New member: 84 Henna

[ThatOneEuroE30]

I think theyd look pretty sweet on my Henna, what do you guys think

style 5's on any e30 or e36 is awesome. You would just have to 5 lug swap your car or run the 5 lug adapters but I don't trust those.

[HennaE30]

style 5's on any e30 or e36 is awesome. You would just have to 5 lug swap your car or run the 5 lug adapters but I don't trust those.

Id have to run adapters for awhile, and pull them off and run 4 lugs on the track. I don't have the money to afford a 5 lug swap

[ThatOneEuroE30]

Id have to run adapters for awhile, and pull them off and run 4 lugs on the track. I don't have the money to afford a 5 lug swap

Personally I don't like the adapters I wouldn't feel safe with them.

[JinormusJ]

New member: 84 Henna

style 5's on any e30 or e36 is awesome. You would just have to 5 lug swap your car or run the 5 lug adapters but I don't trust those.

Adapters are okay unless you are tracking the car. I'd pop them off every 3 months or so to see if they are giving, but generally they hold up to dailying and occasional spirited.


I wouldn't run them as a permanent deal, but yeah.


Some 18 mm in the front and 25 in the rear would give the car some aggressive look. Dropping it in the rear would help distract from the almost non-existent early model rear valence. A euro valence would look cherry up front and get rid of the horrible early US valence, as would some euro bumpers.

[HennaE30]

Adapters are okay unless you are tracking the car. I'd pop them off every 3 months or so to see if they are giving, but generally they hold up to dailying and occasional spirited.


I wouldn't run them as a permanent deal, but yeah.


Some 18 mm in the front and 25 in the rear would give the car some aggressive look. Dropping it in the rear would help distract from the almost non-existent early model rear valence. A euro valence would look cherry up front and get rid of the horrible early US valence, as would some euro bumpers.

I still haven't made a decision on what I want to do, definitely lookin for euros, not sure about wheels tho. Im trying to finish all the maintenance and getting her right for now, we have a water problem somewhere in the trunk, the sunroof drain is cut somewhere up the line, and is leaking into the driver corner of the trunk. no rust luckily, but it needs to get taken care of, hopefully will have the problem fixed by the end of the week. but the cut is in the corner of the trunk, so you cant see it.

[HennaE30]

So I need some opinons on some stuff ive been thinking about, but haven't been able to make a decision on.

1. Wheel choice. Ive been look at weaves, but nothing smaller than a 15in, and ive heard that weaves are a bitch to clean. I don't have any personal experience with this, other than my dad's RS-GTs, which weren't too bad. Wondering what yall think about this/what I should do.

2. Bumper situation, going to try to find euros, but they are hard to come buy, and are pretty expensive. I know I want to get rid of the early model bumpers, due to how ugly they are. But I don't know how plastic bumpers would look on a Henna, ive seen em on some alpines and they've looked good.

3. Valances. What should I do about the early model front valance, and lack of a rear valence? I think the front valance doesn't look to bad, but from reading around r3v a lot of people don't like it and some have said get a late model valance. Should I get a valance for the rear? or leave it as is.

4. Shadowlining/kidneys. Should I leave it chrome (get some new chrome kids) or shadowline everything (the reason why I like that is cuz its something you don't see) but I really don't know how itll look and I don't want it to come out like crap. Ive seen what the chrome looks like and I like it, but I want to be different.

5. Interior. What should I do about the seats? they are comfortable but look like crap with the leather rear seats, and the black door panels. I was looking at getting some black sport seats, probably go to a pick and pull to see if theres a car that has iS seats, and ill just have them reupholstered. But should I spring the few hundred bucks and buy some corbeaus or something?

6. Tails. I looked through some threads on R3v, and saw some guys that tinted their tails, previously was looking at Startec's but idk how theyd look on a Henna (same question for tinted ones), but I may not change them at all. opinons on this?

Looking for yalls opinion on these things, wondering what you guys think on these points. Ive haven't made any changes to the car all week, been busy with school and haven't ordered any parts to go on it yet.

[mbonanni]

1.Just keep up with the cleaning. Dont let it get caked on and you will be fine.

