E30 M3 antidote.

[Nath88n]

The car is now running a matching pair of plates. Plain pressed metal ones with the pre2001 font, the rear one you can see in pictures two and three. I use the morden ones for trips abroad.
The rear number plate frame is a ageless MB one.

Thanks for all the nice comments.

[John_S4x4]

At last, Nathan. I was wondering when this might show up. Welldone, it looks stunning. Wish mine was as half as good.

Well done on getting the AMG spark plug cover. Rare as rocking horse poo. You selling your old cover ? (Interested)

Can you explain to the uninitiated, about the "AMG Power Pack" for the 16v and the advantage of the AMG slide throttles ?

Once again, stunning set of photo's

[Nath88n]

Hi John, hope you are still enjoying the wheels? Feel free to PM me some pictures of yours, would love to see it.

The AMG power pack consists of inlet cam, KE-controller, ignition switchgear, butterfly valve disk, fuel pump relay and a exhaust system with two cats. Very rare and I have only seen them on LHD 2.5's. I think I can do better by using Trijekt EFI with forged pistons and EVO2 cams, this should see a reliable 240BHP.

Trijekt EFI kit;

[falkster]

Fantastic colour!! Best colour of the later ones!! Armandine?

[Nath88n]

That's the one, 512 Armandine red.

[rodgerramjet]

Stunning. Wonderfully clean and the mods are, IMO, perfect. I'm extremely jealous!

Wish I'd never sold mine, a guy from Cyprus bought it and it was due to be only the second one on the island according to him. I was also proud of my working OTG, lap timer, SLS, ASD and aircon. Also came with full leather, heated seats and illuminated vanity mirrors so was fairly well spec'd.

Gratuitous pic of my old girl..... if you don't mind?!!



I like the lack of Cosworth badge on your car also

I'm away now to look at the pics of yours on page one again for a while! I love it

[Nath88n]

Thank you. A very nice valver you had there, did you sell it to a guy called Andronikos?

The only option I would of liked to have is heated seats, didn't want aircon due to the power sapping.

[rodgerramjet]

Nath88n said:

Thank you. A very nice valver you had there, did you sell it to a guy called Andronikos?

The only option I would of liked to have is heated seats, didn't want aircon due to the power sapping.

Thanks, but I would've given mine a 5/10 while yours is 10/10! The bodywork was a bit shabby and there were a few points of the interior that I wanted to sort (steering wheel, gear knob, vanity mirrors, zebrano). I know how much effort it would take to get one of these up to the standard you've managed, with parts getting difficult to source, not to mention expensive.

Your car really is a credit to you. You must've spent a lot of time and effort getting it up to that standard.

Yeah, mine went to Andrionkos. He was a member on mercedes190.co.uk . Do you know him?

[MikeA3]

V. Nice Benz - IIRC, Hammond did a "future classics" bit on Top gear a while back and raved about these.

Oddly, the one he drove was the same colour and a manual too...

[Nath88n]

Thanks guys.

Some more pictures;

[omgus]

I can only reiterate what an absolutely mint car that is.

It looks as new.


Want.
<sneaks of to dream in the classifieds>

[Nath88n]

rodgerramjet said:

Thanks, but I would've given mine a 5/10 while yours is 10/10! The bodywork was a bit shabby and there were a few points of the interior that I wanted to sort (steering wheel, gear knob, vanity mirrors, zebrano). I know how much effort it would take to get one of these up to the standard you've managed, with parts getting difficult to source, not to mention expensive.

Your car really is a credit to you. You must've spent a lot of time and effort getting it up to that standard.

Yeah, mine went to Andrionkos. He was a member on mercedes190.co.uk . Do you know him?

Yeah I'm a member of the 190 club too. I can ask to see where you car is now if you like?



and proof it gets used as it should;

[E30M3SE]

Very nice.

[rodgerramjet]

Hi,

It's ok I'm still a member on there, I just rarely ever visit the site. I might drop a note on it sometime to see.

Can I ask if you had any issues fitting your wheels? I had a boggo 190E 1.8 to which I fitted a set of staggered AMG Mono IIs. I had to get the rear arches pulled out and get the front bumper trimmed slightly to accomodate them. Also, in respect to the wheel/tyre sizes, how does it ride now?

It certainly looks loads better on your Aero Is than the standard rims. Or any other style for that matter. I've only ever seen 7.5x17s on valvers, can't be many with your set-up I'd imagine.

[Great Pretender]

Stunning!

[Playo]

Very nicely presented indeed!

Sure I've spied this around the Bridgend/Porthcawl area before??

[fatboy69]

That is an amazing car & the colour suits it imo. Not much more to be said apart from i wish it was on my drive now instead of my BMW.

Off to the classifieds now!!!

[Nath88n]

rodgerramjet said:

Hi,

It's ok I'm still a member on there, I just rarely ever visit the site. I might drop a note on it sometime to see.

Can I ask if you had any issues fitting your wheels? I had a boggo 190E 1.8 to which I fitted a set of staggered AMG Mono IIs. I had to get the rear arches pulled out and get the front bumper trimmed slightly to accomodate them. Also, in respect to the wheel/tyre sizes, how does it ride now?

It certainly looks loads better on your Aero Is than the standard rims. Or any other style for that matter. I've only ever seen 7.5x17s on valvers, can't be many with your set-up I'd imagine.

No problems with the wheels at all, it's got the AMG front wing spacer kit but the rear is standard.
Going from 205/55/15 to 225/45/16(EVO1's) there was no difference in ride, just better feel and grip. Going from 225/45/16 to 215/40/17 the ride is more firm but it still feels comfortable, grip and feel are just as good as before. All in all surprisingly good given the drop in profile.
The other worry was the drop in ET, it went from 34 to 28. Again this wasn't a problem as my 190 uses W124 300-24 hubs, the bearings are a bit more meaty.

Yes there are not meany 190's running the Aero's, Mono's seem much more common for people who want 17" AMG's (although these are often reps).

[Nath88n]

Playo said:

Very nicely presented indeed!

Sure I've spied this around the Bridgend/Porthcawl area before??

Not me unless I was passing on the M4.

Nice B5 RS4 btw, it's on my list to own.

[carlove]

Now that porn's gone I will tell you how beautiful that colour is.