Hey everybody, I joined here in June of this year but I’ve been lurking here for probably the past 3 years as I’ve been seriously looking for a clean, swapped e30. I’ve been interested in e30’s since my friend in high school had an 89 325i 4 door. This post will be about the car, getting it ready to drive back to GA, and the issues that I need to address.
I finished up the sale on for3ver’s brothers car about 2 weeks ago. I don’t need a car for daily use so this will be my project/weekend car. The history that I have found on the car is that the original owner from New Jersey owned it from 1987-2001, where Azvedo motorsports did the swap for the second owner. For3ver’s brother was the 3rd owner and brought the car from NJ to MA in late 2008. From the title it appears he only drove it about 4 or 5k miles, and as such it has been sitting for a while.
The day I picked it up:
I drove it to my family’s house in VT where I was on vacation, and I had about 10 days to get it ready to drive down to Savannah, GA where I live. I started off with basic maintenance items:
· -Fuel filter (the old one look ancient and was a brand I had never heard of, nor was there much info online about the brand)
· -Spark Plugs (ran plain old NGK coppers, gapped to .033)
· -New coil boots (the new ones seemed slightly longer than the old ones, but went in just fine)
· -Changed oil/filter/magnetic plug (Ran total quartz 5w-40, just because that’s what I was able to get)
· - Clean MAF with CRC cleaner
· -Clean battery terminals and left unplugged overnight
· -The Air filter that was on it was some no name so I ditched it for a generic 3” K&N
· - And since the car was sitting for the summer, I ran some fuel system cleaner through it
· - Belt/brakes/suspension/tires all appeared fine
Cont....
I finished up the sale on for3ver’s brothers car about 2 weeks ago. I don’t need a car for daily use so this will be my project/weekend car. The history that I have found on the car is that the original owner from New Jersey owned it from 1987-2001, where Azvedo motorsports did the swap for the second owner. For3ver’s brother was the 3rd owner and brought the car from NJ to MA in late 2008. From the title it appears he only drove it about 4 or 5k miles, and as such it has been sitting for a while.
The day I picked it up:
I drove it to my family’s house in VT where I was on vacation, and I had about 10 days to get it ready to drive down to Savannah, GA where I live. I started off with basic maintenance items:
· -Fuel filter (the old one look ancient and was a brand I had never heard of, nor was there much info online about the brand)
· -Spark Plugs (ran plain old NGK coppers, gapped to .033)
· -New coil boots (the new ones seemed slightly longer than the old ones, but went in just fine)
· -Changed oil/filter/magnetic plug (Ran total quartz 5w-40, just because that’s what I was able to get)
· - Clean MAF with CRC cleaner
· -Clean battery terminals and left unplugged overnight
· -The Air filter that was on it was some no name so I ditched it for a generic 3” K&N
· - And since the car was sitting for the summer, I ran some fuel system cleaner through it
· - Belt/brakes/suspension/tires all appeared fine
Cont....
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