I Bought One of the Earliest Alpina E30 BMWs Ever Made | 1984 Alpina B6 2.8 M30 Powered E30
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- Опубліковано 27 вер 2024
- Today I am excited to present to everyone another addition to the collection. This time one of the earliest Alpina E30s ever created. The 1984 Alpina B6 2.8 serial number #0003! Meaning this is just the 3rd B6 ever made.The first time Alpina put an M30 inline 6 into an E30! This car has the power, the torque, and most certainly the charm! Once upon a time the fastest 3 series ever created. It started it Germany, then visited Japan, and now it is here with me in the US! This is a special one! Join me on a first walk around and first driving impressions.
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From March 1984 till July 1986 they built 261 B6 2.8, two door and four door combined. It was the biggest production run of E30 Alpinas
Did I say 259? Oops
@@m3nameisjosh464 No worries, keep those great videos coming 😁
Great purchase, congratulations
Thank you!
man, the more i watch your content, the more i get to learn about my dream cars; absolutely amazing history lessons and breakdowns . i really need to commend you for the quality of content you produce for a channel your size. you’re doing a killer job, josh !
@@TheJabroniJoe wow thank you so much dude!!!! Comments like that absolutely make my day!!! I genuinely appreciate it. Im happy I can share these cool cars with those that appreciate them
Insanely cool collectable. I would have an Alpina over any standard BMW any day.
Fantastic find Josh. The B3 was a truly special machine but I love this one a lil more as it’s something you can drive and enjoy. I would be terrified to take the B3 out. Plus this should make some great content for the channel.
2024 is off to one heck of a start for your channel. Looking forward to what else you’re gonna bring.
Thank you Rob!!!! I appreciate that. Completely agreed. The B3 was terrifying to drive haha
You need to try the B6 3.5. It’s mind blowing in an E30 !
@@pittpasc i need to
@@m3nameisjosh464I had one in the past and regret it now
Nice find Josh❤️💛🖤💚
Thank you!! I was happy finding it!
Your taste in the beamer collection...is on point bro...🤞🏽
Appreciate that bro🙌🏼
Chrome bumpers on the e30s always look much better 👌 super cool rare car.
Can’t disagree man!
nice investment man these are getting rare and rare .. nice video keep it up
Most definitely!!
Very nice!
Wish you more cool hours with it.
I do own and drive a e30 Alpina B6 3,5 😇
Im jealous of your 3.5! Im actively trying to buy one!!
Alpina part numbers as requested: prefix all part nos with 9147. Front dampers are 3131135, front springs (same was 3.5) are 31331130046. Rear springs 3353104 and rear dampers 3352113. Diff mount bush 330109, front wishbone bush 3110111. The dampers/shocks are theca same across all Alpina E30 cars as are the rear springs, M30 front springs are different. Most use a standard 18.5 front anti roll/sway bar and a 14.5 rear. Alpina did offer a different rear bar 33 55 111 but I don't know the diameter.
WOW! Thank you!!!! I appreciate that.
NICE,MY FAVOURITE CAR IS E34 M5 😁
They absolutely hate sitting around, I was chasing rough running in my E30. I did everything I could think of to it. I needed to take it to work cause the X5 was throwing a hissy fit as it does... So I am driving down the highway, it just doesn't feel right, kinda bogged down, and then it loudly coughs, KABOOM, and it instantly felt better and ran right and drove like it should.
Im tellin ya man they heal themselves once driven!!!!
Should do the headliner in a matching material it would look super slick. (Not the alpina stripe but just that dark color the seats have).
That would be cool but can imagine its impossible to find such fabric. Gotta keep it original anyway😅
@@m3nameisjosh464 for future reference I do believe they sell it. Someone did an g8x m2 or m4 interior (or both) with this style fabric. Saw it on ig not long ago. They actually had the stripe(s) tho.
Nice find!
request - would you be able to measure the width of the cloth sections and distance between horizontal stitch rows on the rear seat upper? I am making one from scratch for my tribute build and would love to get the dimensions right.
I will try and get that for you!
Wow - that is just lovely. You just want to jump in and scream up the road just because.
