1983 Henna Red 323i

[iwantspeed]

great work so far keep it up.
the leather came out great with that treatment.

[kdevitt]

Haven't posted many updates lately - have been doing loads of crappy small jobs. Had the timing belt and a few other bits done. Also adjusted the front seat frames to let them bolt in properly, and got new seat belt latches into it - had no idea pre-facelift were different to facelift!

Anyway - had a set of H&R springs put on at the weekend - they're meant to drop it 35mm, but its dropped a lot more than that!

Took delivery of the gearbox for it as well, so will hopefully get the autobox out before I'm grey and old. (older! :D)

[ck_taft325is]

Amazing, man. Simply amazing. I think I said nearly the exact same thing at some other point in this thread...

[kdevitt]

Absolutely stunning car! When is the drop, exhaust, and 5spd coming?

Bought a box from a 325i sport, getting that looked after next. Then I'll do the suspension and brakes.

Really stuck on the exhaust choice though! Would like to go for an Eisenmann, but want straight pipes - the eisenmann point to the side. Thinking of a supersport now as it looks like its the style I want. That'll have to wait a while too though!

[kdevitt]

you mean other 5? or does your car have 5 cylinders? a vovlo swap? ah shit!
jk. GREAT work on the e30.

Ah - but if you read that post again you'll notice I had two of these dodgy plugs - so 2 dodgy VW plugs plus m 4 BMW ones means I have one for each cylinder :D

EDIT: I noticed you have an e46 m3. I am considering buying one of those soon, how do you like it?

Yeah - love it. Fantastic car. Buy one, buy two!!

[stevofthahill]

Absolutely stunning car! When is the drop, exhaust, and 5spd coming?

[Be30mer]

Completely different plugs to the other four - not sure if it was causing any problems, but the cold start issue is still there unfortunately!

you mean other 5? or does your car have 5 cylinders? a vovlo swap? ah shit!
jk. GREAT work on the e30.
EDIT: I noticed you have an e46 m3. I am considering buying one of those soon, how do you like it?

[kdevitt]

Few updates - bought new wheels. They were in good condition, but there were a few marks, so made sense to have them refurbed while I still had the use of the original wheels. The tyres didn't have too much life left in them, so managed to get some ones sourced locally and he was able to remove the old tyres before I dropped them into the lads for a refurb.



Fairly certain the wheels were sprayed before - there were some points which had bubbled, and I sanded them down myself - you can see primer there as well though!





Ordered new centre caps from C3BMW.co.uk to go on them - the old caps had seen better days!



There were one or two roundels stuck onto each one - they'd been replaced before. Used a blade to try and get them off, but they didn't budge. Stuck them in boiling water and the glue softened up very quickly.



Cleaned up all the gunk and stuck on the fresh badges -



Popped them onto the new wheels - they just clip in -



Also finally straightened up the reg surrounds that were on it - they were crooked for ages. And threw on the German plates of course! Quite like them - might change my mind at some stage.





Managed to get the car washed too - not that it was too dirty, but wanted to try out the Dodo Juice Orange crush.

[dude8383]

Gorgeous! Can't wait to see it sitting lower and with a proper exhaust!

[kdevitt]

Got the car washed today - not that it was overly dirty. A piece of the sunroof hadn't been put back in though, so the water just pissed right through into the cabin. Will need to get that sorted.

Anyhoo - am happy with how its looking:

[kdevitt]

Opened the boot today and it was full of water (and ice!). I was imagining having to spend quite a while tracking down the source of the leak - but thankfully it was straightforward enough.

For some reason, the rear lights hadn't been bolted back in:



That was the worst nut - but they were all loose. Managed to get all the water out of the boot and dry out the lights, so hopefully it'll be the last of the leaks.

Also managed to clean and condition the interior. Really looks great now - but you'll have to take my word for it, have no photos, will wash the car and grab some tomorrow.

[kdevitt]

thats what i wanted to hear.

i love this car BTW. Henna is one of my favortie E30 colors

Cheers :)

Not sure how anyone would want to drive an automatic to be honest! I knew it'd be a pain when I bought it, but theres not too many similar cars with 49k on the clock, so didn't mind the extra expense of converting to manual.

[Hick]

thats what i wanted to hear.

i love this car BTW. Henna is one of my favortie E30 colors

[kdevitt]

its an automatic?!?!?!?!?

It is - for about another 4 weeks.

[Hick]

its an automatic?!?!?!?!?