figured its time for a build thread. although i dont have any before pics of the car,as they got lost on a crashed comp., an 88 stock super eta is pretty easy to picture.
i bought the car to use as a cheap daily, well that got old fast. i swapped in an is intake manifold, throttle body and dme, lowered it, and put on some cheap 17" wheels. that lasted a good 2 weeks until i swapped the auto out for a getrag 5 speed, another month goes by and i decided i needed a dohc engine, so out came the m20 and in went a 92 non vanos 2.5.
that kept me happy for a little while so i figured i would concentrate on making it look better. i dropped the car off at my brothers shop for some paint and body work. he pulled and rolled all 4 fenders, shaved the antenna, keylock, and windshield squirter holes. the car was then blocked and sprayed with mocha schwartz (mercedes) paint and reassembled. i always hated the factory e30 side moldings, so i had my brother make me a custom e36 m3 like set. while the car was at my brothers i had acquired quite a few more parts, kw variant 2 coilovers, all new movable suspension pieces, all poly bushings, and a set of brock b1 16x9 wheels with 215/40 tires. all together i was pretty happy with the car at this point.
over the next year i drove the car making subtle upgrades, chip, exhaust, german interior pieces, and just tightening the car up. i had a good, solid, daily drivable car, that handled great, was semi quick, and looked really good. well my friend nick went to germany and found this beautiful euro cloth plaid set of seats, so i had to have those, and in they went.
fast forward a couple months and it gets colder, i get bored and out comes the motor. time for a 2.8 liter 84mm crank and an engine rebuild. i reinstalled the newly refreshed and stroked engine with a uuc cerametallic clutch and zf 5 speed trans from a 96 328. a little faster, i still wasnt satisfied.
this is when the bug really got me. i bought a vortech v1 off of a buddy of mine, and accumulated all the parts necassery to supercharge my car. i fabbed all the brackets and wired the perfect power smt6 in. upon mounting the supercharger i had already decided i wanted more. never even turning the car over i yanked the charger and brackets out, and sourced all turbo goodies.
i built my manifold using jays flange and donovans collector. installed a master power super t70 turbo, 18x12x3 fmic and a full 3" exhaust, but i never got it to run right with the piggy back. so out that came and in went a megasquirt 2v3 assemled by me. the plan was to run 10lbs, but of course that got scrapped and i installed a .140 mls and arp studs to lower the compression, and on to 18lbs i went
. well i kept inching my way higher and higher just to see where i could get. at about 22lbs the gasket finally quit, hydrolocked, snapped a rod, and it took out the entire bottom end.
which leads me here:
cp forged pistons 85mm bore 8.5-1 comp. with coated tops
eagle 135mm forged h beam rods
84mm m52 crank
mls .070 gasket a new arp 200 non undercut studs
the head was previously refreshed and received a 4 angle valve grind
here we are loaded up going to the machinist for bore and entire rotating assembly balance.
somewhere in here i swtched to bbs rms 15x8.5 and 15x 6.5. but now i am on 16x9 schmidt modernlines with 225/40 tires.hopefully i will have everything back from the machine shop later this week and i will update this thread accordingly.
i bought the car to use as a cheap daily, well that got old fast. i swapped in an is intake manifold, throttle body and dme, lowered it, and put on some cheap 17" wheels. that lasted a good 2 weeks until i swapped the auto out for a getrag 5 speed, another month goes by and i decided i needed a dohc engine, so out came the m20 and in went a 92 non vanos 2.5.
that kept me happy for a little while so i figured i would concentrate on making it look better. i dropped the car off at my brothers shop for some paint and body work. he pulled and rolled all 4 fenders, shaved the antenna, keylock, and windshield squirter holes. the car was then blocked and sprayed with mocha schwartz (mercedes) paint and reassembled. i always hated the factory e30 side moldings, so i had my brother make me a custom e36 m3 like set. while the car was at my brothers i had acquired quite a few more parts, kw variant 2 coilovers, all new movable suspension pieces, all poly bushings, and a set of brock b1 16x9 wheels with 215/40 tires. all together i was pretty happy with the car at this point.
over the next year i drove the car making subtle upgrades, chip, exhaust, german interior pieces, and just tightening the car up. i had a good, solid, daily drivable car, that handled great, was semi quick, and looked really good. well my friend nick went to germany and found this beautiful euro cloth plaid set of seats, so i had to have those, and in they went.
fast forward a couple months and it gets colder, i get bored and out comes the motor. time for a 2.8 liter 84mm crank and an engine rebuild. i reinstalled the newly refreshed and stroked engine with a uuc cerametallic clutch and zf 5 speed trans from a 96 328. a little faster, i still wasnt satisfied.
this is when the bug really got me. i bought a vortech v1 off of a buddy of mine, and accumulated all the parts necassery to supercharge my car. i fabbed all the brackets and wired the perfect power smt6 in. upon mounting the supercharger i had already decided i wanted more. never even turning the car over i yanked the charger and brackets out, and sourced all turbo goodies.
i built my manifold using jays flange and donovans collector. installed a master power super t70 turbo, 18x12x3 fmic and a full 3" exhaust, but i never got it to run right with the piggy back. so out that came and in went a megasquirt 2v3 assemled by me. the plan was to run 10lbs, but of course that got scrapped and i installed a .140 mls and arp studs to lower the compression, and on to 18lbs i went
. well i kept inching my way higher and higher just to see where i could get. at about 22lbs the gasket finally quit, hydrolocked, snapped a rod, and it took out the entire bottom end.
which leads me here:
cp forged pistons 85mm bore 8.5-1 comp. with coated tops
eagle 135mm forged h beam rods
84mm m52 crank
mls .070 gasket a new arp 200 non undercut studs
the head was previously refreshed and received a 4 angle valve grind
here we are loaded up going to the machinist for bore and entire rotating assembly balance.
somewhere in here i swtched to bbs rms 15x8.5 and 15x 6.5. but now i am on 16x9 schmidt modernlines with 225/40 tires.hopefully i will have everything back from the machine shop later this week and i will update this thread accordingly.
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