Dumb Ass Teenager Turbo/Body Work/Respray Learning Experience Build Thread

[sofargone561]

Thanks man.

To be honest 8 months ago I was scared to pull my intake manifold let alone work on anything. Since then Ive had the motor in and out 3 times lol. Thats the great thing about e30s, you build up the balls to take them apart, you figure out whats wrong, you learn all about it when you put it all back together, then youve made that aspect of your car your bitch then you move on to the next project. If you read the first page of this thread i had ZERO idea what i was talking about or doing but now I do. Live once.

hahaha im at this step now. im taking baby steps but hopefully will have a sexy boosted e30 soon

[Jafxod]

I'm 18, but I gotta be honest, you have balls to do all this at your age. Makes me mad jealous. And I check this thread every other day. I love how there is actually progress! (unlike some threads, including my own)

Thanks man.

To be honest 8 months ago I was scared to pull my intake manifold let alone work on anything. Since then Ive had the motor in and out 3 times lol. Thats the great thing about e30s, you build up the balls to take them apart, you figure out whats wrong, you learn all about it when you put it all back together, then youve made that aspect of your car your bitch then you move on to the next project. If you read the first page of this thread i had ZERO idea what i was talking about or doing but now I do. Live once.

[shEck3lls0]

I'm 18, but I gotta be honest, you have balls to do all this at your age. Makes me mad jealous. And I check this thread every other day. I love how there is actually progress! (unlike some threads, including my own)

[Hey_You]

Sounds like me when I was 18, but I was dropping a ton of money into my Audi A4. I'm 23 now, and it's slow at my shop, so I have been getting sent home early or told to take days off. Kills my paychecks. If it was summer, I would have finished my build already (broke my wrist this summer so still paying off my surgery on it)

[Jafxod]

I'm stoked to see this running. I need to get bustin' ballz on my build.

Yeah man the shitty thing is I have all the motivation in the world but being only 18 I hit road blocks because Im just an 18 year older without a real job as of current.

[Hey_You]

I'm stoked to see this running. I need to get bustin' ballz on my build.

[Jafxod]

Its looking like first start is gonna be next weekish. This friday Im getting the money I need to finish this up. By that I mean buy paint and a paint gun and some injectors. Besides that everything else is a go. Then I gotta get it tuned

[Jafxod]

Your expectations are correct.

Get on the horse kamil. You better start your build before I finish mine.

[trackjunkie21]

I'm expecting all the east coast guys to be boosted when yours is done as well hahaha

Learned a lot reading this and other threads linked from here :up:

Your expectations are correct.

[nickflic3]

Thanks man. Looking back I had no idea what I had no idea what I was doing in the beginning, now Im starting to get my feet on solid ground now with this whole turbo thing.

I'm expecting all the east coast guys to be boosted when yours is done as well hahaha

Learned a lot reading this and other threads linked from here :up:

[ahriley91]

an adapter board would be the way to go IMO.

This would be the best choice. This also makes it easier to wire up the bip373's.
They are the coildrivers and since it is a 24 valve, you need 6 of them. Unless you are running wasted spark. Then you need 3. Or if you run the lsx pencil style coils, you just have to put the one bip373 in the normal spot on the board. The lsx coils have a built in coil driver. This is all with regard to ms3 and the expansion though.

Adam

[Jafxod]

Figures you would have a thread on here X) Took like an hour to catch up; good stuff man! Keep it up!

Thanks man. Looking back I had no idea what I had no idea what I was doing in the beginning, now Im starting to get my feet on solid ground now with this whole turbo thing.

[nickflic3]

Figures you would have a thread on here X) Took like an hour to catch up; good stuff man! Keep it up!

[LowR3V'in]

http://www.e30tech.com/forum/showthread.php?t=109900

This is real nice.

[SwiftE30]

Which MS are you running? Are you wiring straight to the harness (cut out the 88pin) or making an adapter board?

an adapter board would be the way to go IMO.