Yes, yes it is another BMW E30 320i. And in this picture it looks half decent.
That'll be the half closest to the camera then.
$550 has bought me a spares car!
What's good about this car:
- It drives!
- Open, and working Diff.
- Rear disk hub (so we can replace that)
- Working radiator - funny haha story to follow.
- A myriad of little bits of plastic that I needed to buy.
- A clean/straight bonnet, albeit in redish fade sort of colour.
What's not good about this car:
- Auto box - and that means that it goes with a bit of a woosh.
- Without actually wooshing. Gutless blob this car is sadly.
- Tan interior. Somewhere in there is almost certainly a medallion.
- Rust - quite a bit as it turns out. If I pass wind in the car I reckon it would punch a hole in the floor.
- No brakes, well, some, on one wheel. But that's OK, not like it goes fast enough to care.
But you want to know about the radiator...
Picture the scene. I've removed the fan, that was held in with a couple of cable ties - so time to refit.
Being me, I decided to 'ease' the drill through the bulkhead so I could put brackets in, and then blind rivet them in. A sound plan, and all was going well.
Until the last drill hole, in which I eased a bit too far. A trickle of kryptonite water and a dead car.
Damn.
In fact, if only I had a Dam, cos there's quite a lot of that green stuff everywhere. Even the roaches are steering clear of the floor in my garage at the moment...
But all is not bad. In doing this I've reworked the cooling pipes and figured out where the magic third cooling pipe goes (back to the previously defunct header tank, I had two).
And it get's better. Dona (as in Donor Car) has the gift of sensors and radiator so soon I'll be back to where I was a month ago. Yeay.
So, as the great JC would say, "Sit Rep"... now have two cars, or rather 2 2/3's of cars, so about 1 1/3 cars or something in the final analysis.
Anyone know anyone who wants the rusty shell of a BMW E30 in about a month's time? They'll need a crane...
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