da new e30 project

[winfred]

heres a few pics of da fresh meat a 90 318is 5 speed, near perfect body and paint, motor runs with the typical noisy tensioner and a locked up water pump, it has a couple stains on the paint where it looks like it sat under a metal roof but the worst one is on the sun roof which will get swapped for the moon roof out of my old car, the one on the hood should buff out, the tan interior is in fairly good shape but ill probably install the black interior from the old car

[winfred]

now i just need time to rebuild the m-coupe 5 lug onto the new guy and get my 2.8 stroker installed and broken in, then it's megasquirt and supercharger time

it was a little pricey as someone else at the auction had a hard on for it as well but i got it for $770 delivered which to me is worth it as i don't need to **** with the body or paint it, it doesn't even have door dings, when the time comes ill clay bar it whup some wax on it and the exterior will be done

[Macv]

boo to the seats looking better than mine.

[winfred]

and the crappy picture makes them look worse then they are

boo to the seats looking better than mine.

[Paul in NZ]

jusus how can people let the engine bay get so crappy....even mine is 100 times nicer than that.

[BigKriss]

Are the parts from your old (crashed) e30 going into this car?

[winfred]

yep

Are the parts from your old (crashed) e30 going into this car?

[winfred]

i've worked on worse, this one belonged to a women who died of breast cancer and someone donated the car, the death certificate was in the packet of crap from the auction, she was mid-late 40s, from the crap in the car it looked like she had the car 4-5 years

jusus how can people let the engine bay get so crappy....even mine is 100 times nicer than that.

[Jeff N.]

That'll cleanup very nice. Good buy for $770. How many miles on it and what was the general mechanical condition? In the PNW, a half decent 318 will bring $3500 or more. That one looks like it would clean up be better than half decent if the mechanicals are good.

[Dragunov]

Looks nice but what's with the hood? Isn't it supposed to open the other way around? Or is this the, for the lack of better term, "pop the hinges part up higher so the hood doesn't touch the grille" part?