s50b32 e30 325i tech1 project

[HybridNz]

A bit of a bump... Were you ever able to extract engine data from the MSS50? I read on another forum your on that the pre-2000 euro cars were not OBD II, so we cannot use the easy CAN port to pull info for data logers or lap timers, etc.

Yep, reversed engineered the whole thing in the end and built this.

[digger]

first of all let me just say what an inspiration your build is! Perfectly done!



Mind sharing the cad files? What did you do them in, solidworks, inventor, autocad or something else?

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[Eric]

A bit of a bump... Were you ever able to extract engine data from the MSS50? I read on another forum your on that the pre-2000 euro cars were not OBD II, so we cannot use the easy CAN port to pull info for data logers or lap timers, etc.

[Loupoz]

First of all let me just say what an inspiration your build is! Perfectly done!

Time to step this sh*t up a bit.

Cold Airbox time.

Big thanks for Ollie's cad skills in sorting this out from his airbox design and to my dad for cutting the mock ups and no thanks to stationary warehouse for charging me $20 per sheet of 1.5mm thick cardboard.
Dad runs a cutting business which specailises in cutting materials / foam / plastics / composites etc. Company is called cutlines.

Anyways here we go..

Top down view



3d

Mind sharing the CAD files? What did you do them in, SolidWorks, Inventor, AutoCAD or something else?

[litu]

Epic :woowoo:

[HybridNz]

Some nice shots while I was out this winter.

[HybridNz]

A rather cool oppertunaty came up to purchase a brand new e30 m3 260kph speedo. I almost passed this up but a couple of things made sense. My speedo's odometer had just crapped out and stopped reading K's and new units dont come a long for this price very often.
Big thanks to Dylan for this as dylan was replacing a needle in his car and didnt need the whole unit. (long story)

Anyways, photos.

Unboxing


Inside the box


Pulling apart the cluster and removing the old Odometer



Installed the new e30 m3 260kph odometer :)




Seriously .. I hate reinstalling this dam bitch nut!



and all installed ready to click over to 000000 :) Everything works perfectly, including my rev gauge was giving issues as it was down 500rpm, this was because of the needle was out on the spindle.

[Simon S]

glorious..

[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.

[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:

[sayed ali]

Wow! Amazing :)

[catuned]

nice

[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! :)

[robgoesvroom]

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

[samiam3356]

nice as always.

You see this BTW?