My abandoned e30 M3 restoration

[steve68]

Great story, I found mine on Auto trader 15yrs ago for $5000, was overheated but easily fixed, drove it for 6 months till the engine blew for good, now I'm getting for a full restore like your doing, motors done getting ready to pull it out for a detail, great updates, now I need to fine some RS's too

[shadowbethesda]

Creepy? Ummm... No.

It's just kind of hard to miss an old M3 in someones driveway when I've had 5 E30's. Good luck with your build.

[Tippey764]

I was wondering where the car had gone. My friends parents live next door to you. Good to know you are still working on the car.

Thats like super creepy

[shadowbethesda]

Finally some updates
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I was wondering where the car had gone. My friends parents live next door to you. Good to know you are still working on the car.

[Tippey764]

Cleaning up the engine bay and straightening things up before paint



Interior stripped



Just test fitting the fender to make sure everything lines up correctly

[archie]

Wow! First I'm seeing of this thread and I'm going back to your very first post.
The Red in those BBS wheels are SOOOOOOOOOOOO 80's!!! I LOVE IT!!

Good luck with the car, I hope everything works out for you.

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[613EDRTY]

+1 for polished lip, nice to see some progress

[ThatOneEuroE30]

polished lip all the way

[Tippey764]

Finally some updates

Progress should finally start picking up finally

How it had been sitting for about 6 months




Engine bay before



Progress



Mostly finished



Finally ready to leave the driveway and head to the shop



On the shitty ass u-haul trailer. The ramps didn't even go to the ground so it had to basically jump up 4 inches to get onto the piece of shit






Here are the wheels. We're not sure if we're going to powder coat the lips or polish them yet. The centers are powder coated silver

[e30prodigy]

sir....

please go to the local gas station and buy me 100 lottery tickets you can easily be the luckiest man on earth.
GREATEST m3 story to date.
goes to show you how valuable a little leg work is.

if you ever want a ROI please do not hesitate to contact me
i got a check with your name on it no matter what stage of the build your at.
till that day ENJOY the hell out of that piece of car history

[Mr. Burns]

needs more progress.

[Tippey764]

is it painted yet

Unfortunately its been sitting in my driveway for the past 4 months. All removable body panels are painted but the chassis is not.

Hopefully within the next week or two it should finally be removed

Does anyone know what wheel I can get to put on the front of this thing?

My BBS wheels from my e46 touring rub the strut and my stock wheels rub the caliper. I can't find anything to fit. The other side has a random steel wheel that i'm not sure where its from but it fits fine.

awesome story. looking forward to more updates on this. Did it come with bbs rs061/022 wheels?

Yes it did

[e30onBBSs]

Incredible.

[ttrousdell]

awesome story. looking forward to more updates on this. Did it come with bbs rs061/022 wheels?

[ThatOneEuroE30]

is it painted yet