the solution is to combine… the E30 is a more “fun” chassis for sure, but it’s not the one that I want to drive daily.
I meant to tell you – there is a show one one of the discovery channels called wheeler dealers, and they just did a two part episode on buying and selling an E30 touring last night.
Was there ever a video clip of this posted?
Nice pickup.
yeah, if you go to vimeo and search “E30 nelson” you can see the car with the swap, but without the suspension.
theblue:
the solution is to combine… the E30 is a more “fun” chassis for sure, but it’s not the one that I want to drive daily.
I meant to tell you – there is a show one one of the discovery channels called wheeler dealers, and they just did a two part episode on buying and selling an E30 touring last night.
yah def. e36 for dd e30 for fun. m20b25 is a decent motor too, only 20hp less than the m50. stock 325i’s are a blast.
was this episode stateside, or in europe? damn, I need to find that online somewhere!
it’s a british show:
Wheeler Dealers is a British television series originally produced by Attaboy TV for the Discovery Channel in the UK and Velocity Channel HD in the U.S. The programme is fronted by car enthusiast Mike Brewer. Edd China served as the programme's mechanic for series 1 to 13; he was replaced by Ant Anstead in series 14. The premise of the show has the presenters on a mission to save old and repairable enthusiast vehicles, by repairing or otherwise improving an example of a particular make and mod Th...
oh yeah, my new E30 also has a dinan knock off chip and it revs to 7100.
You need to get some flat center caps for the borbets asap.
more pics! new wheels! a quick bath!
ldp82
April 5, 2009, 7:07pm
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nice, that should be a lot of fun
Very nice! That Eastman pic looks familiar…
Did you just copy Dave’s pictar of Dave/Cassie/Seth’s car?
that was the idea, those are even dave’s old wheels from that car I’ve used this location many times before
bing
April 5, 2009, 7:55pm
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can i drive this on the track for a couple laps while not obligating myself to let you drive my car at all?
i want to drive a reasonably set up BMW… but not that badly.
that’s a very interesting request, lol… yeah, probably depending on how confident I am in the car’s solidness.