E30 S50 Wang It

[Hayden]

First thread/build, bring the hate/love?

1984 325e coupe

Engine:
Rebuilt S52 OBD1 (By old owner of DynoTech Motorsports Todd)
M50 manifold
M50 throttle body
Metal water pump
Chip for S52 OBD1
413 Red ecu
Getrag 250 5 spd(for now)

Suspension:
H&R springs/Stock not blown shocks (coils later)
Turner front camber plates
Reinforced Garagistic front subframe, rear subframe, trailing arms
Condor bushings all around Diff,trailing arms,rear subframe,engine mounts,tranny
Z3 steering rack
Ireland Engineering Front/Rear sway bars
New Front/Rear genuine hubs
FAG wheel bearings
Turner wheel studs
No Name Front/Rear strut bars
Welded stock 2.93 Diff

Interior: Gone (will weigh once running)
Everything not needed to drive the car is out other than dash
carpet
moonroof/castte
all sound detaining
doors/window motors stripped (condor windows later)
Wiring harness gone over (in progress)
headliner

Fuel:
Late model pump holder
walbro 255 pump (in progress)

Brakes:
Stock calipers
brass pins?
(BBK or rx7 later)

[Hayden]

First E30, 1984 325e coupe for $1500 off craigslist almost 3 years ago. Came with an i head and 173 ecu, and thats about all the good things the P/o did. Wiring was held by hooking wires and electrical tape. It did run though but somewhat lean. Bought it in LA, drove 100 miles back to San Diego and had to only stop once . No gaskets weren't leaking from engine. Smoking crazy from oil leaking onto the hot engine.

[Hayden]

1 fog light and all her glory ;D
Had a terrible rip off tilt race seat that was moveable by hand.
P/o decided to 'race car' the drivers side carpet by cutting to were the center console was and spraying a rubber coating. -dont have pics
Front springs were cut.

[Hayden]

Drove it like this for a while as this was a weekend project car.
Just polished the paint, put a nardi wood wheel in it instead of the bus wheel, HS metal shop shifter, and basketweves.

Oh did I mention the P/o put hood pins in the fenders then bondo'd over it
Also put a air horn in that didn't work
This car was a white toaster turd antichrist

[Hayden]

Year later started actually wanted to do some more to it. Did maintenance, valve cover gasket, diff fluid, rad flush.

Random mini photoshoot with a homie and his clean late model turbo m20

[Hayden]

Thought putting wheels on would add 100hp :popcorn: and saw a deal on some 16x8 for a good deal. Downside I traded my basketweves for them plus like $100
Upside is he threw in a front valance, and late rear valance, and gutter side skirts that were actually cool now that I think about it cause the flex in them.

They used wide spacers forgot mm but the front rubbed like a mother. Bought these in LA too soo naturally I went to a gas station to borrow a screw driver to roll my front fenders to make it home :D

Now the front vs rear 'stance' was visible

[Hayden]

Wrecked my daily, so then this became my DD. Drove it like this for a like a year. Then my oil pan cracked and trans lost 5th and 2nd close to the same time. Started saving up for oil pan and trans. Got rid of the wide wheels for a cheap set of bottle caps. Then it sat for a solid month or so.

[Hayden]

Once I had the oil pan I decided to take the engine/trans out while I was saving up for trans to go over the engine since it was leaking and running bad. Maybe replace gaskets and call it good. Once I got into it I took the whole thing apart to the block to learn the engine and give it a overhaul. Also, while i was at it I wanted to grow a pair and go over the harness that the P/o abused.:loco:
and might as well flock/suede the dash.

[Hayden]

At this point, I had a daily. So I started to think which direction I should take the car. Not original since that was never the plan. I should have bought a more clean one from the start. So I decided like a weekend/track/drift/Its my car and ill do whatever the fuck I want to it so sit back and watch this clusterfuck type of build.

[Hayden]

I got the block resurfaced and the crank balanced...... but then after some crack I took a step back and was like why should I rebuild the M20? It's not bad since its a 2.7i and after a overhaul it would be pretty peppy. Turbo could be another route but I didn't want to deal with boosting it even though theres forums and kits. I wanted more power but reliable and a solid power band. I wanted to think about it but I decided M20 wasn't the route. After cleaning every part that i was going to reuse I sold the M20 block,head,crank, and accessories. I still have the majority of the brackets to the block if anyone is interested and the oil pump.

[Hayden]

After some time, a friend was parting out his e30. He had an S50b30us and a getrag 260 too. Only thing is theres no head. It was running before but he took the head off for some work and the shop he took it to went under. Forgot the name but basically he lost his head. However he was selling the wiring harness, accessories, clutch, flywheel and everything to make it run. It had 40,XXX miles on it since rebuild. I snagged it up for $1500

[Hayden]

It has been sitting without a head on it for a year or so. So naturally I took it all apart.

[Hayden]

Did I mention the seller of the S50 welds for his job? So this happened.

[Hayden]

So that pretty much is up to speed. Oh I took all the front/rear suspension, brake lines, gas tank out :D Now waiting on some bolts to reinstall suspension. Will take pics this weekend.

[AWDBOB]

The heads are all the same. It's what goes in them that's different.

If you get an M50 head and want S52 cams, make sure you get the trays and lifters with them and they'll drop in the head.