How to revitalize an E30?

[AlexSutherland]

Hey guys,

Heads up, I ask way too many questions.

Wondering what I should do? I've changed the brake lines, bled the brakes, rotors and pads so far. Revitalizing the engine is the next goal. so far I've come up with just this:

1) Ignition: Distibutor Cap, Distubutor rotor, spark plugs, coil wires
2) Timing: T-belt, tensior, waterpump, camseal, valve cover gasket

A)What else should I add or am i good?

B)Thinking about replacing the fuel pump, and fuel regulator. Worth it? My car takes 5-10 seconds to fire up.


Other Questions:

C) After fixing up the engine, what's a good suspension setup that's not too expensive. Looking to make this a daily while greatly improving the handling (can handle pot holes, speed bumps, etc without scraping). The original suspension is shot.

D) Also my hood cable is broken. Anyone know how hard/annoying it is to replace?

[e30davie]

Lots of questions with lots of potential answers.

Read through all the build threads on here and start making a list of a potential options. E30 is 30yrs old now, everything you can think of has been done, you just gotta read:)

First step us fix stuff that is broken and get the car in the road and driving reliably, next step replace stuff or upgrade stuff that is worn out.

[AlexSutherland]

e30 davie, if i'm honest, I'm terrible at finding what I'm trying to look for in forums. Any tips on trying to find what I'm looking for? When I use the search bar I get no results :-?

[e30davie]

Use google. Forum search functions always suck.

[AlexSutherland]

Google is the way I've been doing it but was just curious if there was another way. Also since I bit of noob, how do you view the photo's that are replaced with a blue speedometer/tachometer

[e30davie]

Welcome to the biggest annoyance in recent internet history

Those images are hosted by photobucket whuch recently made users pay to display their images on forums. Sadly not much you can do about it. There is a plugin for Mozilla or chrome that claims to fix them buy I've not tried it.

[earthwormjim]

Welcome to the biggest annoyance in recent internet history

Those images are hosted by photobucket whuch recently made users pay to display their images on forums. Sadly not much you can do about it. There is a plugin for Mozilla or chrome that claims to fix them buy I've not tried it.

The Firefox plugins have not been too reliable in my experience, and quite a lot of them have led to high CPU usage.


Every Chrome plugin for fixing photobucket has worked perfectly for me.

[MR E30 325is]

Every Chrome plugin for fixing photobucket has worked perfectly for me.

I second this

[88BlackS-ETA]

Every Chrome plugin for fixing photobucket has worked perfectly for me.

Yup. Photobucket Hotlink Fix for google chrome works perfect. Every photo is back.

[itsonlygeorge]

Go read everything in the DIY section. That's what I ended up doing when searching for e30s. I would find one, see what issues it had and read the DIY section here on Pelican Parts etc.


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