2. Early model bumpers look great. Don't waste your time on plastic bumpers. Save your pennies and get euros.

3. Until you source euro bumps get a late model valence. They look tits with metal bumpers.

4. Shadowing everything but keep kidneys chrome. This is ultimately your choice.

5. The corbeaus arent bad seats, but depending how big you are I would get some nice black sport seats and matching interior.

6. Startecs are expensive. Keep it stock tails or all red. Again, ultimately your choice.

[HennaE30]

1.Just keep up with the cleaning. Dont let it get caked on and you will be fine.

So are you saying get the weaves? if I do, what should I get? I like Euroweaves, but I haven't seen a pair for sale

2. Early model bumpers look great. Don't waste your time on plastic bumpers. Save your pennies and get euros.

I was thinking about gluing down the plastic, so that it doesn't like so odd with the tucked bumper and the gap around it (if you get what im saying)

3. Until you source euro bumps get a late model valence. They look tits with metal bumpers.

Any pics of this? wondering what it looks like, I don't think the early model valence doesn't look too bad.

4. Shadowing everything but keep kidneys chrome. This is ultimately your choice.

E30_Pare pshopped a drop and shadowlining for me. it looks pretty dope, I think im gonna do it, even though I don't know how, but ill just google it

5. The corbeaus arent bad seats, but depending how big you are I would get some nice black sport seats and matching interior.

Im a pretty scrawny kid (6'0 150lbs) so size is not an issue, just looking at comfort:price ratio. Also I forgot to add that my dash is super cracked, probably 3 or 4 really big cracks, and 4 or 5 small ones. But my dad has the dash from his Spec E30 which is almost perfect, and he hasn't put it back in, and he said I could swap it out with him if I wanted to. I don't really know how much of a bitch swapping dashes is, but its still an option

6. Startecs are expensive. Keep it stock tails or all red. Again, ultimately your choice.

I think all red would look weird on a henna tho, that's why I was thinking tinted/startecs. theres a picture of a tint that a guy did here on R3v, it looks pretty dope. Ill have to find it

[jhaurimn]

All red tail lights dont look right on a red e30. keep stock tails

You can ruin your window trim trying to pull it off, so it would be worth it to mask everything off and paint it still on the car. Make sure you mask stuff off good, thankfully its all straight lines so pretty easy to do. Use duplicolor trim paint

Henna was a early model only color. Do not put plastic bumpers on it. Save up for euro bumpers.

[ThatOneEuroE30]

Keep in mind startec are north of 600 a set depending on condition. Plus about the only way to find the is ebay.de

[HennaE30]

Well this morning was eventful. After 2 hours of cursing the PO for putting in seats that don't fit in an E30, I managed to get them out. The PO did some clever work to fit these seats in, utilizing the the seat belt sliders to get it to fit. The PO used 4 different bolt sizes for the seat hardware, 14mm, 15mm, 17mm and 9/16. I pulled the seats out because the passenger one was stuck... But I don't think I'm going to put them back in, due to how rigged up they were.



The hardware that was used. All different sizes



These were the seats, any ideas what they are? I've never seen any like em..



This is the interior now, excuse the crap pictures... Phones camera wouldn't focus because of the lighting.


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[mbonanni]

Lol, did you really curse out the PO?

[JinormusJ]

I'm good you got those ugly seats out of the car
Put sport seats in it nao

[HennaE30]

Lol, did you really curse out the PO?

Lol not directly, but there was some cursing, and some wondering about why the PO did it.. 3 of the studs for the seat are completely mangled (will post pics). So now I gotta see if there is a replacement kit you can buy..

I'm good you got those ugly seats out of the car
Put sport seats in it nao

I'm glad as well... I may try to sell em just for the hell of it.. But the plan is to go with iS's.. I just gotta get my hands on some black ones



This is what the interior looks like now.. I vacuumed under the seats because it was nasty.. The passenger one is stained pretty bad, so I'm gonna try to steam clean it to see if it'll pull it out.



This kinda worried me because I don't remember them on my dad's 88 when we pulled out the interior. It's on both the driver and pass side... Looks like it's for AC ducting? Can anyone with early model knowledge confirm this for me?




2 of the smashed seat studs... I guess we will see what happens with that


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[HennaE30]

New member: 84 Henna

I'm also trying to decide if I want to get a new steering wheel in the future or not, the wrap I have will do fine for now, but still wondering