E30 1988 320i

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Hello everyone!

My name is Brice, come from France and sharknose enthousiastic since how far I can remember!

A while back I had the chance to get a Lashiber metalic 320i from 1988, which was my daily driver for few years. Then I had to move house and unfortunately the car stayed outside unused for few years 900km away from my new place.

This year in April I decided to collect the car and refurbish it. It's my first time so be indulgent I'm learning from scratch!
I've started by changing all the fluids, filters, spark plugs, ignition cables and check how many psi deliver each cylinder. After a leak from the cluch solved by changing cluch receptor (now clue how we say it properly in english sorry) the car was able to drive back the 900km!

Then the next step was the front of the car as the drivetrains were in very bad shape, the handling of the car was awfull and as the car was stored close to the sea it suffered a lot from the long outside storage. Look at the condition of the hood, I have to confess I was almost crying!

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So I checked for rust and damage of the 36 past years and I have few part to change. It was the opportunity to disassemble everything, clean and paint. I've tried my painting skills as I'm a complete noob and they are close to zero haha but still I did my best.

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I've choosed bilstein B8 with Eibach -40mm coil. Went for brembo for the brake disc/pads and put brand new calipers.




You can see the difference between OE coil and the eibach

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I've applied bitumen paint in the arch wheel



Now it's time to clean the rims, fit new tyres and put everything back on the car!








Now that my E30 is back on the road I'm enjoying it the time to collect all the part and refurbish the rear of the car.
The handling improved so much I'm really glad of what allready been accomplish.

[Northern]

I'm interested, but the only pictures working right now are the hood rust.

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I'm interested, but the only pictures working right now are the hood rust.

Definitely not the sexiest ones haha

Should be solved now, seems I'm as bad in IT than mechanic !

Basically for now the car went from this:



To this:



But still lot to do on the rear side!

[Northern]

Huge improvement! Looks great