As many of you know I bought myself a glossy black E30 back around the first of the year. Funny thing about this car is I owned it from 9/04 through 9/06. During that time I did anything and everything to it, including a turbo 2.7 stroker. Ever since I sold the car I had regretted my decision. A friend of mine spotted it for sale in December of last year and let me know. After selling one ball, one kidney, and whoring myself out as much as possible I made a deal with the seller and bought the car back!
The fairy tale didn't go as smoothly as it should have. The seller (a shop owner and mechanic) told me that the car would need a headgasket. This is something I was OK with and I went ahead and had it shipped home from PA. Long story short, it had a cracked cylinder head and had been mixing coolant in the engine oil for quite some time. The Schrick cam was destroyed, the crankshaft was destroyed, the bearings were destroyed. Mind you this was a 10,000 mile motor.
At that point I decided to bite the bullet. Fuck it, let's build it again and do it right. I sourced a new (used) cylinder head with a good cam and sent the cam to be ground to turbo spec. I sourced a very clean replacement Eta crankshaft from a buddy who had an Eta parts engine. Of course I bought all new rings, bearings, gaskets, etc. The engine got a full rebuild including having the block honed and decked and the cylinder head rebuilt. I went with a +size OEM BMW head gasket and all ARP hardware. I will include a full mod list below.
The next step was engine management. My days of swearing that my band-aid Motronic setup was fine were over. I talked to Derek at Dederic Motorsport (DMS) and got the ball rolling. Derek built me a plug and play Megasquirt box and a plug and play Innovate LC-1 wideband o2 sensor. For anyone wondering, this guy knows what the fuck he is doing and I would recommend him and his work to ANYONE. Today (Friday) I met Derek at a local dyno shop and he went to work. Thanks to Derek I have a GREAT running and reliable turbo M20. He claims it should get decent MPGs too, but I'd have to drive normally for that I think, lol!
Below are some pics from the dyno session along with a dyno sheet, a fun dyno video and complete mod list for the car. None of this could have been possible without the help and hard work of my very good friend Shant. He goes by Myster-e on this forum. A huge thanks to him and again to Derek! Now phase two of buying this car back will be getting it cleaned up! Enjoy...
VIDEO:
Engine:
Rebuilt as os 4/11
New bearings/rings
Super Eta pistons
Super Eta rods
Eta crankshaft
Balanced bottom end
Port/polished 885 head
Reground turbo cam
IE HD rocker arms
IE crank scraper
ARP main bolts
ARP rod bolts
ARP head studs
OEM thick headgasket
Powercoated intake manifold
Powdercoated valve cover
Perma-Cool 18x6 oil cooler
Summit oil filter relocation
Steel braided AN oil lines
Spal 16" electric fan
A/C & P/S deleted
Turbo Setup:
Equal length stainless manifold
T3/T4 turbo Exh trim .57ar/Comp trim .50
Tial 35mm wastegate
Greddy Type-S blow off valve
Ford Motorsport 39lb injectors
K&N RU-5111 Air filter
Dederic Motorsport PnP EMS
E36 M50 throttle sensor
Innovate LC-1 wideband o2
Turbo-back 3" exhaust
Magnaflow rear muffler
Dyno tuned by Dederic Motorsport
Suspension:
IE Stage III springs
Bilstein Sport shocks/struts
Sparco front strut brace
UDM Motorsport rear brace
Autopower "street" roll bar
16x7.5 Hartge Type A wheels
225/45/16 Falken 452 tires
Exterior:
iS front lip spoiler
RyanG splitter
European headlight grilles
European bumper moldings
European rear plate filler
Shadowline window trim
15% window tint
M-Technic I trunk spoiler
Hella smiley Euro Ellipsoids
DDM Raptor 55w 5000k HID
MHW smoked turn signals
MHW smoked tail lights
Body color side mirrors
Interior:
Euro grey cloth sport interior
Black door handles and map pockets
Nardi steering wheel
ZHP shift knob
Euro 316i HVAC panel
M3 Maplight rear view mirror
Ashtray delete storage tray
E36 window switch swap
Cocomats floormats
Nakamichi CD400 head unit
Polk 6x9 rear speakers
The fairy tale didn't go as smoothly as it should have. The seller (a shop owner and mechanic) told me that the car would need a headgasket. This is something I was OK with and I went ahead and had it shipped home from PA. Long story short, it had a cracked cylinder head and had been mixing coolant in the engine oil for quite some time. The Schrick cam was destroyed, the crankshaft was destroyed, the bearings were destroyed. Mind you this was a 10,000 mile motor.
