I love the E30 body style and possible mods so I'm planning to buy one for a project car and eventual DD.
So far I'm thinking an E30 with a 3.5, 4 or 4.4 swap, manual gearbox, whatever the best suspension I can find is, LSD if the E30 I buy doesn't have one, good brakes again if the E30 doesn't have them etc etc. The mechanical I'm happy I can sort out to be what I want to be.
The only sticking point is that I hate the stock interior on E30's. It looks too dated and this would be a DD so I'm looking for some info as to whether the E30 could have the dash, instrument cluster, steering wheel, seats and door cards replaced by the E32 interior. Is this possible? If not is there a later model with interior that does fit that's less dated?
The E32 is a 7 series model, look at the interior dimensions, nothing will fit into the E30, scroll down here, for example from doorpanel to doorpanel front doors it is 1482mm http://www.7-forum.com/modelle/e32/technische_daten.php
longer, wider, different shapes.
E34 seats will fit in an E34, but there it is already a bit tight
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Interesting... I usually get the opposite response when I give people a ride: that the car is much more modern than they expected. Other than maybe fitting a CD43 head unit, I can't imagine retrofitting interior parts would work very well. How about just fitting the most "modern" e30 parts? Mtech II wheel, 13 button OBC, etc.
I have a zhp knob with the trim ring painted black that fits nicely.
The owner of a local BMW body shop retro-fitted an e36 dash & seats into his personal e30 M3, looks factory.
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That would be quite the downgrade imo. The e36 dash is fugly.
If your e30 runs bad, switch to Megasquirt first. Then try new spark plugs, cap and rotor, wires, oxygen sensor, crank shaft position sensor, coolant temp sensor, air flow meter, idle control valve, throttle position sensor, digital motor electronics unit, harmonic balancer, fuel injectors, engine harness...
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