[Project] jetice's '87 325is

[shawnc16]

Sick! I want one but I've gotta finish the damn Iroc first. Draggin my feet on it for way too long! Looks like a solid car. They hold there value pretty well.

[Atrus]

Cool, I look forward to watching this thing take form.

I'll be bringing home a '74 2002 this spring. Never really cared for the more vintage BMW's in my younger years - I was all muscle car - but I definitely am getting an appreciation for non-american steel. I had my '68 Sprite for a while, and while it never really saw the road much, it was a fun and educational project. I now have a soft spot for "LBC's" (Little British Cars).

Kudos for thinking outside of the box and having a vision with the car! I can't wait to see it!

[MP81]

Drive by this heap sitting at the edge of the parking lot every day on our way to and from work. Kidding about the heap part!

If you ever need a hand, tools or an air compressor, I'm only a mile away from ya up there in Flushing.

[jetice]

Cool, I look forward to watching this thing take form.

I'll be bringing home a '74 2002 this spring. Never really cared for the more vintage BMW's in my younger years - I was all muscle car - but I definitely am getting an appreciation for non-american steel. I had my '68 Sprite for a while, and while it never really saw the road much, it was a fun and educational project. I now have a soft spot for "LBC's" (Little British Cars).

Kudos for thinking outside of the box and having a vision with the car! I can't wait to see it!

Thanks! I can't wait to see what you do with that 2002, looks like an awesome little car. And I can totally relate to growing up with american iron then finding the import stuff. My cars have slowly been getting smaller and smaller, and I am liking it. Takes less to move a smaller object fast.

Drive by this heap sitting at the edge of the parking lot every day on our way to and from work. Kidding about the heap part!

If you ever need a hand, tools or an air compressor, I'm only a mile away from ya up there in Flushing.

As of right now, it kind of is a heap lol. I plan to at least keep the exterior that way for a while, make it a totally unassuming car.

Thanks for the offer! I will definitely keep you in mind.

So as of right now, the car has a new battery, a new slave cylinder, the door cards in place, a new hood release mechanism, and a new shifter and shift boot. The ongoing project right now is to get the seats into better shape. The previous owner rebuild the seats with new shocks, new bushings, and some new padding. However, he did not pay that great of attention to the details when he did it. I already tried to fix the issue of him installing the wrong upper seat frame on the passengers side, so the release levers were on the wrong side, but after I got all of the material transfer over, I realized the seat frame is bent. So now I have to go look for a good one, and redo it.

Oh, and it sucks to do hogrings with pliers.
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p.s. the parts list for the turbo is almost complete, so come the end of april, that should be getting started.

[jetice]

[MENTION=3980]landstuhltaylor[/MENTION] Do you think this prepped to DSP would be more competitive than a cobalt? I see last years nationals was dominated by e36s, but the e30 forums say that e30s are competitive on regional levels with the e36s. Whats your thoughts?

[landstuhltaylor]

I really have no idea, your best bet is to look up results from events with a good field. National courses tend to be biased towards cars with more power.

[landstuhltaylor]

Seeing as I just saw this thread now, I've got some catching up to do.

I like the look of the car as whole.

Please fill me in why it was worth $1800?
Being a CA car is a plus but with the mileage, mechanical problems, missing content, and cosmetic flaws I think $1,800 is a lot.

E30s are worth a lot of coin. A clean 140k+ mile car can easily get $5000 depending on trim. A lot of that is due to the M3 trickle down effect and actually being able to find normal 3 series cars. However, they are getting eaten by rust so they have done all of their depreciating already. E30 M3s are starting to go in the $40k+ range for lower mileage cars.

I see nothing wrong with that. If they aren't tracking it and they don't pretend to be the best thing on the road, who the hell cares. It's no worse than anyone running drag radials and skinnies on the street.

So your going from a cobalt to this? Man wait till you price out parts for that black hole your going to pour your money into.

E30 parts are dirt cheap and the motors last forever.

[QuickTop]

I see nothing wrong with that. If they aren't tracking it and they don't pretend to be the best thing on the road, who the hell cares. It's no worse than anyone running drag radials and skinnies on the street.

Im gonna have to disagree here, i understand there are different strokes for different folks and i dont go out of my way to harass and taunt those people who have camber kits and tires stretched. but, you cannot say that tire stretch, wheel alignment, and possible wheel spacing is the same as either a early or late model muscle car with skinnies and fatties for a couple of reasons. 1- 75% of people that see a trans am, camaro, mustang, GTO etc, with skinnies and fatties probably think those are the only tires the car can have or it was optioned like that in the factory. 2- skinnies and fatties serve a purpose on a track, granted they really dont need to be on the street they sure aren't hurting anything by doing so.

Now, if you show those same group of people a 240sx with camber for dayz and tire stretch, theyre most likely going to scratch their head and wonder why it looks like that. and that style has no beneficial purpose to be on any car, regardless of where its driven track, strip, city.

[jetice]

Yes it is. Its taking a racing setup and putting it on a car that doesn't need it. Oh, and this is now the direction of this project. Is this that hella flush you were talking about that's completely useless? No? Ok then.

[landstuhltaylor]

Im gonna have to disagree here, i understand there are different strokes for different folks and i dont go out of my way to harass and taunt those people who have camber kits and tires stretched. but, you cannot say that tire stretch, wheel alignment, and possible wheel spacing is the same as either a early or late model muscle car with skinnies and fatties for a couple of reasons. 1- 75% of people that see a trans am, camaro, mustang, GTO etc, with skinnies and fatties probably think those are the only tires the car can have or it was optioned like that in the factory. 2- skinnies and fatties serve a purpose on a track, granted they really dont need to be on the street they sure aren't hurting anything by doing so.

Now, if you show those same group of people a 240sx with camber for dayz and tire stretch, theyre most likely going to scratch their head and wonder why it looks like that. and that style has no beneficial purpose to be on any car, regardless of where its driven track, strip, city.

If there was no benefit you wouldn't see autocross cars running 225s on a 9" wide wheel, or 245 on a 10 along with 3 degrees of negative camber. It's pretty damn common to run a narrower tire than you are allowed in ST because the turn in response is much better. Now nobody is saying that's what the stance crowd is doing, to say it's completely useless is wrong as well.

Besides, in an emergency situation I would much rather be in the car with limited suspension travel than the one that will transfer all of it's weight to the skinny front tires. Collision avoidance with very soft shocks, no sway bar etc? Dirt or gravel? Puddles? Forget about it.