My introduction to R3V-

[e30orDie]

Well... I'm a tech whore. Now that, that's outta the way... I signed up over here a while back, but just found out today I can FINALLY post!!! w00t! I've been looking for a bigger selection of parts forsale- glad to finally be able to troll here ^_^

Anyways- let's see if I can keep this intro short, sweet and summed up-


Owned a e30 since I was 17, now 23, almost 24. Didnt know about forums till 2 years ago- always did my maintenance out of the bentley book...

Saw what turbos could do to these cars over on tech, and I had never rode in a boosted car, so.... 9 months later of research, I boosted and tuned my first efi setup- When I started, I didn't even know what a wastegate was... Thanks to the guys over there for good write ups and always willing to help-

Bought a 2.7 to boost, and did... Ended up not being a "good" motor- sooo. My car was down for 9 months while I rebuilt a seta and did a few other mods-

Had the car up on jack stands at one point as just a shell, with a dash- I'm not a body work man, and dont care to be one... More about go than show- so I didn't pay as mch detail to that as some of you guys do- which, I will admit I'm jealous over some really clean rides and engine bays-

Changed a lot of shit, so I'm just gonna make a list of items-

AKG 75D any and everywhere possible
AKG DTM selector and stage 2 shifter
AKG M3 sway tab for struts-
HR race
Billie sports
12mm raised sub frame (AKG)
Drop hats (not e90)
UUC camber/ caster plates
E46 front control arms
Tree house m3 loli's
Secret recipe of oem tie rods ;)
E36 m3 steering rack
Adjustable front m3 sway links (don't remember from where)
Hawk pads
Brembo disk
SS lines

Few things yet to install-
Massive Lee e brake bracket and calipers
Gt35 w/ .83-ar,ex.
Holset HX35 7* blade
Twin tials
Twinscroll mani
Reg mani
580cc five-o Injectors @3bar, up to 7-8bar adjustable :)
Haltech platinum sport 1000
Haltech RA10 amp/ noise reducer
AEM ugeo


Probably some other stuff that I have installed and haven't... I've got so much shit laying around just waiting- just wanted to give a brief summary.

And, ill share a few photos- I'll try to do it from beginning to end without showing all 1million... Lol :P

First mock up

first turbo exhaust :P

my fathers


My first car- 71, 80k orig miles


First turbo setup-


Lol!! Blew my vac block gasket- always carry extra card board to make gaskets on side of road ;)





Sport HR and tucked db on old shoes-


Oem steering angle FTL !!



Yep....





Modded struts- white325is ;)




Showing my plates being rotated and and drop hats-







Typically "1" at the bottom would lean inward towards motor for neg camber on drivers side-


I have "1" pulled out towards fender as far as it can- In fact, I may do a little machining on the tower brackets for more added + camber, since I'm neg anyways :)






CAT yellow block... Rest of motor will be someday >_<



Mystery BMW inner tie rod ;) perfect fit


My ideas/ research...


Install-




Yummy





Steering angle??





Some old photos- over a year ago-








More recent photos-





At dads-








Was painting trim and bumpers- so they were off-



New CF hood-









After I buffed hood (no more scratches) :)




























Haltech timing map I've been working on-








I get questioned a lot about my IC and valance- so- here it is pulled and shaved-





Did this all on my phone at work, so sorry for any repeats and the out of order fashion...

But that's my quick summary in all it's haggardness lmfao


Any Questions.... Ask-

[IRON-E]

Nice intro, can't wait to see what's next.

[87e30]

Looks good!

[KamakaziX]

Holy super introduction, Batman! Welcome!

[FunfGan]

Im liking this.

[mtechnik]

Welcome aboard R3V.

[samiam3356]

You cheat'n bastard! haha I spend a good bit of time here as well man.

[pilotskillse30]

wow nice intro, sweet car

[Farbin Kaiber]

Vinyl is not an option. I'm not a fan of placing a product list on a car to assist thieves.

[bernzpeed]

welcome... and nice intro.

[Suspence]

LOL that's one way to get a photo!

Looks sick, I want a turbo. How did you fit that fat intercooler down there?

[e30orDie]

Wow!! Thanks guys :) I've been waiting months to get into this forum, dunno why it took so long.... Sorry for the rush on the intro- I usally am pretty chatty, but work was crazy with just me and the boss man here today >_<

So much to do to her still ! It's never ending, as Sam knows :) We all love our e30's right? :D


Might through a build thread on boost together when that time comes- should be less than 2 weeks!!!!!! :D. Woot wooot!!!

[CHIF8008]

haha love the car man. keep up the work


nice steering angle!

[Marcos]

Nice intro

I like the car, it's nice seeing people go a different route. Are those minilites? The gold wheels.

[e30orDie]

:) steering angle was something I was after from the get go- way too behind for this year tho. Just hope to have my TS set and tuned fully by next year... I also have some hush hush ideas on MOAR angle!!!!! Weeeeeee!!!

I've drifted her stock, the way she is, and with no ps, the quicker rack an the angle.... I don't need PS- my buddy with a s14 didn't have it and was saying he needed it- I call him a ti-waaaane putchie and that he needs to get that sand out of his lips... Lol


No just some rotas- 15's honestly really light. 8" wide, the rears are going to be sent to weld craft for widening once boost is here again :D



LMGDFAO- so here's the car when I bought it in April 09- and the black one was my DD beater I beat the shit out of in my old bosses parkinglot- he did dirt track racing (late models) so he'd let me drift the fuck out of the parkinglot and hook me up on wholesale tires :D. Hehehe too bad I left- >_<

Anyways-


I had already swapped parts over between the cars here- u can see the red on my side mirror- lol


Grabber green!! Lol



Brought her home-




Who the fuck puts a BMW plate on a BMW?? At least I'm apart of CAT (my plate) and I just have it in my backwindow now.


Wow!!! Look at that putty!! Lmfao


Cleaned her a little, swapped a few things over- love how you can see my old custom gmc worl truck that we threw a dually bed on, tubbed (c notched) slammmmmmmmmmed... 5sp, was gonna drop a 383 stroker in her but sold truck-