Turbo e30 Part out
This car was the culmination of over 10 years of work and was nearly done, but some broad in an SUV thought her phone was more important than the stop sign she ran and her insurance bent me over a barrel, so I'm parting out and moving on. There's a lot of history with this car, so sorry if I missed anything. The picture is depressing. I had to chop and cut most of the metal away to get to what I did.
Here's a couple of videos of it running-
Before the external wastegate (Had bad boost creep):
After the external wastegate with only about 5PSI of boost:
It's a long read, but if you're an e30 enthusiast that wants power, it's worth the time. There is a list at the bottom for you tl:dr folks. It's probably not everything, because there's a lot.
This car was at least 450 horsepower before the accident. It was definitely capable of more, but I hadn't had a chance to install the boost controller yet. I had plans to dyno this, but Karen McPhoneFace beat me to the punch. I can tell you I smoked every Mustang, Camaro, and Charger that tried to run me. I even took a few newer BMWs (including an e92 M3) to Gapplebees. I could easily keep up with or even pass a base C7 Corvette. The only car that ever got away from me was a V10 Audi R8. I never ran the 1/4 mile (was waiting for the boost controller before abusing it like that), but this was likely running in the 11s. Outside of the occasional light-to-light playing around, this was just driven casually and it did so like a dream. With the custom lightened flywheel and South Bend massaged clutch, it drove very competently in stop-and-go traffic. The only time I complained about it was when I got stuck for several hours on I70 a couple of years ago when a dump truck took out an electronic billboard. It started up every day, no matter if it was 0 degrees or 100. I didn't have the AC running, but the position of the turbo and oil filter relocation would allow it with come custom lines (I have a resource I'll gladly pass along)
The good -
I meticulously built this car with the help of a friend who is a master mechanic. It's a "Frankenstein swap" motor. That is the M20B27 block with the M20B25 head and intake. The motor has less than 10k miles on it's bearings, ARP rod studs & main bolts as well as Metric Blue head bolts. The turbo is a Holset HX35 with a quick spool housing and Tial 38mm wastegate. Came into boost about 4200 RPM and just kept pulling to 7100.
The exhaust is hand-built 3" exhaust front to back with a straight-through muffler and a hand fabricated tip you'll never see on another car. It's a little thing, but details and craftsmanship are a big deal to me.
Ignition coils are from a 3000gt vr4, and the whole thing is controlled with Megasquirt MS2. This has a very well-tuned fuel and timing map and cruises nicely with excellent fuel mileage, better than stock. It also makes way more torque from idle than because of the tuning and lack of vane airflow meter. The lightweight flywheel doesn't hurt here either, but I'll get to that in a minute. It's tuned on speed density using intake temp and pressure. Also has a custom throttle position sensor mount to use a later TPS for precision throttle tracking. All of the sensors use existing underhood wiring (swapping just a couple of plugs (for the IAT and pressure sensor).
The driveshaft was upgraded to use a larger guibo to hold the power. The rear subframe was slotted with Ireland Engineering weld on tabs so you can actually get a rear alignment. Also includes new copper brake lines. The transmission is a standard e30 Getrag 260 with a short shifter and bronze bushings that shifts nice and snappy. The rear end is a 3.46 LSD which works great with the power level that this car makes.
The 14" basketweave wheels are all good and the back tires are good too. But the front tires are shredded.
The bad -
The motor jumped time and likely bent valves at impact, but I know the owner of the company who rebuilds heads for the BMW dealers in the Indy area, and I can get you a hookup. For the right price, I'll even do the work so you can have a drop-in motor with turbo, exhaust, and ECU.
The water pump, thermostat housing, and most of the accessory brackets were broken in the crash. I have spares that I'll include. You'll just need to clean them up and install them.
You may also have to replace the braided hoses that go to the remote oil filter.
I'd really like to sell the entire driveline in one go. This is basically a bolt-in and go-fast setup with minimal work. I know what I *want* out of all this, but I know I'm not going to get it. I have a sale pending on the rear subframe assembly (without the LSD), but I'd like to get about $3000 for the rest. You'd pay that just for the tuning and half the fabrication that went into this.
TLDR List-
All parts are still on the car. I'll get the parts pulled this weekend and will post better pictures then.
**edit 2 (8/13)**
I forgot to mention a few things:
Here's a couple of videos of it running-
Before the external wastegate (Had bad boost creep):
After the external wastegate with only about 5PSI of boost:
It's a long read, but if you're an e30 enthusiast that wants power, it's worth the time. There is a list at the bottom for you tl:dr folks. It's probably not everything, because there's a lot.
