M30 swap for my Olive Drab Vert!

[TheTacoMan]

Yaaayyy, fender flares

[ThatOneEuroE30]

Awesome. Should of asked your buddy to race and showed it what real horsepower is.

[jeffnhiscars]

Good job Matt. Funny thing is I didn't think your car had a top since I've never seen it ��

[RagtopE30]

So update time. The car is freaking awesome as usual. I had a local friend call me up the other day and asked if I wanted to go to some local track and play with his firebird that he put a 500hp LS into. I of course laughed and asked why in the world I would want to go anywhere to play with a slow heavy car! I play with a 500+ crank horse power car every day.

So fender flares got some attention today. I decided to tackle the rears first because even if I ran out of time it still looks cool with rear flares. So I did some cutting and welding and then some painting because shiny parts dont look right on my car.
Eventually the flares will be body color when I paint the car the same color as the engine bay.

And now I can put some much wider tires in the rear and actually be able to experience traction!!! Oh and not the rear can be dropped to the appropriate lowness.

I will let the pictures talk.

[RagtopE30]

Yeah! Divorce sucks

[TheTacoMan]

Updates?

[RagtopE30]

I am running direzza dz101 tires that work really well above 75 degrees. Below that they break loose in second and third on hard pulls. But I am about to replace them with some wider and stickier tires.

Depending non your diff and tires you will have full traction in 3rd

[AusScare]

Awesome project, just read the whole thread.

How is traction? What tyres are you running?

When my turbo swap is done I'm hoping for 400whp and full traction in 3rd.

[hotdish]

Looks like it's about ready to take off!

[ThatOneEuroE30]

I want so bad haha

[the imitator]

i dig it!

[RagtopE30]

Holy Crap was that fun! The 3000ft runway was very short though. Because it was a county airport there was a fence at foot 0 and at foot 3000. The pavement was no where near perfectly flat so there was some up and down that got kind of hairy around 120mph. BUT MAN WAS IT FUN!!!
The video looks slow but I assure you that it was freaking quick. The fastest I was able to go with the wavy pavement and limited braking area was 125mph. I am sure with more runs I would have built my confidence and made faster runs but I ran out of time.

Video for proof

[RagtopE30]

Another downside to this car... I know, I know, 1st world problems!

If you drive it like it was built to be driven you can literally (and I am not exaggerating at all) watch the fuel gauge drop.



Worth it!

[turbo325i]

My balls are no where big enough to hit 200mph!

At least not in an e30 on a 3000ft runway.

Ya, maybe not... But maybe. Thats been a little goal of mine for a while. I can hit 150mph @ the end of 1/4 mile(1320ft) so maybe possible... :D

I have hit 174mph on the highway very easy and it had a lot more in it, my buddy was just screaming @ me to slow down! hahaha

[the imitator]

i hit 130 in my old e34 535i against a volvo 850 r, twas fun..