Alright... so I came home earlier today.... I need a break.
D-DAY MINUS 6 (I think)
Still no pictures, which makes this thread shitty beyond all hell.
But besides that. Let's start with the GOOD news:
- The parts I bought have arrived! I just got my gaskets, accessory belts, oil filter, B35 crank wheel + coolant block off for the back, and I believe the chipped ECU gets here tomorrow.
If I'm not mistaken, I now have all of the ingredients for a sweet M30 E30.
- More good news... the vynil work is on schedule. I don't know how we're going to get it put on, but at least the new vynil designs are partially done and some printed.
Here's where it all goes south though.
On Monday I get a call from the shop early in the morning (I was out picking up parts locally). It turns out that the warehouse he was borrowing right next door to store cars, well.... that was rented out. So he had to go from storing capacity of 8 cars.... to 4.
Monday was just spent moving stuff around, trying to make space for motors, etc etc at the shop. Since he's basically letting me do my work there for some beer, then I really felt obliged to help out when he needed it.
But come Tuesday, you can tell that I can't go forward there. I need to swap my subframes from my old track car to the new black e30 shell. And even with the e28 long trashed (after pulling the M30 and all other parts), it's still something that there's no where to even think of putting my car.
On Wednesday we just sit down and talk and I just tell him I'll get the cars out. He thanked me and I started moving parts/etc out of there. Later that evening, I get the call from Pat, who was making my motor mounts. He got the mounts from a late model B35, which I believe is different than the earlier models (was news to me at the time, but Frank seemed to know that when I spoke to him over the phone).
Therefore I'm sitting with no motor mount brackets, and nowhere to do this swap.
So I called Ter-Tech, which hosts drift events and they are notorious for drifting their e34, to help me out. Harri said they would be happy to get me going, but they have their e34 and their drift school car (a 240sx) to prepare for the same IRL event I'm trying to participate. Harri can do fabrication and he has about 5 m30s pulled apart (where I picked up most of my parts locally, like the T-Stat housing, the oil pan, and pump + pick up)
But, since they have quite a bit on their hands, they say that the earliest they'll start to work on my car is Monday.... which assuming I can get the car there very early in the morning, that'll give us about 2 and 1/2 days to fabricate the mounts and pull off this motor swap.
Fun.
So right now I started pulling the black car apart where it sits. I started moving as much as I could with my 318iS from the shop to the new chassis. Half of the roll cage is already in the car, and today I took the entire dash out and pulled out the heater core (by the way, I don't know why I have never done that with my last car.... jesus what a PITA that thing is).
I started taking everything I could out of the engine bay to make pulling that M20 out as easy as possible.... even though knowing Ter-Tech (and I'm all for it), we'll be taking that motor out with a sawzall.
So Ter-Tech will take care of the motor swap. My biggest job now is to find a way to swap subframes before taking the car to Ter-Tech (so all we worry there is the motor swap) and transport the M30 from the shop I started my work on to Ter-Tech.
Yesterday I was really beat down, and with so much frustration and crap getting in the way, I haven't even bothered to update this thread. But today I got slapped in the back of the head by a good friend saying "dude, it's the INDY RACING LEAGUE."
And in that split second, I remembered why it is that I'm going through all hell to begin with. It'd be nice if everything I tried to do actually worked (hell.... just 1 out of 3 attempts being successful would be nice right about now), but we're managing.
Priority #1 - Find truck + rent u-haul trailer. That way I can move the big stuff.
Priority #2 - Swap subframes.
Accomplshing this by Sunday, I'll still have a chance.
As for now..... excuse me while I go grab a few beers and some food.... and do something that has absolutely NOTHING to do with cars. :p
- Erick
D-DAY MINUS 6 (I think)
Still no pictures, which makes this thread shitty beyond all hell.
But besides that. Let's start with the GOOD news:
- The parts I bought have arrived! I just got my gaskets, accessory belts, oil filter, B35 crank wheel + coolant block off for the back, and I believe the chipped ECU gets here tomorrow.
If I'm not mistaken, I now have all of the ingredients for a sweet M30 E30.
- More good news... the vynil work is on schedule. I don't know how we're going to get it put on, but at least the new vynil designs are partially done and some printed.
Here's where it all goes south though.
On Monday I get a call from the shop early in the morning (I was out picking up parts locally). It turns out that the warehouse he was borrowing right next door to store cars, well.... that was rented out. So he had to go from storing capacity of 8 cars.... to 4.
Monday was just spent moving stuff around, trying to make space for motors, etc etc at the shop. Since he's basically letting me do my work there for some beer, then I really felt obliged to help out when he needed it.
But come Tuesday, you can tell that I can't go forward there. I need to swap my subframes from my old track car to the new black e30 shell. And even with the e28 long trashed (after pulling the M30 and all other parts), it's still something that there's no where to even think of putting my car.
On Wednesday we just sit down and talk and I just tell him I'll get the cars out. He thanked me and I started moving parts/etc out of there. Later that evening, I get the call from Pat, who was making my motor mounts. He got the mounts from a late model B35, which I believe is different than the earlier models (was news to me at the time, but Frank seemed to know that when I spoke to him over the phone).
Therefore I'm sitting with no motor mount brackets, and nowhere to do this swap.
So I called Ter-Tech, which hosts drift events and they are notorious for drifting their e34, to help me out. Harri said they would be happy to get me going, but they have their e34 and their drift school car (a 240sx) to prepare for the same IRL event I'm trying to participate. Harri can do fabrication and he has about 5 m30s pulled apart (where I picked up most of my parts locally, like the T-Stat housing, the oil pan, and pump + pick up)
But, since they have quite a bit on their hands, they say that the earliest they'll start to work on my car is Monday.... which assuming I can get the car there very early in the morning, that'll give us about 2 and 1/2 days to fabricate the mounts and pull off this motor swap.
Fun.
So right now I started pulling the black car apart where it sits. I started moving as much as I could with my 318iS from the shop to the new chassis. Half of the roll cage is already in the car, and today I took the entire dash out and pulled out the heater core (by the way, I don't know why I have never done that with my last car.... jesus what a PITA that thing is).
I started taking everything I could out of the engine bay to make pulling that M20 out as easy as possible.... even though knowing Ter-Tech (and I'm all for it), we'll be taking that motor out with a sawzall.
So Ter-Tech will take care of the motor swap. My biggest job now is to find a way to swap subframes before taking the car to Ter-Tech (so all we worry there is the motor swap) and transport the M30 from the shop I started my work on to Ter-Tech.
Yesterday I was really beat down, and with so much frustration and crap getting in the way, I haven't even bothered to update this thread. But today I got slapped in the back of the head by a good friend saying "dude, it's the INDY RACING LEAGUE."
And in that split second, I remembered why it is that I'm going through all hell to begin with. It'd be nice if everything I tried to do actually worked (hell.... just 1 out of 3 attempts being successful would be nice right about now), but we're managing.
Priority #1 - Find truck + rent u-haul trailer. That way I can move the big stuff.
Priority #2 - Swap subframes.
Accomplshing this by Sunday, I'll still have a chance.
As for now..... excuse me while I go grab a few beers and some food.... and do something that has absolutely NOTHING to do with cars. :p
- Erick
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