there's ways to prevent it, beesh :deek:

 

Yeah selling it and buying the "real" M3

Kinda sad when European car called the Turner motorsports E36 rear subframe reinforcement kit one of the products of the year in 2004 to bad they take over 9 hours to install

 

those 9 hours are a small sacrifice to save your car from potentially irrepairable damage, arent they?

 

I guess, but I rather have a car that does not have this problem to start with. The engineering was shit to start with.

 

It's the same 1987 325IS that's sold in Rick's sig. I haven't done anything to it yet. I'm still trying to decide what I want to do to it if anything other than maintenance. And nope, two questions is far from too many.

 

e30 crappy? :squint: You don't deserve to own one. h:

All kidding aside though, I wanted to do this once. I still do. I want to own and mod a pristine e30. If you're a die hard e30 enthusiast then by all means do it. People generally don't like the car, even the m3, because price for the power isn't that great, unless maybe you drop a different motor in the car. For example, spend about $5k+ on the 2.5 l conversion for the s14 motor and you'll only get about 240 hp at the flywheel.

The m20b25 motor in the 325i and is doesn't even respond that well to mods either. A guy I know on the local forum did a 3.0 stroker conversion and spent well over $7k and only put out 220 whp. Although the engine still wasn't tuned, for that price, he could've just dropped in an m50 motor, put in some s50 cams and still save some money.

But I guess if you're just looking into having a stock e30, just find one that is in good condition, if that is even possible anymore. Rebuilding one will get expensive unless you do all the work yourself.

 

Financialy it is not worth doing but is there anything better than the first drive of a car you have completely rebuilt?