What did you do to your E30 today?

[dereliiict]

Tore the interior out. Found out how *ahem* "covered" it is.

[htseng]

What did you do to your E30 today?

Installed a new shaft in my Hirshmann antenna. Had to take it out and disassemble it to take the snapped cogged plastic tail out. Used the $15 Uro part from Amazon. Couldn't bring myself to pay $50 for the oem part let alone to $200plus for the antenna.


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[jgilber0]

Installed the right rear shock, changed the radio antenna to fixed mast with an e36 mount. Cleaned and remounted the rear wheels. Making progress!

[jgilber0]

Laboriously removed my entire trunk liner only to find that the rear shock mounts are actually located in the convertible top well! Not like my old Miata or Corvair I'm not sure that my Bentley manual noted this, and it was annoying until I realized that I needed to replace my old radio mast anyway.

The good news: I didn't find any rust of consequence.

I installed the right rear shock with no complications. Had to break for dinner and set aside the left one for next week. After that, we are on to the more challenging front struts.

I also cleaned out my convertible top well, which had 20 years of grime in it. I noticed that water runs out of the left side through the rocker, but no water ran out of the right side. Looks like I need to check the drains.

[Hubry]

Spent the day putting on a new headgasket after the oil started getting cloudy. Previous owner claimed he did it just before I bought the car along with the timing belt. :?

Cracked open the timing case to be greeted with a fine black powder everywhere and a belt sitting on the edge of the sprocket. New belt ordered.

Opened up the valve cover and noticed he decided to use hex head bolts instead of the preferred torx. The car was not in running condition when I got it so it's a wonder how he managed to properly torque them.

Start taking them out in the right sequence using my usual step de-torque method (quarter turn, half turn, full turn) and noticed they were finger loose after a quarter turn.

It's a wonder this car ran at all.

[docleary]

swapped a leak-free radiator into my 325iX:

[Fucatypr]

Finally got her to move under her own power.....

https://www.instagram.com/p/BN48dMgBoaW/

now it's time for suspension

[Split_S]

Put her on jackstands and pulled the wheels off.. Gonna do a bunch of ridiculously anal-retentive stuff over the next few weeks.



Worse yet, the M3 is waiting for those jackstands too. I dont even want to get into what she is in for.... :D

[jeff_b]

S50 Turkey Day Toughness

Ever since I bought this car almost two years ago, the S50 had loud tapping I contributed to a lifter. Lately, it had a weird hesitation following 5" of rain, so I opened my Castro air box, and cleaned the intake and throttle body with cleaner the day after Turkey day. Of course after soaking the intake and putting it back together, it wouldn't idle for shiite. So I pulled out the coil packs, found three spark plugs finger tight, one was a half-turn loose. Pulled the plugs out and found out they were not only shitty cross-fire types, but number four had no ground electrodes left. I can't believe this engine ran at all.

I put some Autolite single element plugs in it. Runs tit now.

I also replaced the mid exhaust pipe hanger.

[ak-]

Ran over my IS lip, then ran over it again backing up.
Fixed a year long issue of crap idle, throttle response, and occasional stalling - I love my car again.
New poly engine mounts from Garagistic (The only vibes noticed are on initial take off, I like them)
New spark plugs.
New TRE 255lph fuel pump.
Launch control configured.
Drove it in the mountains.
And Left my windows open in the rain for 3 hours, yay.

[rzerob]

Timing belt, tensioner, cam seals, new v belts, thermostat and flushed the cooling system.

[Court M3]

Fixed an electrical issue, now I have rear brake lights. On to the ashtray receptacle to find out why it's not working.

[dereliiict]

They do, but I've also demolished OE lips just S easily.

Up and down on these super bike friendly!!!!! streets too much and bad things happen to lowered cars.


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[2mAn]

I was always against getting the iS lip and just used a mk3 VW lip instead... Once my car started looking real good I buckled down and bought an OEM iS lip. I kept hearing bad things about the rep lips breaking easily

[MrBurgundy]

Its a rep and it got pretty messed up, it split on the passanger side end. I have it clamped together with some gorilla glue... I'm just waiting for it to dry so I can sand it and paint it.
Should be okay though..

I was running across three lanes to grab it :rofl: