<![CDATA[V8 Swapped E30]]>Hello everyone, if anyone knew my POS E30 it was put together with tape and zipties. for those of you who don't know, I bought an E30 from some kid that was rear ended back in high school. I was in rough shape and I planned to run it into the ground as a drift car. I eventually swapped an M50 into the car and drove that four times. once I graduated college and got my job i decided to build the car one last time. At first i wanted to just upgrade the suspension, mounts, basically make it into a race car for weekend track days. i was going to keep the M50 and just have the car under the knife for just winter, then i started making decisions when i was drinking... you'll see that a lot in this build thread.

lets start with the pictures shall we.

here is the day after i got the car. its a 1986 325e.

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i started taking things out and made a bunch of trash.

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i eventually M50 swapped it and had a good time with it.

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i started tearing into the car one last time to take the rest of the sound deadening out. after all of that was out i started taking things apart.

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i started refreshing the subframe that i had laying around. i used tractor implement paint and i laid it on pretty thick with multiple coats. i also upgraded the bushings to condor mounts.

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]]>https://wibimmers.com/topic/3925/v8-swapped-e30RSS for NodeWed, 16 Sep 2026 07:25:15 GMTSun, 16 Aug 2015 22:46:10 GMT60<![CDATA[Reply to V8 Swapped E30 on Mon, 05 Dec 2016 04:18:16 GMT]]>I was sleeping in it. It's that comfy.

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Snap said:

Thats a nice lookin seat yeh got there

It'd be a shame if someone s[h]at in it

]]>https://wibimmers.com/post/74590https://wibimmers.com/post/74590Mon, 05 Dec 2016 04:03:13 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to V8 Swapped E30 on Mon, 05 Dec 2016 03:52:08 GMT]]>Thats a nice lookin seat yeh got there

]]>https://wibimmers.com/post/74589https://wibimmers.com/post/74589Mon, 05 Dec 2016 03:52:08 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to V8 Swapped E30 on Mon, 05 Dec 2016 01:46:04 GMT]]>I want to match the red Barron e30s color. I think it will look pretty neat. check the picture I attached :). 

As for an update, I haven't done much since my VW decided to break the water pump. I did however get my seat in and I moved the car over. 

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]]>https://wibimmers.com/post/74588https://wibimmers.com/post/74588Mon, 05 Dec 2016 01:46:04 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to V8 Swapped E30 on Fri, 02 Dec 2016 21:26:31 GMT]]>Yeah that's definitely a pastel blue at that point haha

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Earl said:

Wouldn't it have to be an actual color to be pastel? I never thought of any shade of grey being able to be called pastel lol 

from wiki:

someone said:

Pastels or pastel colors are the family of colors which, when described in the HSV color space, have high value and low to intermediate saturation.[1][2] The name comes from pastels, art media characteristic of this color family. The colors of this family are usually described as "soothing",[3] "soft", "near neutral", "milky", "washed out", "desaturated", and lacking strong chromatic content.

that aviator "gray" is definitely a shade of blue, which is "washed out" and "desaturated". i'm sure under some light or low light, it just looks gray,  but this photo of the color that makes it pretty obvious:

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i only argue this because I have to deal with it all the time.  i work at an interior design firm, and the women around here are always complaining about whites not being white...grays being bluish or yellowish, etc.

]]>https://wibimmers.com/post/74547https://wibimmers.com/post/74547Fri, 02 Dec 2016 19:12:36 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to V8 Swapped E30 on Fri, 02 Dec 2016 18:25:21 GMT]]>Wouldn't it have to be an actual color to be pastel? I never thought of any shade of grey being able to be called pastel lol

]]>https://wibimmers.com/post/74544https://wibimmers.com/post/74544Fri, 02 Dec 2016 18:25:21 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to V8 Swapped E30 on Fri, 02 Dec 2016 15:16:53 GMT]]>pastels belong on VWs/girl cars only.

]]>https://wibimmers.com/post/74529https://wibimmers.com/post/74529Fri, 02 Dec 2016 15:16:53 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to V8 Swapped E30 on Fri, 02 Dec 2016 15:08:25 GMT]]>looks like a clearcoated primer to me 😐

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johnprusinski said:

Lol yeah the fender is silver. I painted it just to see if I could paint. I'm going to go with a gray for the color. 