At that point I decided to bite the bullet. Fuck it, let's build it again and do it right. I sourced a new (used) cylinder head with a good cam and sent the cam to be ground to turbo spec. I sourced a very clean replacement Eta crankshaft from a buddy who had an Eta parts engine. Of course I bought all new rings, bearings, gaskets, etc. The engine got a full rebuild including having the block honed and decked and the cylinder head rebuilt. I went with a +size OEM BMW head gasket and all ARP hardware. I will include a full mod list below.
The next step was engine management. My days of swearing that my band-aid Motronic setup was fine were over. I talked to Derek at Dederic Motorsport (DMS) and got the ball rolling. Derek built me a plug and play Megasquirt box and a plug and play Innovate LC-1 wideband o2 sensor. For anyone wondering, this guy knows what the fuck he is doing and I would recommend him and his work to ANYONE. Today (Friday) I met Derek at a local dyno shop and he went to work. Thanks to Derek I have a GREAT running and reliable turbo M20. He claims it should get decent MPGs too, but I'd have to drive normally for that I think, lol!
Below are some pics from the dyno session along with a dyno sheet, a fun dyno video and complete mod list for the car. None of this could have been possible without the help and hard work of my very good friend Shant. He goes by Myster-e on this forum. A huge thanks to him and again to Derek! Now phase two of buying this car back will be getting it cleaned up! Enjoy...
VIDEO:
Engine:
Rebuilt as os 4/11
New bearings/rings
Super Eta pistons
Super Eta rods
Eta crankshaft
Balanced bottom end
Port/polished 885 head
Reground turbo cam
IE HD rocker arms
IE crank scraper
ARP main bolts
ARP rod bolts
ARP head studs
OEM thick headgasket
Powercoated intake manifold
Powdercoated valve cover
Perma-Cool 18x6 oil cooler
Summit oil filter relocation
Steel braided AN oil lines
Spal 16" electric fan
A/C & P/S deleted
Turbo Setup:
Equal length stainless manifold
T3/T4 turbo Exh trim .57ar/Comp trim .50
Tial 35mm wastegate
Greddy Type-S blow off valve
Ford Motorsport 39lb injectors
K&N RU-5111 Air filter
Dederic Motorsport PnP EMS
E36 M50 throttle sensor
Innovate LC-1 wideband o2
Turbo-back 3" exhaust
Magnaflow rear muffler
Dyno tuned by Dederic Motorsport
Suspension:
IE Stage III springs
Bilstein Sport shocks/struts
Sparco front strut brace
UDM Motorsport rear brace
Autopower "street" roll bar
16x7.5 Hartge Type A wheels
225/45/16 Falken 452 tires
Exterior:
iS front lip spoiler
RyanG splitter
European headlight grilles
European bumper moldings
European rear plate filler
Shadowline window trim
15% window tint
M-Technic I trunk spoiler
Hella smiley Euro Ellipsoids
DDM Raptor 55w 5000k HID
MHW smoked turn signals
MHW smoked tail lights
Body color side mirrors
Interior:
Euro grey cloth sport interior
Black door handles and map pockets
Nardi steering wheel
ZHP shift knob
Euro 316i HVAC panel
M3 Maplight rear view mirror
Ashtray delete storage tray
E36 window switch swap
Cocomats floormats
Nakamichi CD400 head unit
Polk 6x9 rear speakers
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