coombsie66
01-06-2005, 04:22 PM
Hey guys, any help much appreciated:
Just bought with my mate a pretty beaten around D-reg BMW E30 325i sport for a track car and general laff (£500).
We bought it off ebay, and for the money i think you cant beat it for fun! However as it was one of the really early ones, its got a manual steering rack (fuckin 4.4 turns lock to lock) so drifting isnt so much difficult as physically impossible!! Believe me ive been trying.
So i need to retro fit a power steering pump from a later 325i and then i want to get a power steering rack from an E36 M3 and retro fit that too. I have found a website showing the fitting of the E36 rack to an E30 M3, but i have not found any info on the fitment of a power steering pump to an early beemer like mine.
Any fellow E30 owners, or beemer enthusiasts who could point me in the direction of some helpfull websites would be great!!
Heres that website: http://www.e30m3performance.com/installs/installs-3/e36rack/
And the company who did the kit: http://www.zionsvilleautosport.com/store/shop.mv?Screen=PROD&Store_Code=6134&Product_Code=E30SRC
Cheers guys :D .
Oh and b4 anyone asks, its not in the registry as its kept at me mates house, and the only time ive had chance to drive it over christmas was in the dark so no pics of the car with proof of ownership.
EDIT: Heres the rubber lines, not too good a photo, and a pic from ebay b4 we bought it. Wont be gettin any others till i get back to home for easter.
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v74/coombsie66/Image228.jpg
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v74/coombsie66/e7_1_b.jpg
Oh, and i had an absolute nitemare with the collection of the car, i posted it on another topic on JW but i dont htink anyone saw it, i'll try and find it, its quite amusing (for those who are not involved!)
Heres the story:
I had a bit of a nitemare buying a car a few weeks ago, went to look at a £500 E30 Beemer 325i sport me and me mate had bought off ebay, everything fine, car drove as youd expect, about to hand over cash and i break the only key in the door lock.
Next 3 hours spent, removing door lock barrel, beeting the shit out of it, gettin piece of key out, and forcing it into the ignition, to start the fucking thing!!!
Damn it.
Only just got the key piece out of the ignition barrel the other day, got a key cutter to do another, could just about from the broken key. So now hte ignition works, but we are still minus a door lock, and the key that now works in the ignition doesnt open the passenger door or boot!!?
Oh, and to make matters worse, when we were doing some rolling burnouts in hte quite hills (the quantocks) and we are turning round in a gateway a car comes along, so he ets us out. Me mate boots it, a bit sideways, then the guy starts tailgating us!? I see its a focus, (it was pitch black out so only headlights visable) so we cant understand who it is, so pull into his driveway, he follows, and puts the blues and twos on!!!!!!!! FUCK POLICE uh oh.
No MOT on it, oh shit, rubber marks all the way up the road, and some nice donught rings just outside hte drive!!! OH FUCK!
So me mate gets a little talking too by the copper, but he was a reasonable chap, he thought we'd nicked it but we said we'd just got it working and were testing it quitely!
So he looks up the registered owner of the car, and its still in the old blokes name!!! Oh shit, then he calls in on me mates name, and theres a guy matching his description wanted!!!!!!!!! Luckily in nottingham, so other end of england.
But fuck me, i think this car is bad luck! Good fun tho!
Just bought with my mate a pretty beaten around D-reg BMW E30 325i sport for a track car and general laff (£500).
We bought it off ebay, and for the money i think you cant beat it for fun! However as it was one of the really early ones, its got a manual steering rack (fuckin 4.4 turns lock to lock) so drifting isnt so much difficult as physically impossible!! Believe me ive been trying.
So i need to retro fit a power steering pump from a later 325i and then i want to get a power steering rack from an E36 M3 and retro fit that too. I have found a website showing the fitting of the E36 rack to an E30 M3, but i have not found any info on the fitment of a power steering pump to an early beemer like mine.
Any fellow E30 owners, or beemer enthusiasts who could point me in the direction of some helpfull websites would be great!!
Heres that website: http://www.e30m3performance.com/installs/installs-3/e36rack/
And the company who did the kit: http://www.zionsvilleautosport.com/store/shop.mv?Screen=PROD&Store_Code=6134&Product_Code=E30SRC
Cheers guys :D .
Oh and b4 anyone asks, its not in the registry as its kept at me mates house, and the only time ive had chance to drive it over christmas was in the dark so no pics of the car with proof of ownership.
EDIT: Heres the rubber lines, not too good a photo, and a pic from ebay b4 we bought it. Wont be gettin any others till i get back to home for easter.
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v74/coombsie66/Image228.jpg
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v74/coombsie66/e7_1_b.jpg
Oh, and i had an absolute nitemare with the collection of the car, i posted it on another topic on JW but i dont htink anyone saw it, i'll try and find it, its quite amusing (for those who are not involved!)
Heres the story:
I had a bit of a nitemare buying a car a few weeks ago, went to look at a £500 E30 Beemer 325i sport me and me mate had bought off ebay, everything fine, car drove as youd expect, about to hand over cash and i break the only key in the door lock.
Next 3 hours spent, removing door lock barrel, beeting the shit out of it, gettin piece of key out, and forcing it into the ignition, to start the fucking thing!!!
Damn it.
Only just got the key piece out of the ignition barrel the other day, got a key cutter to do another, could just about from the broken key. So now hte ignition works, but we are still minus a door lock, and the key that now works in the ignition doesnt open the passenger door or boot!!?
Oh, and to make matters worse, when we were doing some rolling burnouts in hte quite hills (the quantocks) and we are turning round in a gateway a car comes along, so he ets us out. Me mate boots it, a bit sideways, then the guy starts tailgating us!? I see its a focus, (it was pitch black out so only headlights visable) so we cant understand who it is, so pull into his driveway, he follows, and puts the blues and twos on!!!!!!!! FUCK POLICE uh oh.
No MOT on it, oh shit, rubber marks all the way up the road, and some nice donught rings just outside hte drive!!! OH FUCK!
So me mate gets a little talking too by the copper, but he was a reasonable chap, he thought we'd nicked it but we said we'd just got it working and were testing it quitely!
So he looks up the registered owner of the car, and its still in the old blokes name!!! Oh shit, then he calls in on me mates name, and theres a guy matching his description wanted!!!!!!!!! Luckily in nottingham, so other end of england.
But fuck me, i think this car is bad luck! Good fun tho!