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David's Special List of Special People to Thank, Specially.
1. Joe Navarro (Dr.Strangelove) - For dropping the knowledge and lending a hand the entire way through this project.
2. Danny Ciopasiu - For hooking me up with what I'm sure will be a running list, currently including: 74k bottom end, subframe, oil pan, ...
3. Patrick @ BMA - For sending me boxes full of goodness for discounted prices.
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I'm in one of those 'Make a Project Thread' kind of moods. ...for a multitude of reasons I suppose. One being I'm waiting on a second wave of parts. Two being I'm the only one left at work and I just drank a double espresso'd coffee with a dash of milk and a ladle of sugar.
Allow me to forewarn you, this first post will most likely keep your peen flaccid considering my lack of sexy pictures and shiny parts. I'll attempt to use my professional photoshopping skills to bedazzle up the photos I inevitably took with my iPhone.
INTRODUCTION
The story begins rather drab and dreary, with a slew of unfortunate events all leading up to my decision to finally rent a bigger garage to throw the E30 into so that a rebuild may commence.
Unfortunate Events and Issues in Chronological Order (with pictures to follow):
- Car runs super rich and burns a qt. of oil per month.
- Car is the victim of a hit and run... 3 times in 6 months. Door, fender and hood are dented/scraped.
- I decide it's finally time to get a garage. A 2-car is acquired.
- The night before moving the car to the garage, hit-and-run #4 occurs. The worst of all. Scrape to the fender, broken side marker, scraped bumper, and METAL SHEARED FROM MY NEW SCHMIDT. Opposite of happy.
- Oil pan is destroyed through the skidplate via some train tracks and jenky Chicagoness.
- Turns out subframe is also toast.
- New oil pan goes in. Cracked within a week.
- Car runs like shit.
- After numerous diagnosis attempts, it's time to pull the motor and refresh gaskets, seals and vac lines since it's leaking in more places then it's not.
- Commence to Build Thread Write Up
Car
1989 325is
Zinno
Cali Car
301k on the clock
Estimated 200k on motor
The Before Pics
When she was all pristine:
Incident #1 (+ ugly rear wheel gap and rusty trunk lid). My muppet legs and I scale the track fence in the background as Patrick snaps off pictars.:
Incident #2:
Incident #3:
Thus concludes the starting point.
THE PLAN
- Rebuild/Refresh Motor
- Full body work and paint (PO's Maaco job needs to go. Full metal strip down time.)
- Low Boost Turbo Application
- Wheel refinishing
- New shock housings (modified/lowered)
- Interior swap (Cardinal - if you're selling I'm buying/trading)
- Spend all my money
David's Special List of Special People to Thank, Specially.
1. Joe Navarro (Dr.Strangelove) - For dropping the knowledge and lending a hand the entire way through this project.
2. Danny Ciopasiu - For hooking me up with what I'm sure will be a running list, currently including: 74k bottom end, subframe, oil pan, ...
3. Patrick @ BMA - For sending me boxes full of goodness for discounted prices.
-------------------------------------------------------------
I'm in one of those 'Make a Project Thread' kind of moods. ...for a multitude of reasons I suppose. One being I'm waiting on a second wave of parts. Two being I'm the only one left at work and I just drank a double espresso'd coffee with a dash of milk and a ladle of sugar.
Allow me to forewarn you, this first post will most likely keep your peen flaccid considering my lack of sexy pictures and shiny parts. I'll attempt to use my professional photoshopping skills to bedazzle up the photos I inevitably took with my iPhone.
INTRODUCTION
The story begins rather drab and dreary, with a slew of unfortunate events all leading up to my decision to finally rent a bigger garage to throw the E30 into so that a rebuild may commence.
Unfortunate Events and Issues in Chronological Order (with pictures to follow):
- Car runs super rich and burns a qt. of oil per month.
- Car is the victim of a hit and run... 3 times in 6 months. Door, fender and hood are dented/scraped.
- I decide it's finally time to get a garage. A 2-car is acquired.
- The night before moving the car to the garage, hit-and-run #4 occurs. The worst of all. Scrape to the fender, broken side marker, scraped bumper, and METAL SHEARED FROM MY NEW SCHMIDT. Opposite of happy.
- Oil pan is destroyed through the skidplate via some train tracks and jenky Chicagoness.
- Turns out subframe is also toast.
- New oil pan goes in. Cracked within a week.
- Car runs like shit.
- After numerous diagnosis attempts, it's time to pull the motor and refresh gaskets, seals and vac lines since it's leaking in more places then it's not.
- Commence to Build Thread Write Up
Car
1989 325is
Zinno
Cali Car
301k on the clock
Estimated 200k on motor
The Before Pics
When she was all pristine:
Incident #1 (+ ugly rear wheel gap and rusty trunk lid). My muppet legs and I scale the track fence in the background as Patrick snaps off pictars.:
Incident #2:
Incident #3:
Thus concludes the starting point.
THE PLAN
- Rebuild/Refresh Motor
- Full body work and paint (PO's Maaco job needs to go. Full metal strip down time.)
- Low Boost Turbo Application
- Wheel refinishing
- New shock housings (modified/lowered)
- Interior swap (Cardinal - if you're selling I'm buying/trading)
- Spend all my money
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