Hello all, I would like to share my (relatively) new to me 1989 325is.
I was doomscrolling marketplace one evening, as I know we all have done, searching for really anything but specifically a not completely clapped E30 when I came across an interesting listing. An almost fully disassembled 325is with a nice looking roll cage already installed, a lot of new performance parts and seemingly all of the pieces to put it back together. The chassis looked clean and Mr. Facebook man answered all of my questions so I drove 9 hrs. to pick it up. I was able to get what I feel was a good deal since the cost of the cage alone was surely more than what I paid for the whole car. I don't currently have a very fleshed out plan for where I want this build to go other than turning it at least somewhat back into a street car, being a local menace, and probably autocrossing it.
Mandatory Bucees picture of the new purchase.
The previous owner got a little excited about weight reduction lol.
Suprisingly nice cage.
When I started working on it I noticed that drivers side lollipop bushing was missing a bolt, which I thought was odd. I figured it must've fallen out during transit or just been lost by a previous owner so I swung by Lowe's picked up a new one and tried to toss her in there. For some reason the bolt wouldn't go in. Upon further inspection it appears that someone snapped and then welded the old bolt in there.
No idea how this kind of thing even happens.
After a couple of weeks of deliberating, pb blaster, a tungsten carbide grinding bit, a broken bolt extractor, and an M10 tap I finally got her mostly back in shape. Though the new hole is definitely looser than the old one.
I emerge victorious in the end.
I was doomscrolling marketplace one evening, as I know we all have done, searching for really anything but specifically a not completely clapped E30 when I came across an interesting listing. An almost fully disassembled 325is with a nice looking roll cage already installed, a lot of new performance parts and seemingly all of the pieces to put it back together. The chassis looked clean and Mr. Facebook man answered all of my questions so I drove 9 hrs. to pick it up. I was able to get what I feel was a good deal since the cost of the cage alone was surely more than what I paid for the whole car. I don't currently have a very fleshed out plan for where I want this build to go other than turning it at least somewhat back into a street car, being a local menace, and probably autocrossing it.
Mandatory Bucees picture of the new purchase.
The previous owner got a little excited about weight reduction lol.
Suprisingly nice cage.
When I started working on it I noticed that drivers side lollipop bushing was missing a bolt, which I thought was odd. I figured it must've fallen out during transit or just been lost by a previous owner so I swung by Lowe's picked up a new one and tried to toss her in there. For some reason the bolt wouldn't go in. Upon further inspection it appears that someone snapped and then welded the old bolt in there.
No idea how this kind of thing even happens.
After a couple of weeks of deliberating, pb blaster, a tungsten carbide grinding bit, a broken bolt extractor, and an M10 tap I finally got her mostly back in shape. Though the new hole is definitely looser than the old one.
I emerge victorious in the end.