My Brother's Summer Restoration Project

[RobertK]

My brother, Josh, and I have been spending the past few weekends and a couple Thursdays slowly rebuilding my brother's 1989 325i.

We didn't plan on starting the project so soon but when his water pump went out we decided to get an early start.

Everything pictured is leading up to how far we got this past weekend. Hopefull it will be finished and fired up by this weekend.

[///Mayhew]

WOW awsome job on the motor that thing looks great!

[MikeE30325i]

wow, that has to be the cleanest engine i have ever seen. God damn.

excellent job.

[SnowFiend]

you could eat off that thing! looks sick, man.

[nando]

looks fantastic! are those bavauto longtubes? any internal mods, or just a stock refresh?

[e30lyf]

Sweeet, What kind headers is that?

[markseven]

That's a work of art.

[RobertK]

Actually they are the 2nd gen Budget Beater stainless long tube headers, which I must admit are a pretty damn good deal for $260 shipped. My only complaint was that I had to grind down and polish the welds on the inside of one of the headers because they were too thick.

As far as modifications here is everything I can remember.

Engine
New valve guides / seals
5 Angle Valve Grind
Aggressive Porting on intake side
Aggressive Port and Polish on Exhaust side
Port matched Intake Manifold / Gaskets
Metric Blue Head Bolts
Every gasket reaplced
Every hose replaced
Every belt replaced
Every seal reaplced
M30 AFM
17.5# Injectors
Spal 2.05 Inch 1300CFM Electric Fan
AKG Urethane Engine Mounts

Exhaust
2nd Gen. BB Headers
(Rest of Exhaust Setup is Undecided)

Suspension
New Uro Control Arms
Urethane Offset CABs
E36 Tie Rods
95 M3 3.0 Steering Rack
Modified Rack Knuckle w/ Aluminum Disc

Transmission

Complete Getrag 260 5 Speed Swap
Custom Stage 1 Clutch Disc built by World Clutch
New Sachs Pressure Plate & TO Bearing
Lightened Single Mass Flywheel to 12lbs / Resurfaced
New clutch master & slave cylinders
New clutch metal hydraulic line
New PVC coated steel slave hydraulic line
AKG Urethane Tranny mounts

I'm sure I'm forgetting much more.

[CleanAzzE30z]

Wow..... thats really nice..

Mariano

[Mako18]

This is a very good example of how to do things "the correct way!!" great job looks awsuuummmee.

[backtrail69]

Awesome. Way things are supposed to be done.

[euroshark]

It makes so much sense to paint the engine compartment black! I have been planning this for both of my cars when they get painted... it looks bad ass, is easily touched up, it's just so hardcore. Nice work!

[whiltebeitel]

That's seck. I love the head cover and the headers. ;)

[Huff]

Did you paint the engine bay while you had everything out?

[RobertK]

Did you paint the engine bay while you had everything out?

Yeah.. we degreased everything, pressure washed it, scoured the finish and then painted it some black semi gloss Duplicolor 500 degree high temp rattle can paint.