Can I suggest aviator grey?  Its such an awesome color.

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]]>https://wibimmers.com/post/74525https://wibimmers.com/post/74525Fri, 02 Dec 2016 14:56:39 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to V8 Swapped E30 on Fri, 25 Nov 2016 15:58:19 GMT]]>Lol yeah the fender is silver. I painted it just to see if I could paint. I'm going to go with a gray for the color.

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Earl said:

The fender is silver=P

What a noob

]]>https://wibimmers.com/post/74303https://wibimmers.com/post/74303Fri, 25 Nov 2016 05:37:22 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to V8 Swapped E30 on Fri, 25 Nov 2016 02:38:33 GMT]]>The fender is silver=P

]]>https://wibimmers.com/post/74300https://wibimmers.com/post/74300Fri, 25 Nov 2016 02:38:33 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to V8 Swapped E30 on Fri, 25 Nov 2016 00:00:06 GMT]]>I know that is just primer but it looked like light silver and I liked it. What color are you doing again?

]]>https://wibimmers.com/post/74295https://wibimmers.com/post/74295Fri, 25 Nov 2016 00:00:06 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to V8 Swapped E30 on Thu, 24 Nov 2016 21:18:01 GMT]]>Welp I finally got my front coilovers done when I got the right strut housings. Now I have a rolling chassis. Just for kicks I put the wheels from my black e30 on. 

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Jdesign said:

Nice! 'Tis the season! Whats that car next to it? 

It's a 1969 Studebaker project I've also go. Then next to that is an 89 k10.

]]>https://wibimmers.com/post/74186https://wibimmers.com/post/74186Mon, 21 Nov 2016 22:56:00 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to V8 Swapped E30 on Mon, 21 Nov 2016 19:54:55 GMT]]>Nice! 'Tis the season! Whats that car next to it?

]]>https://wibimmers.com/post/74168https://wibimmers.com/post/74168Mon, 21 Nov 2016 19:54:55 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to V8 Swapped E30 on Sun, 20 Nov 2016 19:32:47 GMT]]>It's been a while since I've updated this thread. I took a break on the car to focus on family issues, but now I'm back and ready to spend some money. 

The first thing I did was clean the garage and move my car over. I also put it on the ground so I would get a little more motivated. 

Then I bought some coilovers, sway bars, control arms and tie rods. I got the majority if everything done besides the front coils. 

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]]>https://wibimmers.com/post/74136https://wibimmers.com/post/74136Sun, 20 Nov 2016 19:32:47 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to V8 Swapped E30 on Mon, 02 May 2016 00:27:47 GMT]]>It wasn't too bad. Just figuring out where everything goes was not fun.

]]>https://wibimmers.com/post/68437https://wibimmers.com/post/68437Mon, 02 May 2016 00:27:47 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to V8 Swapped E30 on Sat, 30 Apr 2016 22:15:54 GMT]]>Hassle? Fun? Not bad?

]]>https://wibimmers.com/post/68418https://wibimmers.com/post/68418Sat, 30 Apr 2016 22:15:54 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to V8 Swapped E30 on Sat, 30 Apr 2016 18:30:56 GMT]]>I finally got everything tacked in last night besides the door bars. 

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]]>https://wibimmers.com/post/68408https://wibimmers.com/post/68408Sat, 30 Apr 2016 18:30:56 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to V8 Swapped E30 on Sun, 24 Apr 2016 23:25:30 GMT]]>After some time, I finally got the majority of the cage in. I messed up on one piece and I cut it too short, but it was bound to happen. I'll just have to get another piece. 

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]]>https://wibimmers.com/post/68246https://wibimmers.com/post/68246Sun, 24 Apr 2016 23:25:30 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to V8 Swapped E30 on Tue, 22 Mar 2016 02:02:58 GMT]]>Looking great so far!

]]>https://wibimmers.com/post/67242https://wibimmers.com/post/67242Tue, 22 Mar 2016 02:02:58 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to V8 Swapped E30 on Tue, 22 Mar 2016 01:56:03 GMT]]>I got a little bit more tacked in over the weekend. 

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