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    #31
    These brackets came with the swaybar:


    I haven't mocked anything up. I'm just assuming it will all fit together and I'll deal with issues as they arise. Once things go in I'll have pics of how it all fits.
    Originally posted by priapism
    My girl don't know shit, but she bakes a mean cupcake.
    Originally posted by shameson
    Usually it's best not to know how much money you have into your e30

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      #32
      Originally posted by Northern View Post
      Ok. That's cool.

      Originally posted by SpasticDwarf;n6449866
      Honestly I built it just to have a place to sit and listen to Hotline Bling on repeat.

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        #33
        Thinking about picking up some PFC 08 for pads. Running Hawk HPS right now and they are far from confidence inspiring. Leaning the PFC 08's because they sound like the most forgiving/long lasting/streetable track pad.

        I want something good for autox, but I don't want to put a bullet through my head when I drive to work every day and get groceries on the weekends.
        Originally posted by priapism
        My girl don't know shit, but she bakes a mean cupcake.
        Originally posted by shameson
        Usually it's best not to know how much money you have into your e30

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          #34
          Long time no update.



          This is why:




          Well, okay. That's actually my iX, but the iS is on the other side of the fence and I think it is probably in a similar situation.

          I stopped using photobucket and started using my flickr account for this thread as of this post, and I'm going to make an effort to start using my old DSLR for pictures instead of my phone. Hopefully picture quality will be much improved from hereon.
          Originally posted by priapism
          My girl don't know shit, but she bakes a mean cupcake.
          Originally posted by shameson
          Usually it's best not to know how much money you have into your e30

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            #35
            More snowpocalypse pictures...


            Roy's touring and my 7ft e30 snowdrift




            Found the iX!





            Bonus wheel test fit pics from last spring, ft.Roy


            Originally posted by priapism
            My girl don't know shit, but she bakes a mean cupcake.
            Originally posted by shameson
            Usually it's best not to know how much money you have into your e30

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              #36
              Made a little progress last weekend as the snow barely began to melt. Car was still completely covered, but I found motivation anyway.

              Block was pretty much stripped already, but covered in a load of grease. I'd cleaned the timing cover off and spent almost a full day trying to separate the A/C pulley from the crank pulley/harmonic balancer before I started to hit it with a hammer. Funny story is, it's actually one piece, despite what the RealOEM diagram I was going by showed...



              But since it was off, I had a chance to clean behind it (note, the engine is from a '99 vert, so it has the late harmonic balancer with no trigger wheel, and that's a different diagram)

              a few cans of brake kleen later, I had this:


              Not bad, compared to any other engine I've ever pulled out of a car around here.
              Next, I hit it with a wire wheel on the grinder to get most of the rust off.


              Didn't care to spend a huge amount of time on this, I just want to get the engine in the car, and hopefully in the next 5 years I'll have a built bottom end anyway. Sprayed with some VHT flame proof primer, then hit it with some matte BBQ paint (lol) It turned out alright though:


              Next I decided to "turn down" the M20 coolant temp sender to thread into the M52 TB heater port... "turn down" because I don't actually have a lathe:

              ghettolathe wooooo

              Next I tried to do the same with the M52 IAT to thread into the M50 manifold sensor location, but I felt like I would break it if I cranked the chuck tight, so I ended up filing it by hand...


              After threading it to M12x1.5 (seriously thought I was going to snap it in half):


              I put some plumber's tape on it and threaded it into the M50 manifold until it was very hand tight... I've heard people say to JBweld it in, but if I messed it up by doing this, I want to be able to replace it.


              Today I sold my IE catback and newish mounting kit for $200 locally, so I may be able to throw some money at this thing to get the last few parts I need to assemble the engine and wiring harness. Money has been tight with shitty paycheques from snow days and no overtime, plus most disposable income going toward paying off our debt.

              Who knows, today I may actually go outside and enjoy this 10°C+ weather we're finally getting...
              Originally posted by priapism
              My girl don't know shit, but she bakes a mean cupcake.
              Originally posted by shameson
              Usually it's best not to know how much money you have into your e30

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                #37
                Few little updates

                Cut this off, flattened it, and welded for TB heater circuit delete:


                Bought these plates (PN: 11121438086) for SAP blockoff... apparently not plug and play like I was told.