This car was at least 450 horsepower before the accident. It was definitely capable of more, but I hadn't had a chance to install the boost controller yet. I had plans to dyno this, but Karen McPhoneFace beat me to the punch. I can tell you I smoked every Mustang, Camaro, and Charger that tried to run me. I even took a few newer BMWs (including an e92 M3) to Gapplebees. I could easily keep up with or even pass a base C7 Corvette. The only car that ever got away from me was a V10 Audi R8. I never ran the 1/4 mile (was waiting for the boost controller before abusing it like that), but this was likely running in the 11s. Outside of the occasional light-to-light playing around, this was just driven casually and it did so like a dream. With the custom lightened flywheel and South Bend massaged clutch, it drove very competently in stop-and-go traffic. The only time I complained about it was when I got stuck for several hours on I70 a couple of years ago when a dump truck took out an electronic billboard. It started up every day, no matter if it was 0 degrees or 100. I didn't have the AC running, but the position of the turbo and oil filter relocation would allow it with come custom lines (I have a resource I'll gladly pass along)
The good -
I meticulously built this car with the help of a friend who is a master mechanic. It's a "Frankenstein swap" motor. That is the M20B27 block with the M20B25 head and intake. The motor has less than 10k miles on it's bearings, ARP rod studs & main bolts as well as Metric Blue head bolts. The turbo is a Holset HX35 with a quick spool housing and Tial 38mm wastegate. Came into boost about 4200 RPM and just kept pulling to 7100.
The exhaust is hand-built 3" exhaust front to back with a straight-through muffler and a hand fabricated tip you'll never see on another car. It's a little thing, but details and craftsmanship are a big deal to me.
Ignition coils are from a 3000gt vr4, and the whole thing is controlled with Megasquirt MS2. This has a very well-tuned fuel and timing map and cruises nicely with excellent fuel mileage, better than stock. It also makes way more torque from idle than because of the tuning and lack of vane airflow meter. The lightweight flywheel doesn't hurt here either, but I'll get to that in a minute. It's tuned on speed density using intake temp and pressure. Also has a custom throttle position sensor mount to use a later TPS for precision throttle tracking. All of the sensors use existing underhood wiring (swapping just a couple of plugs (for the IAT and pressure sensor).
The driveshaft was upgraded to use a larger guibo to hold the power. The rear subframe was slotted with Ireland Engineering weld on tabs so you can actually get a rear alignment. Also includes new copper brake lines. The transmission is a standard e30 Getrag 260 with a short shifter and bronze bushings that shifts nice and snappy. The rear end is a 3.46 LSD which works great with the power level that this car makes.
The 14" basketweave wheels are all good and the back tires are good too. But the front tires are shredded.
The bad -
The motor jumped time and likely bent valves at impact, but I know the owner of the company who rebuilds heads for the BMW dealers in the Indy area, and I can get you a hookup. For the right price, I'll even do the work so you can have a drop-in motor with turbo, exhaust, and ECU.
The water pump, thermostat housing, and most of the accessory brackets were broken in the crash. I have spares that I'll include. You'll just need to clean them up and install them.
You may also have to replace the braided hoses that go to the remote oil filter.
I'd really like to sell the entire driveline in one go. This is basically a bolt-in and go-fast setup with minimal work. I know what I *want* out of all this, but I know I'm not going to get it. I have a sale pending on the rear subframe assembly (without the LSD), but I'd like to get about $3000 for the rest. You'd pay that just for the tuning and half the fabrication that went into this.
TLDR List-
- M20b27 block with m20b25 head/intake/throttle body
- Arp rod and main studs
- Metric Blue head bolts
- Race engine bearings
- Hx35 with quick spool housing
- Custom 3" downpipe and exhaust
- 3" straight-through muffler
- 3" hand fabricated dual exhaust tip
- Tial 38mm wastegate with custom screamer pipe
- Custom Tig welded charge pipe with blowoff valve
- Functioning iac
- Cobra bend to put air filter into cooler air and clear the radiator
- Ignition coils from 3000gt vr4
- Hand crimped custom length MSD plug wires
- Megasquirt MS2 with a full tune
- Bracket to hold MS2 in factory ECU location with the harness to use factory ECU plug
- Getrag 260 with a short shifter
- Spec stage 3 pressure plate rebuilt by South Bend Clutch
- South Bend stage 3 friction disk
- Custom machined flywheel (if memory serves, it weighs only 11 lbs with most of the material removed from the outer diameter)
- Reinforced driveshaft to use bigger guibo
- 3.46 LSD
- Rear subframe slotted/reinforced to enable alignments
- Reinforced trailing arms
- All rear urethane bushings
- Copper brake lines with new rubber lines to rear calipers
All parts are still on the car. I'll get the parts pulled this weekend and will post better pictures then.
**edit 2 (8/13)**
I forgot to mention a few things:
- Strong equal length t3 flange header
- Bosch 750cc 72lb EV14 Fuel Injectors
- Modified fuel rail (to clear charge pipe)
- Fuel tank and fill tube (all brand new just before the crash)
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