Larry's 89 Zinno E30 M3 build

[litu]

That color, E30 M3 sooooo epic :)

[Nats88M3]

Looks bad ass.....

[deutschman]

Hot

[f50nut]

Been a while since my last update here. Over the weekend I installed the new interior. It's been a work in progress getting all the pieces together. Had a few trips back to the upholsterer trying to get everything right. I have a feeling I'll be redoing this at some point since I'm not 100% happy with the upholstery work, but it's good for now.

The fronts are genuine Recaro SRD and the rears are e30 M3 seats. Door cards are MTech front and rear and the seats are recovered to match. Side bolsters are black leather. It's essentially a Sport Evolution replica interior. From what I'm told, most Sport Evolutions had MTech centers with gray sides, or all black leather. Just a few of them were special ordered with MTech centers and leather sides, and that's what this is emulating.

I'll run this for a while, which will give me some time to restore the original black leather interior.

Here's the interior on its way out. Yes I vacuumed the carpet before installing the new seats :D



The front leather needs some love. There are no tears, but you can see how the finish cracked over the years.



US sticker on the right side of the lower rear seat.



Another shot of the lower rear in surprisingly good shape.



And the Evo seats and cards went in. Upper rear seat is straight forward. Slide into the two slots at the top and bolt in two tabs at the bottom.



Then the bottom basically drops in. It presses into those two tabs in the photo above.



This was the trickiest part really...removing the front cards without damaging anything. When I say tricky I mean it really wasn't a big deal. This interior install was very simple.



All new clips for the door cards. I only broke a few while removing the original stuff but it's good to just replace everything anyway.



Did you know the tweeters were made by Nokia? I had no idea.



Front cards snapped into place.



And the seats waiting to be installed.



New plastics for the SRDs, and Massive Brakes adapters bolt up to the original sport seat rails.



And here's everything installed.





Pretty happy with the result. The SRDs are VERY narrow. You really don't move around at all i these things. The Massive Brakes adapters are a little too low for me and I'm around 6 foot.



Just for fun, here's a shot of the car up on the lift with some Helix wheels in the foreground. I'll have some better photos of the whole car up soon.

[bradnic]

Always nice to see the Evo cloth. Is that the replica fabric that was available a couple of years back? I had a "full Mtech 2" 771 macao vert with the same material.

Who did the door cards for you? How'd they do the cloth inserts?

EDIT: I meant Mtech 2 above, not Mtech 1 - fixed

[bradnic]

Oh and get those red belts man! Need em now with those seats and cloth lol

[f50nut]

Always nice to see the Evo cloth. Is that the replica fabric that was available a couple of years back? I had a "full Mtech 1" 771 macao vert with the same material.

Who did the door cards for you? How'd they do the cloth inserts?

Not really sure on either of those. The door cards came from the Netherlands and the seats from Dominican Republic. I'm told it's original fabric, but I can't be sure.

Oh and get those red belts man! Need em now with those seats and cloth lol

Yes I wish I had a set to install while everything was out of the car. Very pricey though!

[M3s14]

Your M3 is amazing and the new wheels look so cool and good on your E30 M3.
Special wheels and special car.

[*freshm3]

Uncle Larry......


Looks great brother

[Deltron Dirty30]

snoop dogg - perfect.


beautiful car mayne

[MasukBMW]

Soooo excited for the Helix wheels...Ive been waiting to finally see them mounted somewhere. Is that the plan? Specs??

Amazing!

[rs2coupe]

Wow,! just read through your entire thread. That M could not have fallen into better hands. Your living the car lovers dream. Huuuge Thumbs Up.

[JZM3]

You beat me to it! Looks great man. Can't get over how clean this car is.

[f50nut]

Your M3 is amazing and the new wheels look so cool and good on your E30 M3.
Special wheels and special car.

Uncle Larry......


Looks great brother

snoop dogg - perfect.


beautiful car mayne

Thank you guys.

Wow,! just read through your entire thread. That M could not have fallen into better hands. Your living the car lovers dream. Huuuge Thumbs Up.

Thanks a lot. These things are never really done I guess. Might need a new gearbox soon.

You beat me to it! Looks great man. Can't get over how clean this car is.

Thanks man. Been following you and your car for a while and loved everything you've done to it.

[f50nut]

Soooo excited for the Helix wheels...Ive been waiting to finally see them mounted somewhere. Is that the plan? Specs??

Amazing!

That specific set is 5x112. I ran them on my gf's GTI. Someone should definitely run a set on an E30 ;D