89 BMW E30 race project

keith5000 · #1 (**permalink**) 02-22-2007, 08:04 AM

My friend's brother is apparently made of money these days and wants to start racing. My friend volunteered us to work on the car (free of charge) while he pays for everything. He chose the 89-91 BMW 325i series races.

We got one shipped in from Virginia a few days ago. No rust, decent shape.

I snapped some cell pics last night.

As you can see the gutting process has already began. Roll cage is going in this weekend. Fun learning experience for me, best part is that it's not costing me anything to do it.

Anybody know of a good BMW forum similar to this joint where I can ask stupid questions?

Fourt1thirty · #2 (**permalink**) 02-22-2007, 11:52 AM

Speck E30?

98a4 · #3 (**permalink**) 02-22-2007, 01:34 PM

bimmerforum.com

mk-4gasm · #4 (**permalink**) 02-22-2007, 01:45 PM

If he is made of money turbo s52 or s54 swap

keith5000 · #5 (**permalink**) 02-22-2007, 02:40 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Fourt1thirty

Speck E30?

Yup!

Here's the rules:
http://www.nasaproracing.com/rules/SpecE30.pdf

Engine has to be stock or equivalent, so no big turbos in this puppy unfortunately.

clove911 · #6 (**permalink**) 02-23-2007, 11:31 AM

thats cool that you get to work on it. should be fun when its done

Fourt1thirty · #7 (**permalink**) 02-23-2007, 11:56 AM

where the hell did that k come from. Meh... Spec E30

so yeah... sweet!!

keith5000 · #8 (**permalink**) 02-26-2007, 09:34 AM

Here's what we did saturday. We took all of the moonroof crap out (not pictured), then removed the dash and I removed a lot of unnecessary wires/devices and rerouted the wires so it all runs down the sides. Look at all that crap we need to reattach to the dash. Nightmare.