my '87 327i

[squidmaster]

Purchased 18.8.2011. Barely ran. Rough. Shot drive-line. Cut springs and stock, shot shocks. Bad camber. Horrible paint. Falling apart. 50% complete interior. When I cracked the oil drain plug to change the oil, as the first thing I do on any new acquisition, nothing came out. Nada-- not even a drop. Let that be a sign of how this was kept.
Here's what it looked like when I picked it up:






came with a bajillion stickers. even had a wiper removed to add more (quality) stickers.



The guy I got it from has it on stock shocks/cut springs. AND JUST LOOK AT THIS INTERIOR! >:(

Currently:
(as you can see below, I am no photographer-- sorry about the photo quality!)










2.7i >:}

I tore the engine down, cleaned it a bit, did the conversion with an extra set of hands (that tube! you know the one!), replaced vital parts (timing belt, water pump, etc) and now it runs beautifully. Sounds great, feels great, and gets great MPG (25-28 unless I'm feeling a bit zealous).

--Mods & replacements--

Suspension & Brakes:
Bilstein Sports
Ireland Engineering Stage 3 Springs
New sway mounts and links (OEM)
New OEM brembo vented blanks
Stop-Tech F+R Pads
Stainless Steel Lines

Power:
2.7i 885 head on ETA bottom
Full Motronic 1.3 harness swap
19# Ford Motorsport Injectors, Quad-Pintle
Motronic 173 Fully Tuned by SSSquid.com
K&N Filter in stock airbox
OBX headers
Fullboar Exhaust with high-flow cat
Innovate LC-1

Exterior:
Bumper Tuck
14" weaves (new wheels in the waiting)
US ellipsoids
Euro Grills

Misc replacements and mods:
Continental Timing belt at 170k
Metal Impeller Hefi Water pump at 170k
Condor motor mounts
Condor tranny mounts
Condor RTABs
OEM CSB
OEM slave cylinder
replaced missing hood latch handle
OEM hood latch cable
OEM throttle cable
OEM shifter seal
OEM fuel pump
new distributor and wires
black sports seats
replaced missing knee bolster

-Custom and Maintenance
corduroy center console
custom made wooden knob from ChefSkinny
Full synthetic tranny/diff fluid
20w50 rotella
Garagistic ODO gears + shifter bushings
Completely reupholstered interior, tan to dark grey/black
premium speakers
B25 tach conversion
disassembled and sand-blasted clean intake manifold
new front hubs


Plans:
Euro grills
IE adj. sway bars
RX7 Brake upgrade
Maybe in the future go FI. Have thought about it seriously and would rather hold off for now however and accumulate the correct parts slowly and surely.

[FunfGan]

... Please save it.

[squidmaster]

have to do a lot of tuning up, but I think... hope it'll be worth it.

[Peterkaczynski]

saveeeeeeeeeeeeeeee

[e30prodigy]

this + wash + buff + wax + jesus for that interior= salvation.

half cut springs?

side note: shifter, yellow low's, and spoiler are plus.

[JubJub]

Who was the previous owner? Shoot him.

[grippymonkey]

at least it's low

[LuckyHenriksen]

Nice work saving that

[!AjHoWzA!]

i look at that interior and i'm like and then i'm like

thats it. thats all

[squidmaster]

this + wash + buff + wax + jesus for that interior= salvation.

half cut springs?

side note: shifter, yellow low's, and spoiler are plus.

highs* and they don't even work.
shifter was installed backwards.
spoiler is kinda screwed, but nothing bondo and some tape wouldn't fix.

at least it's low

err......

i look at that interior and i'm like and then i'm like

thats it. thats all

me too.... all the time....
My girlfriend thinks that the zebra fabric is hysterical. Might leave it in for irony.

[Broom Broom]

nice zebra console, you could pretend your on an african safari

[DuMa]

zebra console.... do want!

[brutus87]

That zebra console is for the lulz.

[squidmaster]

getting a little stuttering under acceleration.
maybe TPS or CPS... I should replace the TPS anyway, but should I waste my time replace the eta junk or just go ahead and grab a b25 upper half and throw that on there.

I'm coming from owning subarus and man I'm loving how cheap I can find nice parts for these cars.

[Erik]

Nice RS!