My $400 89 325i

[itsbrokeagain]

coming along nicely. I wish I had the time to tear my car down and fix her up.

[el bob]

Wooooah, looks like this is where the 318i adventure continues! Wish I lived closer, there aren't too many people building e30s to high standards.

[Jean]

Subframes, front sway hot tanked and ready to be re-inforced and painted :)





$20 for a machine shop to remove the old worn out subframe bushings.

Fuel tank is deff. coming out next, and I gotta take the trailing arms apart (WOOHOO rear wheel bearings) to get them blasted and re-inforced as well.

[Bey]

Nice! I'd rather pay someone 20 bucks and have them remove the rear bushing then trying to tackle it myself with a blowtorch. LoL

[Ray McCooney]

Nice! I'd rather pay someone 20 bucks and have them remove the rear bushing then trying to tackle it myself with a blowtorch. LoL

And miss out on all that blowtorch goodness/madness?

$20 is pretty reasonable though.

[Jean]

Updated GC camber plates:







with the lower brackets and new top plates



Ehhh



back seat lol

[golde30]

new front subframe bolts asap! hehe

[Jean]

For sure haha. all new bolts/nuts for the subframes/trailing arms/calipers etc.

[Mtriple]

so clean!

[Bey]

Gotta love those free USPS Priority boxes LoL

Nice progress man!

[Nicademus]

Like I said, we have a place here called Keystone. They sell OE replacement body panels for everything and deliver. This is the dirty south though. Guess things are different.

Keystone is nationwide. Cheap-o insurance companies like Geico throw that crap on peoples cars.

[alpinaclone]

Gene, I will say again, your attention to detail is nuts. I think they should name a disorder after you.

[Jean]

Alright, new hardware on it's way from blunt and more to come. Trailing arms are all apart, going to drop them off to a machine shop in the next hour or so for wheel bearing removal and hot tanking....

I think I found a 80k mile ZF tranny with a fresh clutch, flywheel, driveshaft and radiator from a 328 for $350. Or tranny only for $200.

I know the tranny/flywheel I want for sure. Now, the driveshaft should work if it's 4 bolt yes? radiator I don't know, I want one with built in overflow tank.

[Jean]

$60 per side (plus bearings) for rear wheel bearing job and cleaning the trailing arms FTW.

[alpinaclone]

$60 per side (plus bearings) for rear wheel bearing job and cleaning the trailing arms FTW.

Man, that seems cheap. I have to do mine, but for $60 it does not seem worth the aggravation of doing it myself.