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BMW parts will be dear if you ever needed them.

Brother had one from the 70's and to fix it back up the orginal look was going to cost $9,000 in parts alone,  that's nothing installed, fitted etc.

yeah, I know... my old car (before my GTSt) was a 323i - rebuilt as a 2.9L

spent Sh!tloads on it... still miss my baby :D

Most hardcore M3... i think the E46 BMW M3 CSL would have to be competing for that.

What are the specs for the E30 M3, weren't they running 4 cylinder engines?? End still keeping up with/winning some Group A events?

cheers.

Saw a M3 CSl at the golf club a few weeks back, QLD plates. 19" rims, those semi-slicks, carbon fibre everywhere :drools: One of THE best street cars i've ever seen. He/She was one of 21 VERY lucky ppl in this country.

i work for bimmer :rofl:

e30 m3s are 6 cylinder, and they are rare!

be careful when importing from uk - they can get rusty underneath from all the salt and snow .

E30s are definitely 4s. they're a 2.0 or a 2.2 inline 4, the evolution is maybe bigger, 2.5?

I am 100% sure they are not a six. only the 320i, 323i and 325i were sixes.

The M3 motor shared nothing with the 318i motor; the E30 M3 motor is designated "S14" - it is basically the M5 motor of the E28 with two cylinders lopped off. :P

It will be a fine day when i walk into my garage and see a VL Walkinshaw, Sierra, R31 GTS-R plus some American muscle. Hadnt thought too much about the little M3, suppose ill have one of them too.

Come to think of it, a friends dad had a Veal Schnitzel E30 325is, or was that Schnitzer? That was a nice car, one of those will do in right hook at half the price, perhaps with soem wild ass cams to get the banshee NA 6 cuylinder thing happening :rofl:

ahhh you are rite! i've never seen an e30 M3 in the workshop, but i've heard of the S14 engines. They are a 2.3L 4 valve inline. the e36 came with the 6 (S50, 3.0L/3.2L)

bimmer parts are sorta expensive, but you save alot if you do the work yourself. our workshop rate is $115.00 an hour, and its about that much for BMW dealerships anywhere. The e30's are pretty reliable and are better designed than the early E36's anyways.

you know you want one of these...

V8 1990 celsior (lexus GS400) with a 200 lexus makeover and widebodykit... only $23000 to land here.

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I think the GRP A M3 that was raced here was a 3 series fitted with the M3 motor cause back then BMW never sold the M3 version. Maybe the reason for not selling the M3 here is cause they were all LHD and the M3 raced here was a standard 3 series chassis with the M3 engine.

Nope, they were fully imported Group A-spec M3s built from the ground up by BMW M-Sport GMbH. If you raced in International Group A, you could run an M3 anywhere in the world (just like the Sierra Cossie).

And AC Schnitzer are a BMW tuning house, on par with HKS, TRUST or Blitz. Long history of sheisse-hot Beemers.

There's a fair few E30 M3s doing the rounds in Oz, with at least 25 registered. Still the most pure, most focused 3 Series ever.

thats nice... should have kept it!  have you seen the new 6 series yet?

I sold it to a guy who lives 2 streets from me... everytime I see it I get sad

you're right - should have kept it :)

The new 6 series is... different. Not sure about it yet, will have to wait and see

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