- All right, take 48.
Cue the music. (upbeat music)
- Is this light supposed to be behind me?
- You would say that the light behind you is called a--
- Backlight.
- There you go.
- 'Cause I am back lit.
I'm also front lit.
- [Steve] Depending on who you work with,
they might call it a ring light.
- Like a (bleep) job.
(men chuckle)
Classic.
- With a mustache like that,
I'm sure you're pretty familiar with--
(bleep)
- Alrighty, welcome to Fitment Industries.
- All right, should we actually do an intro?
- Yeah. - Hello everybody.
It's Alex from Fitment Industries,
and I am with none other than--
(clears throat)
- Cory from Fitment Industries.
- And--
- Jasper from Fitment Industries.
- And we are here to talk about what?
- The E30 and Fitment Industries.
- Right. - We're all
from Fitment Industries.
- How many times are you gonna say that?
- I don't know, every time we do a video,
we announce that we're from Fitment Industries.
- Well, yeah, 'cause people need to know.
- So I figured we'll just really pound it into their head.
- Well, we need people to know that.
- Fitment Industries.
- Stop it.
What are we doing?
- We're talking about the E30,
all the things we wish we would have done, could have done,
want to do, will do, and have to do.
- All right, cool.
Jasper, you got the questions?
- I got the thing.
- All right.
- So. - Mr. Mustache.
- First one is what?
- Why did you call him Mr. Mustache?
- I'm noticing this subtly darker mustache than normal.
One would say that it would almost be questioned
that it's not a real color.
It might be fake.
- Like dyed? - Yeah.
- Huh. - Jasper?
- So what was that first question, Jasper?
- All right.
- What wheels would you have put on the car?
(Cory and Alex laugh)
Brand and, like, size and style and stuff of that nature?
Wheels?
Let's talk wheels, people, with an E30.
- Wait, what did you say?
- Wheels.
(Alex chuckles)
What wheels would you put on the car?
- All right, Cory, what wheels would you put on the car?
You start it off.
Stop looking at his mustache.
- So you're gonna--
- [Steve] Don't look at me.
- (bleep) Sorry. (bleep)
Oh, I would
probably not change much, but--
- You like to keep the style fives?
- I would go BBS RS instead of the RC090
because with the RS--
- Oh, don't act like they're actually BBS's.
They're BMW style fives.
- Okay, still made by BBS, still BBS RC090's.
Yes, they are the BMW style five,
but they're also the BBS RC090.
So back the the original question, Jasper,
I would take the BBS RS, slightly wider than that,
same color scheme.
Actually, a lost wider than that.
- Same size?
- Yeah, 17's, but, like, 17 by nine in the front,
17 by 10 1/2 in the rear.
- All right, Jasper, what would you pick?
- Why are you gonna look at me like that?
I would probably do a set of the O.Z.
O.Z. Turbo's.
(bleep)
O.Z. Turbo's probably, and-- - Stupid.
- Wait, can I change my answer?
- No, no, no--
- I forgot about a wheel that is new to the scene.
- What? - Ish.
That Heritage wheel that mimics the bottle cap.
Have you seen that?
I don't know what it's called,
but it's a three-piece bottle cap,
and it is the (bleep) sexiest wheel
I've ever seen on an E30.
- Okay, so I'm gonna change my answer.
Why are you, Cory, on your phone?
- 'Cause he wants to show you that.
- [Jasper] That's basically what I was thinking of.
- [Cory] Steve, so good, so good.
- Rental turbos. - Rental turbos.
- Cool. - The Ring.
- Like, they manage to come across--
- The Heritage Ring.
- Shhh, your time is up.
- Heritage Ring.
- Story's over.
Let it go.
Multi-piece, 16's, not 17's.
- 17's.
- Yeah, it's an E30--
- So 17, 16,
15?
- 15 or 16, yeah.
So the next question would be function or form?
Would you rather go with this car, function or form?
- Um, form, because the car makes 82 horsepower,
so you can't go with function.
- You know, I would agree with that.
I think with the platform that it's on,
I know you can make 'em quick when you do the engine flaps
and you do all that stuff, but, like,
I think that if you're just doing, you know,
like, minor upgrades to the motor and things like that,
I would rather see form over function in a car like this
just because
to me, this is, like,
a car that I would want to just, like, ball around town in.
- Cruise on a Sunday.
- Like a daily or Sunday, like go get food, stuff like that.
You know, this isn't something that I would, like,
want to take to the track
and want to pretend to drive super fast
or like, want to pretend like it's some sort of drag car
because it's not.
- Never. - Clearly.
- And I know a lot of people
that do the swaps have terrible reliability issues.
- Completely. - True.
- Um, yeah, I'm definitely form.
I mean, in two scenarios of an E30,
I would either do a drift car or,
like, a baller-ass stance car.
- Yeah. - Because, like,
especially with this, though, 'cause it's a sedan.
So I just, I don't know, I wouldn't feel like--
- If it was a coupe, I think you could be all right
to do, like, the function style
and do, like, some hard power and do the drift
or do, like, autocross.
You know, have the roll cage and do that whole setup.
But I think as a sedan--
- It's just a cruiser. - It's more of a cruiser.
- Yeah.
- Okay, motor swap or build what's in it?
Either one?
What would you do?
- I have dealt with motor swaps in the past,
and I just never always have the best experiences
with motor swaps.
