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Sporty1 
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I'm intrigued also by your plans. If your planning on putting a full weld in cage, with front and rear turret bars, in the e30 and stitch welding, as with the Nova, then I cannot see that body flex should be an issue so welding a panel into the sunroof hole could be a solution, afterall, this is quite common with M3 owners who track prep thier cars. This may be of interest..... ( no connection etc etc ) A Volvo engine in an E30 Take it that your planning on turrning the engine 90 deg. and retaining the rwd? Look forward to reading more. Good luck. BTW. Welcome. Edited by Sporty1 |
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lukeduke
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Posted: 31-January-2008 at 15:39 |
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welcome to the forum... enjoyed reading your 1st post there, very interesting!!!
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Aramil
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Thanks dude! YB plan sounds good, shame it never happened... Awesome engine! Yeh true about the roof - I just worry if I did weld / smooth it, it would crack / look crap! Will keep an eye out for an E30 without s/r for a few weeks but investigate welding up the roof... Ah the ovlov engine! Seriously - check out http://www.hilmersson-racing.com/ if you haven't already... Amazing results with that car / engine. Just something I've been talking about for a while (mainly because its a bit different!) As I said, was talking about a YB in a Mk2 Escort / Cortina, or the C20LET in the Opel Kadett C - but its been done many times before! I know there's a reason for that, but I do like to be different! |
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Posted: 31-January-2008 at 13:11 |
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welcome to the board i say go for it m8 , i made plans to fit a 500brake yb lump into my old cabbie but lost interest in the car before i even started. i think you may struggle to find a clean e30 without sunroof but tbh if your going to be doing major mods to both mechanical and body it wouldnt take much to weld a plate in and respray it anyway. the only thing i would say about your plans to use an ovlov motor would be arent you limiting the amount of places you can get parts from ? i know they produce masses of tuning options in places like norway but its not like you can just pop up the road and pick em up tho is it . or do you know something i dont ? (not a negative comment, merely intrigued by your choice |
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Aramil
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Posted: 31-January-2008 at 11:58 |
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Cheers mate - will have a look! Yes... I get the feeling the Volvo lump may not be to everyones taste (especially the purists!), but its an engine that is very under-rated, and has seen very good results for not too much money! A lot lighter than an M3 lump too! Thanks buddy!
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Posted: 31-January-2008 at 11:55 |
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In answer to your question, hard. There aren't many mint E30s around these days although you could always try this place: http://www.oldcolonelcars.co.uk/ The frequently have good condition e30s in. Not sure about how everyone on this board will feel about you putting a volvo engine into a BMW though. I say go for it but you'll undoubtably upset some of the purists.
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Aramil
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Evening all! Thought I'd pop in and say hello, as I'm a new member and also new to BMW's! I come from a Vauxhall background, yes it was a Nova... SHOCK HORROR, I bought as a 1.2spi with 26,000 genuine miles on it, and turned it into a 320bhp turbo’d torque-steering / under-steering death machine! The Nova did well, and proved, after a good summer of events, that you can do a lot with the little 2 door hatch, it’s just such a shame it gets such a bad rep! A few pics of the car: Pre turbo (redtop 2l 16V engine)
Post turbo engine (never did get round to hiding the FMIC - but that was the plan - wolf in sheep’s clothing etc!)
Interior…. Minimal!
Always good to have good brakes with 320bhp in a bean can!
Lots of stitch welding to hold it all together…
The Nova was meant to be a track car, but it ended up with too much power, which resulted in more of a ¼ mile car. PB was a 12.7 sec pass, running only 6psi of boost on road tires. Was wound up to 22psi soon after and was terrifying! Only got one trip to Pod when it ran the full 22psi boost on slicks, but it was rained off… Boo! A few videos on YouTube: (All when only running 6psi, not 22psi) http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JwZqk0ZWhto http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wxbK65T-YLU http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5KwXTb6aRqo Also got this which is my baby… Started life as a Moto-X bike which I’ve converted into a Supermoto beast! Spends most of its time drifting, or on the back wheel, or on the floor after I’ve binned it as per usual! Thank god for crash bobbins / sliders! It’s a 450 Yam if anyone’s interested!
Anywho, now that I’ve rambled on and justified the Nova, which is what I spent two years doing, on to more important matters! Been car-less since the end of summer, when I decided to strip and sell the Nova for bits, as more and more power hikes seemed to mean more and more wheel-spin! That's when I realised (after years of being told this by friends) that I needed RWD in my life! I do like a good bit of fabrication; having built the Nova, and having friends with cars such as a YB Cossie engined Caterham, few Mk1 Escorts, Westy Megablade, and the cream of the crop a Talbot Sunbeam with an RX7 engine in! It’s taken a few months of research to decide what to do as a next project. I wanted a shell that I can get lots of fibreglass / carbon panels for, and other motorsport bits. I was originally going to use my LET turbo engine out the Nova in an Opel Kadett C saloon, but decided £ for bhp the Vauxhall engine couldn't do the job, plus it meant a trip to
When I got home I did a bit of google image searching and found these, which are all stunning! (Not sure if I want to have another sleeper, or a stickered up touring car rep jobbie though…)
I know they are all M3’s, and they are a lot of money, and as I plan to a lot of chopping / fabrication, it would be sacrilege to butcher a nice M3 about, so I am going to settle on the normal E30. I’ve been doing a bit of reading around, and as I will be fitting a lot of fibreglass / carbon I’m toying with the idea of using M3 panels (arches etc) as I love the lines of the arches (similar to the Nova Also don’t know the differences between the different models of E30 (facelift wise), but I am after a mint 2 door saloon shell without a sunroof, which is proving tricky to find! Engine wise, after MUCH deliberation, I am going to use a Volvo 5 cylinder engine... Strange you may think! But having seen good results with both 4 and 5 cylinder engines, that is what I plan to use! It will be turbo’d and maybe charged too. A lot of the inspiration is being drawn from Ronnie Hilmersson’s Manta A, which is worth a look in at http://www.hilmersson-racing.com/ I am probably going to ask a lot of questions at first, as I know nothing about the E30 and its different guises, but please bear with me! Main question of the hour is… Seriously, how hard is it going to be to find a mint 2 door E30 with NO SUNROOF! (Preferably in black or silver - but now I’m being picky!) Thanks for your time guys, and any info you have will be highly appreciated! |
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, I suppose it is different and probably hasn't been do before. 
Yes a weird choice I know, but shipping parts in from abroad doesn't bother me... I imported a lot of the Nova's engine bits from Japan (Sard FPR, HKS SSQV bov etc...)
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