I just got a shell, it needs a lot of love but will be good enough for me and what I want to do with it.
My last E30 met its fate on October 9th upside down in a ditch, and I will be reusing a lot of the same parts, so I'll call this new one the Rolle30 - DS Disaster. The exterior isn't great and is originally DS, but since I need to paint the hood and trunk lid and get fenders, the whole thing is probably going to get sprayed satin black.
I don't know what else to really say yet, but I have some pictures. I'm fairly certain most of my wheels are bent, and possibly my driver side strut could be bent in giving excessive camber and wheel-rub on the strut. I had to get the car to a state where it could roll, so I just temporarily stacked some washers on the hub as a ghetto spacer and it still touches some. I know there will be a lot of parts that I think I can re use and find that I cannot. First being my motor mounts, the arms snapped but the motor mounts seemed intact, until I removed them, the stud and metal area on the bottom of both e28 mounts were bent all to hell.
First pic-
Lots of shit inside-
Moved and emptied out, ready to get the front suspension going-
I forgot about this, I am just assembling the front end basically temporarily until I can do it later when I know exactly what I need to replace and can in the mean time roll the car around... I straightened it out with a pair of pliers and put a couple more studs in from another one around here.
Haz probl3m. Wheel no fit on strut anymore, combination of both pieces probably.
Sketch, but temporarily assembled...and yes I know that tire is backwards. The two driver side tires' beads popped and the wheels looked even worse.
More to come.
My last E30 met its fate on October 9th upside down in a ditch, and I will be reusing a lot of the same parts, so I'll call this new one the Rolle30 - DS Disaster. The exterior isn't great and is originally DS, but since I need to paint the hood and trunk lid and get fenders, the whole thing is probably going to get sprayed satin black.
I don't know what else to really say yet, but I have some pictures. I'm fairly certain most of my wheels are bent, and possibly my driver side strut could be bent in giving excessive camber and wheel-rub on the strut. I had to get the car to a state where it could roll, so I just temporarily stacked some washers on the hub as a ghetto spacer and it still touches some. I know there will be a lot of parts that I think I can re use and find that I cannot. First being my motor mounts, the arms snapped but the motor mounts seemed intact, until I removed them, the stud and metal area on the bottom of both e28 mounts were bent all to hell.
First pic-
Lots of shit inside-
Moved and emptied out, ready to get the front suspension going-
I forgot about this, I am just assembling the front end basically temporarily until I can do it later when I know exactly what I need to replace and can in the mean time roll the car around... I straightened it out with a pair of pliers and put a couple more studs in from another one around here.
Haz probl3m. Wheel no fit on strut anymore, combination of both pieces probably.
Sketch, but temporarily assembled...and yes I know that tire is backwards. The two driver side tires' beads popped and the wheels looked even worse.
More to come.
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