I bought this BMW E30 for $500 from a local, a r3v and e30tech forum member.
1984 BMW 318i/5spd/Alpine/Roofhole
The car is in very rough shape, it needs a lot of work. This is another E30 that has been SAVED.
The last night it will EVER spend outside.
Finally home in its comfy new room. Mess as all hell. Seriously I need to organize my shit.
The assessment begins.
Open her up and let her air out.
Sloppy Shifter
Inserting the Circlip didn't fix it, must be the linkage.
Reverse light wiring is jacked. Time to learn how to meld wires.
Back soot in the windex tank
A New one is needed. That = UPGRADES!
A random oil pressure gauge sitting near the battery. Nice.
The pickup point is on the left side of the valve cover
No A/C. Good thing its winter.
Of course a cracked dash
Dash is completely jacked
Upgrades needed here
Free gum
Long drive + hunger = NOM!
Dead.
Pool of water in the trunk, soaked it up with paper towels.
Dirty trunk.
Custom Antenna delete. Very aerodynamic.
Missing toolkit, need to find out what that wire does.
Battery Tray
Exposed wires coming through the firewall near the battery tray. Anyone know what these are?
Pulled the shift rod out and found that it is a CUSTOM SHORT SHIFTER. This car just got faster.
Very short.
Engine bay shot.
1st Project:
I started my repair of the broken shift linkage. I ordered the following parts:
I dropped the rusty exhaust and bottom pan as well as the driveshaft support bracket and pulled them off the car. Time to refresh them while I wait for parts to come.
Exhaust
Rusty muffler
Muffler bracket
Bottom pan
Wire brush, meet e30.
I wirebrushed the living crap out of all the parts, cleaned them with simple green and painted them with Rustoleum High Temp Silver, 2 coats each.
Seriously terrible welds on the exhaust.
Little better.
Cleaned up the bolts with my favorite tag team.
and
PARTS CAME IN!
I finally got my parts to rebuild the shift linkage. I also had in mind a little trick to make the shift console more rigid.
Before actually rebuilding the linkage I noticed that half of the support bracket that links the shift console to the transmission was missing. The bolt and some of the rubber was all that was left.
In comes the new part which was $36 for the bracket and the bolt. Automall BMW rapes my wallet.
The existing bracket didn't look so good either. The bushing is shot, so I added a huge washer that will compress the metal sleeve inside the bushing and make the console more rigid.
I threw on a new nylon cup to smooth out the shifts, heres old vs. new.
The bushing below accounted for almost all the slop in the shifting mechanism, aside from the linkage and the missing bracket of course.
So I spent entirely too much time at the hardware store figuring out a new solution and came up with this.
1984 BMW 318i/5spd/Alpine/Roofhole
The car is in very rough shape, it needs a lot of work. This is another E30 that has been SAVED.
The last night it will EVER spend outside.
Finally home in its comfy new room. Mess as all hell. Seriously I need to organize my shit.
The assessment begins.
Open her up and let her air out.
Sloppy Shifter
Inserting the Circlip didn't fix it, must be the linkage.
Reverse light wiring is jacked. Time to learn how to meld wires.
Back soot in the windex tank
A New one is needed. That = UPGRADES!
A random oil pressure gauge sitting near the battery. Nice.
The pickup point is on the left side of the valve cover
No A/C. Good thing its winter.
Of course a cracked dash
Dash is completely jacked
Upgrades needed here
Free gum
Long drive + hunger = NOM!
Dead.
Pool of water in the trunk, soaked it up with paper towels.
Dirty trunk.
Custom Antenna delete. Very aerodynamic.
Missing toolkit, need to find out what that wire does.
Battery Tray
Exposed wires coming through the firewall near the battery tray. Anyone know what these are?
Pulled the shift rod out and found that it is a CUSTOM SHORT SHIFTER. This car just got faster.
Very short.
Engine bay shot.
1st Project:
I started my repair of the broken shift linkage. I ordered the following parts:
I dropped the rusty exhaust and bottom pan as well as the driveshaft support bracket and pulled them off the car. Time to refresh them while I wait for parts to come.
Exhaust
Rusty muffler
Muffler bracket
Bottom pan
Wire brush, meet e30.
I wirebrushed the living crap out of all the parts, cleaned them with simple green and painted them with Rustoleum High Temp Silver, 2 coats each.
Seriously terrible welds on the exhaust.
Little better.
Cleaned up the bolts with my favorite tag team.
and
PARTS CAME IN!
I finally got my parts to rebuild the shift linkage. I also had in mind a little trick to make the shift console more rigid.
Before actually rebuilding the linkage I noticed that half of the support bracket that links the shift console to the transmission was missing. The bolt and some of the rubber was all that was left.
In comes the new part which was $36 for the bracket and the bolt. Automall BMW rapes my wallet.
The existing bracket didn't look so good either. The bushing is shot, so I added a huge washer that will compress the metal sleeve inside the bushing and make the console more rigid.
I threw on a new nylon cup to smooth out the shifts, heres old vs. new.
The bushing below accounted for almost all the slop in the shifting mechanism, aside from the linkage and the missing bracket of course.
So I spent entirely too much time at the hardware store figuring out a new solution and came up with this.
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