Did a little burnout

[dashboardmonkey]

So I finally got it running.

Thanks for all the help Luke.

http://s304.photobucket.com/albums/nn175/dashboardmonkey/?action=view&current=P1060171.flv

Andy

[daniel]

hooray open diff!

[Stephen]

I actually really like the DBs at that ride height..

which begs the question..


What suspension are you running?

Edit: didnt notice it was an 88, but still

[mark247]

Doesn't beat my "little" burnout =P

Mind my friend on the right, hes still learning.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tkxv--HCOEw

[dashboardmonkey]

I actually really like the DBs at that ride height..

which begs the question..


What suspension are you running?

Edit: didnt notice it was an 88, but still

On the cheap cut springs on the front.

Rears are shitty E-Bay fake coil over.

Swapped those out today for some "modified" stocks.

Andy

[dashboardmonkey]

hooray open diff!

One tire fire ftmfl.

[Stephen]

On the cheap cut springs on the front.

Rears are shitty E-Bay fake coil over.

Swapped those out today for some "modified" stocks.

Andy

haha how much $ are the rears? me and my freind have an old early model we screw around with

[dashboardmonkey]

I will give them to you, only if you promise not to give them back/pay shipping.

Will post a pic up tomorrow.

Andy

[Stephen]

Haha, sweet deal

pm me about it tomorrow?


Or i can PM you

[moatilliatta]

Ghettofabulous

[mtechnik]

True that! :D

[e30damen]

Hahaha sweet.That made me laugh

[StereoInstaller1]

Guys, Andy has not exactly been clear about this car.

This car was given to me as a shell. I was gonna take the hood, windshield, left fender, front and rear valences...then off to the crusher. The body is 99% straight. It would have been such a shame to crush this car...

Seriously.

So Andy was like "WTF, I want it, I will fix it" and it started. Andy scavenged parts with the goal of not buying anything. As in spend ZERO dollars and build a nice car.

He would have had it painted it by now had the flaky painter guy not split with his wife. He was gonna trade paint for an alarm for the wifes' car...no more wife, no more trade deal. Otherwise, this car would now look better than 90% of this board, maybe except wheels.

On to the build:

We took the ETA motor off of the shelf that came out of a car we scrapped. We used the "I" cam he traded some other shit for in this eta head with "i" valve springs out of another head. I manifolds, harness all out of this car originally, after MUCH wiring repair, and an ECU from Joe Funk.

So yeah...Andy drilled an ETA head for an "i" cam. It works flawlessly so far, seems to rev just fine, in fact seems to have better throttle response than my stock M20B25. Time will tell, as it still has no proper cluster...but that box came yesterday...

Once again, this is a eta bottom end with a modded eta head. "I" cam and springs FTW!

The clutch and flywheel are from the early eta we parted, lots of meat left on the clutch, flywheels looks/feels great. Driveshaft is made of 3 different cars, don't know how the balance is gonna play, but that can be dealt with. Motor/tranny mounts were more stuff from parted cars.

Keep in mind that every damn part on here was in excellent shape...saved ONLY because it was in such good shape. Andy cleaned and painted every bit. All of this stuff is used, but soon as you install a part it becomes used, right?

The only new parts were as follows:
1. Shift selector rod. I took the one he was gonna use, because mine damn near broke, so he bought new. $35.00 from a local parts gouger. OE BMW, but $10 more than the dealer.
2. Clutch Master cylinder. I lost the one I had. Andy copied the hardline from my '91 project with generic metric brake line. That was $5, the M/C was less than $75 (special price for shops) from a GREAT local parts source, Springfield German Imports.

I just can't say enough about Zack over a Springfield German. A great guy, great prices, excellent service, knows his shit, but doesn't try and bullshit you about what he doesn't know. Highly fucking recommended!

So yeah, this is the ressurection special of the decade. A grand total of under $100 spent so far. Now we are on to finding a set of Corrodo (SP?) struts, some kind of short body shock (Mustang, I hear?) and then figure out what to do about sway bars.

I have a set of 14" wheels off of an 80's Isuzu, but Andy hates them. Hopefully soon he can find a smoking deal on some decent rubber, but for right now, 'caps are cheap and he can do burnouts in the damn parking lot all day...

This heap should be at the Picnic next year. I expect it will be either shiny and pretty or "rat rodded" as Andy has not quite decided what the theme is gonna be.

Andy has done such a great job getting this thing together. I am so happy he decided to build it instead of letting another E30 get crushed. Great fucking job!

Luke

[SamE30e]

Awesome, sounds like the idle is a bit high. Vacuum leak?

[Stephen]

Guys, Andy has not exactly been clear about this car.

This car was given to me as a shell. I was gonna take the hood, windshield, left fender, front and rear valences...then off to the crusher. The body is 99% straight. It would have been such a shame to crush this car...

Seriously.

So Andy was like "WTF, I want it, I will fix it" and it started. Andy scavenged parts with the goal of not buying anything. As in spend ZERO dollars and build a nice car.

He would have had it painted it by now had the flaky painter guy not split with his wife. He was gonna trade paint for an alarm for the wifes' car...no more wife, no more trade deal. Otherwise, this car would now look better than 90% of this board, maybe except wheels.

On to the build:

We took the ETA motor off of the shelf that came out of a car we scrapped. We used the "I" cam he traded some other shit for in this eta head with "i" valve springs out of another head. I manifolds, harness all out of this car originally, after MUCH wiring repair, and an ECU from Joe Funk.

So yeah...Andy drilled an ETA head for an "i" cam. It works flawlessly so far, seems to rev just fine, in fact seems to have better throttle response than my stock M20B25. Time will tell, as it still has no proper cluster...but that box came yesterday...

Once again, this is a eta bottom end with a modded eta head. "I" cam and springs FTW!

The clutch and flywheel are from the early eta we parted, lots of meat left on the clutch, flywheels looks/feels great. Driveshaft is made of 3 different cars, don't know how the balance is gonna play, but that can be dealt with. Motor/tranny mounts were more stuff from parted cars.

Keep in mind that every damn part on here was in excellent shape...saved ONLY because it was in such good shape. Andy cleaned and painted every bit. All of this stuff is used, but soon as you install a part it becomes used, right?

The only new parts were as follows:
1. Shift selector rod. I took the one he was gonna use, because mine damn near broke, so he bought new. $35.00 from a local parts gouger. OE BMW, but $10 more than the dealer.
2. Clutch Master cylinder. I lost the one I had. Andy copied the hardline from my '91 project with generic metric brake line. That was $5, the M/C was less than $75 (special price for shops) from a GREAT local parts source, Springfield German Imports.

I just can't say enough about Zack over a Springfield German. A great guy, great prices, excellent service, knows his shit, but doesn't try and bullshit you about what he doesn't know. Highly fucking recommended!

So yeah, this is the ressurection special of the decade. A grand total of under $100 spent so far. Now we are on to finding a set of Corrodo (SP?) struts, some kind of short body shock (Mustang, I hear?) and then figure out what to do about sway bars.

I have a set of 14" wheels off of an 80's Isuzu, but Andy hates them. Hopefully soon he can find a smoking deal on some decent rubber, but for right now, 'caps are cheap and he can do burnouts in the damn parking lot all day...

This heap should be at the Picnic next year. I expect it will be either shiny and pretty or "rat rodded" as Andy has not quite decided what the theme is gonna be.

Andy has done such a great job getting this thing together. I am so happy he decided to build it instead of letting another E30 get crushed. Great fucking job!

Luke

That's sweet, kinda what me and a freind are doing to an 87 we got for free