***Editors Note: I've been bugging Barry to feature a car for a little while now, the hard part is that Barry owns 2 E30 M3s, a turbo M20 vert that I believe is a factory Mtech2 car, and he just restored a Euro 323i to a full Mtech1 tribute car. I really wanted to feature more than one, so we kept going back and forth. He really wanted to showcase his newest build, but I have a severe lack of M3 love in my choices, so I told him it needs to be one of the M3s. What a tough life Barry has to live... Congrats Barry, one of your cars made it to the May 2017 Car of the Month. Maybe if nobody cares we will feature another car soon! - Simon***
Car:
89 M3 with 180K miles
Engine:
-Original S14 180k miles.
-Head refreshed at 130k.
-Evo airbox, iigomotive chip and Custom 2.5" exhaust.
Interior:
-Recaro SR3's with Erik J's M tech cloth
-Red Evo seat belts,
-New M tech 2 steering wheel
-M dead pedal
-White gauge faces
-Alcantara headliner.
Exterior:
-Evo 3 front splitter
-Evo 3 bumper gasket
-Euro tow hook covers
-Evo style brake duct channels
-Smoked Depo smiley headlights, Evo euro grills.
-Startec tail lights
-Replica Evo 3 adjustable rear wing
-New badges, sidemarker delete, new antenna
-DTM cup mirrors
-Resprayed in BASF Alpineweiss II in 2016.
Suspension/wheels:
-Custom 17x8.5j Epsilon refinished with polished faces and lips.
-H&R Race springs with dead coil cut in front and Bilstein sport dampers.
Story Behind the Car:
The story of this car begins with me rebuilding the S14 on my other M3 back in 2011. Having the car down for almost a year, I began to look at buying another. I had always wanted the quintessential Alpineweiss M3 as that was the color that was promoted in nearly all the advertisements and track cars. I put the word out to a few friends that I was looking and a friend pointed me in the direction of a local car that needed some loving.
When we went to see it, the car was rough but completely mechanically. The car was used for track duty and had no HVAC, stereo, power door locks, power windows were converted to manual but it had a fresh dash and reupholstered Recaros. While it was very rough, it had a lot of potential including the original S14 and the price was good. It took me about an hour after seeing the car, to close the deal.
Believing that all original M3's deserve to be restored to their former glory I drove it home and started the restoration immediately. Other than a few M3 specific parts, many of the deleted items (mostly electrical) were sourced from a wrecked 325i. Everything was restored but I chose to keep the manual crank windows and sunroof as a preference.
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Car:
89 M3 with 180K miles
Engine:
-Original S14 180k miles.
-Head refreshed at 130k.
-Evo airbox, iigomotive chip and Custom 2.5" exhaust.
Interior:
-Recaro SR3's with Erik J's M tech cloth
-Red Evo seat belts,
-New M tech 2 steering wheel
-M dead pedal
-White gauge faces
-Alcantara headliner.
Exterior:
-Evo 3 front splitter
-Evo 3 bumper gasket
-Euro tow hook covers
-Evo style brake duct channels
-Smoked Depo smiley headlights, Evo euro grills.
-Startec tail lights
-Replica Evo 3 adjustable rear wing
-New badges, sidemarker delete, new antenna
-DTM cup mirrors
-Resprayed in BASF Alpineweiss II in 2016.
Suspension/wheels:
-Custom 17x8.5j Epsilon refinished with polished faces and lips.
-H&R Race springs with dead coil cut in front and Bilstein sport dampers.
Story Behind the Car:
The story of this car begins with me rebuilding the S14 on my other M3 back in 2011. Having the car down for almost a year, I began to look at buying another. I had always wanted the quintessential Alpineweiss M3 as that was the color that was promoted in nearly all the advertisements and track cars. I put the word out to a few friends that I was looking and a friend pointed me in the direction of a local car that needed some loving.
When we went to see it, the car was rough but completely mechanically. The car was used for track duty and had no HVAC, stereo, power door locks, power windows were converted to manual but it had a fresh dash and reupholstered Recaros. While it was very rough, it had a lot of potential including the original S14 and the price was good. It took me about an hour after seeing the car, to close the deal.
Believing that all original M3's deserve to be restored to their former glory I drove it home and started the restoration immediately. Other than a few M3 specific parts, many of the deleted items (mostly electrical) were sourced from a wrecked 325i. Everything was restored but I chose to keep the manual crank windows and sunroof as a preference.
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