Hi all,
Im new here and new to bmw's. Ive always had 4wds (I'm only 20 so not really a huge achievement) and have always thought about buying a car cause I quite like driving fast. Unfortunately that means that Ive been either doing it in my thrasher offroad car (see below) or in my 80 series tow bus (which has a massive turbro, big tyres and lots of fuel)
Ive always liked european cars as opposed to japanese (I also have a 1965 vw baja bug project) and so a euro was kind of an obvious choice (well technically mines a south african, but Ill claim it). The final straw was when I went out for our uni car clubs track day at ruapuna and I got enthused and took the cruiser out for a few laps
It put the biggest grin on my face and I got rather competitive trying to chase down a gsr. Unfortunately, due to having the aerodynamics of a hospital and weighing more than an american, it got away. I only missed one corner (twice) while I was out and only got one tank slapper on so was well worth it!!
Fast foward like a whole 2 days and I had my eyes peeled for a car. Tossing up between an audi s2 (which went for more than my budget) and an e30 (I flat with sammyj so an e30 knowledge base was close) I found one on trademe that looked rough and had a blown diff. Went to look at it anyway and suprisingly it was in quite good nick. The previous owner had recently done a manual conversion (with a new carbon kevlar clutch.... score!) and then stacked it into a post, smashed the spider gears to bits and then took off to oz. I knew I wanted it so quickly liquidated some assets and scored it for the small price of sweet f**k all!!
First impressions were that it was rough but as I pulled out almost another dissasembled car from the inside it got better. Recaro leather seats were mint, dash was crack free, had angel eyes with hids in the low beams, only one of my borbets was damaged, and after stripping the alarm out (btw those things are rediculously easy to pull out! You could steal a car with some sidecutters and alligator clips if you wanted) she fired up first pop and settled into a silky smooth idle. After a lil tidy up and pulling the diff to weld up so I could drive it we took it for a thrash. After driving it I had a raging erection and a new found passion! Unfortunately this all happened last weekend and sunday night the diff gave up the ghost again (with no spidergears there was not much to weld the sidegears to that wasn't cast) so its been sitting in my driveway awaiting some new parts.
So fast foward to last night a mate and I decided to go halves in a parts 320i. The exteriors mint, the motors dropped a valve and so ultimately, fawked but it gives us all the parts I need to make mine mint . So hopefully we'll get that in the next week or so and Ill be set! P.s sorry for the bad pics, my pos android phone that had a reasonable camera broke so Ive got a temporary crappier android with an unreasonably bad camera.
Heres the dash
And then under that magical piece of carpet
My smurfy seats
and exterior shots
And the damage from asshattery
So stay tuned for future updates!! Hopefully Ill get it fully legal again before the next track day Im going in (14 july)
