bronzit .. FTL

Originally Posted by fcsteve

first thing i did was remove all the trunk tar and all the carpeting to access all the bare body metal.



next was to replace the front valance .. that is clearly not my leg/foot/shoe/socks



as you can see below i decided i liked the fogs better then the deletes. i also put on the headlights and grills that came with the car.



next was to put on one of my lights to replace the missing one. i had to open one of my many boxes of new parts.





im not sure what im going to do tomorrow. maybe a emblem/sticker shave and some euro plate filler .. or motor swap .. who knows ... i will post pictures.

were did you find tail lights with no orange like i nthe newer pics ?

Originally Posted by mdarosa54

were did you find tail lights with no orange like i nthe newer pics ?

Candy apple red testors paint. They are not OEM.

Originally Posted by mdarosa54

were did you find tail lights with no orange like i nthe newer pics ?

as mentioned above. they are color matched to the oem red. they didnt come like that.

Originally Posted by fcsteve

$300 AND 6 HOURS LATER

so i have been looking for just a shell to swap in my motors and drive around. this was it. body is near perfect minus some real light rust and the front valance. the rust i will be getting rid of very soon. the headlights and grills and some near mint fogs were all in the trunk so i can slap those on. i already have everything else here to get it to perfect condition except the front plastic. the car came with 2 rear bumpers .. so now i have 3 rear bumpers and 0 front bumpers.









mint dash, knee panel and a bunch of other stuff were a plus. most of the interior was in pieces on the back seat, most of its still there






the tool kit was mint .. so i will be selling it as i have no need for it.

hey i was wondering still selling parts for the 325 if you are email me at fgarciametal@aol.comi have the same car and color

quoting 2009 .. no i dont have any parts that were on the car when i got it and the entire car has been sold.

lol i really like the original tool kit

at the time i just sold it cheap. now ive been trying to find a minty one with all the tools and there are barely any

Wow, just went through all 69 pages. I want an E30 now.

can u put together a second us cluster for me and ill pay u for it plus shipping.. mine is all metric/euro.. and i swear im gonna get a speeding ticket sooner or later....
replaced some small parts


when putting in the new cluster one of the tabs snapped off. so i took the oppertunity to build myself a full euro cluster but with miles for a speedo since that is one thing i need to know.

i figure i can make one out of these right ? .. i knew having a spare cluster would come in handy

there is a grey marker euro cluster, a full euro cluster and 4 US clusters. i havnt finished the final one yet.[/QUOTE]

you can find used clusters all over the place.

Wow i just finish reading the whole thread
i can't wait for your next build.

Dude, read everything over 4 days and it was ridiculously good! Ive been looking for my first E30 to buy and this thread has given me so much inspiration and dedication to working on it aha. The car turned out amazing, have you go a build thread for the new car???
Sadly a 1990 318is I found the other day got snapped up in the same day. Was going for $1000Aud and has some slight rear quarter panel damage, I was shattered haha.

your car is really clean! How much have your put into it already??
the progression is awesome

Originally Posted by xtenthusiast714

your car is really clean! How much have your put into it already??
the progression is awesome

Steve sold the car. I'm sure he still manged to make a profit off the car. Was a very attractive car I'm sure now even with a M50 that car could have sold for 10K.

Originally Posted by xtenthusiast714

your car is really clean! How much have your put into it already??
the progression is awesome

it was sold over a year ago after it ruined my life. i really have no idea how much money i had into it.

Originally Posted by Tkaczuk

Steve sold the car. I'm sure he still manged to make a profit off the car. Was a very attractive car I'm sure now even with a M50 that car could have sold for 10K.

i returned it to stock and resold every part of the car(including the car) for more than i paid for it. i didnt sell it as seen in my sig or in this thread. or i would have been askign near 10k for it.


funny this thread was dug up. i was helping a buddy move out today and he had another friend helping. i had to stop at my house to unload some paint so it wasnt overheating while sitting in my car. when i stopped at my house the other kid stopped behind me. the kid got out of his car and had this completely surprised look on his face. .. so i asked what was up. his response was " holy ****, YOU'RE BMW STEVE! i didnt even know. everyone at my school used to talk about you. you had the sickest car in town." i just smerked and said "ya, thats me." then he went on for like 15 minutes describing my car to me and telling me how much people talked about it. i havn't had the car for over a year, it was funny how excited this kid was about it even this long after.

i have an m52 in the garage and a 91' calypso . we'll see where that goes eventually. i have other projects to work on before that tho.

I completely forgot what the bronzit looked like when you picked it up. I was sitting here bored as sh*t since Kayla is still passed out and skimmed through. Should have never sold that car, and I should have never sold you the calypso. Meh, we'll both be doing it alllll over again soon. 2 m20 tarbos comin right up

Originally Posted by anstead610

I completely forgot what the bronzit looked like when you picked it up. I was sitting here bored as sh*t since Kayla is still passed out and skimmed through. Should have never sold that car, and I should have never sold you the calypso. Meh, we'll both be doing it alllll over again soon. 2 m20 tarbos comin right up

i r haz 24v valves

i could change the color of the calypso to whatever i wanted. don't think i havn't thought about making it bronzit and bringing that car back to life, but with an upgraded m52.

Originally Posted by fcsteve

i r haz 24v valves

i could change the color of the calypso to whatever i wanted. don't think i havn't thought about making it bronzit and bringing that car back to life, but with an upgraded m52.

You can never bring it back to life because the bronzit was a piece of **** when you bought it. the calypso is not.

Originally Posted by anstead610

You can never bring it back to life because the bronzit was a piece of **** when you bought it. the calypso is not.

as discussed on the phone .. the calypso is way worse than the bronzit was. the bronzit shell was far from a POS when i purchased it.

Originally Posted by fcsteve

i r haz 24v valves

i could change the color of the calypso to whatever i wanted. don't think i havn't thought about making it bronzit and bringing that car back to life, but with an upgraded m52.

Whoah, don't change the color. Calypso is pretty cool on E30's. I'm sure you have seen some nice calypso E30's but I haven't. Keep the color. Atleast over bronzit, and not a brown. Too much brown going on lately.

Originally Posted by Tkaczuk

Whoah, don't change the color. Calypso is pretty cool on E30's. I'm sure you have seen some nice calypso E30's but I haven't. Keep the color. Atleast over bronzit, and not a brown. Too much brown going on lately.

calypso has been done too many times. i like it better than bronzit, but if i'm doing a project it's not goign to look like a car you've seen 20 other people with.

how many well done bronzit's have you seen ?

He didn't want to pay the premium for calypso paint.

Originally Posted by anstead610

He didn't want to pay the premium for calypso paint.

if i go with bronzit .. it'll cost me just as much for the paint.

swapped calypsots are where its at.

last year, ya.