My new project E30

[JeffNJM3]

Vlad, u dont even know how bad I want to get the M3 out, but sunday is my father in laws 70th birthday in the afternoon, and he needs my help with something in the morning, my whole day is shot!

LS1? no bowties for me thank you very much, was thinking more of a blue oval:) Who knows, its a bit of a pipe dream right now......

[JeffNJM3]

Just a few updates, got a screaming deal on a near mint set of standard seats, so I threw them in. Here's a few recent pics after a carwash, looking pretty good, right?





Currently I working on the front suspension, new control arms, cabs, inner/outer tie rods, struts, M3 springs, etc etc. Was all going well till the inner bj bolt on the pass side control arm, pretty much locked up when it was almost off, fucker must be cross-threaded. Well in my infinate wisdom i thought it would be a good idea to use the sawzall to cut the shaft of the bj under the subframe. Sure I got the control arm off, but the bj is tapered and will never come out thru the top, wish I woulda thought of that, i dunno, say yesterday? Oh well, i got a few ideas on how to get it out. I used the balljoint press i bought for my truck to press in the new e30 M3 CABS, worked pretty good. Hopefully I'll get this all together soon, needs a front wheel bearing, so im getting that to right now.

Think this thing was ready to be changed?:)

[JeffNJM3]

Ok, been a while, got the stuck control arm off, pressed on some new m3 offset cab's to the new control arms, and got the new control arms on, as well as some new sway bar links. Here are some pics of how I got the CAB's on.

[oekundar]

Nice work Jeff...I saw one of your posts over on audizine...I'm heading that way myself :)

[J3M93]

this is infreakinsane!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[JeffNJM3]

Oekundar, who knows what will be next for me:) But I may have to sell this vert kinda soon:( but on the plus side, i have to sell it because i have a little girl on the way to keep my son busy:)

I know this isnt all that exciting stuff, but the good new is I got the front end all back together and drove it for the first time in a few months! Feels so good with all this new stuff. I used m3 offset CABs and M3 front springs, looks like it sits a little lower, but im gunna give it a few days to settled and i'll take some measurements

[Tico Frank]

Congrats on the new one, Too bad you may have to sell this vert. Keep it!

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[Tico Frank]

Oh and did you do the belt/pump with the hood on and the rad still in?

[JeffNJM3]

Oh and did you do the belt/pump with the hood on and the rad still in?

Thanks man! Yep kept it all on. I'm thinking i'm gunna keep it a while, Now that I have the car pretty much mechanically set, i'll move on to the fun stuff:)

[MR 325]

Looking good. Whatever you do don't put an 87 iS valance on it though!

[JeffNJM3]

Looking good. Whatever you do don't put an 87 iS valance on it though!

:)