Cleaned up the 318

[Alpine-E30]

Spent a little time cleaning her up today. You can also see how near-perfect the color match from paintscratch is on the passenger side rear corner, which was once a giant dent.

Also, new wheels and I removed the heckblend from the rear end.





















Mods to date

Suspension tech springs
Tokico HPs
all new suspension bushings
front strut bar
all red tails, smoked front turns and sides
blacked out kidneys
Mtech I steering wheels
OEM M shift knob
dynomax muffler with one resonator and a high flow cat
15x7 et25 Intra-Exip mesh wheels
205/55/15 Nitto NT450 tires

[golde30]

tokiko HP's are terrible on an e30...u definately wanna look into some KONI or Bilstein... i had tokiko's on my e30 just b/c they were cheap$$, but turns out they are also just plain cheap.

[Alpine-E30]

You are about the 100th person I've heard that from. I've used HP's on a few cars with no problems at all. Plus there is a lifetime warranty. They were cheap, the ride/handling is great and I have never personally experienced a problem with them. I've had them on a honda, toyota, 4 vw's and now this car. I also have a friend that has been running them on his 325es for about 4 years and they are still going strong. So you're wasting your breath here. I've also been modding german cars for about 14 years, so I kind of know what I'm doing. Thanks for the attempt at input though.

[golfdmb18]

clean car....dont like the wheels

[Hick]

Love the wheels, leave it as is

[golde30]

hey dont get me wrong, i have had them on my datsun for ~5yrs, without problems. also they were ok when i first started driving my e30, but if u try and do any kind of serious driving on these shocks, expect some serious wheel hop, bottoming out, and overall lack-luster performance in any kind of high stress situation. visually, just compare the piston size of the HP to a KONI or Bilstein...

[MR 325]

Those wheels are pretty sweet. Car has a nice stance too.

[egk2]

Your car looks great and nice work on the dent, so you used
paintscratch's spray cans or did you use a gun? I have to agree
about the tokicos, the PO had them on my e30 and the fronts blew out and handling was floaty and loose.

[Alpine-E30]

I used the spray can from paintscratch.. I couldn't be more pleased with the outcome. The 30$ it cost me for supplies sure beat the 300$ a body shop wanted to charge.

Personally I love the tokicos. I guess to each his/her own.

[moatilliatta]

wheels are pretty sick looking. i likey

[mtechnik]

good job

[Jhonno]

i like, white e30's are growing on me, the contrast with the black trim is great

[E30Riech]

I like it. Good to see people from the Chicago area (Somewhat being Aurora).

[formula driver]

What did you do to blend the color of the paint after you sprayed the area. Did you wetsand at all? If so with what grit sandpaper?

Great lookin car.

[Erick]

i like, white e30's are growing on me, the contrast with the black trim is great

White e30s w/ contrast FTW!