s50b32 e30 325i tech1 project

[HybridNz]

Road interior nearly complete.

Nappa







Have some other goodies but its pissing down outside and I cant really photo it in the garage .. Maybe tomorrow night.

[HybridNz]

The stock BMW cooler was pissing me off so I replaced it with a big ass Earls oil cooler / lines (under number plate)...which extends up to the top of the bumper with the blue lines through the grill. Its all isolated and rubber mounted as not to twist the cooler frame
You can kinda see the brake cooling ducts.
All set for summer of time attack :)

[HybridNz]

So been a bit busy ordering some new stuff.

New Oil housing with the elusive pressed in Oil Thermostat, yes you have to buy the whole housing just for this one bit. My old one is poked shut.







And while im at it I installed a new Ratiometeric 0-100psi, 0-5 volt industrial grade pressure sensor (Thanks to conrad for help locating one)
This will eventually connect to my new GPS datalogger project :) (watch this space)



Just sitting it in the housing, will seal with alloy washer once locked in.

[HybridNz]

Nothing too special .. but got a second set of race wheels and a supply of slicks.

Wheels: BBS RX 17x8 et38



Test fit on car



Caliper Clearance for BBK



.. slick supply .. went halves with james

[HybridNz]

Been working on the brakes recently to hunt out a few issue with over heating

Changed out the pads to something a bit more race orientated and less best of both worlds

Followed Ollies Gee's path and went with the V8 Super Car / NZv8 route. Performance Friction Pads



Type 81 Medium Compound




Bevelled edges for noise reduction, my neighbours will probabaly love me now instead of the screaming from the other pads which normally happens on warmup






Also thanks to Ollie McDermott working on some prototypes, these are back from the laser cutters and currently being welded up. All alloy light weight.

[Eric]

Do you ever say please?

God you're needy.

[catuned]

Truly Fantastic! :)

[Robe30rt]

N.i.c.e.!!!

[samiam3356]

nice as always.

You see this BTW?

[robgoesvroom]

I'd like to see more of the brake duct backing plates! Awesome E30!

[HybridNz]

More updates:

:) -- this is actually leading to something :)




small update ... kind of pointless and expensive to do, but i'm a details guy :/

Before





After: Genuine recover



Roof rust be gone

It was pretty bad if some of you remember ... decided it was more than time to get something done about it.

















Rocking the RXs for the time being while I put it back together :)



Wet weather weekend stuff rules :)

So starting to put the final touches on the car of all those little bits that have annouyed me. Will have some more interesting updates come soon but for now you have this :)

I decided to splash out on some new OEM replacement pre-fl tail lights. Will just thank Jon the Pom for pointing me in the right direction for these.

unboxing





Old tail lights doing what all e30 tail lights do best and cracking. Still not bad for 26 years old. The right side had spider webbed pretty bad





And the left side had the usual inner piece fall off. Its so strange that this combo always happens to every car?




Removed the old lights and cleaned up the area the new sealing gaskets would sit.



After messing around with the wiring and plugs which had started to loose their bite on the terminals .. here they are installed! :)

[catuned]

nice

[sayed ali]

Wow! Amazing :)

[Loupoz]

I love your project, hope my own moneypit can be half as awesome as yours is some day!

And you really should get those RX painted black :pimp:

[HybridNz]

I love your project, hope my own moneypit can be half as awesome as yours is some day!

And you really should get those RX painted black :pimp:

I hear ya about the money pit side of things !

Yeah way ahead of ya there on the black wheels thing.
I have a set of geniune 18 inch LMs that the car runs on the road with. These will stay how they are. (pictured in my sig)
A set of 17 inch BBS RCs that im gonna paint black first which are my trackhack wheels (slicks) The need to be black because they get covered in shit on the track.
The 17 inch BBS RX's are just my transport wheels so I dont get my other wheels messed up while in the paint shops etc. Not so worried about doign anything with these at this point.