These were announced November ‘83 but the first one was built Feb '84 and the engine is an oddball. Every production 2.8 came with L Jetronic (LE on the 81 onwards cars like the E28) but these used Motronic from the 3.2/3.5. I’m pretty sure it’s because the distributor was too close to the E30 bonnet. Cars with the close ratio box use the 2.93 LSD from the E28 525e but with stronger clutch plates for more grip. 40%? The bigger brakes were (iirc) Mercedes W124 front calipers on Alpina brackets and 296 mm discs. You might have a long range fuel tank as well.
They are no faster than a C2.7 but they just sound epic like only an M30 can. I do miss my ’84 C1 2.3 though that had a 2.7 engine fitted later. I drove it like a madman.
Unfortunately I only have a parts catalogue for the M20 Alpina cars with some part numbers for 2.8 suspension and exhaust.
Japanese cars are always the ones to have. The climate is mild and they don’t chuck all that salt shit over the roads! The best 20+ year old cars come from Japan.
Thank you for the info!! I totally overlooked the fact it has a later style distributor!! Thats awesome. Brakes definitely look unlike any BMW brakes lol. This car does have the auxiliary fuel tank. Forgot to show it!
Would you mind sharing the b6 2.8 suspension part #s? Going to replace shocks
Thanks, love to read about vintage Alpina cars.
Any idea which camshaft was used in these?
What size of tire you got?
Great car! What’s next?
A E34 B10 3.5 is a gem too, trust me I have one and it is very different compared to a 535i it is based on. You can’t go wrong with an Alpina
Lookin for a biturbo😅
They are fantastic but also quite a bit more fragile and maintenance can result in frequent NLA disappointments I am told
@@richardvand.3925 yepp sounds about right haha
Is that E30 as noisy as the regular one when it comes to the plastic pieces inside and the wind sounds? Even if is not, It's a beautiful machine.
I think the Alpinas are less noisy, possibly because recaro seats rattle less, or the cloth component deaden sound more, or just lower mileage nicer cars haha
wild car. also thats a tiny radiator, does the electric fan sit infront of it, or no fan?
Electric fan sits in front!
Are these correct size tires? They look a bit chubby.
Liiks like it has been sitting outside for a while. Drivers seat leather has deied up. The dash must've been covered. Otherwise it would've been cracked.
Tires may be a bit big, haven’t checked the sizes off top of head!
Back in the early 90’ dad was running an E30 M3 and a C2 2.7. Fond memories. M3 is on point but the M20 with 210bhp was such a nicer lump.
MANNN he was livin the life!!! Insane combo!
You got yourself a real gem there. Will be looking forward to your uploads ❤
@@SuperDickiedavies thanks dude!
2.7 comes with timing belt so throw that one away 🤝😂
😂😂😂😂😂
What RPMs were you hitting on that drive?
Almost all of them🫡
Sweet
🙌🏼
We keeping this one Josh?
I keep everything until it sells. How else will I get the next Alpina??
Alpina did not buy complete BMW's. They bought the parts and build the cars themselves. Alpine is registered as a separate manufacturer.
You are unfamiliar with the early history of Alpina then. Prior to 1988 they bought full cars and redid them, in 1988 when the M3 came out they could no longer compete with the price because of this method, which is when BMW began sending them half complete shells.
The digital guage in the centre vent is not original as is the strut brace. Id say the owner in japan fitted them
The check panel in the roof lining is original however
Im aware strut brace isn’t original. But what do you mean the digital gauge isn’t original? This is standard on all Alpinaa
@@m3nameisjosh464had a brain fart last night ignore 😂
@@clayp.e30_v86 😂😂
@m3nameisjosh464 she's a great little car. Super find.!
P.s, pressing question 👀, driven your frankenmotor yet ? How do you rate it over the m60 ? 👀
It's not a V6 engine it's a straight 6 engine
You dont listen or?? B6 B6 B6 B6 WITH A B. Not a V
BMW with UGLY Ferrari badge on the steering wheel is like Ferrari 500 with ugly Porsche sticker attacked to front wheel. I DO NOT LIKE ALPINA STICKER GARBAGE ON BMW3. It makes whole car really UGLY.
@youtube - stop playing me ugly Alpina BMW videos
Its not an Alpina sticker though, its a real Alpina lol.
