Fugitive - E30 340IM

[DanMan68]

Im convinced that Swedes/Norwegians have special e30 building powers. It must either be their Viking heritage or all the meatballs they eat. Im going to have to eat more meatballs...

[FugitivE]

Thanks for the comments! I work on a Paintshop so we have some good tools for everything and so on :D

Much work to do.. Im gonna be in the garage the whole weekend.

Best Regards..

[FredK]

That is a LOT of bodywork. You must be a very patient person to drill out all those spot welds! Good luck with the rest of the project, it looks like you have a lot of body work skills.

[Gooch]

Great work, keep it up!

[structured]

First!

Nice car dude!

[FugitivE]

Hi guys!

As some of you already know, I'm from Sweden, so be nice to me when it comes to spelling.

I will make a very very long story short ..

The car that this project thread is about is a 320ik from the factory.

I bought the car for a very small sum, considering that I only wanted the body.

Here's how it looked when I bought the car winter -07:






At that time I was 17 years, so I did not have lot of experience in renovations ..

But here are some pictures of what happened during that winter, and spring..

Much time was spent to repair rust:


But then after a few months:

























In the summer of -08 the car was a 325im..

Then came the autumn. The car were placed in a garage, for re-construction..

It was always about having the car street legal regardless of what was to be built. I contacted some people in charge of inspections of rebuilt cars here in Sweden.
I told my plans for them, and they gave me the thumbs up "just to start building '', So my plans I have for the car since the winter of -08 to now, is to build the car street legal with m60b40.
It is the engine sitting in either 540 or 740. Everything will be rebuilt on the car.
Chassie, Interior, exterior, Electrical System, and so on..
The undercarriage will be painted, and every pressed plate will be welded..
That is the main plan for the buildning.. But we will see what's gonna be changed and not.

More pictures:








M3e30 bones:



















The engine that i buyed but then sold. Im gonna buy a whole car instead, 540 or 740.
























And here I am today.

I hope everyone that comes in to this thread will enjoy what I doing to the car :)

Best Regards Kevin