Well.... besides sex....sometimes... Anyways, I know I don't own an e30 yet, but I'm workin on that. In the meantime I've been helping my buddy Nick work on his 318is. It's been a lot of fun thus far! Plus, he makes a lot more money than me so we get to mod his more often...lol.
A couple weekends back we finished up his stage II head install. It was pretty fun... pretty straight foward too. I haven't learned enough about bimmer motors yet, but I'm very mechanically inclined and work on my dub whenever it needs somethin.
So the mayhem began......
A couple pics...The car used to be red and entirely stock when he bought it with 130,000 miles on it. 20,000 miles later...
It has:
4.10 rear end w/ Limited Slip diff out of an ix model
Chip
2.5 straight back Remus Exhaust
K&N Filter
UCC Shifter
Bilstein Shocks
Bavarian autosport springs
Bavarian F&R sway bars and F&R upper strut bars
Friday- Got the throttle body, intake, intake manifold off fairly quickly. Drained the oil and got the stock head and bolts out. After that, we had to wait for the ARP headstuds to come in so we sandblasted and painted the valvecover with some high heat resistant grill paint...it came out prettttty! We're Prolly gonna to the upper part of the intake manifold as well.
Saturday- The headstuds arrived so we cleaned out the extra coolant that dripped on the pistons and put on the new SS 5-layer headspacer. I'd say they look DAMN good for having over 150,000 miles on them.
The new head...
Then we took the cams out so we could get the new head on...
The new headgasket...
Droppin the head back in...
Puttin the cams back on...
Puttin the new valvecover gasket on...
The Plasma Coils...
Then we sat back and had a few cold ones and played some Call of Duty 4 online.
Sunday
Set the timing, put everything back on and time for a test drive!
All in all, it was quite an upgrade. It pulls a lot harder, but nowhere near my liking. I'll probably end up getting a 325is once I sell my car. Hope you enjoyed and glad I could share!
-Brandon
A couple weekends back we finished up his stage II head install. It was pretty fun... pretty straight foward too. I haven't learned enough about bimmer motors yet, but I'm very mechanically inclined and work on my dub whenever it needs somethin.
So the mayhem began......
A couple pics...The car used to be red and entirely stock when he bought it with 130,000 miles on it. 20,000 miles later...
It has:
4.10 rear end w/ Limited Slip diff out of an ix model
Chip
2.5 straight back Remus Exhaust
K&N Filter
UCC Shifter
Bilstein Shocks
Bavarian autosport springs
Bavarian F&R sway bars and F&R upper strut bars
Friday- Got the throttle body, intake, intake manifold off fairly quickly. Drained the oil and got the stock head and bolts out. After that, we had to wait for the ARP headstuds to come in so we sandblasted and painted the valvecover with some high heat resistant grill paint...it came out prettttty! We're Prolly gonna to the upper part of the intake manifold as well.
Saturday- The headstuds arrived so we cleaned out the extra coolant that dripped on the pistons and put on the new SS 5-layer headspacer. I'd say they look DAMN good for having over 150,000 miles on them.
The new head...
Then we took the cams out so we could get the new head on...
The new headgasket...
Droppin the head back in...
Puttin the cams back on...
Puttin the new valvecover gasket on...
The Plasma Coils...
Then we sat back and had a few cold ones and played some Call of Duty 4 online.
Sunday
Set the timing, put everything back on and time for a test drive!
All in all, it was quite an upgrade. It pulls a lot harder, but nowhere near my liking. I'll probably end up getting a 325is once I sell my car. Hope you enjoyed and glad I could share!
-Brandon
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