                Cracked open the valve cover for the first time
                Replaced plug gaskets and VC gasket. I thought the rubber plugs came in the upper gasket kit (Elring) but they're not there.

                Looks pretty great, intake cam too.

                removed all the plugs, installed new NGK coppers after noticing how much crud was built up in the intake ports:

                Flipped the engine upside down, Hit it with a brass brush, then brake kleen and towel until it wasn't getting any cleaner. Spark plugs were still out, so I blew some air down in the combustion chambers to try to blow any debris I dropped in while doing this.

                New N54 Exhaust studs. 3mm shorter than the E36 ones, but like 1/4 the price, and have nice little torx ends to help install/remove.



                On my iX, instead of tapping the pan for an oil return, I tapped the block on the flat spot behind the A/C bracket to accept a -10AN union. I like this option much more than tapping the pan, and doing it on the car last time was a complete shitshow, so I may as well do some future proofing while it is convenient:
                Mark the hole on a nice flat spot, make sure there's no reinforcement inside the block:


                Grab some lube, drill and tap the hole to 7/8-14 to accept the -10 fitting. If you could mount a drill guide or use a drill press somehow it would go a long way, but a shitty cordless drill and eye of man were my tools of choice(or desperation):


                I cut down the backside of a steel -10AN union so it didn't protrude into the block, chamfered the inner radius to smooth the transition of the dump into the block. Installed with loctite and capped it:
                Originally posted by priapism
                My girl don't know shit, but she bakes a mean cupcake.
                Originally posted by shameson
                Usually it's best not to know how much money you have into your e30

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                  #38
                  This weekend I decided to try to get the oilpan all mounted up to feel like I made progress.

                  welded the oilpump nut, because I don't have a jig for drilling nuts for lockwire, and I'm not willing to pay and wait for a predrilled one.

                  Went to fit the modified pickup for the Arc Asylum pan, and found out the modded pickup tube hits the pickup bracket, and isn't remotely close to fitting:


                  Quick email to TinyT and he explains that the bracket needs to be flipped 180deg and installed on the next main cap over, then the windage tray needs to be slotted to fit. He says that from now on he's going to slot trays as part of the modification service.

                  Now I need to wait for the dealer to be open on monday to buy 4 main cap
                  bolts... I'm scared to find out how much they're going to come to.

                  While the main bolts were undone, I decided to take a peek at the bearings:






                  I can't feel that scratch in the first one. I think it looks pretty good.

                  Trial fit with the bracket flipped:


                  I'm halfway through slotting the windage tray. It's easy to measure off the old hole vs tray mounting bolts and flip them to find the new spot, I just don't have any more small cutting discs.

                  There's a cruise late may I'm hoping to make it to, so there's my deadline.
                  Originally posted by priapism
                  My girl don't know shit, but she bakes a mean cupcake.
                  Originally posted by shameson
                  Usually it's best not to know how much money you have into your e30

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                    #39
                    Picked up some new Crank main cap bolts from BMW. First time I've set foot in the dealership in 3+ years. New ownership and a completely different building, plus much nicer staff than I remember. I found an old highschool friend working on the Mini side who led me through the maze of dealerships to the parts counter.

                    Total damage: $45 for 4 bolts. It wasn't actually as bad as I was expecting, considering they wanted $65 for a hood roundel last time I was in.

                    I then realized I wasn't comfortable eyeballing 50 degrees, so I stopped by Princess Auto (AKA Canadian harbor freight) to get a torque angle gauge. As usual, I spent 10x as much as I planned and in addition to the gauge, I left with: 2 inline air filters (for HVLP guns), another large jug of anti-seize, a metric bubble flare kit (lost the last one) and a bunch of brake kleen.

                    I thought I'd be able to swing some S5x cams before the engine goes in, but instead I spent $650 on summer tires for the mazda... and they're not even installed yet, so there goes the cam money twice over.
                    Originally posted by priapism
                    My girl don't know shit, but she bakes a mean cupcake.
                    Originally posted by shameson
                    Usually it's best not to know how much money you have into your e30

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                      #40
                      I still need to figure out an exhaust plan. I have like 10ft and 360 degrees worth of bends in 3" 316 Stainless, e36 OBD2 headers, E36 downpipes/midsection(I think) and nothing else.



                      EDIT:

                      No time like the present I guess.



