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

[bimmer_E30]

Ya at your height your going to need it! Im surprised i havent hit anything without it yet. I did notice a very thin hairline crack last time i did an oil change though but it dident go all the way through.

yah this is like the 3rd or the 2nd on it i have been told.

and my oilpan is beaten to shit. and scarped to hell lol.

all the snow melted here, but i am just a puss cuz there are tons of potholes here and i would rather hit one with my skidplate in there lol.

if you could do install pics when you get it on there tomorrow, that would be awesome!

i love your thread :p

[Wishno87]

Installed the skidplate tonight with the help of Matt-B
My rad support was too fucked up to get those last bolts in. The PO ran over a boulder or something like that.



Matt-B doing his thing



My clearence once i set it back down. Took out all front spring pads now. I think that screw was supposed to go on my front lip.



Got the adjusters for the ellips all cleaned and lubricated. New H1 bulbs came today so they will go in soon



The Vert is on jackstands now for some renovation so heres a shot of my other purchase from RaceSkids. MASSIVE improvement for a convertible.

[bimmer_E30]

Perfect!


so how hard was it to drill the holes? you had to force them in?

also it will line up once you bolt it to the steering rack, right?

[Wishno87]

Perfect!


so how hard was it to drill the holes? you had to force them in?

also it will line up once you bolt it to the steering rack, right?

Ya i bolted it up to the steering rack then you just hold it up and drill it where the holds line up. My rad support is pretty haggard so i had to use a BFH to get it to line up correctly. Drilling the holes wasent that bad.

[Wishno87]

So the eta is dead again with starter issues. I checked and rechecked all the wiring and grounds and whatnot and nothing is helping. Now when i try to crank it over the starter just spins without even touching the flywheel. Its a freshly rebuilt bosch too so i have no idea whats up. Most likely something in the harness got messed up during the swap or something somehow did not get installed right with the flywheel. So at this point im going to take out the motor and trans and look over everything carefully and if i dont see anything obviously wrong im going to have to swap either a M30 or M50. If i can find something i will gladly put the motor back in because i like the gas mileage.

Picked these up today for the vert

[Wishno87]

There is still a lot of stuff I wanted to do to the vert before i started driving it again so i decided on a stop-gap measure until i do a real swap to the sedan. I picked up a complete eta motor to put into the sedan hopefully within the week. I also picked up a G265 for a future swap :)

Old motor is out





Does this flywheel still look usable?



New eta motor



G265

[Wishno87]

Thought you guys would find this entertaining

[Wishno87]

So i got the motor in yesterday. Here is some pics during the process.





All together now :D

[TooTall90]

sorry if i missed it but, are you still running the weitec (60/60?) springs?

[Wishno87]

No im on IE3s with no spring pads up front, bottom spring pads in back and 15mm drophats up front.

[Matt-B]

so ive been busy but wanted to help...

[Danny]

Matt looks like a fuckin goon.

[Wishno87]

Finally got tires on the RDs. They are on my dads car and i will have pics in a few days once i lower his car.

[88SuperETABD]

Did you notice any difference between noise/handling/bottoming out? with the spring pads out?

[Wishno87]

Did you notice any difference between noise/handling/bottoming out? with the spring pads out?

Not in the front at all. The back did feel a little more NVH because the springs arnt held in as tightly as they were. Not sure about the bottoming out. This car is riding on stock blown struts anyway