My E30 M3 - rear axle missing

[Phobo]

@Phobo: Hey Freddy, The picture where you are discouraged explains all. Good luck buddy ! 

As you can see its pretty cold in here. Normally I have around 0°C in the garage - with the gas heater on around 5
thats why I started to isolate one of the two garage doors.

Havent done much to the car since the last update. I only started to take the underseal off the car. I am going to renew
it at the back of the car. The front has to wait till the next winter comes. So far I have not fund alot of rust. Some parts but I think that is normal on a car that is so old. Expecially on the sills where all the e30s are rusty but it could have been much much worse. Also after I put the bumper of the car I did not found alot of rust there - only a bmw emblem was hidden between the bumper and the air guiding plate.

Most of the stuff I did was to order parts and writing list with all the part numbers. Amazing how much they charge you at bmw in particular for the little stuff. For example when you have the headlamp washing system on your e30 (rare stuff) and you want to renew the wiper blades they charge you 20euros for a 10cm piece of rubber with a tiny metal clip on it. And of course you need 4 of them. Guess those prices are so high since its a bmw only part that you only get from a bmw dealership and not at your normal parts supplier.

I also invested in some new tools: some stahlwille open box wrenches (high quality made in germany), brake pipe bender,
safety equipment, elecric scraper, cute small stahlwille ratchet ...

Guess which one costs more than twice as much compared to the other - WROOONG

[ARMAN]

 
you like to play with your cars donchya Freddy? thats exactly what i hate to do

[TopGearNL]

I prefer to do overtime, make some money and then pay the garage. You prefer the alternative way! At least you know who fitted it all and more importantly, how! 

[spanky]

I prefer to do overtime, make some money and then pay the garage. You prefer the alternative way! At least you know who fitted it all and more importantly, how! 

I like doing stuff myself as well, but once your married and have a morgage and things to pay, the overtime and somebody else doing it is much easier hahahaha


someone looks pretty rugged up in that photo!!

[Phobo]

you like to play with your cars donchya Freddy? thats exactly what i hate to do

As long as you dont snap a screw and realise that this part is not longer available from bmw its fun This will be a tricky job to get the screw out. Drilling it out is no real option because a bit too deep and the engine block is destroyed. :/

I prefer to do overtime, make some money and then pay the garage. You prefer the alternative way! At least you know who fitted it all and more importantly, how! 

The result in working overtime for me is not more money its just more holidays.
Doing all this stuff by a garage would be a big bill. Even finding a garage that can do a proper job is not really easy.
After my friend saw the welding job that the last garage did he said that even me who has never welded before can do this kind of quality .
Not so many companies here in austria that are restoring cars. If so they only do the more expensive cars like Porsche, or cars that are older than 30years...

So far its still fun and I am learning alot of new stuff. Luckily you find alot of knewledge online. E30 is perfect in that case.

[Phobo]

parts that should be fitted except for the metal under the windshield that I just bought because one day I will need it (m3 weekpoint and prices arent getting cheaper anymore) not included in the pix is the new fueltank, fuel pipes, all the undercoationg and rustprevention stuff that arrived the other day + alot of the smaller parts. BTW: No I wont fit those white speedometer inlays only bought the speedo because my temp gage is sometimes not working correctly. Your hearbeat goes crazy when you see the temp in the red area - a little "push" with the fist on the dash helps luckily.



not that cold anymore in the garage since I started to isolate the unused garagedoor.

[ARMAN]

you got some work to do on winter nights

[TopGearNL]

I hope its finished for the RebelRun and not a Communist 5 year plan 

[Phobo]

I hope its finished for the RebelRun and not a Communist 5 year plan 

I definatly have to make some afterworkshifts - lets see how the neighbours react when I start the angle grinder
at night . At the moment I am still confident to make it in time but we will never know what will appear during the
process.

Friend of mine is doing it the easy way with his e30 - building a frame around the body so that you can turn around the beemer. Tomorrow is the first test run. Win or fail?!

[danidmas]

I see your M3 fits perfectly in your garage, almost no space betwen the back of the car and the garage door!


Hope to see the car running on the RR10!