My first project car "Ellie"

[Slybeanx]

Sold my M52tu and bought a full M30 drop in swap for the same price. Guy I bought it from in NY said it came from an imported E30 M30. Had a misfire so I'm going to take it apart and see whats going on.

[Slybeanx]

So after an eventful month, I’ve gotten new sport seats. Sold the nice comforts.

Car wouldn’t start up after the new timing belt, replaced the coil, plugs wires etc. ended up being the coil thankfully. Did some more painting and have decided I could really use my uncles garage lift more haha.

After the 3rd drive all back together the engine died in neutral and we had to coast back into the garage. It was leaking oil consistently, but especially every time we braked hard it would leave a nice big spot, oh well time to dig back into it. Now onto the front suspension and sourcing the oil leak.

Edit- thankfully figured out the issue was I had the plugs in the wrong spot lol. Fuel line had come undone and caused the car to die. Very happy I fixed that quickly before trying to start it up again. Id hate to have an engine fire.

https://imgur.com/a/iFvUr4m

[Slybeanx]

Heres some photos

[Slybeanx]

Been awhile since I last posted. I bought a new fender to replace mine that was rusted through and have sanded it down and prepped it.

Went in to do routine maintenance with the timing belt water pump etc, took about a month with large intervals to get everything off and redone.
Seal kept leaking so I think its not mating well. Got some sealant and a new gasket otw.

Started painting my hood that had some terrible grey paint on it. It's taking awhile! Hard to do everything I want in the time after work and weekends. I got a new nardi wheel and IE hub that I'm loving.

Also decided to sell my W204 09' mercedes and go solo with the E30.

[2mAn]

Not a fan of black wheels, but it seems you are so as long as you like it....

[Slybeanx]

Its the same car just got it registered and used different cameras etc haha

[mike.bmw]

Welcome! Looks like a very clean car to start with.

[Insaini]

Nice bro, that's a clean looking coupe.

[dmanb2b]

I must be looking at wrong link. Looks like two different cars:(

[Motheye99]

Awesome car, looks like a good base for a E30. Sometime I can get my dad to come out and help work on my E30's mostly he likes "testing" when I upgrade my suspension etc.

Good luck

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[Slybeanx]

Hello, I'm rather new to the E30 scene but you may have seen some of my posts asking for information haha.

Anyway, I recently decided I wanted to finally listen to my dad and learn how to work on cars. I decided I wanted a E30, when after buying a poster with a E30 M3 for my apartment in college.

It took me about 4 months before I found one I wanted. We had probably looked at around 7-8 cars from New Jersey down to South Carolina and test drove all of them. I had originally wanted a manual, but when I saw it I knew it would put a smile on my face.

Anyway on to the build, me and my dad are going to figure this out together one step at time! Thankfully my uncle has a lift in his new house and my cousin is a BMW tech that loves E30s so I don't have to much to fear. We're going to 5 speed swap for now, repaint the bad touch up job from the PO, go through and restore/ replace any of the suspension, brakes engine etc.

I decided to name her Ellie.

https://imgur.com/a/xsfF1Lo

Update: Going to try and keep the first post updated with current goals:
Current build
APEX ARC 8s
KONI front struts with poly 80A bushings everywhere
Megasquirted and tuned
tried to fix the POAs paint but plenty to go
Swapped in fresh sport seats
Kilmat added to floor, inside doors, trunk etc
Wooden trunk
Sub
Manual swap
Partially new brake lines
Stoptech brakes
Spal fan- AC delete

M30 is complete and ready to be swapped in. I just need time off between work and school to go home.

New goal is to swap out rear struts for KONIs and do subframe bushings.