I Can haz $300.00 e30 M3....

[red325i]

Subscribed...someday when i get out of the military and have a permanent garage im going to do a build!

[Mstngcobr761]

Mid-Day Update

Got up early today and started scrubing my life away. Started with the engine block.

All scrubed off:


Painted:


I know I painted over the freeze plugs....going to wire brush the paint out later

Then did the oil filter housing and the motor mount arms




Hopefully going to go out later on and take the s50 oil pan off...plastiguage rod and main bearings, then if all is well put the m50 pick up and pan on

[Mstngcobr761]

Due to my gnarly hangover today, only a very little bit got done. Ran around to the autostores and picked up engine enamel, plasti guage and some degreaser.

Started with the oil pan...at first scrubbed with wire brush and degreased, then realized im an idiot and have a soda blaster. Put it outside and went to town.

Came out like this:


Picked up some silver engine enamel for various parts of the engine, oil filter housing, oil pan and the timing covers. So I sprayed the oil pan after it roughened it up a little




Hopefully get to the filter housing tomorrow and plastiguaging the rod bearings

[e30guydownunder]

Shit yes, business just got serious

[White325is]

Thats a noice bracket you got there son!!!

[Mstngcobr761]

All came today! It was like an early christmas...Sorry for the dark picture...

Bottom End Gasket Kit
Valve Cover Kit
White325is's Custom Supercharger Bracket

Still need to order ARP Head Studs and Cosmetic Head Gasket

[Mstngcobr761]

yeah, meant leave the rearseat in there yo!

haha the cage is already in, girls bitch enough about crawling into back seats cant even imagine how much they would if they had to contort around big metal poles.

your a lucky lucky man! that really is a sweet find! I look forward to more of your progress man. I just started my build about a month ago. Finally decided to start a build thread... check it out!

http://www.r3vlimited.com/board/showthread.php?t=153363

I must say though, it's no $300 M3!!

Still and awesome build though, good luck with it your already making huge progress!

[freeride53]

yeah, meant leave the rearseat in there yo!

[freeski27]

your a lucky lucky man! that really is a sweet find! I look forward to more of your progress man. I just started my build about a month ago. Finally decided to start a build thread... check it out!

http://www.r3vlimited.com/board/showthread.php?t=153363

I must say though, it's no $300 M3!!

[Mstngcobr761]

May be a little late, but I would go get some flat or semigloss black and at least paint over the rear deck/parcel shelf, even if the rest of the interior stays white. You will dramatically increase rear visibility with a dark, uniform color below the window.

I may do this..i had the car outside and the reflections coming off the interior were crazy

[Huff]

you can only use the e36 tie rods on an e36 rack- unless you are going to change the inner joints out too.

What he said.. Plus, the e36 are a little more agressive, you can see they are almost straight, where the e30 ones dip down a bit. The draw back is they are WAY more expensive than the e30 ones.

[phenryiv1]

Too late now...if its that bad ill have to drape some sort of cloth over it

May be a little late, but I would go get some flat or semigloss black and at least paint over the rear deck/parcel shelf, even if the rest of the interior stays white. You will dramatically increase rear visibility with a dark, uniform color below the window.

[pbr87]

I like it! I like what you've done so far, and I like where it's going....and I definitely admire the amount of work you're putting in. I don't really understand why people are making this project seem so controversial.

[Bin_jammin]

Thanks! Ive seen some very bad restos my self thats why I was so offended when I was told I was cutting corners. It will be going to a body shop so im def. going to have them check everything over cause I dont want it rotting out againn.

Yeah man, there's so many ways to cut corners and just say "fuck it" to get it back on the road quicker. If it's a car you're going to actually enjoy hammering on there's no reason to spend $30,000 to restore it when $5-10k will do the job.


It's an e30 m3. It's not a Buggati type 57c. They're hardly the rarest cars in the world. There's a lot of them out there and they can be purchased for roughly the same price as a good used Honda Accord to the price of a new Honda Accord in range. Not worth getting your little dick hard about someone not restoring it to your standards guys.

Go enjoy your car man, you've done the work to deserve it.

[Mstngcobr761]

Very good job with the build thus far, bud. Regardless of what anyone says, you're doing it, not them. Take it with a grain of salt. That's quite and under taking to nearly "fall" into your lap.

This was probably talked about, but there's 10 pages, so apologies but, what engine is that you're dropping in? What's your target HP etc etc?

Keep us updated! Pictures are like candy...

-C

Its a 95 m3 engine...S50. Target HP is 300+, plan on supercharging it.

I've seen a lot of really high-dollar restorations in my time, and I've seen the rest of them too. This falls nicely between the two. It's not kludged together with bondo and fiberglass, it's done on a budget that will yield the best results, and when it'd finished it won't be rotted out in two years because of cut corners. OP, keep up the good work, I can't wait to see it finished.

Thanks! Ive seen some very bad restos my self thats why I was so offended when I was told I was cutting corners. It will be going to a body shop so im def. going to have them check everything over cause I dont want it rotting out againn.