99% of questions have already been answered a billion times.

thank you for the welcome. i was hoping this board was pretty indepth, i think you pretty much answered my question.

Good luck, I'm in the process of planning an LS1 swap myself.

Check this thread out
http://www.r3vlimited.com/board/showthread.php?t=94451

thank you, good luck on yours too. that is the thread that brought me to this board.

welcome. why wouldnt we like an ls7 swap. these cars arent classics. they are 20 y/o shitboxes that are fun and cheap. id get an early car to fit more meat out back due to the higher wheel arches. a project like that is going to make you replace most everything anyway so it really doesnt matter much otherwise. obviously the is's have a little nicer interior if youll be keeping that. welcome

that's the kind of info i'm looking for (about the arches and is's). thank you. And i had a feeling i'd be replacing just about everything... that's why it's going to take a little bit of time for me to get one, have to finish paying off the goat. broke everything in that car and it's costing me.

Welcome to r3v and good luck for your search. If you are looking for a shell of an e30 for your swap I'll sell you mine. I have an early 87 325is as my parts car. I'll sell you the shell super cheap, I really need to get it out of my garage. pm me if you're interested.

thank you for the welcome. if i had a place to put it myself i'd be very very interested.

[TexasTerp]

Welcome to r3v and good luck for your search. If you are looking for a shell of an e30 for your swap I'll sell you mine. I have an early 87 325is as my parts car. I'll sell you the shell super cheap, I really need to get it out of my garage. pm me if you're interested.

[blunttech]

welcome. why wouldnt we like an ls7 swap. these cars arent classics. they are 20 y/o shitboxes that are fun and cheap. id get an early car to fit more meat out back due to the higher wheel arches. a project like that is going to make you replace most everything anyway so it really doesnt matter much otherwise. obviously the is's have a little nicer interior if youll be keeping that. welcome

[E30SPDFRK]

Good luck, I'm in the process of planning an LS1 swap myself.

Check this thread out

http://www.r3vlimited.com/board/showthread.php?t=94451

[dashboardmonkey]

Welcome to R3V.

Search some and you will find that 99% of questions have already been answered a billion times.

[Alkasquawlik]

lol "paco", saying that makes me laugh.
good luck on your search and post pics once you get it

[paco loco]

Hello everyone! I'm new to the forum and would just like to introduce myself. Name is Zach, but Paco works just fine. I live in the Hampton Roads area of Virginia.

As of right now I do not own an e30 but would like to in the near future. So I'm here to be a sponge and soak up as much info about these cars as I can. I would like to know the little things about them that really separate the different years from one another. I have to be honest, the e30 that I would pick up would be for an engine swap project. It would house a LSX base engine. I know some diehards wont like that, but it's all good :)

Little bit about me. I'm a Manufacturing Engineer at Continental Powertrain division (formerly SiemensVDO Automotive). The plant I work at does mainly gasoline fuel injectors, but with another one of our plants being consolidated into us, we'll be working a lot with diesel in the coming months.

Currently I have a 2005 Pontiac GTO that is twin turbo'd. It puts out some good power, but it's a pig (race weight of ~4000lbs). Here's a quick pic of it:

http://lh6.ggpht.com/_MVXFZDEEY0s/Ry57aVLmk2I/AAAAAAAACFo/xd-HXX0A2_c/s720/IMG_9082.JPG

Thanks for your time and I hope to learn a lot from the boards.