                      Also ordered some ER316L MIG wire for the pipe, I'm under the impression I can use ER308L on the 304 to 316 joints. We'll see how it goes.
                      Last edited by Northern; 04-28-2015, 06:44 PM.
                      Originally posted by priapism
                      My girl don't know shit, but she bakes a mean cupcake.
                      Originally posted by shameson
                      Usually it's best not to know how much money you have into your e30

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                        #41
                        Lazy sunday, no real pictures, just blurry instacrap.


                        Work is slow, only one A/C in and it's almost at flightline so I brought my windage tray in to modify to clear the pickup bracket.



                        Wire wheel coolant pipe/paint.



                        Arc Asylum pan on.



                        Drunk old dudes in buicks, smashing into people's shit and running from the cops.



                        Also started messing around with intake manifolds, making the M52 stuff fit M50:
                        M50 mani, M50 TB, M50 ICV hose+ICV mounted to the bottom of the intake,
                        New orings on pinktops, but I lost my M50 fuel rail...
                        Picked a spot to mount the cyclone/PCV unit and flipped/modified the bracket to mount it to the block and found a random coolant hose that fits to adapt it to the OBD2 non ASC-T TB (Which I don't know how I acquired?)

                        Work I need to do to the shell:
                        I need to attach the new ZF clutch slave/IE stainless line /iX booster soon. I'm also just finding out now that I need some sort of remote reservoir with the iX booster, even though everyone says it's plug and play...
                        I snipped the Aux Fan wires at the fan, keeping the connector. Need to wire in the Mishimoto fan and the new fan switch somehow. I need to read dave's fan thread again.
                        I need to cut off some brackets and take care of a few rust spots while I can get to them, and clean the bay out a lot.
                        Oh. I also need to swap out the front subframe. That's always loads of fun...

                        Biggest dread is finishing off the M52 harness... I've removed 25+ wires so far for SAP, Rear O2, EWS, etc. Still 5-10 more to go. Still need to find & splice up C101, loop the oil level check (or just snip the bulb?) splice a coolant temp connector, use X6031 to run an OBD2 port into the car, seal everything up that I snipped, and put it all back together.
                        Originally posted by priapism
                        My girl don't know shit, but she bakes a mean cupcake.
                        Originally posted by shameson
                        Usually it's best not to know how much money you have into your e30

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                          #42
                          Great to see people who are actually doing stuff rather than just bolting parts on
                          p.s. that snow further up the page is mental
                          sigpic

                          (clicky on piccy to get to thread)

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                            #43
                            Originally posted by econti View Post
                            Great to see people who are actually doing stuff rather than just bolting parts on
                            p.s. that snow further up the page is mental
                            Up until january we didn't see any snow or cold weather at all. I thought it was going to last all winter like that. After the new year it was obnoxious though, 1-2 times a week and never less than 4", usually closer to a foot. That one storm was probably the worst storm I've ever experienced here, and I'd managed to just leave the snowblower packed away in the shed all winter up to that point, when it suddenly became easier to dig it out of the shed and get it running than shoveling it all by hand.

                            I think there was only one storm here since the '70s that was even close to this, so hopefully we're good for another decade or so at least.
                            Originally posted by priapism
                            My girl don't know shit, but she bakes a mean cupcake.
                            Originally posted by shameson
                            Usually it's best not to know how much money you have into your e30

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                              #44
                              much respect for showing your face!!! not too many have the balls to show the public who they are with their car.:up:

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                                #45
                                ^ Thanks! :o


                                I spent most of yesterday cleaning the yard and prepping for a BBQ, but I did manage to cut off the old seized center support bearing from the E36 ZF driveshaft and install the new e30 one backwards.

                                The bearing dust shields didn't really work out though, I tried to put the E36 ones on backwards to suit the bearing, but then I was left with no way to mount the larger one. That was probably a mistake, but worst case it wears out prematurely, and I have to buy a new CSB + dust shields and mount them.

                                I cleaned the old grease off the splines (I think it's Molykote Longterm 2 Plus) and regreased with some Aeroshell Grease 33MS that T/X'd and was getting binned at work.

                                <Picture to come>


                                I'm off work today, maybe I'll get some wiring finished.
                                Originally posted by priapism
                                My girl don't know shit, but she bakes a mean cupcake.
                                Originally posted by shameson
                                Usually it's best not to know how much money you have into your e30

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