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Let's see of anyone can beat this in the lightness stakes...







I got this car for nothing, it's LHD and fairly rusty and hasn't been run in years, my new field car. Me and a mate dragged it out of the shed, replaced all the ignition, poured some petrol down the carb and off we went! Since it's only a 1.6, weight loss was a must since I'll be racing against a mate. Everything has been removed, except I couldn't be bothered with the dash and I kept the windscreen. Any less weight would be chopping out panels and the dash, but I do need to remove the rear light clusters. I'll weigh it when I get some more petrol since I ran it out. All I can say is that it's an absolute hoot!

Not exactly concurs!

You can allways lose one of the fornt seats

I did swap a good one I had with a knackered one!

get rid of the exhaust it ways loads n loads, and it will sound loads faster too!!!

The idea was to plough and roll a field after harvest to create a track to race on. My mate was telling me he was going to get a car to compete against this, although the jammy git managed to get a E30 318i for £200. There was no way my badly running 315 1.6 was going to compete with that, so it went back to the drawing board. It was already very light, but I had some tricks up my sleeve with 323i suspension and a spare good M10 1.8 with a weber carb.

Out comes the 1.6


In goes my good 1.8 with weber.


2 and a half coils were chopped from each corner. I had fun with the rear shocks since the extra slack due to shorter springs would of caused the springs to dislocate. To sort this, the top and bottom spring cups were drilled in three places each and the springs were zip tied in.


Has anyone lifted an E21 door? Well I have and they were far too weighty for my liking! Out came the grinder and I gutted the fookers. Much more acceptable!


I had some 30mm (each) spacers kicking about, and a lovely set of 14 x 7 et25 hartge rims. Set it off a treat


I took the mountney wheel off my yellow beast (can you tell?), and since the key broke we've been hotwiring it. This soon got tedious, so I've made it run on switches. One for ignition, one for starter (although the starter one is missing since I broke it ). Switches make it feel like a proper racer


The finished article






Notice my newly sprayed rocker cover, it's all in the details on a car like this

austin25uk wrote:get rid of the exhaust it ways loads n loads, and it will sound loads faster too!!!

Funny you should say that, the first time I took it on the track, the whole of the system just after the middle box fell off mid lap! It was running shit with only a middle box, so I hooked up a spare 316 exhaust I had laying around.

Anyway, here's some track photos with my mates E30. The track is amazing, the cars drift like crazy and it's mega fun! Sideways on every corner.










When it came time to race though, it was far to wet due to the miserable non stop rain we've had. Here's the two competitors, I think we know who's got the best car!

Oh yes, since I have access to a weigh bridge, it weighs 780kg

you are a genuine hill billy rob ha ha

i love the e30 with balls written on the side! it says it all lol, oh and the track is awesome, thought you where just building an ovel like what we used to have at fritz. open it to the public lol

M15KYY wrote:you are a genuine hill billy rob ha ha

I can't even try and deny this! Pure country hick.

austin25uk wrote:i love the e30 with balls written on the side! it says it all lol, oh and the track is awesome, thought you where just building an ovel like what we used to have at fritz. open it to the public lol

Cheers, you should see what it says on the other side, I didn't post this originally since some people may take offense. Balls and Jew are the nicknames of the two guys who bought the car.



Here's a very rough shit layout picture...


WHY WON'T IT STOP RAINING!!!!

rob i trust youve welded up the diff??????


believe me, its simply the best modification you can do to a rear wheel drive car ever ever ever!!! i shit you not!



you know it makes sence!

wiz0r wrote:My mate was telling me he was going to get a car to compete against this, although the jammy git managed to get a E30 318i for £200.

A jammy git am i rob, now that is not very nice is it :p

and where is my recognition for helping to get the car runnign again? such an ungrateful hill billie

Shut it you tart! Yes big thanks to you and Miss Wilde.

Miss wilde is an understatement ^^

cool forum this is, can't wait till i get my car and start my own project

O rly?