My 88' e30 325i Touring build thread, wiretucked, ITB'd M20, Bagged.

[bmwandhonda]

Nice progress man.

So fucking spewing I didn't buy that thing when I had the chance to.. :(

And also spewing I missed out on the chance to buy the RS's!!!!

Thanks mate :)

Have had a few people say the exact same thing after I bought it. The RS's were for sale for about a month befor they actually sold. But don't stress, a fellow e30 owner bought them and he has recently just lowered his car and mounted them :) So at least they are in the right hands.

[lostbeachbum]

Beautiful touring. Im currently refinishing a set of style 5´s to mount on my touring.

[squidmaster]

Nice work!

[bmwandhonda]

Since it was all apart, I figured I would get my injectors looked at. Wasn't overly keen on buying new injectors, but this option still wasn't overly cheap. Ended up being $50 per injector for the job.

Injectors were cleaned and flow tested. Seals, filter baskets and pintle caps were replaced.


Also this arrived in the mail today :)

Beautiful touring. Im currently refinishing a set of style 5´s to mount on my touring.

Cheers mate, Can't beat the look of a nice touring haha

Nice work!

Thanks mate :)

[bmwandhonda]

Current progress of the wire tuck. Finally unplugged everything from within the engine bay lol and started chopping up the wires under the dash. Was hoping there would be some plugs and connection blocks that I could just pull through the firewall but it is all just solid cables... So need to cut and re-join them all... Have cut and labelled about half of them so far but this is going to be a big job O_O should turn out ok though :)





Under the dash:

[bmwandhonda]

Finally got the fuse box separated off the main loom and removed it.


Re-joining all these cables is going to suck… Yep that tag does say 90 (started at 1…)


Entire LEFT HAND SIDE loom will be placed in under the glove box and all lighting, washer pump, horn's etc will be run inside the fender.


Also pulled the RHS loom through the firewall into the cabin. No more cables will be stretching across the firewall :)


There was a nice gap up behind the dash, behind the head unit and I was able to pull the whole loom through to the LHS under the glove box


Current bay status - Pretty much empty.

[bmwandhonda]

Current status, Have extended and joined almost all the cables that were originally from the fuse box. Ran out of wire :/ Just need to be re-join them into the fuse box and then that part of the job will be done. Still a LOT to go.


Also the new fuel rail arrived yesterday :)

[AussieTemplar]

Also this arrived in the mail today :)

You will not be disappointed!!

Before I put in my M20B31, I had just a standard M20B25.. except it had larger injectors, 288 cam.. and the miller WAR chip ;)

Managed to pull close to 148kw atw..

It's such a good investment. And now, after I dropped in the M20B31, I don't even need a standalone ECU because the miller WAR chip is tunable to the larger bore, cam and stroke. :D

[bmwandhonda]

You will not be disappointed!!

Before I put in my M20B31, I had just a standard M20B25.. except it had larger injectors, 288 cam.. and the miller WAR chip ;)

Managed to pull close to 148kw atw..

It's such a good investment. And now, after I dropped in the M20B31, I don't even need a standalone ECU because the miller WAR chip is tunable to the larger bore, cam and stroke. :D

Good to hear mate :) hopefully I will have the car running again soon so I can get it tuned.

You say you upgraded injectors. I was planning on using stock injectors since the engine is just stock with bolt on's. Should I think about getting bigger injectors as well or should the stock injectors suffice?

[AussieTemplar]

I'm not entirely sure but a few people that I spoke to mentioned the bigger injectors seemed to help the engine. I think I have a bigger fuel pump in there too but that was the previous owner.

[bmwandhonda]

This arrived :)

[iXguido]

this is an awesome build. love it!

[bmwandhonda]

Current status with the big Wiring mess. Actually close to finished re-attaching the fuse box to the main loom. About 20 or so cables to go :) Then just need to try and loom it and mount it so that it looks half decent :/

this is an awesome build. love it!

Cheers mate :)

[bmwandhonda]

New FPR arrived. Actually the same FPR I use in my Honda Race car. Monoblock design rather than the usual 2 piece FPR's.


New smaller windscreen washer reservoir + Pump arrived as well. 1ltr and small enough to mount somewhere out of view. A lot smaller than the OEM soap tank/water tank setup.




Finally got all the joins done and re-attached the fuse box back up to the main loom. Took forever but didn't want to rush it and make a mistake, triple checked labels and colours so hopefully should work just fine.


And also mounted the fuse box into it's new location. Only problem with the new spot is the glove box only opens about half as much as it used to... But i can get used to that. Still need to finish tidying the cables up and still need to join all the cables that go out into the engine bay (injectors, sensors etc)

[bmwandhonda]

Thought I might share this out. E30 page on facebook for all the Australian E30 fans out there.

http://www.facebook.com/E30Squad