Alpine e30 progress/build thread
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I favor ECS Tuning over all of the others=)
I love ECS, I ordered the wrong reverse light switch for my e36 because there was an error in their fitment guide (I didn't check RealOEM when I ordered but they said it fit so it was a mutual error) and they overnight-ed the correct one to me free of charge! Heck, I have yet to have anything but great service from all of the online bimmer parts distributors
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looks awesome man,
you take good care of your stuff
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Looks great! Its funny that not all that long ago, clean/semi clean E30's were a dime a dozen. Not the case anymore at all
Silver Grey E46 M3
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Thanks guys! And for those of you who saw it at the brew city cruise night, yes, the nurburgring sticker on the back will be coming off, bummer I didn't get to meet many of you yet again.
No real progress on the e30, I have had absolutely zero time between work, second work, and a family reunion. I did manage, however, to pick up another quart of ATF and finally get my old dodge out for its first drive since I got it (I did a ton of work a few months ago, ran out of ATF just as I was up everything, and then had to leave where I keep it until this past weekend). It drove exactly like a 25 year old, worn out pickup should, like crap haha. I guess that's why its a project. Doesn't matter, drove it!
I have some time this week so hopefully I can really dig into the e30 before it goes into storage! I will keep this updated for sure
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Your welcome to post a build thread in the off-topic section for the truck
I might! Progress is super slow though since I keep it so far from home, I'd forget about the thread by the next time I worked on it haha
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No updates on the car...BUT...I found a set of wheels I might pick up for the car and I'd like some opinions:
They are 15x6.5 Weds Bavaria's, they are 2 piece (technically 3 but the lip and barrel are welded together by weds) and have an offset somewhere in the 30's. They are supposedly very light and strong and they guy selling them doesn't want all that much. They do need a full refinish though which I would actually really like to do.
I was thinking that, if I picked them up, I would take them all apart, polish the lips/hardware, and paint the centers like the classic alpina wheels with the silver spokes and black centers, and throw some bmw centercaps in them (some relatively meaty tires as well)
I am also not sure if they are real Weds so I am waiting on some pictures of the backs of the wheels from the seller as I have never seen any in this offset or exactly this style (Most have more of a step lip).
Personally I really like them and the weds bavaria/enkei 94/etc style is one of my favorite wheel looks. I think the size/offset of these would work really well with the OEM+(ish) look I am going for
What do you guys think??
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someone said:
Cool wheels and seem to be unique too! I'd say go for it
someone said:
Get them. If you do not, let me know because I will.
That's what I am thinking, I have a huge soft spot for classic multipiece wheels. The seller is going to get me a few more pictures this weekend so I can make sure there aren't any cracks/bends and so I can confirm they are real weds, I will keep you posted!
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^ I'm sure Earl will chime in on that
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I've been home for the weekend and I got the car out of my neighbors garage and decided to tackle some jobs today.
First off, the car wouldn't start yesterday. It was completely dead, even trying to jump start it wouldn't do a thing. So I replaced the battery and it started right up like nothing was ever wrong thankfully, I knew the batter was on its way out but didn't think it would get that bad.
I then decided to fix the thing that pissed me off the most about the entire car:
They look like crap and you can't read them at all at night at all so they had to go asap.
So this happened:
I took the cluster apart and removed those stupid stickers, thankfully they weren't hard to get off
\The needles were painted red, so I decided to use some nail-polish remover and a q-tip and it took it right off thankfully! I got everything put back together and back in the car and it looks a million times better...and I can finally read them in the dark!
(Blurry picture I know, I didn't notice till now)
While I had it apart I also tightened the brass nuts that ground the fuel and temp gauges (The fuel's nut had completely fallen off and I found it caught in some wires believe it or not) and it completely solved my jumpy fuel and temp readings too, looks like no need for SI batteries for now at least
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Thanks, I wish I had more time to work on the car but I go back to school tomorrow and it will sit again until thanksgiving, such a shame. This summer I will go nuts on it though!
Also, a little side note I forgot to mention, those Weds wheels are mine! It was like pulling teeth to get more information on them but I heard what I wanted to hear and scored a good deal! I will be sure to post pictures once I get my hands on them
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Got some fun things in the mail today!
Like I posted before they are 15x6.5 Weds Bavaria Fins. They weigh just over 13 pounds each which is on par with the equivalently sized d-force/kosei wheels to my knowledge. One has a very small flat spot in the lip so I may have that fixed but the plan is to refinish them back to like new condition in my free time here at school. I plan on running them with a stud conversion and 15mm spacers to basically emulate the fitment of euroweaves.
Does anyone know what would be the most cost effective method of taking the centers back to bare metal? I know media/sand blasting would be the best way but that can get pricey, maybe paint stripper?
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use aircraft stripper to get the paint off, it takes all of 5 minutes.
Also, for lips. I also cannot think of anyone that makes 20 bolt 15" lips/barrels.
I do know that going from a 2 piece wheel, IE face and barrel/lip combo to a true 3 piece setup will require the face mounting point to be machined down on either the face side or the backside so you can sandwich them together. Worse comes to worse you can have Rotiform make you some 15" lips with step lip, or their 15" to 16" lip, slant lips look ugly though!
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use aircraft stripper to get the paint off, it takes all of 5 minutes.
Also, for lips. I also cannot think of anyone that makes 20 bolt 15" lips/barrels.
I do know that going from a 2 piece wheel, IE face and barrel/lip combo to a true 3 piece setup will require the face mounting point to be machined down on either the face side or the backside so you can sandwich them together. Worse comes to worse you can have Rotiform make you some 15" lips with step lip, or their 15" to 16" lip, slant lips look ugly though!
Great, that's what I wanted to hear. I hadn't seen many people use that method but I guess my research only took me to very high end wheel builds.
And with the lips (Thanks to Earl too as I know he commented on this earlier) since no company makes similar lips, having custom ones made looks to be the only option...which is fine because I won't be going nuts with these anyway, I was just curious. Too many other projects to do first!
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