My Saphirblau '84 3̶2̶5̶e̶ now 328i

[yngtmr]

I've been on here for a couple years now but never really introduced myself, Im Maguire, I picked up an '84 325e when I was 16 as my first car and have been slowly fixing and modifying it since then.

The car was completely stock when I picked it up 2.5 years ago, now the only bolts I've left untouched are the ones holding the rear subframe in place.

I never documented much of my process building the car which I really regret. im hoping starting a build thread here will give me a place to document everything else I do to this thing

Here's a short list of things I've done to the car:

-replaced the original pearl beige interior with a houndstooth interior with sport seats

-h&r super sport springs and bilstein sports

-swapped in a refreshed m52b28 (obdII) and zf transmission

-put in a 2.93 LSD

-e28 rear spoiler

-put on a Pfeba front spoiler (one of my favorite obscure e30 bits)

-installed an e46 ZHP steering rack and rebuilt the power steering pump

-nuked m52, it was -20°F and the coolant froze in the radiator

-replaced the head gasket on the m52, threw an m54b30 intake cam in while I was in there

Heres what the car looks like today

8 by maguireshea, on Flickr

older picture of the engine bay right when i finished the swap. Now i have an m3 firewall cover and have gotten rid of all the extraneous zip ties

IMG_8273 2 by maguireshea, on Flickr

Interior, in all of its Astroturf-floor-matted glory

IMG_0663 2 by maguireshea, on Flickr

Heres when I bought it

IMG_2361 2 by maguireshea, on Flickr

Next up for this car is an e36 m3/ 318ti 5 lug setup so I can run some M Systems I recently bought

If i can get my mess of pictures in a chronological order ill throw them in here.

[betz]

Nice car! A different approach to the E30 328i, haha.

[yngtmr]

finished up the rear 5 lug swap with condor subframe and trailing arm bushings, here's a picture of one of my M System turbines test fitted on the back

[IMG]TurbineTest by maguireshea, on Flickr[/IMG]

Looks like im going to need some narrower tires

[ethirtysix36]

finished up the rear 5 lug swap with condor subframe and trailing arm bushings, here's a picture of one of my M System turbines test fitted on the back

[IMG]TurbineTest by maguireshea, on Flickr[/IMG]

Looks like im going to need some narrower tires

Are those 4 lug?

They look really good.

[TheWipprSnappr]

I really like what you've done with this thing

[15Michaeljoseph]

It looks okay I guess :)

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[Jb325is]

Nice! What have you done for 5 lug in the rear? I ran 17x9 turbines with 245's on my late model, but it was tight and rubbed on big compression. I'm picking up an early model tomorrow and have a set of M-systems laying around that I may want to try

[yngtmr]

Thanks guys, Im on 318ti rear trailing arms and I have 235's currently which are way too wide and will absolutely mangle my fender. as much as id like a nice wide tire i think im going to need 215's to have any hope of clearing the fender