***Editors Note: Late to start the month, but its a leap year so we get an extra day!... Our friends on the other side also have some amazing E30s. Heres a wonderful example. Glad the car is safe. Enjoy the goodness of an ITB M30 motor...***
Factory options:
Power window/sunroof
Color:
Glacier Blue - Gletscherblau Metallic 280
Interior color:
Dark blue
Engine modifications:
M30b35 swap from a e34 535i, head is ported with 0.5mm larger valves, heavy duty springs, catcam 294/294, ARP studs, IE windage tray, RHDengineering ITB’s, LS1 coil packs
Exhaust:
To be finished but consists of e28 535i headers modified to fit, running to single 2.5” high flow cat, & Xforce rear muffler
Transmission:
Getrag 265/5 from an Aus special edition e28 528i msport, Sachs clutch, & RHDengineering lightweight flywheel, RTD shifter assembly
Differential:
Medium case 3.15 LSD, rebuilt with 3 clutches & 25% lock, & Garagistic 2nd diff mount. Diff ratio to be changed out soon for a 3.46
Suspension:
German engineering coil over kit with 450lb fronts & 600lb rears, Koni sport short dampers up front, custom calved GAZ rears, BC camber plates, AKG 80A LCA, condor subframe bushes, powerflex diff bushes, whiteline black tailing arm bushes, IE 24mm front swaybar & 19mm whiteline rear
Wheels:
Simmons F90 16x8 +18 front with falken RT6 205/50r16, rears 16x8.5 +23 hankook rs3 225/50r16
Exterior modifications:
Custom livery, Ebay special m3 wing, Alpina front valance, & home made splitter(ties to the bar & to the body of the car
Interior modifications:
Heavy diet losing carpet/ sound proofing/ AC & heater box/ all audio, Garagistic floor mounts & sparco sprint seats, KAP extinguisher bracket, & Renown motorsports wheel
Story behind the car:
The car itself was sold in 1990 from Sterling BMW based in Canberra which is Australia’s capital city & home to lots of foreign consulates where my e30 was first owned by the USSR consultant of Australia. I actually found one nod to the communist history of the car when i pulled the parcel shelf out to dye it, stuck between it & the rear glass was a Vladimir Ilyich Ulyanov aka Lenin lapel pin.
I actually acquired the car accidentally going on 9yrs ago, I was in the market for a Ute(Australia for pickup) & my dad rang me out of the blue to say he’d found me my car. When I got to his car yard I was tad surprised but super excited to have an e30 definitely wasn’t as practical but meant I had a car to tinker with. The character of the car has had me smitten for years, & has just been that never ending project of replacing & upgrading which over 9yrs has seen it go from a poverty pack 318i auto to the ridiculously impractical but super fun toy it is now.
Build thread is here https://www.r3vlimited.com/board/for...-a-new-project
Factory options:
Power window/sunroof
Color:
Glacier Blue - Gletscherblau Metallic 280
Interior color:
Dark blue
Engine modifications:
M30b35 swap from a e34 535i, head is ported with 0.5mm larger valves, heavy duty springs, catcam 294/294, ARP studs, IE windage tray, RHDengineering ITB’s, LS1 coil packs
Exhaust:
To be finished but consists of e28 535i headers modified to fit, running to single 2.5” high flow cat, & Xforce rear muffler
Transmission:
Getrag 265/5 from an Aus special edition e28 528i msport, Sachs clutch, & RHDengineering lightweight flywheel, RTD shifter assembly
Differential:
Medium case 3.15 LSD, rebuilt with 3 clutches & 25% lock, & Garagistic 2nd diff mount. Diff ratio to be changed out soon for a 3.46
Suspension:
German engineering coil over kit with 450lb fronts & 600lb rears, Koni sport short dampers up front, custom calved GAZ rears, BC camber plates, AKG 80A LCA, condor subframe bushes, powerflex diff bushes, whiteline black tailing arm bushes, IE 24mm front swaybar & 19mm whiteline rear
Wheels:
Simmons F90 16x8 +18 front with falken RT6 205/50r16, rears 16x8.5 +23 hankook rs3 225/50r16
Exterior modifications:
Custom livery, Ebay special m3 wing, Alpina front valance, & home made splitter(ties to the bar & to the body of the car
Interior modifications:
Heavy diet losing carpet/ sound proofing/ AC & heater box/ all audio, Garagistic floor mounts & sparco sprint seats, KAP extinguisher bracket, & Renown motorsports wheel
Story behind the car:
The car itself was sold in 1990 from Sterling BMW based in Canberra which is Australia’s capital city & home to lots of foreign consulates where my e30 was first owned by the USSR consultant of Australia. I actually found one nod to the communist history of the car when i pulled the parcel shelf out to dye it, stuck between it & the rear glass was a Vladimir Ilyich Ulyanov aka Lenin lapel pin.
I actually acquired the car accidentally going on 9yrs ago, I was in the market for a Ute(Australia for pickup) & my dad rang me out of the blue to say he’d found me my car. When I got to his car yard I was tad surprised but super excited to have an e30 definitely wasn’t as practical but meant I had a car to tinker with. The character of the car has had me smitten for years, & has just been that never ending project of replacing & upgrading which over 9yrs has seen it go from a poverty pack 318i auto to the ridiculously impractical but super fun toy it is now.
Build thread is here https://www.r3vlimited.com/board/for...-a-new-project
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