The street shark e30

[Bggdnssnguy]

Finally got my work wheels buffed and waxed but no tires. I'm thinking of maybe selling them.


And finally a light for the trunk! I was excited about this one, pulled from parts car.

[Bggdnssnguy]

Got me off eBay. Had good reviews. The fit fucking tight an car handles hella good.
They are ricochet polyurethane technologies.

[stealthbeam]

What Swaybar bushings are those?

[Bggdnssnguy]

Alrighty so here's an update on my garbage.
Installed everything and still not sitting how I want, trying to get the strut mounts to break in and see where it sits. I ordered the wrong freaking tire size but it rides good.
So here is some pictures of what I did.






And here's how she sits. It's a nice smooth ride now. Just wish for a little more low, at least tucking tire.


I also mentioned in previous post about bumpstops. Yeah well that didn't work. I cut one down to size and Dremeled the fuck outta it. Go it on finally and tried to pout the shock sleeve on and it would go over the bump. If I had dremeled the outside to fit the sleeve, then it would of been useless and broke. It was sturdy like it was but I didn't wanna fuck with it anymore so in the trash it went. So here's a couple pictures of what I tired to make work.

[Bggdnssnguy]

Sooo ordered parts last night. It's about to lit fam! Bahahah. Camber plates are coming out and will be up for sale soon.
Ordered 2 front tires as the shitty tires have gotten worse, front strut mounts, 4 dust caps and 2 washers, bump stops as mine are missing, front sway bar bushings cause mine are protruding out of the mounts. This will fix the camber from -3 to around -2.5 or less. I'll also be pulling the tie rod assemblies off the parts car cause they are like new and tight.
I put a set of eBay euro low beams in. Of course stuff isn't made right cause it's eBay shit. I kept the hella high beams and blacked them out and painted the dogs since the insides came apart. Changed the whole look up front and will look badass when the front get another inch lower.
Installed seats and cup holders. Hopefully at the Thursday meet someone can snag some badass pics of it.
But next on the agenda will be replace the vacuum hoses to match my radiator hoses and replace the brake booster grommet. I think it's ripped with how easy the hose is to take out. And going with the ecstuning tune up kit and a msd coil pack my dad has. He just doesn't know it yet aboutbthe coil pack. Lmao.
Here's a teaser of what the inside has shaped into. It's not the best but it's whatever.

[warshark]

i read all 10 pages of your post you are doing a good job on your car keep up the good work you will enjoy the fruits of your labour

[Bggdnssnguy]

A lot has been going on with this car lately.
I replaced both coolant sensors (I had to pull one back out due to it leaking, added small bit of rtv to threads), put aluminum radiator in, installed a new to me diff, and a afm sensor.

So let's talk about the diff I put in. I put this diff in and when I took the old out the rear part of driveshaft came out. Not thinking anything of it, I just shoved it back in. Went on a test drive and it was fine. Took back to shop to look things over and put tools away. Went home and it started to vibrate bad. So I bought a used shaft from a guy. I installed it last Monday and it still vibrates even though the u joints are lined up. So I asked him what else it could be. He then pointed out that the white dots have to line up also with the u joints. Yeah, I never looked for white dots lining up. So I now have to take the shaft back out and line the dots up, but will do this when I get my stud kit from garagistic.

I also replaced my afm due to age and a crack in the porcelain for the air meter. And come to find out, the new reman one was bad. Warrantied that bitch out for a new one and bam we are back in business. I made a thread in the m20 section about this problem.

Also Saturday car was in the shop while I worked and noticed wet spots under car, and found the brand new goetz headgasket dude put on is leaking at a 1/2-1 inch spot. I loosened that one bolt and retightened to spec and it has slowed down. But it got a little wet on the way home. I had cleaned it with brake clean and rechecked after 30 miles home. But wasn't running down the block as before. So this summer I will be tearing the car down on a couple days of vacation and redoing the head gasket, arp studs and the whole 9 yards. I will be getting a Bentley book cause fuck Haynes!

I will soon be taking the camber plates out and lower car again and putting smaller tires on front and running less camber this summer and will drive my bagged truck this summer a whole lot more after I finish on our land/house.

Here's a pic cause it looked okay Saturday.

[Bggdnssnguy]

Looks great, I almost got similar wheels.

Thanks. I'm taking the front camber plates out and running the oem mounts and a set of 195/45/16 just like the rear. The camber plates raised it about an inch or so and do not like that.

[z28]

Looks great, I almost got similar wheels.

[Bggdnssnguy]

Okay. Been some time since I posted.
Bought a mishimoto radiator from someone on here, and found out it's for 5 speed only. So I won't be using it. I found a full aluminum for an auto, ordered Bosch temp sensors( brown and blue tops).
Also in that time I bought an 87 325es to part out and make money back, but seems people only want stuff for way under what the stuff really costs.
I got a new set of wheels off the 87, traded the diff from it for a 4.10 I need, racing seats, and a couple things that aren't a big ordeal.
Now onto some pictures of things I have gotten.



New wheels and euro grills

[Bggdnssnguy]

Thank you.
Yeah I was looking into some IE ones but I had these laying around and threw them on.
I will be switching the front camber plates out for some oe style front mounts. Way to stiff and raised the front of my car up to much. So I'm looking at buying some.

[badwella]

Nice work, man. Diggin the ride.

You may look into some of the lifetime rear shock mounts when these crap out. I replaced a few sets and even got the heavy duty rsm's yet they still failed. Not much of a price difference either and you can rebuild these.

LINK

[Bggdnssnguy]

Onto some pictures.
The rear mounts on the bilstiens were blown to shit. Replaced with brand new mounts and some garagistic plates.




And now radiator is leaking from the plastic to metal seal. Just ordered a mishimoto radiator from a member on here. Gonna order the temp sensors while the coolant is drained.

[Bggdnssnguy]

Okay so here is where I'm at with this turd. Still getting 21 mpg but it's also having to warm up longer.
But after taking the icv hose off to clean icv, it now has a higher idle. I didn't put the clamps back on due to waiting for new icv hose to arrive. So that's more than likely the reason.

But on cold start it's still sputtering real bad. Already replaced the o2 sensor and seems to have better pick up and idle condition. So next step is to drain coolant again and replace the brown top and blue top coolant sensors. Might as well replace both for $30 and have a chance due to coolant drained. Other then that car is running good.

Bumper is falling apart and duct tape was handy. So a small square is holding driver corner together. Looks shitty, but I have silver bandaid stickers to replace the duct tape when it warms up a hair.

[Bggdnssnguy]

I planned on it eventually.