My AW e30 m3 project

[sonnyqm3]

e30polak and freeride53,

thanks for the props guys... I just felt like he was but if not then my apologies to him.. so ya we will sell the AW as well and should have it detailed by this weekend.. I just need to put a new headliner and we r good to do..

[freeride53]

LOL. i need to see a list of all your bmw's, stat! How many have you had so far?

[gwb72tii]

whats with leaving the rear trunk lid on during the respray?
no criticism, just curious.

[sonnyqm3]

whats with leaving the rear trunk lid on during the respray?
no criticism, just curious.

we didnt have to edge the trunk lid so according to my painter it was not necessary to take it off. He prepped it very nice and the results of the paint job is very clean..

[sonnyqm3]

LOL. i need to see a list of all your bmw's, stat! How many have you had so far?

this is what i have now and i have to really think hard of how many I had before these.. at least 15 or more..

2010 528xi winter car
1996 328i wifeys dd
88 ds m3
88 Henna m3
90 aw m3
90 brilliant red m3
there is another e30 m3 that I have but will never give info on that... ;);)

non BMW's
05 Mercedes Benz S55 AMG.. G ride
00 Toyota Camry>> my favorite car of all. lol.. my dd

[techterr]

Wow

You did all this in how much time???? This looks familiar, except what took you a month, took me more than a year.... Awesome job.... Did you go with the Turner 2.5? and if you did what was your clearance between piston and head? I still can't believe you did this so quick, just awesome...

[sonnyqm3]

I sent my head to a machine shop locally. They replaced the valves, shims, guides and did the valve angle job.. They also made sure all my valves were adjusted.. I ordered the complete upper and lower gasket from turnermotorsport...reassembled everything and now she runs like a champ..


your engine looks really shocked.. I highly recd the turner 2.5 kit if you want to spend that kind of money. guys at turner will give you great advice..

[sonnyqm3]

gangster lean much?

well its wasnt the adjustment on the coilovers...the PO had different tire sizes on the car and thats why it was sitting lop sided.. we made the adjustment and she is sitting right..

[techterr]

I bought the car with the motor running on three cylinders, compression was 215, 0, 215, 215 pulled the motor and found out why. I did the Turner 2.5 kit, and it was well worth it. Sent an email to Will Turner on sunday asking about the piston to head clearance, he responded on monday morning with the info, the only reason he didn't respond on sunday was he was racing at mid atlantic... Turner is tops in my book.. Are you going to put the reinforcement kit on the front subframe?, it's worth it.
Take care, and once again, car sounds like it's gonna be great.. always good to see another alpine saved from the boneyard..

[uofom3]

Awesome! I love seeing these builds... reminds me of when my 2.5 was clean on the stand - the s14 is a work of art!

[uofom3]

why is this in off topic?

[blueapplesoda]

roffl sweet build

[blueapplesoda]

i like seeing melted pistons haha

[Peterkaczynski]

tits

[sonnyqm3]

I bought the car with the motor running on three cylinders, compression was 215, 0, 215, 215 pulled the motor and found out why. I did the Turner 2.5 kit, and it was well worth it. Sent an email to Will Turner on sunday asking about the piston to head clearance, he responded on monday morning with the info, the only reason he didn't respond on sunday was he was racing at mid atlantic... Turner is tops in my book.. Are you going to put the reinforcement kit on the front subframe?, it's worth it.
Take care, and once again, car sounds like it's gonna be great.. always good to see another alpine saved from the boneyard..

fortunately I didnt have any issues with the pistons.. it just had 2 bad exhaust valves.. so that why I did a head job and then replaced all the gaskets.. now the compression and everything else on the car is good.. drove the car yesterday and everything seemed proper.. just have to wait for the clutch to break in a bit..

yes i did buy the subframe reinforcement from AKG and had it welded.. I might have a s14 for sale next week, I just bought another e30 m3 that I am going to swap with a s50b32.. I just love those engines.. lol