Even though I don’t drive an e30 anymore I still have my ear to the ground when it comes to what’s going on in the community, so I watched this years thread about the Autumn e30 meet on max and figured it would be worth making an appearance. The turnout was awesome and I am really glad I made it out, it was a good excuse to kill an afternoon, reminisce, and do some ‘spirited’ driving.
For whatever reason every e30 meet has a disproportionate amount of red e30sQuick shot of some of the cars that showed up at the photo spot
Early Models (1984-1989)
Having owned an early model e30 myself I think they get a bum wrap on account of the US/Canadian spec bumpers but those brave enough to still rock them do a good job.
New owner same great car, Cam told me he is not doing a bumper swap, nice!With these bumpers painted and tucked they are hardly noticeableGTA's original competitive e30 drifter
Tourings and M3s
I would gladly own either of these e30 chassis one of each would be preferable.
Looks like a dope road trip vehicle to meAll you need is Jello12 collective cylinders of nostalgia
Late Models (1989-92)
late model owners have it easy, it doesn’t take much to make these cars look great.
Good to see this member out after the trouble he had with his first buildOne of the lowest at the meet for sureJays e30 has been in hiding the past few years but his fitment is still bang onRumor has it these wheels are specifically made for the e30 by tree house racingPerhaps the cleanest e30 at the meet was the organizer Rudys 325isFeatured photographer Sam H knows that underbadging is where itThis e30 will be leading all e30s for awhile yetThe M30 is stupid simple design, 6 manly men pushing up and down on the cylinder with Hercules-like forceThe only dude in the e30 scene rocking steelies so hard, this car is fast
Mtech II’s
The cleanest kit for late model e30s comes right from the BMW factory, oem FTW
Both of these cars came out of the Bimmersport shopReally feeling the stance on this red mtech IIThe power train is also nothing to sneeze at, note the girl warming her hands off the motorTook a few pics of this car since I am sure you guys will love itDish.Dialed fitmentPolice remember this
Other cars
As always there are a few rebels, outcasts and misfits, I should know I was one of them.
You don't seem too many e46s on VolksDumped e90
Sam H sent me a bunch of photos from the meet as well which I will be posting later this week so for those of you who can’t get enough e30 content stay tuned.
The concept of theme Tuesdays here on Stance Is Everything is simple, every Tuesday I pick a theme and post a collection of vehicles with that theme that meet the stance criteria (modified suspension that suit the vehicles intent). This weeks theme Tuesday topic is: BBS LM Appreciation
I love most BBS wheels since they have a clean style makes them which makes them a versatile wheel that is capable of going on a variety of cars. Their spoke design and dish is a look that straddles the line between aggressive and classy. Currently LMs are out of my realistic price range but one day my friends one day.
Local GTI wearing LMs perfectlyGTR sporting LMs in classic goldNewer GTR rocking silver LMsTuckin up front, flush out back, best of both worldsThe v10 should move the LMs on this viper no problemMini's get Mini LMs (not really that small at 17")I really should have color matched my BBS's these look so goodAWD crew isn't one to be left outOnly speed3 on LMs that I know ofPrior to seeing this car I had no faith these Audis could look so goodThis e30 is a beast, a sexy beastWouldn't change a thingThis 5 has rocked about 6 different sets of rims before settling on these20"s of awesomeClean as a whistle
Here is more of that crazy Kilander Turbo e30.
Got an idea for next weeks theme? Throw it in the comments, I’m even willing to accept a challenge if you post some obscure oddball car.
Yesterday I went to cover a local e30 meet and as usual Jay (Mystkial) and I chatted about e30s that have come and gone from the GTA scene over the years. While there has been an astonishing number of e30s that just up and disappeared the most famous of all the disappearing acts would have to be Randys Super charged S52, Reiger Kitted, Honda Blue, 325. This car set had a huge impact on the e30 scene at the time so lets go back and take a look at why.
I first saw this car at Importfest the weekend after my e30 crossed the border and it was immediately put on my short list of cars I wanted mine to look like. It wasn’t until I joined maxbimmer (where Randy is a member and a moderator) that I really got to know how much of a beast this car actually was.
Very few people set e30s up like this these days but in the late 90s and early 2000s this was how it was done
This car started out as an 1988 325e (one of the slowest e30s but ironically the fastest year 325e) but by the end it was far from a stock 325e. The standard superEta motor was tossed in favor of an s52 mill which is, for those of you who are not BMW heads, the motor out of a 1999 m3 and stock puts out about 250hp. However Randy’s Motor wasn’t stock and in addition to the blower it was bored out, had a higher flowing intake plenum, a set of Genie headers which fronted a 2.5″ mandrel bent exhaust system. It’s hard to find the numbers that the motor put out when it was in it’s prime but it’s safe to say that it had the power to back up the aggressive look.
