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I have:
83 320i
79 323i
89 325i

I have been collecting these cars to build one.
The 83 320i has a perfect body (motor problems)
The 79 323i has new brakes, brake lines, suspension(bilsteins/eibachs) very clean motor, bad oil pump and banged up body
The 89 325i has the motor I want (motronic 1.3) but a banged up body.

My plan is to use the motor and tranny from the 325i, the cross member and entire front and rear end from the 323i, and the body from the 320i.

Any advice at this stage would helpful...

I plan on turboing 7-10 psi and chipping. New exhaust and headers.

I'm looking for an agressive car with 200hp and torque to match. I'm not trying to build a dragster but more of a drifting cornering king.

I just got these cars together and so far I have removed the body from the frame of the 323i. I have the front steering/suspension - motor tranny - drive line - diff and entire rear end sitting in my garage waiting for the motor swap and new body.

WHAT shall I do to these things as they are easily accessed now??

I'd like to replace all bushings for urethane bushings (who has a kit for sale for the 323i suspnsion?) and maybe even swap over to Ground Control coil overs. I need a limited slip but what ratio?? (Again I am not looking for top speed) Any advice or something I haven't thought of??

Has any one seen or experienced this setup before??

lengthy I know
Thanks
Isaac
 
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Building an e30 drift car is expensive as you will chew thru diffs and LSD's are quite hard to get. This topic has been bashed around abit by some people I know in NZ, and the consensus is, if you want a drift car, buy something more suitable.

However, if you want to go ahead, you WILL need to turbo it to get the power required.

If it was me, I'd forget BMW parts and throw a Toyota 4agze (supercharged from an MR2 or levin) or a 4agte (turboed from a corrola or something) or a Nissan RB25DET from a nissan laurel or skyline, throw in the appropriate running gear, and then a japanese LSD. The only prob is, that I don't know anyone who has put a jappa LSD in an e30, so I don't know how hard it is. The motor upgrades I mentioned have been done before and aren't too hard. I have aslo seen a 13B put in one, but don't know much about it.

I can link to a coupla sites if you like, but only if you seriously want to consider going japanese parts as it will take me some time to find all the links.

Otherwise I can link you to a thread in a NZ forum which basically just goes over what I said.
 
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I'm trying to build a e21 drifter street smasher not e30... I'd like to know why you don't think bmw parts are good for this. If I wanted japanese I would buy a honda like every one else. Thanks for info but the thread in the NZ forum will do.
 


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