Hello everyone.
I am originally from Lithuania, but residing now in Denmark where i have my sweet little car detailing shop and well i have just recently become a BMW fan.. Big time!
Now a bit of Prologue:
So i have been searching for a bmw e30 for 2 weeks. Surprisingly it become a sort of a challenge to even buy one, as here in Denmark every1 started to sweep them like crazy. Somebody puts one for sale, you call a man in the morning and it is allready sold. And that repeated at least 10 times during 2 weeks. Crazy isn't?
So somehow a friend of mine stumbled upon a very nice e30 which was a coupe and that's how i ended up owning my first proper car (i had some old Opel astra hatch before which was horrible ). Funny thing is the advertisment was added in the "4 door" section So obviously noboy were looking for those ads who were interested in 2 doors. Lucky me
So here i am with a BMW e30, original 170k on a clock. Nice exterior (except few surface rusts here and there) with nice undercarriage, engine compartment and just a little bit of rust in the trunk.
I got the car from the guy in his 40's who obviously did not give a damn about car pretty much... We found out later that the car was running on 5 cylinders for a while, as there was a spark shortage in one of the distribution wires which go towards the spark plug (reason for not working cylinder :/). Car had multiple torn vacuum hoses which basically were worn out due to age. We cleaned the Throttle body and fixed all the vacuums and staff.
So there you go, a nicely working car with oil changed, spark plugs replaced, vacuums fixed and i am continuing to fall in love in it.
I had problems switching gears. Had guesses that it was a gearbox issue, but my friend said that it would be most probably the gear shifting rails (rubbers worn out) so off to the mechanic, and it comes out that we put a very nice used gearbox instead with long ratios. There we go do some drifting (attempts) and burning tires (comoon it's first rear wheel drive car i have ) and after a bit i can not hit into the 2nd and 3rd gears...
So new gearbox and new all rubbers and neccesary parts to fix the shifting problem.
Then i have contacted a good friend of mine who suggested to give me a special deal and make my baby a project car of ours, with a target to come close to handling and power of 911 (yes yes, i find it unbelievable, but he insists with proper fine tuning and calibration and some few more things done, it will be quite possible
)
And then he saw the engine cylinder block after removing top and he was blown away!
He said in 30 years of experience he has never seen a more well taken care - engine (internals as he said) with respect to the years. So good news, cylinder head is not warped, nor cracked. All cylinders are allmost like brand new, all rings are fine. The problem was with the worn Camshaft which was caused as he explained by the poor oil lubrication where oil pump distributes poorly oil down to back cylinders.
He as well said that if you heat up engine for couple of minutes every time you are about to drive, if it is in a great condition and is maintained properly, you will never have a problem with gaskets as hard as you will push the car (ofc not keeping on a rev limiter for hours).
So then he says: we have to modify it a bit and put a camshaft with bigger angle and port (if i get it right) the headers (cut the corners for the better flow. right?).
So now got custom milled camshaft with 288degree angle, new valves, new stronger valve springs, new seals for the valves, new pretty much all the new top head ))) new thermostat, new water pump, gaskets, and other small bits which i am sure you all know. Aha i get to put at the same time a new "Sebring" banana manifold as well.
So he estimates 40hp increase in power at least. And i can not wait to get my hands on it as i imagine that will be quite a fun to drive especially when it will hit 4k rpms
My plans are big to what i will get my car to look like, so there is still a long way to go, but i will achieve it. I will not give away what will be done here and there, as to keep things entertaining))
But i can relief you and assure you that it will be a very nice eye catcher and "Wow factor" bringer with delicare elegant touches (Porsche Singer or Magnus Walkers porsches sort of - They are my biggest inspirations )
So i will try to keep it updated once something changes, but it might take a while all the time as need to hold on with my works as most of you i suppose
I am originally from Lithuania, but residing now in Denmark where i have my sweet little car detailing shop and well i have just recently become a BMW fan.. Big time!
Now a bit of Prologue:
So i have been searching for a bmw e30 for 2 weeks. Surprisingly it become a sort of a challenge to even buy one, as here in Denmark every1 started to sweep them like crazy. Somebody puts one for sale, you call a man in the morning and it is allready sold. And that repeated at least 10 times during 2 weeks. Crazy isn't?
So somehow a friend of mine stumbled upon a very nice e30 which was a coupe and that's how i ended up owning my first proper car (i had some old Opel astra hatch before which was horrible ). Funny thing is the advertisment was added in the "4 door" section So obviously noboy were looking for those ads who were interested in 2 doors. Lucky me
So here i am with a BMW e30, original 170k on a clock. Nice exterior (except few surface rusts here and there) with nice undercarriage, engine compartment and just a little bit of rust in the trunk.
I got the car from the guy in his 40's who obviously did not give a damn about car pretty much... We found out later that the car was running on 5 cylinders for a while, as there was a spark shortage in one of the distribution wires which go towards the spark plug (reason for not working cylinder :/). Car had multiple torn vacuum hoses which basically were worn out due to age. We cleaned the Throttle body and fixed all the vacuums and staff.
So there you go, a nicely working car with oil changed, spark plugs replaced, vacuums fixed and i am continuing to fall in love in it.
I had problems switching gears. Had guesses that it was a gearbox issue, but my friend said that it would be most probably the gear shifting rails (rubbers worn out) so off to the mechanic, and it comes out that we put a very nice used gearbox instead with long ratios. There we go do some drifting (attempts) and burning tires (comoon it's first rear wheel drive car i have ) and after a bit i can not hit into the 2nd and 3rd gears...
So new gearbox and new all rubbers and neccesary parts to fix the shifting problem.
Then i have contacted a good friend of mine who suggested to give me a special deal and make my baby a project car of ours, with a target to come close to handling and power of 911 (yes yes, i find it unbelievable, but he insists with proper fine tuning and calibration and some few more things done, it will be quite possible
)And then he saw the engine cylinder block after removing top and he was blown away!
He said in 30 years of experience he has never seen a more well taken care - engine (internals as he said) with respect to the years. So good news, cylinder head is not warped, nor cracked. All cylinders are allmost like brand new, all rings are fine. The problem was with the worn Camshaft which was caused as he explained by the poor oil lubrication where oil pump distributes poorly oil down to back cylinders.
He as well said that if you heat up engine for couple of minutes every time you are about to drive, if it is in a great condition and is maintained properly, you will never have a problem with gaskets as hard as you will push the car (ofc not keeping on a rev limiter for hours).
So then he says: we have to modify it a bit and put a camshaft with bigger angle and port (if i get it right) the headers (cut the corners for the better flow. right?).
So now got custom milled camshaft with 288degree angle, new valves, new stronger valve springs, new seals for the valves, new pretty much all the new top head ))) new thermostat, new water pump, gaskets, and other small bits which i am sure you all know. Aha i get to put at the same time a new "Sebring" banana manifold as well.
So he estimates 40hp increase in power at least. And i can not wait to get my hands on it as i imagine that will be quite a fun to drive especially when it will hit 4k rpms
My plans are big to what i will get my car to look like, so there is still a long way to go, but i will achieve it. I will not give away what will be done here and there, as to keep things entertaining
)) But i can relief you and assure you that it will be a very nice eye catcher and "Wow factor" bringer with delicare elegant touches (Porsche Singer or Magnus Walkers porsches sort of - They are my biggest inspirations
)
So i will try to keep it updated once something changes, but it might take a while all the time as need to hold on with my works as most of you i suppose
You should see my parking given the opportunity to protect my baby, you could get a van in the space I leave between me and the other car :embarrest:
