Wishno's winter beater project thread(+misc vert action)

[CorvallisBMW]

Nice, I'm liking the brakes a lot. After this weekend's little mishap, it's making me realize I need a BBK...

[Wishno87]

I don't remember if you mentioned it, but...what paint did you use on the style 5's? I love that color.

It was just some wheel paint at the local auto parts store. Came out darker than expected but it was pretty cool nonetheless.

Nice, I'm liking the brakes a lot. After this weekend's little mishap, it's making me realize I need a BBK...

Ya your really going to want some bigger brakes to hold back all that motor. In all honesty this is a lot more than I need most of the time for the M20.

[Wishno87]

Its been a while since I have updated.

Got the motor grabbing rig all ready to go...



And brought something home. Will post more a little later on when I have time.

[CorvallisBMW]

[Dozyproductions]

i hope you dont have any epileptic friends riding with you.

being epileptic myself, I approve the plaid!

[Wishno87]

So I pulled the interior out got the 325i and put it in the eta. Will probably include pics in the next update but it turned out pretty nice. The inside of the new sedan is kind of a mess. The seats are just sitting in there to save space. The front half of the interior probably wont go in until im done with the 5sp swap.





Getting ready to pull the motor.



The valence was pretty bent up so a new one will be sourced.



Started taking apart the M30. It doesent look all that great so I will probably use this one for parts.



It did come with oil cooler hookups though

[Wishno87]

The red interior has been in the eta for a while as I have been driving it. Pulled the motor out of the 325i yesterday. It was a little more challenging because it is an auto and has a bunch of random lines and cables to deal with.








I need to quit this shit.


Finally getting the hood and front lip repainted on the vert.

[chadthestampede]

holy long shifter batman

[Wishno87]

What? Why this again?


This really needs to stop. Im running out of room. Hopefully this is the last one though.


I feel really lame about this because I really wanted to do an M30 swap instead of the garden variety 24V but I found a M50B25 with 86K on cl for 500. I really needed to find a motor soon to get my swap underway and I couldn't pass it up. Im not going to be able to use AC with this so thats going to suck but it will get better gas milage which is more important for a winter beater DD.

[Matt-B]

"I'm just gonna be another M50 fag :( "


its ok man, tax return season!!

[chadthestampede]

m30 into beater, m50 into vert

[Cabriolet]

ROFL omg thats a lot of engines!!!

[AbsorbantNut]

Been waiting for an update:p

[Wishno87]

"I'm just gonna be another M50 fag :( "


its ok man, tax return season!!

Lol that's pretty much how i feel right now.

I would at least want to do an m52 for the vert. M50 wouldent be enough of a gain over my very healthy m20b25.

[Wishno87]

Started tearing down the motor a bit today. The car hit a tree pretty hard so im going to need a new pan.


If anyone has anything that im missing here and wants to sell me it let me know.


Took the exhaust manis off. Probably going to get ebay SS reps and weld them to my stock exhaust.

My dads car