Clapbox 325E

[Panici]

Panici, your car as always been kinda a look to for inspiration from time to time. ( i lurk waaaaay more then i post ) One day it'll hopefully look as nice. I wanna tackle the front end/subframe at the same time. so that'll be the next big thing.

Very kind of you to say! 🙂
I'm lucky to have found something I'm so passionate about in life.

[Swoozley Macklin]

Sold and bought back, that's how you know the car was meant to be in your hands.

Neat that you can buy a removable core support kit now. Had to figure out mine from scratch.

What happened with your wiring short issue?

Honestly, i'm not to entirely sure. my gut says i was just being dumb doing the wiring with the battery hooked up and just shorted. lesson learned, I haven't had any other gremlins since yet... Panici, your car as always been kinda a look to for inspiration from time to time. ( i lurk waaaaay more then i post ) One day it'll hopefully look as nice. I wanna tackle the front end/subframe at the same time. so that'll be the next big thing.

[Panici]

Sold and bought back, that's how you know the car was meant to be in your hands.

Neat that you can buy a removable core support kit now. Had to figure out mine from scratch.

What happened with your wiring short issue?

[Swoozley Macklin]

Another small update.
- Ground control / koni adjustables installed, car rides soooooooooo much better
- bolted in passanger seat / seat-belt.
- put the back bumper kinda on
- threw the back wheels on
- picked up a set of IE sways 25f/22r and a new reinforced front subframe, still need to install
- traded a e36 i had for some hotside parts, not sure if they'll ever make it on the car.
- ordered up the rageitparts removeable front support, been waiting on usps for two weeks now (it made it 99 percent of the way, then went back across the county)
-scored some late exterior trim pc's gonna wait for body work (hopefully soon?)
- FINALLLLLLY off sealed beams, junkyard find scored some black kick panels as well.
I bought a 96? accord to start to daily, So i can start to dedicate some more "free" time to the e30, it's been on daily duty for a few months now. Finally able to retire it for now lol.
Overall I built this thing about three years ago in my parents driveway, and it's still a learning process. i've had my up's and downs with the car, but i don't think i'll be able to stop chipping away at it. i'm happy with it, it's not the prettiest, but damn does it make me smile. it's never really left me stranded yet *knock on wood*

i'll be around in a few months for the 1/4ly / yearly update

[Swoozley Macklin]

quaterly? update?
- Set some of the fuse box? on fire, was wiring in a fan to a relay/switch and did a big oopsie of letting the constant 12V red hot touch some metal after not putting it back. egos a bit hurt, cars a bit hurt. damage doesn't look to bad from what I looked at yesterday. Hoping it isn't to much of a mess at the S232 splice and up further (hoping so bc it seems to be in it's own insulation till the it comes out by the fuse box . Should be this months task. I have a whole fuse box / harness out of another car already. So if its no horrible gonna try patch it back
Other than that a few minor updates
- New fag bearings outback/Da whole shabang
- Put a new windshield in
- Got two new wheels for the front ( other two next month )
- bought my sedan shell back and took the bumpers off it, the back is destroyed but gonna try to fix it.still trying to bring this back to life, but i work on it in quarterly spirts.

[Swoozley Macklin]

Well, another small update.
Sold the car like a idiot. New owner re-did the wrap and put about 100 miles on it and parked it.
there's a bunch of small things I want to change/address.
-Hubs are screaming for life
-wanna put carpet back into it, either grey or black, as well as matching cards
- late bumper conversion
-headlights
-send the car off to just get bombed
-steering wheel
-suspension and so fourth
-wheels
-windshield
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But i'm happy to get the car back, should've never sold it but hey, i'm a idiot sometimes.
Overall i put the car together really quick, and wanna address some things that might've got skipped while building it.
I'll give the car credit, it has never left me stranded, or on the side of the road and beat the car to hell all summer. So i guess it's time to refresh this heep.

[2mAn]

After not being able to find a luxor door, I ended up ordering some wrap, it's coming out horrible, but i got enough to do the car twice. So it'll eventually come out nice.

Thats the attitude

[Swoozley Macklin]

Long update post, I guess. Been driving the car pretty much everyday since the swap was completed. Picked up a E46 wagon to daily and just didn't stop driving the e30. Car hasn't really changed much. Overall this was my first time ever really going through the works on something like this. But i'm happy. I'd eventually like to reshell the car at some point. But i'm happy, it runs, it drives, and makes me smile.

After not being able to find a luxor door, I ended up ordering some wrap, it's coming out horrible, but i got enough to do the car twice. So it'll eventually come out nice.

Anywho, I eventually like to stroke out the B28 and run a s54 itb setup. I know it it's not financially the most bang for your buck. but it's a thing i've always wanted to do. I know there is sorta no order to this thread but i'll get there eventually. As of now, I sold the rsi manifold, headstuds, and tial gate setup i had for this. Stay tuned for my yearly update.


Here's how it sits now.

[Swoozley Macklin]

Long but not so long update, never finished the car, traded it for a e36, drove the e36 for a year and got the e30 bug. Picked up a shell off my friend that he had a 302 put in. And been chipping away at it the last 8ish months. Picked it up as a roller with just a a interior really. No brake lines/fuel lines/front end etc. and here it is at it sits today. It’s ratty but it’s fun and mostly complete. I know this description sorta sucks but I haven’t really been trying to post it just sorta been picking away Anywho here’s a pic of how it sits now, it’s got all new brake lines, calipers, full condor catalog, Akg shifter/dssr/zf/3.73’d etc. I might go more in depth later this week. But I literally got the hardware for the front end as I was typing this. Thanks all for checking in lol Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk

[Swoozley Macklin]

Well, it’s been awhile..... but scored a M3 off my buddy dirt cheap and ripped the m20 out and started to swap the s52 in. Car has gone through some visual changes. But sits in front of my parents has due to work/time constraints. Hoping to have it done soon though! How it sits now, had a carbon fiber sunroof panel fly off on me reason for the tarp



Snapped 4 of my mh wheel studs on the pass side, pushed it back to my buddys house on his longboard





Annnnd got a heck some time ago. Really hoping to post more, lurking on here and with the help of Dave/Jordan at Bimmer Buddies has really helped learn about these cars.


P.s. I didn't realize how the pics uploaded till i logged on from my computer, shows normal on my tapatalk app. Will try to figure it out! Thanks ya'll

[Swoozley Macklin]

Little bit of a update, put in a kirk racing roll bar, painted the wheels. Haven't drove it much.

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[Mike36]

Not sure, I was planning to turbo the m20 in the beginning . A friend talked me out of it. He let me ride in his 302 swap'd e30 and I sorta fell in love, plus I'd be making a lot of swap parts myself, already sourced a motor. On a side note my father traded this in at his lot and bought it for 600 and got the roof last night for 700


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Dang! Where'd he find a roof at $700 for it so fast?!

[Swoozley Macklin]

n/a

[2mAn]

Before you yank the original motor out, I would recommend researching the swap. A lot of cars get stalled in the build when they have your thought process

A turbo M20 can do a lot of what you are expecting of the "302" without the headache of putting that Ford motor in there

[Matt-B]

boots looking good man!