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What Are You Going to Buy for Your E30 to Start Off Spring?
« Reply #15 on: March 02, 2009, 07:09:39 AM »
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Nah - don't care enough about it. It's an airbag car and used as a DD on relatively straight roads.


I wouldn't have an E30 without one now. It's probably a personal choice thing, but to me, the steering is perfected by the Z3 'rack. It makes for better steering than I had in my 944, which is regarded by some (and by me until I got my E30) as the best steering car ever made.

driving an 8 mpg E30 convertible shitebox semi-resto-project money-waste hell.

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« Reply #16 on: March 02, 2009, 01:10:36 PM »
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I wouldn't have an E30 without one now. It's probably a personal choice thing, but to me, the steering is perfected by the Z3 'rack. It makes for better steering than I had in my 944, which is regarded by some (and by me until I got my E30) as the best steering car ever made.


I'm sure it is great...and to be honest, I thought the slow ratio was rather odd considering the excellent chassis calibration otherwise.  I've actually had two cars that I thought had better steering than the E30: My X1/9 (those little things have amazing reflexes), and my E34 535i.  Oddly my preWW2 BMW has faster steering than the E30 as well...and it's R&P, too.
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« Reply #17 on: March 02, 2009, 02:33:09 PM »
Leakdown tester. Time to check the health of my 250K mile M42 to see if I can get away with a freshening or if I need a full rebuild. :D
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« Reply #18 on: March 02, 2009, 04:22:43 PM »
just bought a dinan chip (for 60$ FTW)

probably going re-do my exhuast to be more free flowing (straight pipe all the way back to a dynamax super turbo muffler)

probably a GC coil over kit, with some bilstein sports

and get all my body work done, the po got hit by some shrubs... ;)

and new falken azinas on my iX gun metal'd weaves

tint it all the way around to 15% (ftp)

consider it done....untill i finish gathering s52 swap parts atleast ;)
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