@@m3nameisjosh464 My man - your Alpina sucks. Give it to me as gift so I can place a BMW sign onto the steering wheel so it will look like a real car. Thank you. I don't have a money to pay you, but I promise I will like my new car and will get one the right badge.
@@bastianauser2035Yeah I can’t believe people will put something on their license plate that is something with their life instead of just being the plain plates the DMV gives you, really shows that the car is a fake and was changed.
In all seriousness this thing is amazing. I respect your courage to ask to have it to “change” this beaut.
@@myeditedhandle yeah, you are American so you wouldn't understand it. Once I get me my BMW, I will explain you all a real story behind BMW sign which mostly applies to the car model like the one you have. I was born in Yugoslavia - born on a black and white film. Right across the border was and still is clean Austria(today not as clean when compared to Yugoslavia as it was because Slovenia maintains cleanliness along roads and because times changed - cars and trucks no longer spit dirty fuel and oil all over the road/snow as used to be really filthy) and colorful Austria. In Austria where film went from black and white as soon as you crossed border into colorful picturesque, there was all kinds of cars of which mostly German cars excelled - there was no ugly Ladas and other eastern European garbage. Lots of colorful and unusual looking Japanese cars, Italian cars, and Fords etc. The thing is, each time I crossed border it was hard for me to believe there is world like Austria out there where I didn't have to fear for my life 24/7....BMWs, Audis, and Mercedes which Germany launched at eastern Europe boasted freedom with their designs - boldly undermined Serbian and Russian oppression where Skoda and Dacia were raped to comply and manufacture just as ugly cars(LIFE) as was throughout other parts of the USSR despite their own statehood as USRR advertised....I remember each BMW from a totally different perspective anyone ever will and same is with Audi etc. I remember long walk home through often through unploughed snow - filthy parking lots where SAME LOOKING TRASH CAN ALIKE cars were parked next to one another with dirty snow all over the place and here and then some beautiful BMW or Fiat or Mitsubishi that would make my day back in Yugoslavia where just as much Serbs hated us, we were all in search of our own identity of which freedom as you can imagine, comes as one of the first....thats the car you drive somewhere in the USA my friend...thats the car some still own in Germany I don't even know why...BMW 3 series you have was already forgotten - erased from picture for good and wasn't gonna make any news any more, but I gave one second breath once they asked me what car do you like the most...they shortly argued, but agreed there is no car that comes close anywhere near BMW like the one you have. Its the most sophisticated designed of all cars there is. Talking about entire illuminati club.
With timing belt
No timing belt here!
Long live E30 !!!!!!♥♥♥
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The dogleg is an amazing transmission - have driven several E24's with them - but they're not bulletproof. They often had syncro issues - Blanton would rebuild them with upgraded Internals, at which point they were the best transmission this BMW's of the era.
Goood to know!!!
wow josh never failing to disapoint so happy you got your hands on another one and hearing you be showing us some maintinance on it cant wait
Thank you Mike!
Bro always skips the exhaust/ cold start clips in his videos.
I LITERALLY TRIED FILMING FOR THIS VIDEO AND FORGOT TO RECORD😂
This one...or the Italian M3 320IS?
Both good but im goin Alpina!
Josh man everything Alpina is just special. Look at that odd dogleg pattern on that sick gear knob, the steering wheel and that boot spoiler❤. Sick car man. On the fence wrt the front spoiler though. 😅😂😂😂😂Awesome find nonetheless.
Thank you!! Truly special cars!
Is that how the stock suspension sits? Seems like an insane amount of rake to me, like the front is sitting fine but then the rear is jacked waaay up.
Actually opposite, front is too low. Going to refresh suspension.
Awesome purchase! 😎
Wow nice find!
I got an e28 Alpina B10 (m30b34). It's great fun, but an Alpina in a lighter e30 would be hilarious.
An absolute riot!
I love it.
M30 in an E30 is just sick.
I’d love that engine in my E28..
So awesome!
Love it, look forward to seeing more of this! Killing it with the content lately 👌
Thank you!! I appreciate that!
You can find all Alpina facts in OAL-BB 50, the Alpina Book
Yup I have the excerpt with #s. Archive #s are off online
😊what do you do for work?
Everything you see on my channel sir!
Those seats ❤
So good!
😮 m20?
M30