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Hello dear readers!

Welcome to my modest and recently created blog! In this blog I’m going to write about one of my dreamed car/project! As you can know, the domain of this blog says it all!

I bought an unit of BMW E30 318i to an old man in his workshop for a high price, but the car was in really good condition, or I thought so…

I don’t really have a lot of pictures of everything because all of this wasn’t planned to begin with!

Here is a picture of the beauty

I know, it’s not a great picture but at least you saw it lol.

The thing began when discussing with a friend of mine (he has a M3 e46), told me about the BMW E30. I instantly googled it because I didn’t know what was he talking about, and after reading about it I said, what a bunch of crap, the only thing it’s cool it’s the design. And yes, I’m still thinking that the rest of the car is junk, so that’s why I decided ti swap it in the 2JZ-GTE vvti.

So, I began to find my perfect car. This is the first one I ever consider due to it’s cheap price and I was going to swap anyway.

A very nice automatic 324d, but it was from Barcelona and It was a pre ( I prefer post), the 2000€ car was pretty in good shape, but feared the rust under the hood.

So, moving on I really considered buying this one

Hell yea, a convertible with a V8 in it!!! But price was quite high (not high as mine tho, if I knew it earlier…) and the buyer wasn’t really friendly, so moving on to the next one.

Then, I found that an old man in his garage was selling his car. The guy had a lot of racing cars and well, I’ll post a few images so you can get the idea

See all that crap? It’s BMW pieces heaven, the guy made BMW race cars only!

So yes, I ended up buying his overpriced 318i thinking it was a 318is, what the heck, it was the only one in real good shape.


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Finding something fun

Jesus man! you bought an E30 and now what? Well, this model was a 318i, with an engine M40B18 with a very nice sound and well, it was clearly performed for “race” driving. Car was awesome but it was a little bit old, so the first thing I had in mind was “Let’s change the suspension”, without even knowing what I was doing.

I decided to go for a Bilstein B12 (With Eibach springs), without even knowing about the 5 lug conversion and everything, so well, what the heck, at that time I didn’t know what I was doing, I only know that my dream car was taking shape! (Yeah, with just a minor modification).

So, new shocks and springs in, the car looked AMAZING! (sorry no pics this time).

After the suspension upgrade the car was already showing a noticeable performance, but it was just not enough!

The lack of power and a bent wheel (really bent) was not helping either, so I decided to check engines. I was going for a 325i or 328i swap, but what the heck, it was going to give me just 200hp more or less, what kind of swap is that for a fine 4cylinder 318i to a straight 6 enginge? Yes, you have more power but the car is heavier, I don’t think that power-weight ratio was really good, so let’s go for something with more power!

Checking my whishlist of enginges the first coming to mind was the RB25det! So I really dig in the internet and try to get an RB25 enginge…

Ended up in this website:

MotoresJDM

If you take a look to this website is full in spanish, because I’m from Spain LOL. Ok, we got the enginge supplier so let’s get in touch with them! (they have also a lot of JDM engines)

First think to ask was “Is this engine possible to make it legal here in Spain?” the majority of answers were a “No” or “Impossible”.

To explain this “strange” thing, the “tuning” or “car modifications” in Spain are almost dead, because they force you to do a checklist with all the modifications and if everything is correct you can drive your car freely on the roads, but if something is not possible, prepare for “Los verdes”, they are funny guys.

So, back to the main story line, if RB25 was a no-no thing, what next? A 2JZ of course! Was this possible? Heck yeah! Or thought/told so…

Ok! Time to buy shit then! Was it a good idea? NO! Will it be cheap? NO! Will you be happy? I DON’T KNOW! but at the end if everything goes ok, yes of course XD

So, after a loooooong wait for the engine(imported directly from japan) my engine was on it’s way for the swap!

Here is a video of compressions of my engine:

Pretty decent compressions right? Well, this has just begun!

Let’s find a mechanic able to do this!!!