Well my original plans for the first E30 were to swap a rebuilt and cammed chevy 350 small block into it. After realizing more than half of the car was rusted out, I put the project on hold and picked up another one as a daily.
First day driving home:
It was recently repainted a metallic blue, which looks very nice when the car is washed. Has 180k on the motor or something like that. Passenger side wheel bearing was completely shot. Had trouble idling. The basic bullshit.
First thing was to get rid of the blown stock suspension and fix the wheel bearing.
I swapped my full bc coilover set from the project car onto this one, which resulted in:
In an attempt to fix the rough idle and all around boggyness of the car, I put in some new plugs; did nothing. New fuel filter; did nothing. Decided to adjust the valves and instantly had the biggest "wat" look on my face. Probably the biggest Ill ever have in my life. I take off the valve cover to find this, sitting in the valve train up again the side of the head.....
completely unbelievable..
After I pulled the ever so convenient clamp out of the head and finished adjusting the valves, the car started to run a bit better :)
THEN. I ditched the 15x6 +38 wheels that came on the car. I got a very good deal on a set of 15x8 +0 offset 002's. Now I know how almost everyone on the forums feels about 002's, so Im fully expecting to get hated on for them, but its all good.
To maybe change your minds about hating heres a couple dslr pics I took along with some pics by a local photographer who Im helping get his name out.
Now for the JDS Photography pics:
1.
BMW2 by shprelude, on Flickr
2.
BMW1 by shprelude, on Flickr
3.
BMW3 by shprelude, on Flickr
If any of you guys like the way he shot these, please follow him on facebook @ http://www.facebook.com/JosephDSphotography I think he really has talent, just gotta get his name gets out there!
So there she is. All comments good or bad welcome. The car still runs rough sometimes. Its boggy in low RPM's, and I thought maybe the fuel filter was restricting some flow. Its idles fine, revs up when you go easy on it, but if I were idling and push the pedal to the floor, thats when it gets bad. If anyone has any ideas what it could be, im willing to try whatever. Thanks for looking!
-Jake
First day driving home:
It was recently repainted a metallic blue, which looks very nice when the car is washed. Has 180k on the motor or something like that. Passenger side wheel bearing was completely shot. Had trouble idling. The basic bullshit.
First thing was to get rid of the blown stock suspension and fix the wheel bearing.
I swapped my full bc coilover set from the project car onto this one, which resulted in:
In an attempt to fix the rough idle and all around boggyness of the car, I put in some new plugs; did nothing. New fuel filter; did nothing. Decided to adjust the valves and instantly had the biggest "wat" look on my face. Probably the biggest Ill ever have in my life. I take off the valve cover to find this, sitting in the valve train up again the side of the head.....
completely unbelievable..After I pulled the ever so convenient clamp out of the head and finished adjusting the valves, the car started to run a bit better :)
THEN. I ditched the 15x6 +38 wheels that came on the car. I got a very good deal on a set of 15x8 +0 offset 002's. Now I know how almost everyone on the forums feels about 002's, so Im fully expecting to get hated on for them, but its all good.
To maybe change your minds about hating heres a couple dslr pics I took along with some pics by a local photographer who Im helping get his name out.
Now for the JDS Photography pics:
1.
BMW2 by shprelude, on Flickr
2.
BMW1 by shprelude, on Flickr
3.
BMW3 by shprelude, on Flickr
If any of you guys like the way he shot these, please follow him on facebook @ http://www.facebook.com/JosephDSphotography I think he really has talent, just gotta get his name gets out there!
So there she is. All comments good or bad welcome. The car still runs rough sometimes. Its boggy in low RPM's, and I thought maybe the fuel filter was restricting some flow. Its idles fine, revs up when you go easy on it, but if I were idling and push the pedal to the floor, thats when it gets bad. If anyone has any ideas what it could be, im willing to try whatever. Thanks for looking!
-Jake
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