S50E30 Project

[MatRacer]

yeah well, I all ready have the flares...

But anyway, I dropped the gas tank tonight. The rear subframe pick up point is really rusted, like a big hole is right in the chassis.The more I desassembled, the more I find rust holes, the more I want to buy another body. I'm still not sure what I will do... Rebuilt that body by welding a shit load of steel plates and sheet, or buy a clean, unmodified e30.

[325ix]

nice lookin car. You could do the bolt on m3 flares which I think are wierd but better than most that look like bolt on bushwacker flares.

[freeski27]

nice man! Oh how I wish I had an s50... looks like I may need to settle for an M50 for my car...

[MatRacer]

Worked a bit tonight. Cleaned and reassembled the diff. still required an output flange seal and good diff oil: Motul comp FF.

[#1~STUNNA]

Yes they can.

T.Dot your car looks fucking gangsta!:up:

[MatRacer]

UPDATE!

It has been a long time! My girl and I bought our first house this summer. So pretty much all my "free time" went in it. Now that I'm pretty much installed, I'm back on the e30 project, but in MY garage!



as said before the interior is a bit cleaner, but still need love.




I started to to work on the rear end. my diff from Diffsonline was hissing a bit, but the oil really needed to be change. Inspected it with prussian blue. Contact is good and backlash is also good.








Good contact on power:



Not perfect on compression. I wont touch anything since the inportant side is power side...





that's it for now, Should work on it this week!

Oh yeah, look at this:

[MatRacer]

Ok, Little update...

I've been off this project a bit because I'm moving this weekend in my first house!! YES, With a Garage!! 16x24 with a shed of 10x12. The garage is heated! I wont work on the car until mid july since I must work on the house.

Back to the main interest!

- All the electrical stuff is now working except the rpm. I have an Autometer RPM that is working, but I don't like it...
- Got a "new dash", no cracks!
- "New cluster", no cracks!
- I received my IE flares! Can't wait to install it!
- Replaced headlights...
- Temps, voltmeter and oil pressure gauge installed--> pressure is good, temp is a bit high 210F--> my fan cluth is gone.


The next steps will be to
- fit the fenders,
- change the tranny oil,
- put my subframe solid bushing in
- inspect the diff, since it doing a strange noise.
- I will also add some strengh to the trailing arms.
- I also need to do rear brake lines, since the last owner had routed them in a strange way!

I went to a garage, to get an opinion on my tranny :( the input shaft bearing would be "falling appart". I will flush the atf fluid and put some thick oil in it to make it last longer. I will try to keep it as long as I can. I would like to change the tranny while I will putting the swap in a cleaner shell.


My camera's battery are gone, they don't hold their charge. As soon I have pics, I will post them!

And yeah! I did a couple of donuts with old 185-60 r14 winter tire!! So much fun!! I also "raced" with a 335i. We were pretty even. I don't know if he was WOT, but it looked like!

[MatRacer]

You better get some properly sized wheel adapters made, otherwise your wheel bearings and half-shafts will be screaming! Wht are you running such a huge spacer??? What offset are those Keskins???

There is two existing model: et20 or et30. I will need to look on the wheels...

I looked in front --> there is not a lot of room between the wheel and the shock. How close is "very close"?

[MatRacer]

I don't know about the kit... thats what i'm going to do, get some IE flares! I made up my mind. I would prefer molded flares, but I don't want to spend too much time and/or money on this body, since it is rusty. This body is like an appartment for the engine, its temporary!

For the spacer, I don't know the offset... I will get it. What is the maximun allowable spacer thickness if I don't want to destroy my wheel bearing?

The last owner was a bit hardcore on track oriented modification. For exemple: no door seal for weight reduction!

I want to keep the spacers, but I could have them machined a bit to bring them to 25mm maybee.


Update --> For the last weeks, I mainly worked on the electric stuff. Getting the lights, windows, gauges, etc... working.


Give me some advice on spacers and/or anything else!

Thanks everybody!

[Collin]

Some IE fender flares would look so beefy on that car.

What kit is that, I don't think I've ever seen it before.

Nice buy, good luck with the build!

[e30polak]

You better get some properly sized wheel adapters made, otherwise your wheel bearings and half-shafts will be screaming! Wht are you running such a huge spacer??? What offset are those Keskins???

[MatRacer]

Jesus whats the width, et and size of your Keskins? They look like 17s? They stick out quite far, looks tough though

rear : 17x10
Front: 17 x 8.5

35mm spacers!

[MatRacer]

i dont think the ie flares look very good :???:

i have seen a e36 with s13/ae86 flares which come on what ever size you want and there are many available and it actually looked good! but that jst me

I don't really like the look of the IE flares, but they are easy to install, not body work required. I don't want to shoot the entire car for the fenders. Doing a kind of paint fade with a spray can would not look that good, even if I'm not bad with a spray can! I also like the fact that if I change body, I can keep the flares.

Do you have some more info on your nissan flares?

[oekundar]

in for the progress, looks to be a fun project!

[MatRacer]

Hey, while you may be indirectly correct here, you might just be mistaken. a larger diameter tire will simply give you a longer final drive ratio. While this has absolutely nothing to do with "longitudnal grip", it may make the slightest difference in traction.

A better way to get your desired final drive ratio would be to match a proper ratio differential with proper diameter tires.

You are right with the ratio, but with a larger diameter tire, your contact path lenth is longer, which means better grip. Like a wider tire makes your contact path wider and better grip. The more tire surface you have in contact with the ground, the more grip you have.

This is also the reason why tire with less pressure will grip better for drag, because you will get more deformation and than a bigger contact path.

The car looks like a blast. I hope you got a good deal on it though, it looks like you've got a lot of work ahead of you. If it were me I'd find a nice clean e30 with a blown motor or something and swap all of your goods over. Or like you say, a rolling e30m3 chassis would be even better. Have fun with the project!

The car wasn't that cheap, but I wanted it! And as you said, it will end up in another body!

I will have fun for sure! In fact, i already have fun!