Ok, getting excited... talked to a local BMW enthusiast/car builder, he buys a lot of E30's and fixes them up as special projects to sell/keep. He said he's got an Alpine White with Cardinal Red leather interior '86 E30 with an S50 in it + 160k original miles on chassis, and that he can sort of 'build it to order' for me.
So Bilstein shocks, my choice of springs, S50 either stock or with some injectors, chip, and 3.5 MAF, ready to be BAR'd as a fully legal swap, and he was planning to put a full Hartge setup on it. Not sure if I want the amazing Hartge stuff on it, but it's an option. It'll have Euro bumpers on it too, which look HOT.
Really excited to have such a solid platform to potentially build off of. If he can have the car ready for me in the next 2 weeks and everything checks out, I definitely think I'll jump on it. Plus, Alpine White with red interior? YUM!