New to the site - I don't own an E30 yet though :(

[s0nik]

Well, it took long enough, but I fully admit. I have the E30 fever, really bad - and the only cure will be to buy an E30, S50/52 swap w/ built bottom end and a very large and in charge turbo :D .. which is why I'm here really - I'll mostly be on here lurking and to start doing research for the next project car (as from what I understand, this is one of the better forums for E30 knowledge), which I will hopefully start by about this time next year!

However, for now I do have a E36 M3 Turbo told me over for the time being :) Here's some video of my car (not quite done yet), if you want to check it out .. just to exemplify that I'm not another newbie who talks about building a big car and just randomly disappears from the forums .. oh and the link in my sig is to the write-up I did of my turbo build on BF.c (oh yeah I'm a major DIYer!)


(right click/save for the salvation of my bandwidth!)

http://trey.shiftbutton.com/m3/draft1_comp.avi

Here's the codec, if you don't have it:

http://www.free-codecs.com/K_Lite_Codec_Pack_download.htm

... and some noises:

http://trey.shiftbutton.com/m3/noises.wmv

[MikeK]

why is it that everyone wants an e30?... honestly they arent that great

[s0nik]

why is it that everyone wants an e30?... honestly they arent that great

Because they're lighter than E36's .. and they look MUCH cooler IMHO :p More of a sleeper appeal etc etc etc

[rede30]

Sounds like you have some good plans for your e30, welcome. Are you going to be selling your m3 or just adding to your fleet?

[blunttech]

why is it that everyone wants an e30?... honestly they arent that great

actually they are pretty great i think. cheap,light and can be made to handle fairly well. if moneys no object theres other cars id persue but these arent a bad car overall for what they cost

[s0nik]

Sounds like you have some good plans for your e30, welcome. Are you going to be selling your m3 or just adding to your fleet?

Adding to the fleet :) I don't think I could ever actually bring myself to sell the E36, I'd never get enough money for it to cover the time/money/heart/soul that I've put into building this car

[blunttech]

Adding to the fleet :) I don't think I could ever actually bring myself to sell the E36, I'd never get enough money for it to cover the time/money/heart/soul that I've put into building this car

show us a dyno on the turbo

[s0nik]

show us a dyno on the turbo

Don't have one yet :( I plan on going in a few weeks though - I've only had the car up and running @ nearly 100% for about 2 months now. I am really dying to get to the dyno to see how she does though.

So far the fastest car I've beaten was an old beater Nissan Sentra that had a built motor swap, turbocharged, and ran a 12.13 @ 118 ... and that was a REALLY close race. I was running about 14psi on 110 gas at the time, and was having some spark blow-out problems (at least that's what I'm thinking it was) in the upper RPM range between 6500-7200, so I had to shift a little early. I'm hoping to actually get the car retuned for 15-20psi (whatever gets me up and over 450whp) on 93 gas, .. but that probably won't happen until next Spring - but once that's done, I'm calling the E36 a done project and moving on to the next :)

[MikeK]

actually they are pretty great i think. cheap,light and can be made to handle fairly well. if moneys no object theres other cars id persue but these arent a bad car overall for what they cost

actually, one thing i really dislike is that they're all rust buckets out here... very hard to find a clean shell.

edit: and you need a sig with your car ;)

[s0nik]

actually, one thing i really dislike is that they're all rust buckets out here... very hard to find a clean shell.

edit: and you need a sig with your car ;)

I can see that being annoying, as I really do think that they are beautiful cars if they're in good shape. Whenever I pick one up, I definitely plan on fixing up the body panels and getting it repainted (as it will almost undoubtedly need it)

[MikeK]

I can see that being annoying, as I really do think that they are beautiful cars if they're in good shape. Whenever I pick one up, I definitely plan on fixing up the body panels and getting it repainted (as it will almost undoubtedly need it)

sweet. any color preference?

[s0nik]

sweet. any color preference?

Umm, haven't quite decided, I'm a pretty bland-ish guy though. I was thinking black or dark grey/gunmetal (leaning towards the gunmetal) .. I also kind of liked the blue-ish green that came on some of the FD RX7's

(sorry its a bad picture, but it was the first one that I saw on google image search)

[dirty30]

why is it that everyone wants an e30?... honestly they arent that great

I agree, there is something about them that people love, especially VW owners. I get this all the time:

"nice old school beemer" or "hey wanna sell that" or "I used to have one of those"

[MikeK]

mmmm FD3S FTW

[moatilliatta]

you car sounds real good. what kind of exuast is that. and whats that song in the first link?