Absorbantnut's '87 325is

[Ocell]

That looks great!! Looking forward to more photos.

[AbsorbantNut]

No more oil pressure............

[TheTacoMan]

Time for a new engine, just go to the junk yard and pick up a new used bottom end for cheap.
Also megasquirt next time around ;)

[AbsorbantNut]

The car's fine; just had a bad leak in the oil cooler. SSSquid brought me up one though...maybe I'll get it in later tonight if I get a chance :p

[AbsorbantNut]

Gunnar took a few more pics of my car in the last week. The e36 is owned by Alex and the other e30 is Kpeng's. I also recently did the e36 window switch swap & changed the oil cooler and remounted it much higher off the ground. Pics will be up later











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So a little while back I put a hole in my oil cooler, and what it came down to was that it wasn't high enough off the ground.


Ended up dragging it on the ground for a few hundred feet wearing a hole into it


A couple days later I met up with the tuner SSSquid and bought an oil cooler from him


Time for an oil change...also put new o-rings on the oil cooler lines


Also replaced the crush washer on the drain plug, about time!!


Me and Alex were lucky enough to be able to borrow a friends fender roller for the day so we I rolled my front fenders. The rears had already been a couple months ago.


Then I did something I had been waiting a long time to do...e36 switches:hitler:

Stock:


Chopped the harness:


New harness soldered/heat shrinked and switches in


I also installed some ARP headstuds:pimp:

[saturnv7890]

Woop woop arp!

The e36 switches are a lot nicer too right?

[AbsorbantNut]

Woop woop arp!

The e36 switches are a lot nicer too right?

Big thanks to this guy ^^^ for making the write up on how to install the studs:D

Yeah, they're more of a rocker type switch versus the push button e30 style.

[TheTacoMan]

Are you planning to go ms anytime soon? It makes it so so much better with boost.

[AbsorbantNut]

Are you planning to go ms anytime soon? It makes it so so much better with boost.

If I can land this job at steak and shake...yes it'll be in my future. Until then I'll be boosting on good ole Motronic;D

[saturnv7890]

Ah steak and shake.. I miss the south

[AbsorbantNut]

[TimbyMaTombo]

If you're trying to get a job at Steak n Shake, definitely go for a service job. I am a server at one in Orlando and make bank compared to the production side of things. and I get to talk to all the cute girls that come in ;)

[88SuperETABD]

Wow...just went through all of your build. I love it!

Give you mad props for the work you've done and place you had to do it in, reminds me of doing my e2i conversion in a garage with less than 1 ft of room around the car. haha.

Keep up the good work!

[AbsorbantNut]

Wow...just went through all of your build. I love it!

Give you mad props for the work you've done and place you had to do it in, reminds me of doing my e2i conversion in a garage with less than 1 ft of room around the car. haha.

Keep up the good work!

Thanks, although I'm not sure it's as crazy as that! That's some feat to pull off.

The 3" is back on:D Tucked up closer to the body than ever.
Also found a picture on IG.



Wish I saved the regular version of this picture but sadly can't find it Had the car up off the ground to start chopping the downpipe up. It needed to come closer to the underside of the car as well as be tweaked a little bit to fit the new turbo.





Replaced the blue LED in the boost gauge with an incandescent. Am looking for an amber replacement though as the color is a little off.



Then dug this out from underneath some filing cabinets that were outside. I have had this thing for who knows how long... probably at least 4 years.


Better views of how I cut the downpipe to fit.






Here is the line I marked to weld. The small section below the sharpie line fits into the other pipe. The people that had originally welded this up for me had used a 2.5" piece they flared a little to fit another 2.5" piece of pipe into. I basically cut the weld out on either side with a cutting wheel and but did not fully cut through the downpipe inside the flare. Then all I had to do was knock the little section of downpipe in the flared pipe out and I was ready to mock up with the sharpie.






High up away from the ground


In the end it was all done to replace this, my entire exhaust system for the past few months


A little long in the back, but it sits even with the edge of the plastic bumper. It shouldn't burn any paint like that:p


Found some trim pieces at home.

[jaywood]

Looks good. Nice gauge panel :)

Have been considering going back to turbo m20 power. Hmmm.