The official "Before & After" Thread

[randomsv650]

Great thread! Love seeing all of these transformations, really awesome work!

Here's my '88 325is, the day i picked it up in Philly for $1300:



After rebuilt top end, basket weaves, JOM's, roof rack:



And finally after a crap load of body work, plastic bumpers, BBS RS, etc....how it sits now:

[cbouchez]

Half way


Now

[Mde36]

http://www.r3vlimited.com/board/showthread.php?t=170508

beat you to it

[TotalLifeForever]

Still under construction

From this


to this


Shes gettin' there :)

[Beej '86 325es]

[88e30ix]

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20325IX/IMAG0021-1.jpg[/IMG]

[MrAdam]

Still work in progress...
purchased about 2 months ago like this from the original owner
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temporary, Cut the springs about 1.5 turns.
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After...(more like current, still lots of plans)
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[Jboss12]

Before:



After:

[Julien]

From

to:

and


to:


and now to (and sans blower but still on coils):




oh this is an e30 forum, my bad.... guess what

doesn't give a isht

[noE30]

I bought a h&r sport lowered 325i coupe with snow tires on basket weaves, basically all stock, ripped seats, busted windshield, bent valence, no front lip, broken fogs, leaky headgasket.
about 6 months after purchase:

IMG_0023 by m_colby, on Flickr


IMG_0425 by m_colby, on Flickr

More recent:

IMG_0457 by m_colby, on Flickr


Refinished BBS RS by m_colby, on Flickr

Nardi and Corbeaus:

89 e30 by m_colby, on Flickr

and now plus some smoked smileys:

89 e30 by m_colby, on Flickr

[mikeedler]

here is my Tech II car. Was prob. the largest change of all the cars.

from this... got it for the frees.








to this, built it "race" and only went to the 1/4 mile track twice.













and then decided I wanted to drive it, so now it is presently like this.....















and here is one more car I decided to fix-up years ago.

before:






after:

[emerson.]

Day of purchase:


Moar powa:


Now:

[Nsquared97]

I was literally thinking of doing this a couple days ago (I know, cool story right?)

Anyway, when I first took delivery:


During:

Now.

[Neil1138]

Before:



After:







<3

[88SuperETABD]

Earliest pic of it I have.

during