Worst build thread ever

[JeST]

She looks great! Look forward to more updates!

[giantkeeper]

looks great! show us how she's sitting now lowered and hopefully on some nice wheels.

No nice wheels yet.......

.........................I made the wife sell her E53 X5 4.8is and am now building up her E46 330i to make up for it. All of the build funds have gone to her poly suspension bushings and KWv2's.

I am currently looking for wheels for my car though.

[greyis89]

looks great! show us how she's sitting now lowered and hopefully on some nice wheels.

[giantkeeper]

awesome build. where abouts are you in Arizona?

I'm in North Phoenix - come by the AZBMW meet at I10 and Ray rd In n Out Thursday 7pm. There will quite a few swapped cars there actually.

OK sweet thanks man so roughly how much did it cost to have that motor on your drive way? im planning to do a swap sometime soon:) and just want to see how much im gonna spend

I paid $2k shipped for the motor, trans, harness, DME, and all accessories.

There is a tremendous variance in swap cost's. It just depends on what you want. I went with a bunch of upgrades and replaced a lot of wear items with heavy duty, top of the line new stuff. I put about $5k in to my swap, but could have done it for about $3k.

[eu teo]

Thanks man, happy birthday!

The motor came out of a yard on the east coast. I got the place to give me a pretty damn good deal shipped.

I was lazy on the drive shaft and ordered it from Bav Recycling in California. I over paid ($200). It was warrantied and came with a brand new CSB and guibo.....

OK sweet thanks man so roughly how much did it cost to have that motor on your drive way? im planning to do a swap sometime soon:) and just want to see how much im gonna spend

[Mr. Tasty]

awesome build. where abouts are you in Arizona?

[giantkeeper]

nice bro real nice.. man i just realize that you started this thread on my birthday so thanks.
nice work where did you find the motor? and how much/where did you get the drive shaft?

Thanks man, happy birthday!

The motor came out of a yard on the east coast. I got the place to give me a pretty damn good deal shipped.

I was lazy on the drive shaft and ordered it from Bav Recycling in California. I over paid ($200). It was warrantied and came with a brand new CSB and guibo.....

[eu teo]

nice bro real nice.. man i just realize that you started this thread on my birthday so thanks.
nice work where did you find the motor? and how much/where did you get the drive shaft?

[grippymonkey]

nice stuff! keep it up

[giantkeeper]

love it dude!!!

Thanks Leif! It's good to hear from you brother!

[KnudsonM3]

love it dude!!!

[Jb325is]

Nice job man, I really like the all black engine bay and two tone interior, black door cars would go a long way though too. Good looking Bronzit!

[giantkeeper]

Glad to see another 24v swapped AZ E30!!

Clean Bronzit.

Thanks!

Added a few items since I originally posted this.

E90 drop hats
E30 318/M3 harness and battery tray cover
Black out kidneys
Euro grills
removed/cleaned up some of the bigger dents

I owe updated pictures

[MR E30 325is]

Glad to see another 24v swapped AZ E30!!

Clean Bronzit.

[mars]

Holy Crap.


This car was the FIRST e30 I've ever test driven with the intent of purchasing when I was 16/17! I couldn't go through with the deal because something about the whole transaction was too sketchy and being 17 at the time it was a lot of money for me.
Glad to see something is going on with it! :D

That must have been before I bought the car. The car was pretty sketchy when I bought it. Completely shot cooling system, blown steering rack/pump and a few other things here and there. I saw a lot of potential because of the clean body, but unfortunately i never realized that potential and then blew the headgasket. I'm really glad to see Chris treat this car the way it deserved. Really nice job on the swap. Hope you enjoy it for a long time.