Finally back into an e30: ‘88 Alpine on Blue 325ic cruiser build

[Mastrcruse]

Found this awesome Vacuum manifold which has the perfect amount of spots for my BOV, ECU, FPR, and Tru Boost setups! Pretty cool little piece from Stim Technologies - which I’ve never heard of.

Last minute I decided to add tru boost so waiting on that to be delivered.

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Z3 radiator in with new fan blade and fan clutch.

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Rally road gauge pod installed. Waiting on a tru boost setup and will wrap wiring and ecu stuff up. Also waiting on Stim Tech vacuum manifold.

[mike.bmw]

I'm really enjoying this thread. Great work.

[Mastrcruse]

Was able to find tube for the IC tubing to the ICV. Summit is local, thank God, and I had them just give me everything that was 3/4” and had a 90 in it. Worked out after a little trimming and flipping the ICV upside down.

[Mastrcruse]

I also wish I had a larger garage lol...but that’s everyone I’m guessing.

[Mastrcruse]

dude, you are NOT messing around here.

It’s going together pretty well. Moving to the rear full suspension rebuild while finishing up the front and motor. Only thing I’m worried about conquering is the front valance work. Gonna be cut up bad and need to have patience with it - which I don’t have much of haha.

I’ll tell ya - nearly everything is new - even all the bolts- on this car which I’m cool with because it’s less potential failures. Only thing I’ll regret not doing is studding the head, new head gasket, and new head but I’ll do that once the first one blows.

[jeenyus]

turbo M20, the dream.

[2mAn]

dude, you are NOT messing around here.

[Mastrcruse]

Intercooler and piping all aligned. Final tightening of turbo clocking. Got the power steering stuff back in and hooked up (a bit of a PITA). Final torqued the front suspension.

Z3M radiator is on its way along with a new fan clutch and fan.

This weekend Radiator will be installed, run the AFM lines to a gauge on the steering column, run ICV to IC tubing, and run vacuum lines.

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New windshield and finally got rid of that nasty windshield surround for a new black one.

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With everyone’s help, I got the gearshift in and all buttoned up. The Z3 shifter is SO much tighter than the OEM action.

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New front end looking so good! Letting the car rest (for the first time in months) on its own weight and then will final tighten front suspension items. The front seems to be considerably lower than the back now - it’ll be all new after I’m done with front suspension and motor items.

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Anyone know whether the rear gearshift mount goes in the bottom or top hole?

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Z3 rack is in. That was not very fun doing it alone but it’s in. Tightened suspension down and gonna put it on the ground for the first time in months to load the suspension - then I’ll final tighten. Garagistic spacer kit worked out well but a lot of modification to make it all fit.

Got the clutchline in front condor and going to wrap up the gearshift tomorrow.