I am Josue from Costa Rica and this is my proyect

[pilotskillse30]

Saludos, Welcome...I moved to Panama and my cars are going there when they are finished in the States.

[cyrmanj]

If you've driven on the Costa Rican roads low is a no no. Huecos. Welcome and nice car.

^ Damm right, hehe.

Hey Josue, welcome over here my friend. This forum has been very useful for me and a great source when it comes to advice and cool parts.

Take care,

[claysones]

Pura Vida, man. Good to see someone from Costa Rica on this forum

[mitch500]

i love costa rica! so nice there :)

[NVfive33i]

Nice car bro , I know they guy who sold it to you ALEX , I sold him many cars and BMW parts here in the USA . He is a big car guy in costa rica .

[diegom6]

The only thing that I can say is: Huecos Huecos Everywhere

haha aqui es lo mismo! huecos y muchos bump stops!

Are these style 5 fille & welded to 4x100 pattern?

[EclipseMTL]

I am Tyler from Omaha and approve this message.

[Zreberlcoe]

I have a friend who grew up and lived in monteverde until he was like 16 then he moved here. But where he lives is just shitty roads and going low would be a stupid idea, is that true?

[jebc125]

Thanks Cyrman!

@diegom6, I didn't buy the rims, the rims are 120x5 the rims have spacers to fit on the car, but that damage one of the covers of the iX trim in the rear right.

@Zreberlcoe The roads are a complete crap :S in that place, like 1 month ago some people made a protest march to fix the roads :S

@claysones @mitch500 thanks

@NVfive33i Alex sold me my other E30 also, I lost the car in a crash. I bought this other one because I was searching a E30 with good body no rust. I saw the 325 like a couple of months ago, contacted him and made the deal.

[jebc125]

So car is no longer all wheel drive? If it is still all wheel drive, both differentials must be the same gear ratio or you will ruin the viscous coupling.

I guess the car has the differential from a 325iS, but I have all the parts from my other car to make the swap.

[dogsbark26]

iX has two differentials. Front and rear. Unless both are same gear ratio the viscous coupling in the transfer case will fail.

[jebc125]

iX has two differentials. Front and rear. Unless both are same gear ratio the viscous coupling in the transfer case will fail.

I forgot it :-? . The car is no more all wheel drive. Is RWD.

[jebc125]

I am going to update this as soon as possible... I had some family problems and I left the proyect for some time. I worked in the car a little.

[jebc125]

Well... I started the desassembly of the car the at 06/28/2013. In the photos the interior for example looks good but face to face was very damage.

Well the photos from the beginning:





Dash in good condition


But..


The headliner with a lot of stains and the sunroof didnt work





Pop-up windows, apparently they are hard to see in Costa Rica


And the skibag lol

[jebc125]

Removing all the entire dash:



Seats and carpet...



Rust... EVERYWHERE!!! and yes:hitler: the car was Alpineweiss II...







At the beginning I had like 3 holes, I made a fast fix with a special tape to stop water drops in metal roofs, I solved the problem with new metal later.

Electric system looks well no cuts,





Core heater seal totally destroyed... haha



Fixing the thing, removing that was a PITA, I read here that some people used some weatherstripping to fix that haha.






Assembling all the thing again.