My abandoned e30 M3 restoration

[ak-]

Very nice man - literally a dream.

What's the B stand for, stamped on the 4 pistons?

[rzerob]

Congratulations. Subscribed.

[francogt1]

I shed a tear

[JUNGLISTluder]

Probably one of the coolest stories i've heard in a longggg time!! I'm just sad that you found it before me :D Posted this thread to FerrariChat.

[E30HV]

Dreams do come true NICE!!!

[Mistawall]

sweet i saw your post on facebook glad you made a build thread. subd

[HennaE30]

Glad your giving her a new life. Subd.

I used to live in that area, lived in Mannassas Park.

[fight4life28]

Love reading story's like the one you made with your car. You have alot of work ahead of you and I wish you luck! M3 Returns

[jhaurimn]

Ive been following this on facebook as well, congrats. You deserve it after all that work you went through. That would be funny though, being the old owner and having some kid come to your door one day saying "Hey, so I was deep in the woods at your old property and found the car you left sitting there over a decade ago..."

[nando]

great story! now that's a "barn find" (even though it wasn't actually in a barn)

car actually looks really complete/straight for sitting in a field for half a decade.

[TimeMachinE30]

Dang. Hope I get the thrill of a find like this personally one day. Good story....thank you for sharing.

[Tippey764]

Thanks for taking the time to write all that. Awesome story and in for updates! :up:

Thanks!

I tried my best to write it out as detailed as possible. A lot of people ask me the story behind it and I figured it would be easier to just type it all out at once so anyone could see it instead of half ass explaining it over and over again.

[Tippey764]

kudos to going the great lengths you did opie.

try to salvage the paint w/ claybar since it's single stage,
if all else fails you can always just stick to your original plan w/ new paint.

The paint isn't worth any effort since it's all different. The car was in nan accident at one point which is why the front is different from the rest. To sum up the accident simply, lack of a clutch neutral safety start switch, the previous owners sister ran it into the garage. The front bumper, fenders and hood are all BMW RDOT parts. The rear bumper is also RDOT but he doesn't remember why anymore. There's a small bit of bondo on the rear left quarter but the vins are still intact on the rear trunk pan as well as the doors.

Yea no need to strip it bud, its single stage, polish that shit up.

Cant wait to see the final product, although I wish you'd find an S14 block for it :(

I wish I could too but the cost is too excessive

Send me all your s14 parts and I'll cover shipping :)

Pi don't have many parts left, I already sold a lot of it.

Here's what I have left

Cams
Transmission bell housing
Radiator
4 old pistons and connecting rods
Wiring harnesses
A distributor in parts
Front half of the drive shaft
Header with o2 sensor
Full complete oil pan
Power steering pump
A/c compressor

I believe that's it

The head, intake, ITBs and all of that intake related stuff are gone as well as the new pistons

[N2MYE30]

Thanks for taking the time to write all that. Awesome story and in for updates! :up:

[MR 325]

Incredible story. Congrats! I really look forward to seeing updates on this one.