Hello mates,
in this thread I will show you a street to rally conversion (again after my Ford Escort WRC), this time for an unusual car for rallyes... All we know the legendary M3 E30 prepared by Prodrive, but this car raced just in Italy from 1994 to 1998, always showing a great potential but with limited winning results...
The biggest problem was that the 318is was equipped with a 1.8 liters engines, while all the competitors (Peugeot 306 S16, Renault Clio Williams, Nissan Sunny GTI, Ford Escort RS2000) had a 2.0 liters, so more power and more torque... Although this limit Oral Engineering (leaded by the former Ferrari F1 chief engineer Forghieri) developed a rally version of this car to compete in the Italian 2WD rally Championship and was the one and only rear wheel drive car among a huge number of forward wheel drive cars.
I alwasy loved this car and when I found on eBay a UT Models BMW 318is at good price, I decided to use it for this conversion, so here is the donor model:
And here is what I'm going to release
So here is what needed:
In the meanwhile I've also drawed and printed the decals, choosing to make the 1996 Rally di Saluzzo version of the car, driven by Alex Fiorio (former 1987 Group N World Champion and 1988 Group A vice Champion), which scored a 2nd overall
After a couple of hours of work, the body was completely decaled:
More to come... Hope you like it!!!
in this thread I will show you a street to rally conversion (again after my Ford Escort WRC), this time for an unusual car for rallyes... All we know the legendary M3 E30 prepared by Prodrive, but this car raced just in Italy from 1994 to 1998, always showing a great potential but with limited winning results...
The biggest problem was that the 318is was equipped with a 1.8 liters engines, while all the competitors (Peugeot 306 S16, Renault Clio Williams, Nissan Sunny GTI, Ford Escort RS2000) had a 2.0 liters, so more power and more torque... Although this limit Oral Engineering (leaded by the former Ferrari F1 chief engineer Forghieri) developed a rally version of this car to compete in the Italian 2WD rally Championship and was the one and only rear wheel drive car among a huge number of forward wheel drive cars.
I alwasy loved this car and when I found on eBay a UT Models BMW 318is at good price, I decided to use it for this conversion, so here is the donor model:
And here is what I'm going to release
So here is what needed:
- Repainting of the body from red to white
- New race interiors
- New wheels
- Decals drawing and printing (as usual by me)
In the meanwhile I've also drawed and printed the decals, choosing to make the 1996 Rally di Saluzzo version of the car, driven by Alex Fiorio (former 1987 Group N World Champion and 1988 Group A vice Champion), which scored a 2nd overall
After a couple of hours of work, the body was completely decaled:
More to come... Hope you like it!!!