New comer here. Meet my E30, Ruby!

[crankytube]

Hey levy3poop i know this is old but i also live in Waco tx and was wondering do you have any shops that you trust with your e30 or do you do all the work yourself and do you have any spare parts thank you

[Levy3Poop]

I never thought this day would come.

Happy to oblige, amigo

[Levy3Poop]

Awesome Calypso vert! Is that original paint? Looks gorgeous!

Also I figured I would share. I used Imgur the first time the other day when I did my build thread and had problems getting my pics to post since they were to big. If you click "Edit" in Imgur on a picture and then change the first setting of the resolution to "1000" and leave the "lock proportions" checked it will auto resize it to a size that R3v allows and fits the screen well that you can embed directly.

It's actually not the original paint. When I posted pics to the E30 subreddit, one of the users sent me a few pictures from when he had her, including him and his friend sanding her down to paint it, pictured below.

Also, THANK YOU for that imgur tip. I spent so long manually resizing all of my pictures to upload them, and then had to go back through them all and save them as a jpeg because I save every image as a PNG (lossless image, no jpeg compression). Your tip will make it much easier to post pictures :)

[Levy3Poop]

Welcome!!

Congrats on your purchase. Great looking car, colour, wheels and of course the smile!!

You seem to fit in very well here, as we at R3V, love pictures. Thank you for those. Well Done!!

Oh, btw, there is a shortage of pictures of your lady friend, we need to change your status to Noob Elite!!

I'm glad to be here! :D

She may be in more pictures in the future, but it'll be with the car hahaha

[Levy3Poop]

The lower lip you have on the front is from a Volvo. Its not something most of us appreciate. The OEM iS lip looks much better but the Volvo lip is a $5 junkyard item so people have been running them on E30s forever.

Few things I noticed was that the black trim is also a glossy black, where it should be a flat black. I would look into replacing it with Euro trim to eliminate those US sidemarkers.

Also, the fog lights arent mounted properly and are probably aftermarket or maybe thats just how the aftermarket fogs are.

Last thing, the BBS wheels are most likely for FWD VWs so they are probably et35, and could benefit with 10-15mm spacers. Thats also the place Id be looking to find a spare, somewhere like vwvortex

Theres 2 things to know about r3v. We like E30s and we like pics of your GF.... so you're off to a good start





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Cool, I actually had no idea it was an aftermarket lip. See? That's why I wanted to join this community; you all know E30s in and out so well that I can only learn (or be embarrassed by looking dumb lol). The wheels ARE ET35s...what exactly does that mean? I googled all of the engravings on them to find out as much info as I could, but my Google-fu skills must have escaped me with the ET35 part. Also, how exactly will adding spacers to the front benefit the ride/handling? Or is it more of a fitment thing? Also, the Euro bumper impact strips don't have the side markers at all?

The fogs are indeed aftermarket, installed by the previous owner...and I can't get the fuckers to work. I've got fuses in there, and I've tried a brand new relay switch, and as far as I know, all the wires are hooked up (I took out the headlight/fog switch to see).

[MrBurgundy]

I never thought this day would come.

[Zeemz]

Awesome Calypso vert! Is that original paint? Looks gorgeous!

Also I figured I would share. I used Imgur the first time the other day when I did my build thread and had problems getting my pics to post since they were to big. If you click "Edit" in Imgur on a picture and then change the first setting of the resolution to "1000" and leave the "lock proportions" checked it will auto resize it to a size that R3v allows and fits the screen well that you can embed directly.

[IceWhite]

Welcome!!

Congrats on your purchase. Great looking car, colour, wheels and of course the smile!!

You seem to fit in very well here, as we at R3V, love pictures. Thank you for those. Well Done!!

Oh, btw, there is a shortage of pictures of your lady friend, we need to change your status to Noob Elite!!

[2mAn]

What do you mean by Volvo lip?

The lower lip you have on the front is from a Volvo. Its not something most of us appreciate. The OEM iS lip looks much better but the Volvo lip is a $5 junkyard item so people have been running them on E30s forever.

Few things I noticed was that the black trim is also a glossy black, where it should be a flat black. I would look into replacing it with Euro trim to eliminate those US sidemarkers.

Also, the fog lights arent mounted properly and are probably aftermarket or maybe thats just how the aftermarket fogs are.

Last thing, the BBS wheels are most likely for FWD VWs so they are probably et35, and could benefit with 10-15mm spacers. Thats also the place Id be looking to find a spare, somewhere like vwvortex

Theres 2 things to know about r3v. We like E30s and we like pics of your GF.... so you're off to a good start

The first newb who post pics automatically gets to R3V Elite status... until then

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[Levy3Poop]

Very nice! I really like the BBS RX wheels.

Thank you! I like them a lot as well...the only down side is trying to find an individual wheel that isn't too expensive to use as a spare tire. Currently, I'm rolling spareless

[Levy3Poop]

The car looks great, but that volvo lip...

What do you mean by Volvo lip?

[brokecollegekid]

The car looks great, but that volvo lip...

[mike.bmw]

Very nice! I really like the BBS RX wheels.

[Levy3Poop]

Also, here's my current wallpaper. It's safe to say I love this car :)

http://i.imgur.com/GZix3vP.jpg

[2mAn]

Off to a great start!