I'm BACK!! Sort of....

#1

I couldn’t stand not having a BMW!!

So I bought one of my clients cars he was going to put up for sale after he bought a pt cruiser (ugh).

It is a very clean 1991 318i. All OEM no mods, well maintained.

I first started doing track days in a 1991 318is and still love that motor. Not quite as strong as the big six…but very fun either way!

Got it for 1800.00.

That being said I need some stuff!!!

SO if any one has any of this stuff the are not using anymore please let me know!!!

Nice 4 door interior black leather preferred.
nice tan sport seats
non spec e30 legal shocks or springs ( I figure if you have some HR sports or ??? that you can’t use…let me buy them from you!)
non spec e30 legal wheels (yup…it has bottle caps on it!)

At least I can come out and do track days now. Even if I am not racing!!

Email me with anything you might want to get rid of…

Post edited by: 30SPece30, at: 2006/04/22 21:23

#2

Welcome back!

Can we take bets on how long it is going to take Ric to build the first 318i SO car? :stuck_out_tongue:

-Steve

#3

I have H&R Sport springs and adjustable Koni Sport shocks halfway pulled off my 325is right now. The fronts are still installed because before I could pull them, I was sent to lovely Yuma for a month and a half. I’ll have them available once I get back to North Carolina next week. They were installed last summer and only have a couple thousand miles on them at most and are still pretty.

Looking forward to getting back to work on my car.

If these will work for you, I’ll let you have them for cheap.

Jamie

#4

glad to hear it. I knew you couldn’t keep the itch cured for too long. The track driving virus is incurable.

#5

No SO car in my future…at least not with an M42.

Now that being said…the 318i has to be one of the lightest stock e30’s ever made. No sunroof, cloth interior, no slab in the trunk, no cruise, no fogs.

Got a couple of years until my 13 year old is old enough for DE…then a couple of years before we could get him licensed. Maybe an M42 for a kid that weighs 150 (but not an old man who weighs 240). Then you could take advantage of the weight limit on the 318i cars.

Either way it will be a great daily driver for me and will pay for itself in gas savings as long as I stop driving my excursion around town at 11 MPG.

#6

Ric,

I’ve got some tan leather sport seats. I don’t know how perfect you want them–the passenger is quite good (as usual), but the driver’s side has some cracking and the adjustment mechanism works, but it’s worn. At $150 for the pair, though, they’re not that expensive. The rear looks pretty good, too, and I was asking $200 for all of them. Let me know if you want me to e-mail some pictures.

Sasha
Durham, NC
sberghausen@yahoo.com

#7

Jamie. I am very interested. My email to you bounced back to me.

Shoot me more details. Price, how you like them, etc…

rlb(AT)bergstrom-insurance(dot)com

Ric

Post edited by: 30SPece30, at: 2006/04/24 16:51

#8

Sorry about the email. I’ve just returned and still fighting with my ISP. Right now I’m piggybacking off someone’s wireless using my laptop. Try halford123 {at} yahoo. That, at least should work.

As far as how I liked them, Worked good. The rears do have to be disconnected to adjust them. They come with a shroud permanently installed on the rears but you have to reuse the old boots in front. (I need shrouds for my bistein rears, because I didn’t have stock ones to pull off.) I ended up adjusting them almost full hard.

It may take a weekend or two to get the fronts pulled.

Jamie

#9

I have to say …Jamie is the man!!!

Hooked me up with a set of Near new Koni Yellow adjustables and some HR sports for my street car at a killer price.

The Davidsons helped out with a deal on some of the parts I sold with my car (rubber E30 M3 bushings).

Class acts just like most of the spece30 guys I have ever met.

Bought some new control arms and strut bearings.

NIGHT AND DAY transformation!!!

The right front shock on the car when I bought it had puked its guts out and oil was smeared all down the front strut. Rear shocks were toast.

There is nothing more sweet that a nice E30 with a good suspension under it!!! The 318i is no 325…in the engine compartment, but is likely more fun to drive.

Still need to do something about the horrid front seats. Leaning towards a semi-competion/street useable seat.

HHHHHMMMMMM TRACK DAY SOON???

Still need brake lines, Diff bushing, tie rods, seats then we can go to the track.

See you there.