Cirrusly Blue - The Daily Driver E30... now SUPER powered

[E30335i]

Never a problem to help out fellow rev’rs. Occasionally there’s fellow e30 people that literally stay at my place and watch me work all day while I do my thing. Always willing to help. Hooking people up for the rest of this month! Anytime Simon


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[BlackbirdM3]

How do your subframe bushings and trailing arm bushings look? Mine were squeaky, and chewing the insides of my tires up. They don't make noise any more.

Will

[2mAn]

Cirrusly Blue - The Daily Driver E30

So the cars been squeaking a lot in the back so I bugged Ian (E30335i) and we knocked out the rear sway bushings and I’m glad we did... sadly it didn’t make a difference. I’m pretty sure it’s the exhaust now as that’s the only thing left and it didn’t look too pretty down there

More importantly, I am grateful that Ian has been a huge help with me. Highly recommended him to locals who need a hand getting work done and don’t have time or the budget to deal with shops. He came up with a really simple way to press those dog bones on

Dog bones looked terrible...


These bushings didn’t look as bad


And luckily they didn’t look terrible because the new ones were actually the 14mm ones not the 12mm so we ended up throwing these back in

It’s starting to get hot down here so I’m going to shift my attention to get that done.

I also painted the door handles with SEM trim paint. No pics of that... and I have a lot more gray plastics that need love so I’m looking at least one more bottle of the SEM stuff before I’m done

Chipping away at making this a great daily...

[wworm]

Its good that you arent middle eastern like me

lol

[2mAn]

Its good that you arent middle eastern like me

[wworm]

Thanks Big Perm!


I only got a few weird looks for my carry on :rofl:

Yew!! Thanks for helping me clear some of the car shit out of my house. On my way to and from FL I was getting very concerned looks from every airport person who took my baggage. I had packed most of my tools in my checked bag lol. Sure enough, both there and back the bag got searched by TSA lol.

[2mAn]

Best thing I've read in R3V all year.







You got whiskey dick lock tumblers.

I try to keep it interesting since most of the posts aren’t very exciting...

Like this “update”... I was in NorCal for momma 2mAns birthday and while I was there I picked up this trim for my slow plastic bumper conversion.

Thanks Big Perm!



I only got a few weird looks for my carry on :rofl:

[TFJR]

Feels like a noodle pushing into a loose vagine. I just ram it in there over and over.... and nothing.

Best thing I've read in R3V all year.



You got whiskey dick lock tumblers.

[2mAn]

shit's ghey

<3

Those who know my history with trunk locks know that this is a big deal to me :rofl:

[spiDmang]

shit's ghey

<3

[2mAn]

So overall the trunk lock seemed to work except the return spring needed to be manually pushed back out. I had an idea of what I needed to do and with a lackluster game by the Warriors I figured I should do something on the side.

Here it is removed:


And here it is fixed:


Reinstalled and everything works well I can lock the trunk, And I can open the trunk so life is good and it’s onto the next thing

[efficient]

So I can’t get my trunk to open at all. Feels like a noodle pushing into a loose vagine. I just ram it in there over and over.... and nothing.

that had me LMAO

[2mAn]

Cirrusly Blue - The Daily Driver E30

Turns out I just needed to threaten it with the drill. I literally was about to push the trigger on the drill and as I pushed it into place the trunk popped open lol

Took the old lock out and started disassembling it and pulling each pin out, cleaning them out and writing the number down. Saw what the problem is with the old lock





That might’ve gotten worse with my screwdriver action...

Now I was ready for the final assembly



Put the effort in and it all locked good and ready for the final test.



Everything worked fine in this position but installing it on the car and it’s as if the spring isn’t doing its job or there’s a lubricant missing because it will open the trunk when you push the button in but it’s not springing back to its original position ... a headache for another day

Edit: looking at the final pic now, I think I know what’s wrong, but let me see if anyone else catches it and agrees

[2mAn]

Cirrusly Blue - The Daily Driver E30

So I can’t get my trunk to open at all. Feels like a noodle pushing into a loose vagine. I just ram it in there over and over.... and nothing.

I Can’t get the trunk open.

I really don’t want to deal with drilling this out but I can’t think of anything option or if that will even get it open but that’s how we got the Aluminum Monsters trunk unlocked when my drunk friend locked my keys in there years ago

Ideas?

[jeenyus]

coolio. livin' in a gangstas paradise.