Blow s52
The aggressive look of the car came via authentic Reiger GTS front and rear bumpers, MTECH side panels, and Honda Civic rocker covers which were fixed to the body and painted Honda Electron Blue pearl. To set off the kit and color the car was fit with large and wide (for the time) white 18″ X 8″ Compomotive wheels, the wheels were then matched with the necessary low stance via e36 OBX coil over sleeves.
In 2001 flush wasn't as popular as tuck
Randy was one of the first people to run these coil over sleeves on an e30 and this opened the flood gates for an inexpensive way to slam the heck out of e30s, The authentic Hella H.I.D.s in the US elipsoid headlights were also one of the first for it’s time. H.I.D. kits in those days were not as cheap and readily available as they are now.
The interior was swapped to black cloth, with a white six point roll cage added and OBX reclining racing buckets up front, the car also had the necessary (for showing) full I.C.E setup and the necessary (for not going to jail) hidden Valentine 01 radar detection system.
Further plans for the car included a nitrous oxide system and a few more under-hood bolt ons, that is until the unthinkable happened. One night while parked in the streets of Montreal the car was stolen and never to be seen again.
Rumors soon began to fly through the now large online e30 community that the car was stolen for an insurance scam, or that Randy crashed it on some back road some where but regardless of if either of those are really true the fact remains that this car is gone and now only lives via pictures and videos.
While this car might not be the style today and looking at it now some could call it ugly it was a trend setter in it’s time and deserves to be remembered.
For those of you who don’t follow me on twitter yet might I suggest you start as once I get an iphone I plan to take pictures of cars I see out and about more often. do this a lot more often. I spotted this Koenig-Specials kitted out wide body Benz at my local Costco and had to pause for the cause.. I am considering going back with the DSLR on my way to the e30 meet and shooting some more photos but we’ll see if that actually happens.
Flush back in what? 1992 maybe?Nice assThe dish on these wheels was incredible.With a little digging I was able to find this slightly higher res photo of the same car
Saw this over on Goods BMX via thecomeup. For those of you who have never been in a skate park skateboarders often give us (BMX riders) a hard time for riding out bikes in the park claiming that we damage the hell out of them. At times the arguments can get pretty heated and sometimes even come to blows. However what happened at Burnside a few days ago is a first, and the fact that the owner of this vehicle was kicking out BMX riders just minutes before this makes it all that much sweeter. Story goes like this:
“about a half hour before this happened the guy driving was telling Bruce Crisman that bikes were not allowed in the park.Pretty funny! Also i guess after the wreck he just crawled out of the car and cracked open a cold one.”
Looking the beer, going to be a long dayMaybe that Subaru in the back could pull it outWithout knowing the layout of Burnside it seems impossible for anyone to end up in a situation like this and yet...
Update: This got posted on Jalopnik and I got the hat tip for the tip nice! No link back but at least I know they get my email now!
Site Updates
I still, patiently, waiting on stickers, and with the way the weather is looking they will probably be here first snow fall (hope not). Nat from Red 7 and I are working on the final details for her photographer feature so that should be up soon I swear.
As for events I am hoping to make it out to an e30 meet on Sunday but I have a Wedding Saturday night and you know how that goes. I’ve got a few things in mind for next week though so stay tuned.
I thought I posted this car before after I saw it on Jon Sibals blog but it doesn’t seem as though I did, and if I did it’s worth looking at again. Whenever you think that you might not be able to go lower refer to this post. This car is stuffed beyond belief and the front bumper still looks minty fresh, let’s all take notes shall we?
This Toyota Aristo is sitting on coil-overs not bags and the bolt pattern has been converted to 5×120 to fit BMW wheels. It also has a 2JZ under the hood with some tuning and increased boost.
Note the lack of visible damageLike Fonixx this Lex tucks significant rimHovercraft status
I saw these wheels for sale on maxbimmer.com and even though at an asking price fo $2300 they are worth what I sold my entire e30 for I really think someone without my shoe string budget should scoop up these refinished RS’s because they are absolutely stunning. The specs are as follows:
Freshly refinished
-15X8 / 15X9 BBS RM’s
-2″ Schmidt lips front and 3″ Schmidt lips in the rear
-Polished ¼ height caps with polished BBS logo’s (original caps also included).
-Spare set of 2″ lips can be installed at a cost to the buyer or purchased for an additional $200
-At 4×100 these could fit quite a few vehicles, e30s, civics, vdubs…. For sale thread
The color looks kind of root beer esqueFlawless 3inch lipsDo want.
