DirtE30 - 1990 BMW 325i

[Senor_Taylor]

Doesn't bother me at all; just trying to drop some knowledge in a snarky trollesque manner. My advice, from someone with a deeply ingrained cheap-car fetish, is don't buy cheap cars and fix them up. Been that done there. Enjoy them for what they are. You can autox it without new diff fluids and a working speedo and springs and you will enjoy it just the same.

Of course. I've been trying to talk myself out of replacing all of the fluids since I bought it.

Yeah fuck that noise. My utility bills were $400 this month and I have zero e30’s to show for it. 

That said, it needs a suspension, euro grilles, an iS front lip, and BBS.’  

Delphin grey?

Dave has a valence thing for me, everything else, I'm just going to grab as I find free/cheap parts. Jake L has a glove box and some seats I can snag for cheap, but I kind of want to stick with grey seats, which he has none of. 
Last night I pulled the seats and some carpet and gave it a good vacuum and scrub. I drove it to work this morning and with the windows up, it's a pleasant ride. I have an appointment to get it aligned tomorrow since it pulls hard left after the control arm replacement. I'm going to snag a cheap head unit and bulbs for the dash today so driving it is a little more... possible. 

The headlights seems to flicker at idle and even out at speed, so I'm assuming it needs an alt. If it's not crazy expensive, I'll throw one on some time soon for cheap insurance and to make sure i don't blow up any electronics. I also replaced 4 blown/melted fuses last night and I have no idea what they were for. 
I definitely have a vacuum leak somewhere to find since occasionally the idle will peg at 2000 or 3000, but for some reason, it's far less annoying than when the Miata did it. Also, the clutch is so much harder on my knee than the Miata. I have screwed up cartilage in both knees so a lot of repeated clutching really starts to bother me, so my drive from Arlington to Sterling at 6:30 yesterday was pretty awful. 

Once I get the car in the air and confirm no part of this car will try to kill me, I'm going to look into the refrigerator bowl or something to stretch its legs. The torque of this fresh straight six is amazing and it makes all the right sounds.