Alpine e30 progress/build thread
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I did a z3 antenna swap a while back and never got a stubby antenna, then I found out BMW makes a 'sport' stubby antenna for the z3/z4/etc and my inner (and a lot of times outer) OEM BMW nerd had to have it. It looks nice, and now I can get more radio stations!
More importantly, collecting swap parts is going well. Still looking for a few large items (including a motor...) but I am setting the goal of having a running car for the 2018 picnic again this year. We'll see how that goes
part number/s?
Dan
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part number/s?
65202296761
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That antenna is cool!
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Had a blast at the Road America autocross today. Did some experimenting with tire pressures to get more grip and see how it affects the handling, smoothed out my driving a bit over the 8 runs too. Getting faster! The car handled it really well and ran great/cool all day, despite it being hot as hell
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Fun fact: I put 2 miles on my e30 this year
I'll get there eventually
I feel your pain on that one, before this summer I drove it zero miles for nearly two years. You'll have to come out to one next year once you're up and running!
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A co-worker of mine was up there with her son in his mk6 GTI running in SMF. She was telling me about it this morning and I mentioned you were there and showed her your car and she said "Ohhh I saw that one! It was such a cute car!" So you've got that going for you lol.
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A co-worker of mine was up there with her son in his mk6 GTI running in SMF. She was telling me about it this morning and I mentioned you were there and showed her your car and she said "Ohhh I saw that one! It was such a cute car!" So you've got that going for you lol.
My mom calls it cute too, I count it as a compliment haha
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Imagine if you had a convertible. I had a lady insult me twice in one "compliment" once.
"Thats such a cute car, I like the color! Is it a pontiac too?"
After my simple NO, she sped away in her Pontiac Sunfire. FML.
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🥳SOLD BMW E24 633CSI - BMW M30B32 🧪SOLD HCH ES9 - 1.3 LDA
👽BMW E30 325IC - Toyota 1JZ-GTE ⏰ HONDA EF9 CIVIC SI - JDM B18C5
☠️BMW E36 318i - Ford 5.0 FE302 🚴♂️ GT-Labomba - 26x2.75 Freeride
🤹♀️SOLD BMW E36/7 Z3 - BMW M54B25 🧓SOLD BMW E10 2002 - BMW M10M05 -
Imagine if you had a convertible. I had a lady insult me twice in one "compliment" once.
"Thats such a cute car, I like the color! Is it a pontiac too?"
After my simple NO, she sped away in her Pontiac Sunfire. FML.
Hahaha! I'm fucking dying over here! That's wonderful.
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Car looked good out there Joe
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Finally all moved into the new garage and organized enough to be somewhat functional. Less space overall but the floor is level, the roof doesn't leak, and most importantly it's a lot cheaper. Finally turned my focus back to the car: I've been running Vogtland lowering springs and the rears were too soft and the front sat too high for my liking. Got my hands on a set of IE3's and started swapping them in over the weekend, rears are done and I should have the fronts in tomorrow. Looking forward to seeing the differences at the USAIR autocross next weekend
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When do the extra valves and cylinders start happening?
I'll start tearing things apart as soon as it gets put away for the year, probably in a few weeks. Its been too nice to take it off the road just yet! In the mean time I'm going to get started on cleaning things up so I don't have to do it later
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All the new springs are in!
I'm not a huge fan of the springs being shorter than the fully extended length of the struts, but I figure as long as I don't drive like I'm in Dukes of Hazard it'll be fine. The front sits a little bit lower but it didn't come down enough to totally get rid of the reverse rake look, so I'm going to keep my eyes out for a set of stock spring camber plates that drop the car another 10-12mm. On the bright side, the ride is way stiffer so I'm really looking forward to testing these out this weekend!
I also got rid of the strut brace because it was rubbing on the intake pretty bad, it'll go back on once the m42 isn't in the way. It'll be interesting to see if the handling is affected at all, but it'll probably go unnoticed compared to the stiffer springs
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The front sits a little bit lower but it didn't come down enough to totally get rid of the reverse rake look
You know... a larger engine would fix this
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🥳SOLD BMW E24 633CSI - BMW M30B32 🧪SOLD HCH ES9 - 1.3 LDA
👽BMW E30 325IC - Toyota 1JZ-GTE ⏰ HONDA EF9 CIVIC SI - JDM B18C5
☠️BMW E36 318i - Ford 5.0 FE302 🚴♂️ GT-Labomba - 26x2.75 Freeride
🤹♀️SOLD BMW E36/7 Z3 - BMW M54B25 🧓SOLD BMW E10 2002 - BMW M10M05 -
You know... a larger engine would fix this
This is true.... I'll probably wait till the new engine is in to do any camber plate swapping. The M54B30 should be minimally different with regards to total weight, but the CG should be farther forward over the axle so it may make the difference I'm looking for.
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