Slack as always, no updates for a while but motivation to work on this car has kicked in again.
There have been a few changes since I lasted posted. I sold my HSV and purchased a dog and a Honda Civic. (Please excuse the poor quality images)
I purchased the Honda from the original owner of 22 years, unfortunately for them and for me it had been overheated and now pouring coolant out the exhaust. It looks like the radiator cap had failed to release pressure, bursting a coolant hose and loosing all the coolant.
I pulled the engine and sourced a good donor from a wreckers.
Put it back together and it has been my daily since.
I've done the rear disc swap, found some budget wheels, swapped a DC5R wheel that I retrimmed and found an $80 Recaro.
To make up for the Honda content and poor quality images, I have a few more photos from a track day last year.
Since the last update the E30 has sat unused. It has been neglected and I really didn't have the motivation to work on it and or use it. I'll blame it on the process of building a house. Now the house build is underway my motivation has returned. I would like to swap the S52/ZF in and get the car in a good working state before moving into the new house. I assume my focus will shift to getting settled and the car will have to be parked for some time.
As it stands now I've swapped the 3.73 open diff for my 2.93 LSD, took it for a test drive with the Getrag 240 and while the gearing was really poor the lockup was great. I've now pulled the Getrag 240 and stripped the accessories off the M52.
I pulled my existing harness off the M52, it was poorly done when I first swapped the engine. The new harness has been converted using new pins and good quality crimp tools. I also really rate the de-pin tool from Falk MFG.
I'm not quite finished with it yet, I'm planning to add an OBD2 port and wire in a relay to have a functioning AC idle bump. I am putting this harness together without using solder or low quality wire. Prior to pulling everything apart I flashed MS41.2 and copied my existing maps over as well, when I do put the S52 in I should only have to do a partial flash of a factory US M3 map.
This is the old harness, hard to see but lots of cloth tape hiding a lot of dodgy work.
This is where I am at, taking my time this time around. I plan on pulling the engine and dropping the S52 in shortly. I have also recently acquired a AC/DC Tig welder. I have some new to me factory headers and plan on putting together a new stainless exhaust, dual 2 inch. I haven't done any TIG welding before but I'll see how I go. Worst case I have an exhaust that works.
I also noted that last time I used the car, the AC was weak. It looks like I have a small leak, I think it is coming from the low pressure fill port. I also recall needing an alignment after the motorkhana day, I think I might have dropped the wheel onto the grass a few times. I would also like to address the undercoating job I did when I did my rust repair, I now have a better compressor and spray equipment, spraying an aerosol upside down doesn't work very well and I am a bit disappointed with the end result.
There have been a few changes since I lasted posted. I sold my HSV and purchased a dog and a Honda Civic. (Please excuse the poor quality images)
I purchased the Honda from the original owner of 22 years, unfortunately for them and for me it had been overheated and now pouring coolant out the exhaust. It looks like the radiator cap had failed to release pressure, bursting a coolant hose and loosing all the coolant.
I pulled the engine and sourced a good donor from a wreckers.
Put it back together and it has been my daily since.
I've done the rear disc swap, found some budget wheels, swapped a DC5R wheel that I retrimmed and found an $80 Recaro.
To make up for the Honda content and poor quality images, I have a few more photos from a track day last year.
Since the last update the E30 has sat unused. It has been neglected and I really didn't have the motivation to work on it and or use it. I'll blame it on the process of building a house. Now the house build is underway my motivation has returned. I would like to swap the S52/ZF in and get the car in a good working state before moving into the new house. I assume my focus will shift to getting settled and the car will have to be parked for some time.
As it stands now I've swapped the 3.73 open diff for my 2.93 LSD, took it for a test drive with the Getrag 240 and while the gearing was really poor the lockup was great. I've now pulled the Getrag 240 and stripped the accessories off the M52.
I pulled my existing harness off the M52, it was poorly done when I first swapped the engine. The new harness has been converted using new pins and good quality crimp tools. I also really rate the de-pin tool from Falk MFG.
I'm not quite finished with it yet, I'm planning to add an OBD2 port and wire in a relay to have a functioning AC idle bump. I am putting this harness together without using solder or low quality wire. Prior to pulling everything apart I flashed MS41.2 and copied my existing maps over as well, when I do put the S52 in I should only have to do a partial flash of a factory US M3 map.
This is the old harness, hard to see but lots of cloth tape hiding a lot of dodgy work.
This is where I am at, taking my time this time around. I plan on pulling the engine and dropping the S52 in shortly. I have also recently acquired a AC/DC Tig welder. I have some new to me factory headers and plan on putting together a new stainless exhaust, dual 2 inch. I haven't done any TIG welding before but I'll see how I go. Worst case I have an exhaust that works.
I also noted that last time I used the car, the AC was weak. It looks like I have a small leak, I think it is coming from the low pressure fill port. I also recall needing an alignment after the motorkhana day, I think I might have dropped the wheel onto the grass a few times. I would also like to address the undercoating job I did when I did my rust repair, I now have a better compressor and spray equipment, spraying an aerosol upside down doesn't work very well and I am a bit disappointed with the end result.
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