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It is possible. I swapped prefacelift window motor, regulator, glass and wire loom out for the facelift stuff on mine, to replace the door. All the bolt holes etc were the same.

It's probably been resprayed and redone, a cheap rust patch over. Usually its black and not colour matched, plus it does look an unusual texture. Im almost certain I've seen this car slammed on FB and the guy smashed the sump. The engines probably toast.

I think you've got the wrong connector. Possibly a difference between LHD and RHD, they are different P/N and look different. LHD doesn't have the brake booster rod passing through as it's direct on the pedal being LHD. 21521154163 - RHD 21521151697 - LHD

HPR5 5w40 Penrite $60 for a 6L at repco. Supercheap is price matching at $59 if you ask for it.

IMO $15k or up to $20k if I'm generous. Not that I've seen the car but based on photo's and description my issues are (and I'm being picky, just because of the asking price) -Uncerted for coilovers so it needs to go through an entire recert (~$900). Coilovers in an E30 are not straightforward considering you need to provide weld certificate and NDT testing, so unless he has those and they are recent it would be a hassle -Cheap seat covers, trim. Like.. awful. -It's just a 318i with an M20B25. -Sure it's been repainted, looks great on the outside, though I'd be wary of it's quality. Mainly because the battery tray looks rough/rusted (could just be photo) but the obvious one for me is the fusebox is moved and remounted to the strut tower. And even more questionable is the sound deadening behind it has just been sprayed over. So if it was stripped down to a shell, surely you would have taken the 10 seconds to take off that small piece of sound deadening. My main gripe with this is thats a hot spot for rust, especially pre facelifts. How much of that firewall was properly sprayed if they didn't remove the sound deadening.. -Unoriginal color, not a major by any means but can see hints of it in the boot well (plus missing trims) and they didn't even spray the boot hinges lol. -Mould on the headliner? Or maybe something else.. Surely give it a steam clean or something. -Not a fan of the angel eyes, but they are better than the standard pre-fl lights I guess. Again, just being picky, which at that asking price I would sure as hell would be - considering it's not an original condition E30 or M325i, which should be the only E30's in the price range.

I did a similar repair on mine. That part is borderline impossible to get to without cutting open more of the chassis. The rust starts on this piece underneath and spreads to the cowling area and under the windscreen. Check through the opening the inside of the lower windows in the corner, it usually starts from the inside. Take the fender off and you can slice open the inner fender. Also check the inside through those openings, feel up under the bottom of the windscreen and down (shown where I cut below). Generally the lower windshield corners rust from the inside out.

On the passenger side remove that globebox bracket, it's usually above that where the harness grommet passes through to the fusebox. The floor pan looks clean so that's good.

To get the best repair done you will need to remove the carpet, dash, heaterbox etc to get to the backside of it make sure it hasn't gone all the way through. I'd wire wheel it all and treat it with rust converter or POR15 to seal it. If it's made holes you will need to cut and weld. Check behind the brake booster / fuse box harness grommet and from the inside, drop the glovebox out and look there too.

Pull the sound deadening off the firewall. Prefacelifts are notoriously rusty on the firewalls and down to the footwell on the inside. I can see a hint of it in your photo in the circle cut out next to where the steering column comes out. I'd lift the carpet at the front too.

Different size clutch disc, the flywheel also has the pilot bearing embedded in it instead of the crank, so the input shaft length may be shorter too.

That will only work with an E46 flywheel / clutch / starter.

M54s are cheap. Almost everything is the same swap wise, it's just slightly more wiring involved in the adapter harness and having drive by wire. It's relatively easy and considering the amount of effort of doing a swap and cert etc, a better overall option for a more modern engine and power/torque is more than enough for an e30.

Ohh whoops, yeah got them mixed. I saw the interior picture of the coupe and the wiring looks diced up under the passenger seat.

I think that one's butchered, I've seen him post numerous questions fighting wiring gremlins and not being able to get it started. The whole car was stripped by a previous owner and he put it back together.

Figured as much. I've bought enough e30s over the years and in at least the last 5 years they ALL have rust, its just how much of it.