Started on March 16 by Protege2886

1991 BMW 318is

Picked up this beauty from a retired provincial police officer. Is it too corny to call it “The Sheriff”?

Latest updates
April 13
Weight Watchers - E30 Edition

I spent this entire weekend outside working on the car. I had previously completed what …

April 13
Thread bump!

Wow! Time flies and a lot has changed in the last 3 years! I’ve moved …

May 12
Scrambling for parts

Update! 1) I love my friends. These guys rock! My friend Chris sent me all …

May 12
Being street-legal $ucks!

Just stopped by the shop and my mechanic gave me a ~$2000 shit list of …

May 12
New rims and rubber

I picked up a set of used rims and tires from a local member last …

May 12
Stopping power, rubber, and safety

The E30 now has new brakes on all four corners. I’m running jobber blanks with …

April 19
MOAR PARTS!

The pile includes: Front lip, Swaybars and hardware, Solid rubber motor mounts (from E28 5-series), …

April 19
Short Shifter installed

I got my “Budget SSK” from Bimmerworld installed a few days ago. Sure enough, the …

April 19
Not something you want to see under your ride...

Turns out the floor under/around the dead pedal is gone. The crummy part is that …

March 29
Expensive Mondays!

Free time and a credit card number committed to memory can be a dangerous combination. …

March 16
More parts

…I forgot to mention that I also picked up a short shift kit from Bimmerworld, …

March 16
Hit the "checkout" line

I paid $1400 for the BMW and with my first parts order, I have nearly …

March 16
BMW Spring Cleaning

I took advantage of the nice weather (and loopholes in my home owners agreement) to …

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Protege2886
April 13, 2015, 9:44 a.m.

Wow! Time flies and a lot has changed in the last 3 years! I've moved from Ottawa to Michigan and Michigan to Windsor all while working for Ford. Dad kept the E30 for his first full season of auto-x and then dropped it off in Windsor last fall. Now the fun begins!

Protege2886
April 13, 2015, 9:47 a.m.

I spent this entire weekend outside working on the car. I had previously completed what I like to call my "stage 1 weight reduction" by removing the carpet and rear seats and this weekend I kicked off stage 2. After a bunch of grinding and drilling, the sunroof "cassette" was removed from the car. The plan is to use the sunroof panel to make a mould for a composite plug. Should be interesting! I also took the seats out again to wire wheel the interior and respray it. Between the new unpainted patches and the existing petina, there's a lot to clean up!

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