I would say I like to modify what would be within it
and just kind of get a little bit more spit out of it,
but know that it's probably never gonna be anything
insanely quick.
- Yeah. - I just don't know.
I know a lot of people swap different motors in these,
and it's a pretty common thing, but, I mean,
that's not why I would build this kind of car.
I think that goes back to the previous thing
of, like, form or function.
Like, if I'm doing something for form,
which is what I would do on a sedan version of this,
I probably wouldn't want to do a whole motor swap change,
this, that, and the other thing.
I probably just want to spruce it up
and kind of kick it a nickel
so that it feels a little bit more responsive, but, like,
not anything crazy.
I guess that would be my opinion on it.
- Well, since we're talking dream build, I would--
- Here we go. - I really would see S54
on an E46 M3. - Yep.
- Austro E4. - Yep.
- And I'm still sticking with the fact
that I would go form over function, but I would want the S54
just because I need to do the independent throttle bodies
who have the 46 M3 motor.
You have the six speed manual behind it.
- It would look really, really good on the side of the road
because it would be broken all the time.
You don't even drive this one,
and you break it all the time.
- Yeah, I mean, the S54 is cool.
- And you can't talk about motor swapping yours either
because we just pulled water out of your engine.
- Right, well, we--
- He didn't even need to swap it to do that, though.
- Yeah, that's true.
- I think--
- He broke the stock version.
(Cory laughs)
- I think, I mean, S54 is a good idea because, like,
with the right performance that thing sounds like an F1 car.
Otherwise, S54's don't sound, like, the best, I think.
But I think I would do an S52, the E36 M3 over the E2 motor.
- I did it.
- Yeah, I mean-- - I was disappointed.
- It's probably the most common swap into an E30,
but I don't know, it's one of my favorites.
I mean, I'm glad we all agree on a BMW motor, though.
Like, we wouldn't go anywhere else.
Where you've got to keep it OG kind of deal.
- Yeah, I mean, I probably wouldn't change anything,
S52 or S54.
- Suspension?
Would you change anything?
- I think you did a good call
on the Silvers with the spring rates.
I mean, it's not the most comfortable to drive in,
but it actually does hold.
- [Jasper] What's the spring rate?
- 14K on the rear.
10K in the front.
- Which, by the way, Slivers told us not to do because--
- It's not comfortable, but it works.
- Very true. - I mean, they're right.
- I mean, we had to ratchet strap the car to the hoist
in order to get the springs in
if that tells you anything about how stiff they are.
- Yeah, I mean, I'm not, like...
Yeah, completely, yep, I'm on the same boat.
- I still think going back to, like,
how we build the car, though.
- Whoa.
No, I mean, I think static is always the way.
I mean, I'm just like that, but I mean,
just with an old car, like coilovers,
they're just, like, so right.
- There's something that's easy with static, too, though,
'cause I think with, like, talking to you
and talking to Rainy and certain other people,
like I guess just in the eyes of it always looking good,
it's always nice.
- What about lambos?
- An LS3 or something like that.
Absolutely not. - Lambos in the front,
suicides in the back. - No.
I would keep, like, everything the same
but just change the paint, change the motor,
change everything, and then what I would do is,
I would just drive around,
and I would just mess with people.
- [Cory] Keep everything the same but change everything.
- Yeah, but like, with the taillights and headlights
and things, like, I love the body of these cars.
I just think it would be really fun.
There's always something so much fun about driving around
when it works, a slopped car.
Like, a slopped car is gonna get so much attention
'cause, like, you pull up to anything, right?
- Yeah, and your motor's growling.
- And if you've heard an LS out of a BMW,
you're like, "Wait a minute, that's not right."
Or even if you do a Turbo LS,
which would be just so much fun,
and then pair that with a manual transmission,
just imagine the sort of, like, havoc you can,
like, just do. - It would be fun.
- So I would probably make it more of, like, a fun car
and just, it would probably be broken all the time,
but it would be fun.
- So you are you changing your original answer
to function over form?
- No, because with this one, I want it to be form.
- But you're like, oh yeah, now we're overall--
- If I could do anything, and I just completely threw, like,
realistic deadlines and money out the window
and the fact that I probably would never drive it,
that's what I would do.
But I want to drive this one,
so that's why I'm changing my answers.
- That's correct. - Yeah.
- That's correct.
- Cool. - Cool.
- Well, that's it.
I mean, that's overall what we think about the E30
and what idealness of it would be.
- So let us know what you guys think.
What would you change or keep about the E30
as we keep going through our weekly episode?
I'm Alex from Fitment Industries.
Cory, you're up.
(beep) Okay, so...
What?
Okay, so let us know in the comment section
what you guys would like to see done to the E30,
what you would change, what you would keep,
what's your ideal E30 or if you just have an ideal build
that you would love to do, we'd love to hear it.
If you're interested in wheels, tire suspension,
fitmentindustries.com.
Duh?
- And we have 0% financing going on right now (beep)
for those who qualify.
- [Jasper] And I--
- [Cory] You're Jasper from Fitment Industries.
- I'm Jasper from Fitment Industries.
- And he dyed his facial hair.
And I'm Alex from Fitment Industries.
- And I'm Cory from Fitment Industries.
- And we will see you later.
- Peace.
- That's really, like--
(Cory laughs)
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