I have seen everyone with their projects and figured it was time to get mine into the mix. It is nothing special. Well, it is to me as I am absolutely ADDICTED to e30s. This is actually my third one.
A little history behind it. I worked at another KIA dealership as a service advisor. I had a customer bring a 2000 KIA Sephia on a hook because of a severe misfire issue. Found out the issue and was going to cost the owner about $1500 total to fix the car. The car had 64000 miles on it and she was going to have pick-n-pull come get it. I offered $400 for the car and she sold it to me. $200 in parts and labor later(Working at the dealership has it's perks). Drove it for a while and found a young couple selling or trading my BMW on CL. Tey looked at my car and I looked at theirs and decided on a trade. I basically got my 87 vert for $600. Now, the BMW had been in a bit of a boo boo. The girl who owned it rear ended a pickup and bent the front a little.
Here are a couple of pics after I bent the hood down to at least get it to close:
Notice the 4x4 ride height too.
I started sorting out some of the smaller issues. Took off the grills and bent the core support out as best I could and got a new high beam headlight for it. Then I acquired a set of E36 M3 springs and swapped them in, bringing the front nose bleed ride height down about an inch.
After front end repair and spring swap:
The top is in fairly decent shape:
I found that there was a pretty good leak that was allowing water into the rear floorboard area of the car. After some investigation, I found the source of my water leak. I found that the trunk lid had rusted completely through under the third brake light on the lid. Hence my next mod. A buddy of mine on here, Schnitzer318is, has a calypso coupe that he is stripping to autox. He had a slick top lid in damn good shape that also had an "is" lip spoiler. I promptly acquired it from him and he even helped me install it. He is a wiring guru, and was able to bridge across the resistor board for the brake light in order to get that annoying ass brake light check bulb to go off on the check panel.
Here is a pic after the trunk lid mod and the tint I have just put on:
The interior leaves something to be desired. The PO at some point decided that it would look cool to two tone the interior. I HATE IT! I want it back to all one color.
I am currently in the process of locating the door pulls and map pockets. I dont have a pic to show it, but they spray painted the rear cards and the boot lid vinyl black. I am going to strip the vinyl off the boot lid cover and redo it in beige, then source some beige rear cards.
I will keep this thread updated as I progress. It will be a slow process as I have to do things as I acquire funding. I am looking forward to getting this vert back to its formal glory.....
A little history behind it. I worked at another KIA dealership as a service advisor. I had a customer bring a 2000 KIA Sephia on a hook because of a severe misfire issue. Found out the issue and was going to cost the owner about $1500 total to fix the car. The car had 64000 miles on it and she was going to have pick-n-pull come get it. I offered $400 for the car and she sold it to me. $200 in parts and labor later(Working at the dealership has it's perks). Drove it for a while and found a young couple selling or trading my BMW on CL. Tey looked at my car and I looked at theirs and decided on a trade. I basically got my 87 vert for $600. Now, the BMW had been in a bit of a boo boo. The girl who owned it rear ended a pickup and bent the front a little.
Here are a couple of pics after I bent the hood down to at least get it to close:
Notice the 4x4 ride height too.
I started sorting out some of the smaller issues. Took off the grills and bent the core support out as best I could and got a new high beam headlight for it. Then I acquired a set of E36 M3 springs and swapped them in, bringing the front nose bleed ride height down about an inch.
After front end repair and spring swap:
The top is in fairly decent shape:
I found that there was a pretty good leak that was allowing water into the rear floorboard area of the car. After some investigation, I found the source of my water leak. I found that the trunk lid had rusted completely through under the third brake light on the lid. Hence my next mod. A buddy of mine on here, Schnitzer318is, has a calypso coupe that he is stripping to autox. He had a slick top lid in damn good shape that also had an "is" lip spoiler. I promptly acquired it from him and he even helped me install it. He is a wiring guru, and was able to bridge across the resistor board for the brake light in order to get that annoying ass brake light check bulb to go off on the check panel.
Here is a pic after the trunk lid mod and the tint I have just put on:
The interior leaves something to be desired. The PO at some point decided that it would look cool to two tone the interior. I HATE IT! I want it back to all one color.
I am currently in the process of locating the door pulls and map pockets. I dont have a pic to show it, but they spray painted the rear cards and the boot lid vinyl black. I am going to strip the vinyl off the boot lid cover and redo it in beige, then source some beige rear cards.
I will keep this thread updated as I progress. It will be a slow process as I have to do things as I acquire funding. I am looking forward to getting this vert back to its formal glory.....
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