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BSS.
Club Member Joined: 25 May 2013 Location: Surrey Status: Offline Points: 159 |
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Ian Conuel
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Nice find, looking forward to seeing the progress you make. Thanks for sharing.
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1998 z3m coupe
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thepits
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Well done, everyone should have one [I know I miss mine] :) - Enjoy, and after the restoration just make sure she is a daily drive and not a garage queen!!! p.s. she's non-original as someone has added the black trim to the bumpers - lol, I know bl00dy purist! |
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Bfastjohn
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Great project.
Look forward to seeing the updates. |
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BSS.
Club Member Joined: 25 May 2013 Location: Surrey Status: Offline Points: 159 |
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Thanks for the comments.
The black bumper tape is standard for all E30 M3's except for black Sport Evo's which had red tape.
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Alan Jones
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Great find, if you are taking lots of pictures, maybe you could do a progress report for the magazine.
Just a thought |
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Bayerische
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Well done,
I'm glad this car has found a good home, it couldn't be in better hands. Looking forward to the restoration. |
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thepits
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Ah, yes, on rechecking you are of course correct - which is obviously why I got told off for putting Red tape on my Black 1987 [well there was no point on putting Black on her was there? ] Enjoy the restoration, and then the [daily] driving experience |
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thepits
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OT [sorry] my M3 reg, but no longer my black, original, 1987 M3 But still a nice restoration/upgrade p.s. I'm still waiting for the drive |
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richardbaxter
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Good find, and enjoy to the maximum
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BSS.
Club Member Joined: 25 May 2013 Location: Surrey Status: Offline Points: 159 |
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Thanks for the comments guys. :)
Yesterday saw the start of work on the car to get it back on the road for the first time in 5 years!! Replaced all the discs, pads, parking brake shoes and fittings, new goodrige braided hoses and bled through with ATE super blue fluid, front pads were these... BMW Motorsport group N front pads which are pagid RS. These coupled with the braided hoses and super blue fluid should be ample enough for light track use and the impending ring trip. Ample pile of parts. Coolant, Engine, box and diff oils changed as well as all filters and spark plugs, replaced all the fuel hoses as well. Going through the car checking various things has been quite surprising as several things I thought that would be either not working or trouble removing have been ok. Even the washer jets were clear! All the metal brake pipes came undone ok and were not badly corroded with the ones on the trailing arms and above the rear axle being replacements. All were liberally coated in waxoil. The electric cooling fan i expected to be seized as this is quite common but it was free and also a replacement as its the later plastic type one. Both speeds also worked so the resisitor is fine, another common thing to fail in old age. So after all the brake and servicing work followed by some checks it was run up to temp, fan cutting in and maintaining perfect temp just below half way on the gauge it was time to take it for a run! A short 3 mile jouney to the local petrol station to start to bed the pads in and see how the car ran and again pleasantly surprised to find that no knocks squeaks or rattles, or steering pull. Engine pulled well with no hesitation or misfires, idles bang on as well. Chuffed to say the least! It certainly feels strong for a 195 car which has got me curious but until I've done the valve clearances later this week and oil pressure and compression tests I'm not going to push it. On to less important things but annoying details none the less! The car also had a very nice conditon all in one leather "mushroom" type knob fitted which must be a replacement as its far to nice to be the original 174k mile one. Only thing that was letting it down was the BMW roundel so that had to go! Much better! Whilst clearing out some rubbish from the car this was found, fitting for a car of this period! :) This offensive looking stereo and digital clock with screen bleed were letting the side down so they had to be sorted! A few 6 button OBC's were cannibalised to make a good working one and a slightly less offensive looking stereo but with the all important aux in was fitted for the time being untill a "proper" period system is fitted. These 27 year old pioneer speakers had seen better days so were skipped and replaced with some more recent pioneers again as a temp install. I decided to take the car home on trade plates to put some more miles on it and have now done about 50 odd miles and so far so good thankfully! Everything works as it should, even the Si board with the only issue being the coolant warning light on the check control panel so a new sensor will be needed. And now the money shot! Crispy bulk head action! I'm not too bothered about this as when my front foot well sections arrive from California my tame welder will sorting this as well as doing the front floor repairs. MOT tomorrow! |
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davebrindlee36m3
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Great job, can i ask were you purchased the emblem for gear knob ?
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MHunt
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Great to see an enthusiastic new owner hard at work saving one of these cars. Well done and keep us informed.
Dave - part numbers of various emblems can be found here. I recently recreated an E34 M5 gearknob for way less than half the price of a new one by getting an odk one recovered, and purchasing the emblem only from BMW. Even though the emblem was for a non illuminated knob I managed to get illumination wo work by removing the adhesive pad and carefully scratching off the paint in the relevant areas. and here is the M3 version the roundel is an OEM option - I never knew that (!)
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Thanks Matthew, i was looking for a 5 speed emblem with the tri colour stripes for my 1994 e36 m3, it is oval shape, the one on the link looks round ? Any help would be appreciated.
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Dave. The I've typed what I think is the part number into the vehicle search and E36 M3 seems to come up.
For the sake of a tenner I would probably take a chance. it worked for me on the E34 M5.
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BSS.
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Just insured it. £204 fully comp for me and the Mrs with agreed valuation of £15k and cat C/D salvage retention! Very Happy
Limited to 7000 miles though but as use other cars throughout the year I won't even get near that. MOT is now booked for Saturday. |
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Sounds cheap, who have you insured it with ?
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BSS.
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Footman James, car club member ship discount!
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davebrindlee36m3
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I will try them in may, for 7k miles it seems a bargain.
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davebrindlee36m3
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Matthew that part number 25111 221 613 is showing as the latest style emblem with the M in the middle for the e36 m3.. 25111 221 612 is listed on e30 325 ix and 25111 220 954 is the e30 m3. the e36 emblem is slightly oval and the e30 is round. According to my man at local bmw the tri stripe emblem for the e36 is NLA. ?
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MHunt
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My mistake, Dave. I would try 25111 221 612 for the sake of a tenner. I bought one recently and it is slightly oval - I expect you could make that work. best of luck.
Sorry to the OP for disturbing a great thread.
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BSS.
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Thanks guys.
So this week a had the mirrors painted up as the visually astute will have noticed that one mirror was black and the other was tatty, a bit like the rest of the car! Turns out they are heated and also the washer jets and drivers door lock. I guess the "winter pack" was standard on UK spec E30 M3's as its not on the spec sheet from BMW and I doubt its been retro fitted. Either way bonus! So yesterday I whipped the cam cover off for a peek and to check the valve clearances which were all within spec at .28mm or .30mm. It also appeared to be pretty clean in there and from what I can gather its had a timing chain job done on it. Cam sprockets looked to be in good shape and I removed and inspected the top guide rail which had barely any ware which again goes some way to back up the chain replacement. It's also got an S50 tensioner fitted. So after that it was time for it's first MOT test since jan 2009, having only covered 300 odd miles since then! It passed with a couple of advisories, for an engine oil leak which appears to be lower sump gasket and corrosion within a prescribed area which was the poorly repaired front floor sections. So it's taxed, mot'd and back on the road for the first time in 5 years. A B road blast was the well over due so I enjoyed what these cars are all about this morning! |
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I left the car with a mate the last couple of days to see if he could tidy it up a bit and make it more presentable untill it gets a bare shell resto.
Taken from a another forum.
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Paul.R
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Very nice Barry.
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E39 M5/ E46 M3/ F15 X5
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Alan Jones
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You can now see the results of all your hard labour
Very nice it is too |
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BSS.
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Bayerische
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Very nice, she has cleaned up well. Enjoy the upcoming road trip.
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very nice indeed :) But please get rid of those sh1tty screwed on number plates :( I always used Velcro [how else was I meant to adhere the show-plates] but sticky will do. Screws? UGH! |
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What an enjoyable thread, thanks for sharing your journey so far... This kind of post always generates a lot of interest, always nice to see something saved and improved...
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BSS.
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It happens to still have its original supplying dealer number plate on the rear and this is how they were mounted when fitted new. Now wirh a car like this I'm not that strict on keeping it as it left the factory but I do like to keep my older Bmw's looking that way so no modern show plates stuck on.
I have reproduction coppies made of the original supplying dealer in the correct wide font by pukar designs and they are screwed on as per OEM. |
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