New beginnings... a tale of a $650 eta

[broke30]

That's for you ;)
Enjoy ya' steering wheel ya' filthy animal...
Max

[tabasco]

any updates, Max???

[vivalegreg]

I have a question, I'm in the process of cleaning up a motor as well. What did you use to get the grease and crap off? So Far I've been using a dremel with polishing compound and it's been working well.

engine brite/engine gunk maneee


oh and nice cars

[N2MYE30]

Nice project. I like the garage that holds 2 cars lenghtwise...cool.

[broke30]

any updates, Max???

I will post updates soon, the car should be running tomorrow. My roommate attempted to help by breaking the transmission I had waiting to go in, so I got a late model tranny with low miles from a customers car thats getting an m52/zf. Then I drilled and tapped the holes for the flywheel sensors.

Replaced the horribly cracked and brownish lockstrip around the front and rear windshield, fixed the door-handle misalignment, and installed my new Nardi deep dish suede wheel! Also made a complete set of US ellips and HIDs, and an m-roadster/aluminum shift carrier conversion. Hopefully exhaust shop Monday or Tuesday! Then once all thats done coilovers, subframe with poly bushings, and refinish borbets for some deep-dish goodness ;).

Pics up tomorrow
Max

[e30trooper]

whats the plans for the Eta?

[broke30]

whats the plans for the Eta?

Basically just suspension. I love the eta motor, actually much more than the 'i'.

Anyways, sorry for such a long break between updates, school has been occupying far too much time. Since the last update I got the car running, got the exhaust welded up and faced many other problems. The biggest problem was when I got the car started again, it was running on only 5 cylinders. I ended up figuring out that injector 6 wasn't firing so I had a wiring buddy of mine completely redo my harness. He checked resistance across every wire, put all new connectors on, new heatshrink, and new wiring bundle.




Also since the last update, I swapped out the 3.25lsd for a 3.46 lsd as the 3.25 went into a customers m52 swap car. Subframe is complete with IE subframe and trailing arm bushings (absolute junk). Exhaust is a 2.5 inlet outlet magnaflow with straight pipes. However, I had my exhaust guy put the muffler where the cat used to go because I think mufflers look out of place underneath the back of diving board cars.



Here are some new pics of the interior complete with red needles, Nardi wheel, zhp knob, radio delete panel, etc.


Cleaned the engine bay a bit more, still a couple things to hook up, but the car runs phenomenally now.


Also, I decided to redo my type a's myself due to refinishing costs. I sanded, bondo'd, primered, base + wetsanding, and clear + wetsanding. Still working on the second one but all in all I'm very happy with them. I don't have any pictures of the finished product, I'll get those up though.






Aside from that I did a 97 m3 steering rack, chipped ecu that was laying around, new tie rods, control arms, CABS, brakes, and soon h&r coilovers. I know there is more but it has been so long since I've updated that I forgot what all I did. Anyways, thats all for now!


Max

[328ijunkie]

woot.

[iwantspeed]

nice work

[328ijunkie]

Orly?

[broke30]

No picture update today, however my used h&r coilover setup came today, a few bugs to work out with it but otherwise I'm pleased for the price I paid. I need to call and order new collars for the coilovers. I also decided I may just keep my 16x7.5 type a's for the front since finding a set of (2) 16x9's proved to be a bit more difficult than I imagined.
Max

[325ix]

Love the green flair!

:)

same! Those are rota slips on the first e30 right? Whatever they are there definitely cool

[HarryPotter]

sick eta, I love some eta's myself.

[broke30]

same! Those are rota slips on the first e30 right? Whatever they are there definitely cool

Yes they were 16x8 polished slips

sick eta, I love some eta's myself.

Thanks! Me too!

[broke30]

Decided to snap a couple pictures while I should be studying for my thermo test in the morning. Anyways, here are pictures of how the wheels turned out and the front coilovers.





Max