New paint job

[Jean]

Get a set of plastic bumpers...save the diving boards for when you decide to sell the car. It's an 88 so it's a plug and play swap.

[scabzzzz]

Listen to the OG's in this thread...
Keep it clean and simple and you will be admired.
Plastics + Is lip + ACS wheels + small euro bits = Perfection.

Nice paint job.

[TS323]

dude it looks great! Painting the bumper shrouds is up to you, i think you should skip painting those and find a good set of plastics to get painted. Or use the money you would spend on painting those pieces to find a decent set of euro bumpers :)

+1

[StereoInstaller1]

Love how my car gets quoted as an example of the early iS airdam and bumper tuck...IMO, the best looking E30 airdam, bar none.

Of course, having that damn cow catcher on the front of my car means I scrape it every time I drive it, so annual repaint is expected, but I love it so I don't care.

[CR325IS]

What kind of air dam is that?

Love how my car gets quoted as an example of the early iS airdam and bumper tuck...IMO, the best looking E30 airdam, bar none.

Of course, having that damn cow catcher on the front of my car means I scrape it every time I drive it, so annual repaint is expected, but I love it so I don't care.

[straight6pwr]

DEFIANTLY paint the bumper surrounds, looks 1,000,000,000,000 times better. yes one trillion.

[CR325IS]

DEFIANTLY paint the bumper surrounds, looks 1,000,000,000,000 times better. yes one trillion.

You got a front pic?

[StereoInstaller1]

What kind of air dam is that?

Stock '87 325iS. The eS is the same except no center lower vents

[dvck]

^ looks good, sort of, everytime i see early us bumpers i picture the shrouds as
a mouth spitting out the bumper, they just seem akward to me.

if i had an early model, and cash to spare i'd go euro bumpers

[CR325IS]

Yeah I have read shit about euro bumpers and was wondering, is it a whole new bumper or is it just a center insert and how much does a front/rear run you? And do people generally drill their bumper shocks on these setups to push them in more? thanks

[e30_kid]

You got a front pic?

[ck_taft325is]

^ looks good, sort of, everytime i see early us bumpers i picture the shrouds as
a mouth spitting out the bumper, they just seem akward to me.

if i had an early model, and cash to spare i'd go euro bumpers

One of my all time favorite e30's.

[StereoInstaller1]

Fucking Edris basically seems to have fallen off the face of th earth

[richardb]

I would leave everything as it is, but add an iS front lip.

Definitely leave the rockers black. If you paint them red, your car will give off the sense that it had a quick-hack paint job. I wouldn't paint the bumper surrounds either.

Right now, your car looks the way it rolled off the assembly line (minus front lip) in 1988. If you were to sell it today, it would fetch a premium among the purists.

Sometimes, less is more....just my 2 cents.

YES!! I couldn't have said it better myself.

[CorvallisBMW]

You can't put euro bumpers on an '88, it has a late-model body. Only plastics are a direct swap.

Don't leave the diving boards, they look terrible. Here's some inspiration: