Touring is love, touring is life
The tale of a man and his E30 touring
Introduction
Hello, I'm Fons and I'm a 24 year old guy from the Netherlands. Decided I'm going to do a write up on my touring as I'm about to make it to change things up. This build is not going to be slammed all the way because I love driving it hard, or at least as hard as possible, heel and toe and just enjoy the handling and feel of the car without scraping and banging everywhere. Also in the process of doing this I want to learn how to handle a real camera and shoot some nice pictures on the way. Yet a lot of things are going to be planned on the go because there is a lot I'm not yet decided on.
Story so far
Well this is a build thread on my touring. I saw this car pop up online and needed a car, half an hour later a call was made and I went to take a look. Having always been a BMW person I instantly fell in love with the car. Some days later I went to pick up the car. This is what she first looked like after a wash.
Together with my dads E46 328CI and my brothers old E46 320I
Then after about 6 months of ownership I got her a pair of cheap coils and replaced all bushings etc. I can't find the pic's of the suspension I installed but it's from a Dutch company called V-Maxx. For the price they're good but they need to be upgraded sometime in the future.
Since then I raised it a little bit and killed my oil pan 3 times, lost the front lip, broke the exaust just after the manifold and it got hit by a fuckin hailstorm. The ice balls that fell out of the air were the size of tennisballs. I don't have any pictures of those dents but I'll make some
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A few weeks after that last oil pan she hit the 250.000KM mark and I dediced it was time to make sure that M40B16 can go on retirement soon. A few weeks ago I went on and bought her a new heart.
The new heart is a M50B25 non vanos with 188K KM and I'm going to rebuild that engine, inspect it, replace what needs to be replaced and make it pretty again.
Make sure to stay organised
Last weekend I went on and picked up a Getrag S5D-250G
I'm not decided on everything and this is my first engine swap so we'll see how this turns out. That's it for the moment, I'll make sure to keep you up to date.
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