My "new" beater :

[madjurgen]

Wow, is that that little doctor dude's car? More pics. I want to see your work son. I've been meaning to drop off my fenders, definitely after the holidays.

[russiamutha]

it does look better than mine now :)

[Teaguer]

$650 318is

Ha ! My beater will crush your beater that cost twice as much . :D

[Teaguer]

Hood rich FTMFW !!11!!

Yeah I figured if that LSB 318 can roll with the HRE's then I can do the same .
Hell one wheel cost about the same as what I paid for that bomb . :D


As far as the dying and no start went , it turned out to be a jacked up/rigged up positive cable that goes from the battery to the firewall junction .
It was the little one that gives power to the 3 relays .
Of course i swapped all of the relays one by one and all at once while troubleshooting it .
But I never had a test light with me on the side of the road .

Oh well its actually better now than it has been in a long time .

[russiamutha]

so what turned out to be the problem with the car?

$650 318is

[Jonathan M3]

LOL, you put the Kinesis on the beater!!! Rollin' on more money than you're sitting in! :pimp:

Well it does look alot better, so what turned out to be the problem with the car?

[Teaguer]

Well i've had a bit of an adventurous few days with the little beater .

The little beast left me stranded on the north side of town for several hours on saturday afternoon .
Fiddled with it a bit but eventually it just cranked up by itself after sitting for a while .

So lost my plans for Saturday afternoon and most of the night .

Then comes Sunday and I figure I would take the oppurtunity to inspect what I thought was a faulty pump or at least something keeping the pump from working .
Was also gonna get around to throwing some springs and shocks on it .

After an hour or two of messing aroundwith it I get a call from a chick and decide to break for lunch and go meet her .
Jump in the little beater and as soon as I get on the Freeway it stalls out on me , I pop the clutch once or twice but its not gonna even think about running at this point .

So I leave the little beater on the side of the freeway and have the chick come pick me up .
After lunch and some extra curricular activities I figured the beater would surely start up like it had the previous afternoon .
No such luck .

I proceeded to run back and forth from grabbing parts from my other cars to trying to roadside diagnose and repair the little beater .
This went on until 3am on Monday morning .

Yes I got it repaired but I lost the whole day again and lost major sleep that was needed to start the week off with .

Well that was the bad , all is well now and here is just a slice of the good :



More to come in a day or so .

[SykoBMW]

Nice find, I'm tempted to get rid of the Cabrio and pick up something that needs some work like that.

[Teaguer]

hey Teaguer, if you decide to sell it, let me have LSD out of it.

You know I first thought that it had an LSD in it ...it would even leave 2 black straks in the shop .

But after I got it on the rack last night I discovered that it actually just has the lame-o open diff .
No biggie , I will be slapping in the bigger case 4.10LSD that I have laying around taking up floor space . :D

[russiamutha]

hey Teaguer, if you decide to sell it, let me have LSD out of it.

[Teaguer]

Wait, the "real" M or the "pseudo" M?

I still need to get some rear shock boots for the E30, or find a way to remove the corroded nuts from the stockers.

I mean the real M so we could face it off against the M that I've had here for a while :


Hey have you tried those lever type pliers that grip harder the more you pull on them ?
That might be a crappy description , let me see if I can dig up a pic .

Like these :


Looks like craftsman call theirs the "clench wrench" .

[Jonathan M3]

Wait, the "real" M or the "pseudo" M?

I still need to get some rear shock boots for the E30, or find a way to remove the corroded nuts from the stockers.

[jw 325ic]

alright man ill get us some beer, anyway we can use the lift at work

sorry to hijack haha

[Teaguer]

How well do the M42's run? I never drove or rode in any other e30 but my eta.

Oh my friend do I feel for you .

If thats the case you have been missing plenty . :D


Jonathan bring the M over and well have a race against the beater that I'm working on . :D

[JasonC]

How well do the M42's run? I never drove or rode in any other e30 but my eta.