Hey guys so my friend and I recently went 50/50 on an 1984 325e shell that we scooped up from a friend! This car is both of ours first E30. So far due to school and finals (We are both mechanical engineering students) we have done a few minor things before starting this build thread.
When we first got the car we knew the car had some rust but we didnt know how much... lets just say we car easily Fred Flintstone this car around hahaha. From the pictures you can see where the car has rust. We did clean and spray these areas with rust converter to stop the spread of rust for the time being until we can officially start rust repair.
The car only has axles and a diff and all of the remaining bushings are shot. Our brakes maybe work... havent tested them yet.
The car has 3 different headlights and a spray painted something on the hood.
About a week after we transported the shell we began to rip out all of the old sound proofing material, weight mats in the trunk, searching/plugging the leak on one of the rear quarter windows, ripped out the eta harness and ecu, removed the 10,000 lbs of crappy speaker wires, also removed the entire exhaust system( was really tired of seeing the ricer tips), we washed and waxed the outside, also bug bombed the inside of it since we saw some decent sized roaches crawling out from underneath the dash when ripping the sound proofing material, organized excess parts/ trash.
A few more weeks/finals later we then get around to installing a rear parcel shelf, other back seat, fixing the other leak we had found, degreased the entire inside of the car, and cleaning out the rust chips as well as spraying rust converter where we had rust at.
The PRO's!!!!
Besides the spray paint the car has minor cosmetic damage (rocker panels) and minty cardinal red door cars and a kinda matching upper half of the rear seat, the parcel shelf/deck, which we recently installed!
We also have a super nice dash and a mtech steering wheel that we are waiting to install as to not destroy it during the build.
We discover that the car is originally from Pennsylvania and is not a northern rust bucket :p
Well I'm sure you guys are gonna be asking "Hey what kinda engine are you gonna put in there????" Well I'm glad you asked! After much consideration, going back and forth between a m20 and a m50, we are gonna with 2.7i stroker!!!! 8-)
When we first got the car we knew the car had some rust but we didnt know how much... lets just say we car easily Fred Flintstone this car around hahaha. From the pictures you can see where the car has rust. We did clean and spray these areas with rust converter to stop the spread of rust for the time being until we can officially start rust repair.
The car only has axles and a diff and all of the remaining bushings are shot. Our brakes maybe work... havent tested them yet.
The car has 3 different headlights and a spray painted something on the hood.
About a week after we transported the shell we began to rip out all of the old sound proofing material, weight mats in the trunk, searching/plugging the leak on one of the rear quarter windows, ripped out the eta harness and ecu, removed the 10,000 lbs of crappy speaker wires, also removed the entire exhaust system( was really tired of seeing the ricer tips), we washed and waxed the outside, also bug bombed the inside of it since we saw some decent sized roaches crawling out from underneath the dash when ripping the sound proofing material, organized excess parts/ trash.
A few more weeks/finals later we then get around to installing a rear parcel shelf, other back seat, fixing the other leak we had found, degreased the entire inside of the car, and cleaning out the rust chips as well as spraying rust converter where we had rust at.
The PRO's!!!!
Besides the spray paint the car has minor cosmetic damage (rocker panels) and minty cardinal red door cars and a kinda matching upper half of the rear seat, the parcel shelf/deck, which we recently installed!
We also have a super nice dash and a mtech steering wheel that we are waiting to install as to not destroy it during the build.
We discover that the car is originally from Pennsylvania and is not a northern rust bucket :p
Well I'm sure you guys are gonna be asking "Hey what kinda engine are you gonna put in there????" Well I'm glad you asked! After much consideration, going back and forth between a m20 and a m50, we are gonna with 2.7i stroker!!!! 8-)
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