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I would keep a close eye on your budget and goal. You may end up with a clone of a car that is actually more expensive then the original.
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I do feel very qualified to comment on this as I have completed many restorations on very different types of vehicles. A better way to do this would be to skip the body mods and find a good E30 'IS' 6 cyl / manual trans car. The "IS" cars already have the sport suspension, sport seats, lower rear gearing usually with posi-trak and the 6cyl cars respond really well to the typical bolt on / chip tuning mods.

The problem is with this particular model is finding all the stuff to make it a clone and the work and $$$ that goes with it.

M/O is the 6 cyl IS car is a much cheaper choice and a really good platform to start with and in all honesty, when modded will probably out-perform a M3
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