Hey guys,
Thought it was time for a thread.
I've got two 318's (take note, plural) - one is currently my daily driver, whilst the other is either set to take the track/be a fun run around car unless I opt to sell it (which seems more likely).
I'll skip straight to the pics so we're on the same page.
This won't be an incredibly fast build, but I've got a pretty straight forward plan of what I'm looking to do - only working on these cars on a budget and locating cheap parts in Australia isn't particularly easy considering the e30 scene is much smaller here.
Some info on the cars:
Silver 1990 318i
- Electric sunroof/manual windows
- Cloth interior, interior is quite nice, woodgrain steering wheel
- iS lip
- No Euro trim
- No foglights
- No rear speakers or stereo
- Auto
- Lowered, on stock shocks by PO
- 14" Bottlecaps, soon to be replaced by factory BBS RZ
- Resprayed 7 or so years ago, looks gorgeous cleaned up
- No rust
Diamond Schwartz 1989 318i
- First e30, very clean, no rust
- Paint is very nice, however it needs a good buff as there is a considerable amount of scratches
- Practically stock
- Electric windows/manual sunroof
- Manual
The initial plan was to drive the schwartz one, however, I found the silver at a steel and have picked that up for the daily driver. The initial portion of this build thread will be repairs for the schwartz including front bumper which is cracked, buffing, fitting an iS lip, lowering, repainting trim and lowering.
The silver will be kept, hopefully I can source some nicer leather interior cheaply, get a stereo in, and speakers as well as (the wiring has been cut in the rear speakers, for for now I will have dummy speakers in, but may eventually rewire - still has front speakers). And I'll look to purchase some use koni adjustables or bilsteins since I don't want to blow the stock struts.
So we begin the journey, I'll have more pics soon as I progress on - hopefully this thread acts as a good learning experience and motivates me to get off my ass and do some work!
Thought it was time for a thread.
I've got two 318's (take note, plural) - one is currently my daily driver, whilst the other is either set to take the track/be a fun run around car unless I opt to sell it (which seems more likely).
I'll skip straight to the pics so we're on the same page.
This won't be an incredibly fast build, but I've got a pretty straight forward plan of what I'm looking to do - only working on these cars on a budget and locating cheap parts in Australia isn't particularly easy considering the e30 scene is much smaller here.
Some info on the cars:
Silver 1990 318i
- Electric sunroof/manual windows
- Cloth interior, interior is quite nice, woodgrain steering wheel
- iS lip
- No Euro trim
- No foglights
- No rear speakers or stereo
- Auto
- Lowered, on stock shocks by PO
- 14" Bottlecaps, soon to be replaced by factory BBS RZ
- Resprayed 7 or so years ago, looks gorgeous cleaned up
- No rust
Diamond Schwartz 1989 318i
- First e30, very clean, no rust
- Paint is very nice, however it needs a good buff as there is a considerable amount of scratches
- Practically stock
- Electric windows/manual sunroof
- Manual
The initial plan was to drive the schwartz one, however, I found the silver at a steel and have picked that up for the daily driver. The initial portion of this build thread will be repairs for the schwartz including front bumper which is cracked, buffing, fitting an iS lip, lowering, repainting trim and lowering.
The silver will be kept, hopefully I can source some nicer leather interior cheaply, get a stereo in, and speakers as well as (the wiring has been cut in the rear speakers, for for now I will have dummy speakers in, but may eventually rewire - still has front speakers). And I'll look to purchase some use koni adjustables or bilsteins since I don't want to blow the stock struts.
So we begin the journey, I'll have more pics soon as I progress on - hopefully this thread acts as a good learning experience and motivates me to get off my ass and do some work!
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