The "I finally bought an E30" Build Thread!
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I wouldn't even consider putting one in a car without going through it right away unless it had a recent rebuild with proof. They're really not that tough of a transmission and have many wear items that should be upgraded. If you were thinking about the swap, plan on an honest $10k if you're not cutting tons of corners. No exageration.
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I wouldn't even consider putting one in a car without going through it right away unless it had a recent rebuild with proof. They're really not that tough of a transmission and have many wear items that should be upgraded. If you were thinking about the swap, plan on an honest $10k if you're not cutting tons of corners. No exageration.
This car will remain cheap. If we swap anything, it'll be on a budget with some ingenuity. I think Eric and I are both happy to have something at our disposal that we can feel out and have fun with. I want to auto-x this thing and get 100 smiles per gallon when driving it. Neither of us will have to worry about fucking up a nice BMW with this one.
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I wouldn't even consider putting one in a car without going through it right away unless it had a recent rebuild with proof. They're really not that tough of a transmission and have many wear items that should be upgraded. If you were thinking about the swap, plan on an honest $10k if you're not cutting tons of corners. No exageration.
I think a 24 valve swap is a lot more likely.
If the M20 is a no go.
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Awesome!
johnprusinski has a getrag 260 for sale. You may try contacting him.
Thanks! Just PM'd him about it.
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I'm in same boat as you guys. Except mine needs an engine, lol
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Did you guys order ARC8's yet? Glad this went to a good home! Figured this would make for a good track car. At that price you can easily get your money back too if it goes south.
If this guy didn't want the price of gold for his, I'd buy them.
http://milwaukee.craigslist.org/wto/5589874349.html
We're hoping for the best, but bought it because I don't really think it could go to waste at that price...
I'm in same boat as you guys. Except mine needs an engine, lol
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Nice! If shit hits the fan, we can combine cars and make one proper E30.
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Nice! If shit hits the fan, we can combine cars and make one proper E30.
Sounds good to me!!
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Here are some "before" pictures. Just aired up the tires and unloaded it from the trailer. Not even washed. This is what we're working with folks.
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cool!
i have two of the same color front sport seats (in nearly the same condition) if your going to try and fix those they would be good for parts, and you should get two whole decent seats out of the 4. you can have them for free.
Dan
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I also have a bunch of sport seat parts left over from when I rebuilt the ones in my e21. If you needed anything that straight6pwr's seats couldn't give ya. Free as well.
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If this guy didn't want the price of gold for his, I'd buy them.
Five lug swap time!
Those wouldn't fit under the stock body.
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cool!
i have two of the same color front sport seats (in nearly the same condition) if your going to try and fix those they would be good for parts, and you should get two whole decent seats out of the 4. you can have them for free.
Would you be available this weekend for pick up?
Edit: Actually would you be able to PM or post some pictures of the two?
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Decided to take the seats and center console out so we could start cleaning the inside of this thing.
Something was definitely living in here...
Now, to keep the red interior and carpet... or strip everything out, bedliner the floor and put some eBay race seats in?
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Nice! It'll be intersting to see what happens with this. If I donate an M50 swap can I drive it at the track?
If you try to take the dent out, you'll want to start at the edge of it and work towards the center. Trying to push in the center to "pop" it back out will almost definitley make it worse.
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Nice! It'll be intersting to see what happens with this. If I donate an M50 swap can I drive it at the track?
If you try to take the dent out, you'll want to start at the edge of it and work towards the center. Trying to push in the center to "pop" it back out will almost definitley make it worse.
Thanks for the advice on the door dent. This is definitely something we are going to be discussing with people that have more body work knowledge before we make an attempt to fix it.
We didn't get any pictures of the interior after, but the carpet cleaned up really well (Jake will post some later). We pulled the center console and back seat out to make sure we got everything with the vacuum. I washed all of the center console parts. I was able to clean up the trunk pretty well but this dude must have spilled a whole box worth of nails in it because they were everywhere.
We are in the process of pricing out all the gaskets, seals, fluids, and parts for the engine rebuild. The goal is to pick up a transmission next week and then pull the engine and start the rebuild process. Hopefully start it that weekend?
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I vote gut it and make it a fun car. Use funds that would've went to making it pretty to making it gnarly
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