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Rontgen's 1990 325iS Build Thread
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Originally posted by eternal24k View Postfantastic thread and great looking car. Leatherique has never made any of my leather softer, in fact, they say "For “cardboard hard” leather, several applications will be necessary." so, pretty much the opposite. But it does great things to dry leather and really seems to help.Originally posted by ATL_E30 View PostJust read through the whole thing! Awesome thread!
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Looks really good!1989 325i LS Swap (Money Pit):https://www.r3vlimited.com/board/sho...d.php?t=244933
COTM Feb 2019: https://www.r3vlimited.com/board/sho...d.php?t=428404
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It’s been great! The e30 has been my sons daily driver for almost exactly a year with very few issues. In that time he’s put about 12K miles on the rebuilt driveline/chassis and it’s performed beautifully.
We did have an ignition tumbler lock up, so it was replaced with a new one from BMW. Front wheel bearings, rotors, pads, and sensor were replaced recently
Next big project is headliner, carpet, and new leather. Also window tint while we have the glass out
Also, he was backed into at the school parking lot, so we have this nasty dent to contend with. [emoji35]
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To be honest, we don’t really like the 4.10 gear ratio with the G260. First gear is really, really short and the effective top speed is <100mph, although that may not be such a bad thing for a 17 y/o and my insurance rates! [emoji38]
It’ll actually do more than 100mph, but the M20 is really screaming by that point. ~80mph is about 3700rpm, if I remember right.
Speaking of the M20, it’s run great since the rebuild. As I mentioned a couple pages back, I hit each cylinder with a drill-mounted ball hone and assembled it with new rings and bearings. Nothing went to a professional machine shop aside from the rebuilt head. Not that I’d recommend doing it this way to anyone else but oil pressure is good, compression is 170+ across the board, and it only uses (super slow leak from the rear main) about 0.5L per 5K miles. I’m going to wager the block, bores, and rotating assembly has approaching 300K miles on it since new. Well done BMW!
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