Hello to a new forum (for me)!!!

[uflnuceng]

Hey everyone! My name is Jared Squires and I live just outside of Pittsburgh, PA. I usually find myself hanging out on R3Vlimited.com, e30tech.com and sometimes BF.C or Roadfly.com. My first BMW was a 1990 E30 325i, and I have had many since then (granted, only been a BMW fanatic since April 2003). My most recent aquisition is a 1990 535i 5-speed.



I had her shipped from Southern Cali (where that picture was taken) and went to go and see her at the pound (aka the delivery terminal) and man is she dirty! I already have a custom TCD Stage 2 turbo kit paid for and arriving in pieces, and I'm working on the spare M30 motor I have in my garage.

First things first I'm going to take it to the body shop and have them freshen up the exterior (remove dents, respray, etc.) and swap out the well worn beige interior for a nicer black leather interior I'm getting from BMWWholesale.net (3 hrs down the road from me).

Then I'll do the motor/turbo/megasquirt swap that will give me about 475 rwhp. I have some questions about what to do with the headlights (they aren't in that great a shape it would seem...) and some other tasteful upgrades but I'll save that for when I pick her up from the pound later in the week.

[BillionPa]

NICE!

and you got shadowline and M parallel wheels too, very nice.

I have a Depo kit with built in fake eyes that look very nice on the car (low beams anyway)

the high beams kind of suck, but i havent needed to use them since the low beams are HID and brigher than holy hell.

[632 Regal]

nice looking car, why does it need respraying?

[Zeuk in Oz]

Beautiful colour in that light !

Welcome !

[uflnuceng]

nice looking car, why does it need respraying?

It has a couple dents in some places, so I'm going to have them pull them out as best as possible, use minimum puddy, and then respray. If he can color match well enough then I won't need him to respray the entire car, just individual pieces. I've always wanted a white E34 though, and I keep fighting the temptation to strip the car down to nothing, have him strip and repaint alpine white and then reassemble the car... maybe I'll do that in a year or two.

You'll discover I'm a little on the weird side.

[angrypancake]

University of Florida Nuclear Engineering?

[uflnuceng]

University of Florida Nuclear Engineering?

How on god's green earth did you figure that out?!?! Seriously... I always have to break that down for people... you a 'gator too? or a nuke?

[SC David]

I'm a gator Albeit purple

Car looks awesome. You have what most people are going for right out of the box. Can't wait to see what you do with it. Keep us updated!

[SC David]

Oh yeah, and I might get some windshield wipers as a first mod vs. the turbo if I were you.

[angrypancake]

How on god's green earth did you figure that out?!?! Seriously... I always have to break that down for people... you a 'gator too? or a nuke?

lol I'm neither. I'm a Lion, and a lazy history major. Fluent in drunkspeak though?

Hell of a car btw, looks damn clean in that picture. And you already have a TCD s2? Pictures. Tons of them!