Absorbantnut's '87 325is

[efficient]

damn nice work but why did you rust it?

[AbsorbantNut]

Adjustable camber/caster subframe kit, 75D poly trailing arm bushings, solid UHMV differential bushings, 12mm raised solid subframe prototype UHMV bushings, stainless steel brake lines, rebuilt brakes, new ebrake shoes, resealed differential casing & filled with fresh fluid. And it's all my the car!!



Then I threw on some type C's with brand spanking new falken azenies and called it a day:D

[AbsorbantNut]

Time for another much needed update. Judging by the last picture it seems like there was a big change in pace:twisted:

Well, as everything does, this plan started off with an idea. A very different idea which I wasn't fond of at all after all my hard work from previous years. But things change and so do people, so with some help from my friends we decided to mix up the gameplan.

Carlos at one point brought up the idea of rusting my car. Rusting my car!?!! Well we decided we'd give it a shot, after all it was a 300 dollar car, what harm could come. So we decided to test out some paint stripper on a very inconspicouos place. The quaterpanel So it began then, as Carlos, John, and I started stripping down the car.







So then we went to some car meets....




Then I autoX'd at Sebring while my friends went racing. It rained most of the day, and to make things worst I was driving around on bald, cording tires with absolutely no brake pedal even after multiple bleeding attempts. But, it's all about having a good time right:D



So a few days later I went to the local u-pull-it with some friends and picked up a working driver side brake caliper



Then I hit up another car show with some buds.






Then things got interesting. The award ceremony began. I was all packed up & ready to roll out since it was an hour drive back to my house and there was no chance in hell I could've won an award. As I begin reversing one of the camera guys tells me to wait for a few more minutes. I think to myself that this guy is pulling my leg, but I stay. My car is right in front of the stage and we're all sitting on it. Awards are given out. Then they come to the best 3 series award. The announcer says "...and it goes to the ragged e36 up front." We look around trying to find out who he's talking about when he corrects himself and says "I meant to say the e30 with the rough paint job."






So that was that, I packed up, brought the award home.

Next I began ordering some more parts. I picked up a set of 90mm bullet nose studs and got them on with some help from the locals, mainly Rockne!



Now on the way I have a bunch of parts coming from blunt & autohausAZ to try to keep this heap on the road:giggle:

[AbsorbantNut]

[AbsorbantNut]

Some pics of my snagging the exhaust & driving back


Was able to get my power steering delete installed today and boy does it feel....different! Much more road feel when I'm traveling at speed. Just what I was looking for;)


At Sebring I'll be running in hpde 1

[Lof8]

What group are you running with at Sebring?

[AbsorbantNut]

It now has a decent exhaust I scored for 60 bucks & fabbed up with some of my best friends.

I ordered:
75d UUC poly TA bushings from turner
Stainless steel brake lines from turner
ATE super blue racing fluid from blunt
Front & rear brake rebuild kits from blunt

I picked up a power steering delete from Carlos(silence8)

Hopefully I can weld in my adjustable subframe stuff & put the whole mess above in before the event at Sebring this month!!

[AbsorbantNut]

Recently, thanks to silence8 on this forum, I have gotten a huge job upgrade, and now I should have some cash for some cool stuff. I'll probably start with the read subframe bushings & trailing arms so I can fix the camber issues

[AbsorbantNut]

Well, I'm late on updates as usual. The CPS went bad one night. So that meant no spark or fuel. I went wire tracing and relay checking, and ended up at the front of the car with a bad CPS. "Stole" one from my dad's vert which sits in the backyard to put in the car to keep it running:p

Then I swapped out the antifreeze for some waterwetter, put on some four year old RA1's and went to the track event at Homestead, FL!!!!


I did the hyperdrive and it was such a blast, I am for sure going back for a whole weekend next time:D Now onto some pics!











And the end of the day with all of us leaving:o



The car handled much better than I ever thought it would, it really has come a long way since when I got it. However, the exhaust still needs some work because according to everyone else, I sound like a tractor

[AbsorbantNut]

haha holy shit you psycho, you fixed it!
mad props man!

Haha, thanks man, it's a blast:D

Well, I've lurked on this thread for several months getting ideas (and thinking that I really need to get on my welding and painting skills!), but since you dropped into my build thread I think it's time I say a legit "good job" to you - alot of tough work going into the rust issues especially. When I was 17 my idea of restoring a car was pulling off random parts and rattle-canning them, and maybe changing a clutch or brake pads. So it's all the more impressive what you've done being 17 - things that I can't even do when I'm 20 years older, lol.

keep it up. want to see this thing on the track!

Thank you, my friend! I can't wait to see what we each get done in the next year on our cars!!

So the car is currently in the shop getting AC...here I come cold air! I have never had a car that had AC before, so this should be a real treat living in south Florida:p I'm making a trip up to Jaxonville for Track States to watch my sister in the car Thursday; hopefully this thing can make it! I'm so excited to go!!

I changed out the trans fluid & filled it up with some ATF gear oil, and 4th gear doesn't crunch as bad. Other than that, not much has been done. I haven't had a chance to put the lower seals in, so I'll need to bring some oil with me on the trip. I'm ordering ball joints next and possible a power steering delete from one of my favorite people, silence8 :o

[irish44j]

Well, I've lurked on this thread for several months getting ideas (and thinking that I really need to get on my welding and painting skills!), but since you dropped into my build thread I think it's time I say a legit "good job" to you - alot of tough work going into the rust issues especially. When I was 17 my idea of restoring a car was pulling off random parts and rattle-canning them, and maybe changing a clutch or brake pads. So it's all the more impressive what you've done being 17 - things that I can't even do when I'm 20 years older, lol.

keep it up. want to see this thing on the track!

[freeride53]

haha holy shit you psycho, you fixed it!
mad props man!

[AbsorbantNut]

Put the ellips back in & I recieved my adjsutable subframe kit from e30 tech(camber and toe!). I just placed my order with Blunt for a lower gasket kit and ordered some transmission fluid, which will hopefully solve my mystery grind in 4th gear :P

[AbsorbantNut]

Took some terrible pictures, but it shows the car in its current state, figured I'd throw them up :p









Almost forgot to mention, my friend Ben tuned the car for me! It was running a 735 ecu for the longest time, a few months at least, and it was guzzling gas and had a stupid lopey idle hahaha. But he worked his magic on it and now it runs like a dream :)

[RedDefiance]

nice!