Absorbantnut's '87 325is

[AbsorbantNut]

Where did you route the coolant line to the reservoir at? Looks and sounds good!

Check the battery tray! I used some heater hose & a male to male pipe fitting to extend the larger diameter hose & just replaced the smaller one with a longer one. It's very functionable & looks pretty good to me :)

interesting choice of turbo, is that the 13c or 15g? I probably missed it in the reading somewhere. If its the 13c you can get a 15g off a fwd 8xx turbo for a significant difference, and still bolts up to everything the 13c did.

I wish I could say I knew. It was off of a 90's Volvo wagon, and that it's a garret, but I'm not entirely sure which kind. It has an internal wastegate and BOV.

[MattAvino]

Driving vids?

[lostbeachbum]

I wish I could say I knew. It was off of a 90's Volvo wagon, and that it's a garret, but I'm not entirely sure which kind. It has an internal wastegate and BOV.

that little snail is a .42/.48 Garrett. Nothing like having instant boost.

[AbsorbantNut]

that little snail is a .42/.48 Garrett. Nothing like having instant boost.

^^^^^^^^That is what makes this car so much fun. Instant boost:D As far as a driving video, I'm signing up for an HPDE event in Homestead on the 23rd of this month, so I'll try to get some!!

IF ANYONE has some old, used race pads lying around like some Hawks or something, let me know, I would gladly take them off your hands;)

[TimbyMaTombo]

Do you ever drive through Tampa at all to or from school? If so, we should meet up sometime! I wanna make some relatively local E30 friends.

Peter

[AbsorbantNut]

Do you ever drive through Tampa at all to or from school? If so, we should meet up sometime! I wanna make some relatively local E30 friends.

Peter

Normally I'll take i75 to the turnpike & then switch over to i95, so I'm not off the highway much when I'm driving home. But there is a South Florida e30 meet/picnic happening the first week of March that I'll be attending, you should go! I'll pm you the thread.

[TimbyMaTombo]

Oh cool! I live about 5 minutes off of I-75, so if you ever have a few hours to kill on the way up or back, let me know!

[AbsorbantNut]

Oh cool! I live about 5 minutes off of I-75, so if you ever have a few hours to kill on the way up or back, let me know!

For sure!

[ncbrock]

It's a 13c then, if it ever blows you should try the 15g. Same instant boost, but it's just much better

[Vivek]

Not sure if I missed it, but what'd you do for engine management?

[AbsorbantNut]

It's a 13c then, if it ever blows you should try the 15g. Same instant boost, but it's just much better

I was thinking more along the lines of hx35 ;)

Not sure if I missed it, but what'd you do for engine management?

It's the ecu from the Condor Speed Shop 2012 grassroots motor sports car, the 2002 with the m20 turbo. If I remember correctly, Ben & John at WOTTECH retuned it; it's a stock ecu, not megasquirt. I just had to watch my wideband & tweak the m30 AFM to get the AFRs right.

[CHIF8008]

Freakin awesome

[AbsorbantNut]

Quick pic of the boost gauge location. It's very functional!

[squidmaster]

I'll never understand why you rusted the car. The paint looked so pretty!

[AbsorbantNut]

So Spring Break has ended and it's back to school! Before I headed back up I found some time to do an oil change, buy a smaller air filter so I could finally put my 4th headlight back in, and I swapped my front springs to 4" 400lbs ones and lowered it a little bit more. Really helped out everything, the extra inch really took away a lot of wheel gap It also made the 5 hour drive back up much smoother. I think that the other springs were at least in the 600s, which was waaaaaaaaaaay to stiff.

In other news I went to the South Florida meet, hung out, and some people took some pictures of my car. Here they are!