This week's work on Thelma

[CorvallisBMW]

Nice work!

[z31maniac]

Nice. What diff do you have now?

My buddy has a 3.73 lsd and the difference between that and my 4.10 is huge. You'll like.

Yeah a 3.73 with a dead clutch pak. So the 4.10 should be nice. Also got my headers in the mail today. Just need to get a cat-back, injectors, M30 AFM and a Mark D chip to replace the Dinan and I'll leave the car alone for awhile.

[BrewCity11]

Nice work. Where did you get the replacement fog lenses?

Not new lenses. I just replaced a cracked one with another used, good one.

z31maniac; that should be a real fun combo all said and done. Personally, i'm going to skip doing any more motor mods and just save up for a swap at this point. Mainly because the M20 is nearing rebuild time, or else i'd continue with it.

[z31maniac]

I'm with you. I figure I'll do a custom 2.5" single setup that would just need to be connected to a set of 24v headers once the swap is done. But since I know I'll be waiting til at least next winter, I wanted to get a few extra HP out of the engine.

My M20 has less than 128k and is still running strong.

[iwantspeed]

great work on your car.

[e30edward]

just get rid of the washer fluid! haha

[BrewCity11]

Fog bulbs came in yesterday. Taking Daniel Sterns recommendation, i went with these "selective-yellow" bulbs.


Any the painter finished my ducts. Looks great imo.


I hope to have the d/s and exhaust all buttoned up tomorrow and drive her home!!

Looking back, ishould have posted this in the projects thread since it's taking so long! This should have been a one week deal but of course, something always comes up.

[kishg]

looking good turk. you got snows for her yet?

[skota]

awesome man, nice work.

[BrewCity11]

looking good turk. you got snows for her yet?

Thanks bro. She actually came with snows from Levent, on steelies. I'll be putting those back on this weekend as well.

Skota: thanks, i'm sure you can appreciate a clean cardinal. :D

funny you posted here, i need to get you in on an E30 meet/BBQ at my place. 11/15.

I'll start a thread in the midwest section here. Got one going on e30tech already.

[einstein57]

Are you interested in a custom 027 bracket. I'm also making a ram air system.

[BrewCity11]

What a crappy day. I woke up extra early (7:00 on a saturday morning, too early for me), to go to the shop to finish Thelma. I get all the misc things done, and go to put the driveshaft in, and it's the wrong one. Over an inch too short.

What pisses me off, is that they told me they had no cores to rebuild, so they would need mine. So i had to send mine in for them to rebuild and send back to me. How do i get the wrong one back? I dunno.

I'm hoping they'll fix this problem ASAP.

Here's pics from today.

Fogs, black ducts and euro trim installed on the front.






Power steering is gone, and rack is plugged up. FYI, car is easier to turn w/o the power steering when the car was off. I'm not worries at all about it being too dificult to turn w/o it.


Undertray had an inch of gunk and oil.


Another shot of the cluster.


So, once again, let's add another week (now 4) to this "week long project"

See you next week.

Are you interested in a custom 027 bracket. I'm also making a ram air system.

Possibly. I'll let you know.

[So Live]

Hey man, stuff looks good minus the welded subframe! But ya gotta do whatcha gotta do i suppose.

And you know the drive shafts extend right? Youve probably got like 2-3 inches of in and out adjustment at the center support.

Edit****
Pics of the weld or bust!

[akorcovelos]

looking good man, can't wait to see her at the meet!

[BrewCity11]

Hey man, stuff looks good minus the welded subframe! But ya gotta do whatcha gotta do i suppose.

And you know the drive shafts extend right? Youve probably got like 2-3 inches of in and out adjustment at the center support.

Edit****
Pics of the weld or bust!

I didn't know you could do that. But, regardless, this is clearly a different driveshaft altogether. I want my own back, that they were supposed to rebuild and send back, so i don't have to do any adjusting.

I'll take a pic of the welds next time its on the lift.


Tony, hope yours will make it!