Black VW owners love Stance Is Everything; Dan sent in his Black GLX not too long ago and now I am posting pictures of Faisal’s VR6 which I have been sitting on for a little bit. This actually isn’t the first time Faisal’s ride has been posted on Stance Is Everything and it won’t be the last. This is however the first time I am posting pictures of Faisal’s ride that he has sent in. Jonny law recently pulled Faisal’s plates for being too low but he has plans to come back harder next year with a winter makeover, once his cars done expect it to be sick and expect a feature.
Faisal was reppin the murdered out look in 2004, ahead of the timesTo stand out a bit more he got some Audi Fat 5s and brought the car down some moreThe new stance and wheels really set the car offThe car was for sale briefly but thankfully it didn't sellOnce taking the car off the market the front end was updatedYou can hardly tell that this car was driven all year roundHis roofline doesn't even make it up to the bed!Killing it at VagkraftThis ride height attracts police admiration
Thanks Faisal for sending your ride in and supporting the site early on and I look forward to running a feature on it after the winter.
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The concept of theme Tuesdays here on Stance Is Everything is simple, every Tuesday I pick a theme and post a collection of vehicles with that theme that meet the stance criteria (modified suspension that suit the vehicles intent). This weeks theme Tuesday topic is: Sick S2000s
Honda’s high revving rear wheel drive roadster is this weeks Theme Tuesday vehicle. It’s crazy to think that this car was produced for 10 years, I remember when these came out…
Clean kit, clean paint, clean wheelsSilver on blue worksThe hardtops on these cars make them look more aggressive IMOLocal blacked out, kitted out, s2kMore blue rims, this car is on it's nutsDumpedstars S2000 is dumpedCCWs are my new favorite rimMurder was the case that they gave meLM's are greatFlushed s2kLove white on bronze for obvious reasonsI've seen a few s2000s with blue cages, I wonder what that's aboutWork it outFitted like a new eraSpin to win
As always if you want to see a certain theme for next week let me know via the comments.
It’s Thanksgiving holiday Monday here in Canada and unlike most people I didn’t spend it relaxing in a warm house eating a Turkey dinner and watching football, instead I spent it in my garage doing a little maintenance and troubleshooting on my car. This isn’t the first holiday Monday I have spent in the garage working on my car while people drive by to go spend time with their families and it sure won’t be the last. As I was working my mind started drifting to how exactly did this happen to me?
My story starts off pretty young; like most boys I always had an interest in car that comes with birth, I also had a lot of hot wheels remote control cars, and my dad got me my first model kit at a pretty young age. This lead to me spending a lot of summer weekends watching what has now become the Power Block on Spike TV (TNN back in the day) watching Hot Rod TV, and whatever the truck show was at the time and incorporating those ideas into my models.
Once I entered high school my car obsession basically doubled. Luck for me Streetsville Secondary had one of the best equipped auto shops in the Peel Region and probably the best auto teacher. Mr Dinner, or Dinner, as we called him was basically a god send to anyone who has a slight interest in working on and building cars.
Dinner quickly figured out that the best way to keep kids interested in the Transportation Technologies course was to let them do what they want and keep the standard boring tests and lectures to a bare minimum. In no time I was quickly lowering shop cars anyway possible, cutting springs, heating springs, or just straight up removing them (most of these cars never saw the road), I also put together a few random contraptions as well.
Another thing that really helped keep Auto students (and the entire school) interested in the course was the Fiero/Countach kit car. Most kids born in the 80s male or female have had a brush with a Countach either via poster, model car, die-cast car, or barbie power wheels.
The project was started a year before I was able to take autoshop
Even if you don’t like the idea behind a Fiero parading around as a Lambo unless you have personally been involved in the build of one you can’t really imagine how much work actually goes into them. It’s not quite as simple as slapping a body on the frame painting it and calling it a day, frames needs to be extended, hinges relocated/modified/ and adapted and body panels need to be worked and reworked. It’s nothing like a model.
I came in somewhere around here
Having an opportunity to work on a kit at such a young age was more than enough incentive to keep me in auto shop and once I got my own car I ended up taking auto more than I actually need credits for. Instead of skipping school to go burn j’s at the local spot I would skip law to go to auto.
This was before swing up door kits were available everywhere
My high school shop experience was so good that once I had my e30 I went back to the shop a few times after I graduated to do a little more work to it. How many people return to high school after their graduating year with intentions other than to burn it down?
Finished rear shoot, look at the width on those rear wheelsI would say this is fairly convincing other than perhaps the headlightsThis kit was started in my last year and finished about 2 years afterWith my teacher whipping this how else was I going to turn out?
While my high school experience in auto shop didn’t lead me to the automotive industry it did help me become the enthusiast I am today. The same enthusiast who will never be able to drive a stock car or leave well enough alone on a Thanksgiving Monday.
