My e30 build/restore

[Philo]

A buddy down in Springfield is suppose to be buying it. He needs to come up with some money soon before I change my mind.

[moe30]

I see, well I might be in the market for one here in a bit, my motor has been fine so I haven't been in any kind of rush though haha.

On a 2.5 swap all I need is the complete motor, harness and ecu correct? No mods I have to do or custom crap? I ask because I'm going to get my dad to help with it since he has done tons of work.

[mathais43]

A buddy down in Springfield is suppose to be buying it. He needs to come up with some money soon before I change my mind.

I see what you're trying to do here.

How's about we get your swap somewhere resembling close to being done before you go changing your mind.

PO, sorry for the thread jack. Your car is fucking slick. Bring that beast down to Springtown one of these days.

[moe30]

I see what you're trying to do here.

How's about we get your swap somewhere resembling close to being done before you go changing your mind.

PO, sorry for the thread jack. Your car is fucking slick. Bring that beast down to Springtown one of these days.

Haha, he busted ya Tim lol

Also thanks! It will be at a Columbia meet this June that was pretty big last year and hopefully some bmw/german car meets.

[moe30]

Well went to the junkyard and I'm soo glad I did. After about 6 mos of searching I found a red trunk with no spoiler. Still need to remove the pinstripe and clean it up some.



Then I found a full set of mudguards... only one pictured but will clean them up and have them on soon I home.



Also found a passenger tweeter that I was missing and a trunk mat for the bimmer since all of my trunk carpet is missing.

[moe30]

Well last night I test fit the mudflaps and didn't like them on my car, didn't really fit the look IMO so they have already been sold.

Also got a knee bolster last night but since it was for a airbag e30 I had to hack it up a bit.. So eventually it will be getting sticker bombed.

[moe30]

So last night I picked up a Yakima roof rack pretty cheap off craigslist. Happy with how it looks so far but it has a cracked fairing but I already have an idea of how that's getting fixed.

Here is a pic as I was walking into work this morning.

[moe30]

This is what I have been working on, stickers will be coming soon.

[moe30]

So I have started a little project that probably won't be well received which is ok lol. For quite sometime I have wanted to "stitch" up my dash but its far to hard to actually do that with thread so then I decided I would go with pinstripe. This is rather time consuming but I like how its turning out so far... but I have quite awhile to go lol.

Boring cracked dash



"stitched" dash

[jason952]

when you first fit those wheels, why did you "def" need spacers? was there caliper or strut problems or was it for fill of the arches? did you have to roll the fenders?

[mdschurtz]

have you considered those wheels in gold? i think they would look bad ass and kindof match the frenched fogs

[havand]

e46 mats work well on our cars, just FYI

2007+ mini cooper mats fit pretty much perfect too, btw. Nice thick rubber ones available.

[kingston]

Looks like it's a moot point for MOE30 now....