S50E30 Project

[KamakaziX]

Nice car! Your rust makes me feel better about my car. lol.

[MatRacer]

Still working on the engine bay. There is a lot to do! Quebec's winter is hard on cars. I could have bought a mint E30 body for like 24x times the price I paid for this one, and I wouldn't have lurned like I'm presently!

Here is an exemple of the work I'm doing:











My next hours will be spent on this part:




that's it for now

[MG325i]

keep up the work!

[MatRacer]

Finally got some time to spend on the car. The car is totaly disassembled!

I cleaned the engine bay and started to clean the rust, grind and sand blast.

I will sand blast all the rusted spots that will be visible once the car finished and all the spots that will be welded. For the other rusted spots, I will clean it with a wire brush on my angle grinder and paint it POR15 on it.

here are the pics:

All identified wire harness:





Empty E30:


The present status of the floor:

FR


FL



RR



RL



The unworked left engine bay side



Cleaned left engine by side. Primer with weld thru primer:




ANd finaly, emptying the garage off all tha acumulated shit:




That its for now. Should go faster in the next couple of months! Well, hope so!

[MatRacer]

painted my block and some accessories





Started the diassembly of the black one. There is some rust, but not that bad. Mainly the floors...

[MatRacer]

It has been a long time! I kind of stopped working on the E30 because I totaled my daily, parted out and bought an e46 wagon. I know, its not an E30 but I always liked the e46 wagon. I did a lot a maintenance on it...

So last week, I restarted to work on my project. Since I have a 1995 S50, the retainer are known to fail when over rev happen. SInce this engine will go in a track car, I may happen. So, I replaced the retainers, and being there, also replace the valve seals. I'm not sure, but I think my retainers were staring to crack (see pics at the end of this post)

Here are the pics:

5$ cam lock tool:



Adapter to pressurize the cylinder to keep the valve up when the spring is removed:



One cam removed! The "101 projects for your serie 3" technique is not so bad!



Hard working fellows!



Job DONE! The cams are back in!





My retainers were kind of cracked:



ANd finaly, all timed and closed with new valve seals, valve retainers and gasket cover seals:





That's it for know. I will order the parts that are missing to finish dressing the engine. Also, I will get the body in the garage and start to work on it, since all the maintenance is done on the e46.

[619E30]

Someone went diamond-plating crazy

[MatRacer]

Little update

Did a little bit of cleaning and painting. Also getting ready for the replacement of the spring retainers + pretty much all the rubber gasket.

Received my 24lbs injector plus euro maf! :p














Slowly getting it done!:)

[MatRacer]

Only looks...

Its has been repainted. A lot of body repair... cheaply done

[SamE30e]

Whats wrong with the red one? Looks pretty clean.

[MatRacer]

Engine being out, I'm now cleaning it and doing maintenance.

Just found out that my water impeler was in steel! :p

Also, With the vin on the engine head, I found that the production date is 95/04. I will consequently replace the valve spring retainer.:???:

[MatRacer]

In fact, the flares wont be installed soon...

The red body is now gone! empty!





And the black will soon get in for a complete revamp.

[E30Idea]

Test fit of the flares : done!

I will keep them




Minus the gap in front... will sort it out

Updates on install?

[8380 Labs]

neither is this site.:up:

hillbilly comment of the day.

[MatRacer]

should start a new thread...