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1985 Bmw E30 Euro Import 323i 330i M60 Swap Project Car 90% Complete on 2040-cars

US $4,500.00
Year:1985 Mileage:0
Location:

Minneapolis, Minnesota, United States

Minneapolis, Minnesota, United States
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I am posting my 1985 BMW 323i Euro import coupe for sale because I picked up an E30 M3 and no longer have time or space to finish this project.


the basics:
-1985 BMW E30 coupe. Cosmosblau. Euro car. Euro bumpers, Euro headlights, Euro fogs, Euro grilles, Euro dash clock, Euro cluster, Euro check panel, rear sun shade, etc etc.
- 1994 BMW 3.0 liter V8 M60B30. Alusil updated block. from a 1994 530i sedan
- S5D 310Z 5 speed manual gearbox
- 3.73 Limited Slip differential
- Black leather sport seats
- frenched high beams and fogs
- Mtech spoiler and steering wheel
- original trunk tool kit w. warning triangle and other NLA fun stuff not seen on US spec cars.
- Vogtland springs and Bilstein Sport shocks/struts. under 2000 miles on them.

Whats good:
- body and underbody are SOLID. 99% rust free
- Garagistic V8 swap mount kit, X5 headers, E34 mounts, E34 trans, e36M drive shaft, all that stupid stuff is DONE for you already.
- ZF trans and engine drove awesome in the E34 donor
- Euro car. alone, probably worth half or two thirds my asking price.
- interior is really nice
- CRANK WINDOWS!
- all the Euro goodies are present and work
- suspension is all recently replaced
- V8 sound, and its very fast.

What needs doing:
- needs bolts and gaskets in the downpipes
- current exhaust system is poorly done, and was only done as a stop gap measure. it works, but not pretty.
- radiator leaks. its a 1987 535i radiator, easy to find a new one of luckily.
- needs feed and return lines run to coolant overflow bottle.
- shifter selector rod is the wrong length, only reverse, first third and fifth are reachable in current state. will look for an E36 selector rod and include with the car to correct this.
- no power steering. pump is present as is the rack. you can attach it if you please.
- no fan. electric or viscous on the engine.
- tires are miss-matched and crappy on the basketweave wheels.
- remote brake booster bracket needs to be welded more securely to the car before the car is driven on the roads. currently tack welded.
- brakes need to be bled, as does the clutch.
- tachometer, temperature gauges are inoperable. will include instruction on how to get those to work for the next owner however. not so bad honestly.
-drivers door card has seen better days.


actual mileage unknown. cluster reads 106k.




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Thu, May 21 2020

For in the 1985 model year, General Motors began selling Chevrolet-badged Suzuki Cultus hatchbacks in California. Sales of the cheap three-cylinder econobox in the rest of North America followed soon after (with the Canadian version known as the Pontiac Firefly), and did pretty well considering the crash in gasoline prices during the middle 1980s. Starting in 1988, the facelifted Sprint became the Geo (and, later on, Chevrolet) Metro. Here's one of the very first Cultuses sold on our shores, found in a San Francisco Bay Area car graveyard. Amazingly, the primitive rear-wheel-drive Chevrolet Chevette remained available all the way through 1987, competing with the thriftier front-wheel-drive Sprint in the same showrooms. For 1988, Pontiac started selling a rebadged Daewoo LeMans, so the Sprint/Metro never lacked for intra-corporate competition. Inside, you'll find the same stuff most mid-1980s Japanese econoboxes got: tough cloth upholstery and long-wearing hard plastics. Suzuki quality in 1985 wasn't quite up to Honda or Toyota levels, but you weren't paying Honda or Toyota prices for the Sprint. MSRP on this car started at $4,949, or about $12,000 in 2020 dollars. The cheapest possible 1985 Chevette cost $5,340, while a new no-frills Ford Escort would set you back $5,620. Subaru, however, could have put you in a punitively unappointed base-model Leone hatchback for just 40 bucks more than the Sprint that year. I think I'd have sprung the extra for a $5,348 Toyota Tercel, a $5,195 Mazda GLC, or— best cheap-commuter deal of all that year— the $5,399 Honda Civic 1300 hatchback. I was 19 years old and driving a Competition Orange 1968 Mercury Cyclone that year, and I recall feeling pity for Chevy Sprint drivers, new-car smell or not. Still, these weren't bad cars for the price, though a Sprint with an automatic transmission was a real character-builder. Got three cylinders and uses 'em all! 48 horsepower from this hemi-headed SOHC 1-liter. The Turbo Sprint — yes, such a car existed — had a howling 70 horsepower. The hood-latch release is a rectangular button that resembles a badge. 1985 Chevy Sprint Commercial The highest-mileage, lowest-priced car you can buy. 1985 holden barina commercial The Australian-market version was the Holden Barina, and the TV ads featured the Road Runner. 1983 SUZUKI CULTUS Ad In its homeland, this car got screaming guitars and a drive through New York City for its TV commercials.

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