My "new" beater :

[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.

[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" .

[russiamutha]

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

[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

[SykoBMW]

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

[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 .

[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?

[russiamutha]

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

$650 318is

[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 .

[Teaguer]

$650 318is

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

[russiamutha]

it does look better than mine now :)

[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.

[Jean]

How the heck , man I hate you !

:up:

[JohnnyA]

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 .

I tough you sold the kinesis wheels

[Teaguer]

I tough you sold the kinesis wheels

Yes it was/is a done deal but the funds were never finalized ....so after aquiring this beater I decided to mount the tires and give them a whirl .

Heres a few quick pics of the progress I've made in the last night or two :









Not bad for a little $650 beater even if I do have to say so myself . :D

Mods/upgrades so far include :
FK 60/60 progressive springs
Bilstein Sport shocks/struts
Bekkers 25mm (or whatever) drop hats
Kinesis K27 17X8 forged 3-piece wheels w/215/40 So3's & Visa's
Rieger Infinity replica lip by Autostyle Designs
E28 M-TechI rear spoiler

Of course I also cleaned up a few exterior things like :
Sanded and repainted moonroof trim
Replaced rr bumper impact strip
Replaced all side markers with red
Painted lower rockers black
Blacked out kidneys
Repaired cracked ft bumper cover
Straighened out ft valance

And there is lots more maintenance related stuff that I wont bore y'all with . ;)

Smileys and E30 M-TechI rear spoiler installs planned for tonight .