The street shark e30

[Bggdnssnguy]

Here some carnage pics on the things that are being addressed as soon as I get parts.



Also my driver front fender lip was bent outwards, and I thought maybe I should use a heat gun and decided against it. Well I tried to bend the lip back and it cracked some thick bondo someone had already try to fix the fender before. I looked closer at the paint and there is in sanded bondo and scratch marks under the paint... For now I'm gonna do a slap sticker to cover it up for now and maybe fix it later. I'm slowly finding surface rust spots all over the car. Which is scary.. I might just do a rat rod look of faded paint and slam the piss out of it. Who knows. And why I was angry at that, I decided to see why my gas pedal felt stiff. Found 16 cents and a huge pile of small rocks smashed under it. Vacuumed and now it's smooth as butter.

Here's a badass e30 I saw like 10 spots down from me. Makes my car look like crap compared to this. Leather interior and manual on Mini Cooper wheels plus it's slammed.

[Bggdnssnguy]

Well yesterday after Nissan tech school. I put my car on the lift at work. They are like 5 minutes from each other, got lucky on that one. I was just gonna clean all the power steering fluid off the bottom of the car. And found somethings that need to be addressed very quickly.

One motor mount is torn, the trans mounts are completely smashed and blown out and guibo is coming apart.
The front lca have been replaced already so I dodged that bullet, but the rear diff is showing some age.. Found a BMW performance place called ecstuning.com.. Ordered motor mounts, trans mounts, guibo all in rubber. I just need to get the car reliable right now.. And I ordered poly for the diff. Hopefully the stuff gets here soon.
I'll upload pics when in on wifi again.

[Bggdnssnguy]

Well the tweeters had the wires there already. So I hooked me up and nothing. The front speakers aren't very loud. So when I install new head unit I'll run new wire.
And I ordered some wipers stuff from a member on here and his wipers worked before he parted the car. So I'll change the relay first.. Also sun visor clips and a driver buckle for seat belt
But fml, I took my car through our car wash at work and before I could shut the car off to save the antenna. It ripped it off, so I bought a delete plug from eBay just for e30 cars. It's a good thing I use my phone for music.
Also ordered a sunroof crank for $16. I look ghetto using vice grips opening my sunroof.

On the agenda for this car which I never stated before.
Lowering springs
Chassis braces front and rear to stiffen it up. I live on country back roads that are tight
Replace the leaking steering rack
Fix some interior things
Start replacing bushings with poly bushings
Do front and rear brakes with some nice ceramics and slotted rotors and replace lines with stainless
Eventually fix the body and paint it and new wheels.

I'm in a budget with getting married and buying a house. So progress will be slow. Right now I'm trying to make it daily driver status.

[Das Delfin]

On premium sound cars, the tweeters are wired to the front speakers with a high pass filter

The wiper relay is known to go bad. It's the big long relay in the fuse box. You can look up how to test and fix it. It's easier to do that than replace the switch so I'd start there

[noslolo]

The car looks great! The rims are spot on! I just bought a 89 325is, it has Spec30 racing suspension and new leather interior, but the paint is total crap, the sun has just destroyed it. I know the history of the car and all of the suspension and brake work is top notch, but I paid $2500, so you have a great project car at a steal of a price. Kudos to you and your new project.

[Bggdnssnguy]

Have a couple of questions. If anyone can help me.

So my wipers don't work.. PO supposedly took the motor out and cleaned it and reinstalled and they didn't work still. I checked the solder points on the motor and had no voltage what so ever on any of the wires. So I guess what I'm asking is, does the control unit go bad often? Or would it be the switch on the column. The washer sprayer doesn't work either.

Second, installed a set of suppose to be percent tweeter panels in the doors. Hooked them up and they don't work. Car came with the blanks in that spot. Is there another spot I need to plug up for them to work? Someone put a crappy pioneer radio in, maybe there is a set of wires they didn't hook up...

[Bggdnssnguy]

Here's a picture of the front. I love this car, driving for the first time on a decent drive made me love it. Just need to fix the wipers. If anyone has insight please help.

[Bggdnssnguy]

eBay. I bought front turn lights too, but they are 2 plug and mine is 3 plug. So I kept stock housing and just changed the lenses. Need to change the bulbs to orange so it will all match.

[Gumby]

Where did you get those black reflectors?

[Bggdnssnguy]

Are you talking about the control module in the fuse box under the hood near the booster. Cause I tried to pull it and it didn't wanna come out.

[Bggdnssnguy]

Where at?? I'm at work and can prolly get a relay.
The sprayers don't work either.

[Old city bimmer]

if your wipers ain't working then most likely your relay went bad. it in the fuse box in the front if you haven't checked it yet.

[Bggdnssnguy]

Got a couple things done last night.
Put the market lights in. Also hooked fog lights up to the marker lights cause they didn't work on the switch

Got my intake boot on and everything reinstalled. Cleaned the throttle body while I was at it. Still has a high idle but it's idle cleared up a whole bunch. Need to clean the maf now cause it's really dirty.




I ordered a set of 20mm hub centric spacers just for an e30 with extended studs, so I won't have to run these crappy cheap spacers. Those will come in next week. Also on the agenda is to hook a toggle switch for the wipers, so I can get them working again. I just need them to work in general.
Also installed tweeter plates with tweeters. But neither make a sound. Could this be due to PO not hooking them up with aftermarket radio? Or is there somewhere I need to plug them into, since it had just plate fillers to begin with.

[Bggdnssnguy]

So today I did a couple things.
I jb welded these into the intake and waiting for them to dry. One had rtv that wasn't holding it in and the other had nothing on it. Also replaced all the squeeze clamps with worm clamps cause the hoses weren't tight.



I talked to my service writer at Nissan who use to work at BMW. Said that if these get dirty they will also affect the idle. I pulled it off and noticed the paper gasket was wet from oil and it was dirty. Scraped the old gasket off, cleaned the inside, put Nissan rtv on it to seal and hand tightened. When car is warmed I will give it a small extra snugging. I don't wanna drive it till I get my boot in. But we will see.

I really hope this solves my idle issue. If not, then the intake is coming off and I'll be replacing the gasket. That will the only thing I haven't replaced or tried to fix yet.

Also need to find a wiring diagram so I can run a toggle switch for the wipers. I'm pretty sure the switch on the column went bad due to no wipers and no washer fluid motor running when switch is pressed. But the only way to drop the column is to take the security bolts out.
That's all for now.

[Bggdnssnguy]

Replace that intake boot with new if you can. A used one may not have much life left.
Good luck with the car. They're a lot of fun, but many inexpensive e30s require a ton of "catch up" maintenance to reach a certain level of fun and reliable.

Yeah I'm waiting for the boot right now. Brand new for $18 shipped.
The PO did a ton of motor stuff which kinda scares me also. Once I get the boot here and on. And if it still has a high idle. I'll smoke it at work. I'm a Nissan tech and this Beamer is a hair but different then a old or new Nissan.