325ix dirt bomber project. Now with more diesel

[Erik j]

I have always wanted to have a offroad e30, I finally decided to get on it and start. I had some rust repair to do first.

I have a bunch of old school body kits to choose from so many of these pictures are of mounting them and test fitting to make sure they will work.
The Kamei parts I like the best, but they are more of a pain to mount than the BBS kit.

For rust repair I ordered a new tail panel, brand new rockers and some front jack points/floor pan. I am just waiting on the jack points to show up before I start cutting and welding in the new body parts.





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[Fidhle007]

Hmmm, I'll be curious to see what comes of this...

[AbsorbantNut]

Hmmm, I'll be curious to see what comes of this...

+1 I'm interested as well

[archie]

where did you get the side skirts?

[Erik j]

Messae boards and eBay mostly, I have a couple different sets.

[archie]

They are rad! I had them on my 86 es for 7 years.

[freeride53]

This looks like an extraordinarily awesome project. I really want an IX sometime. A two-door, maybe on some 215's. Dreams...

[Erik j]

Got the new floor pan/jack pads in the other day so I can finally start cutting and welding that up. I took the car out for some river bottom driving and had a little problem when I bottomed out hard on at the end of a mud pit... blew the flex disc out, while checking under the car I noticed the front cv boots are cracked up (replaced them 30k ago) so I ordered 8 new boots. Going to pull apart my cv joints, clean them, paint them bright orange, and put them back in. While I have all that out I will be pulling my diffs out and cleaning/painting them bright orange also....

[MR E30 325is]

Well, sounds like you know what you are doing.

Reminds me of the good ol days when I offroaded my 86 325es. Way too much fun!

[ZM Blue Devil]

subscribed.

Everybody should own a e30 ix before they die.

[TS323]

so you cut up a perfectly fine Henna BBS lip?

[Erik j]

No cutting involved, I will be trimming the front bumper to fit the bbs. Plastic bumpers are a little more common than these kits I have.

[Erik j]

Bright ass orange!



Still have to do the front shaft and the rear axles. Then its time to pull the rear end out (as soon as I get my trailing arm kit from Robert) I will paint the subframes and arms/strut housings silver.

[325ix]

subscribed.

Everybody should own a e30 ix before they die.

Really? I've already fullfilled and am fulfilling that, my first car!

Although I kinda disapprove. IX's aren't exactly a dime a dozen, I know I wouldn't rally mine. Yours isn't perfrect though... The body parts are kinda the same...

[AbsorbantNut]

If i had an ix in the condition my is is in, i would do this fo sho