E30 M3 Sedan Build : The Car That Never Was

[Court M3]

Where in San Diego are you located? I'm here and would love to come check out the progress.

[Downeaster1]

Where in San Diego are you located? I'm here and would love to come check out the progress.

I'm doing it all at my shop in Escondido.

[CurrusDei]

E30 M3 Sedan Build : The Car That Never Was

Cool build! Best of luck. If you want to see a thread that has a full teardown of an M3 and rebuild, my build thread might be helpful. There are a few others around as well

[dsphil]

Didn't Italy and Portugal get a 4 door 320is with a s14 or just coupes.

[Downeaster1]

Didn't Italy and Portugal get a 4 door 320is with a s14 or just coupes.

To my knowledge, they only built them in coupes.

So the front body panels came in today.


Still waiting on the rear, but the bumpers and side skirts should be here next week.

[2mAn]

I'm doing it all at my shop in Escondido.

Will you be there working on Sunday? I will be unloading all my 944S parts at a Porsche swap meet and would love to see this in person while Im there.

To my knowledge, they only built them in coupes.

Not true, they did in fact make them in sedans and also without the mtech2 kits as most are. One recently sold in your backyard for a pretty decent price, but wasnt CA legal unfortunately

http://bringatrailer.com/listing/1988-bmw-320is/

[Downeaster1]

Will you be there working on Sunday? I will be unloading all my 944S parts at a Porsche swap meet and would love to see this in person while Im there.
Not true, they did in fact make them in sedans and also without the mtech2 kits as most are. One recently sold in your backyard for a pretty decent price, but wasnt CA legal unfortunately

http://bringatrailer.com/listing/1988-bmw-320is/

Man, that would be so cool! I wish I saw that before, it would have made a much better project!
I won't be there this Sunday, I actually have to drive up to Stockton to pick up the trunk lid and wing. But I should be in the future if you are in the area.

[stonea]

Saw this render on Car Throttle the other day

[TobyB]

Wow, look at that-
electric windows in front, winders in back.

Whackadoodle. That engine looks... so stinkin sexy..

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[Replicam3cabrio]

Sounds like a great project, just make sure you do it using OEM parts, and and do not cut any corner, it can get very expensive I built a convertible back in 2002, it was great, now I am building a 320IS tribute.
Good luck and keep us posted

[mr2peak]

Didn't Italy and Portugal get a 4 door 320is with a s14 or just coupes.

A very limited number of 4 door 320is cars were made, I think ~1,000.

[Downeaster1]

Saw this render on Car Throttle the other day

That's pretty much exactly what I'm going for. Except for the correct placement of the front grill emblem, and correct trunk with C-pillars.
Like I said earlier, some things are NLA, so we're going to graph a few cars and fabricate the missing pieces.

Sounds like a great project, just make sure you do it using OEM parts, and and do not cut any corner, it can get very expensive I built a convertible back in 2002, it was great, now I am building a 320IS tribute.
Good luck and keep us posted

[IronJoe]

Like I said earlier, some things are NLA, so we're going to graph a few cars and fabricate the missing pieces.

Which pieces are you needing to fabricate? I am still waiting on backordered inner fender wells for mine.

[flyboyx]

Which pieces are you needing to fabricate? I am still waiting on backordered inner fender wells for mine.

i think you might be able to buy the regular e30 set and splice in an inch of metal?

[CorvallisBMW]

Great project, sub'd for more!