M50 turbo Project

[jbxblitz]

So I bought a 84 318i from a guy in la for 500.. the tranny wouldn't shift into 2nd and 4th and it had neon glows.. and he also gave me a riced out spoiler which i didn't take a picture off :/ but anyway heres my build


I took out everything already and im about to start prepping the engine bay

i found some rush under the carpet and Im stating to like what the car looks like with no carpet.

i sanded some of it down.. and im going to paint it today.


i painted the manifold black with the pep boys 1500-2000 degree exhaust manifold ceramic paint.. i hope it doesn't melt off..

[ck_taft325is]

Nice.

[xwill112x]

i like where this is going!

[MR E30 325is]

Good start

[jbxblitz]

interior paint... done!

[jbxblitz]

i mixed the rustoleum black gloss with some mineral spirits about 60% mineral spirits and 40% rustoleum.. it came out pretty good.

im using the other half for the trunk lid, hood, and engine bay.

but im going to sand between coats for that one.

[jbxblitz]

soooo i took out my spark plugs to repaint my valve cover and i found a lot of water around my spark plug boots... so i got really concerned and wondered if my head was cracked... i took it off and observed the head.. no cracks.. thank god! but i did notice something about my head gasket..

its a SCE copper gasket and I had a question about the water jacket holes... they're so tiny compared to the water passageways is that normal??

heres a picture of it..



should i open up those passageways? or is that how its supposed to be?

[jbxblitz]

to top off this major set back.. i dropped a camshaft nut down the timing chain hole.. so its in the oil pan somewhere. fuuuuuu

[jbxblitz]

this was the before setup/ bottom mount


and after painting the engine bay and jmp auto redoing the manifold im at this now.

[jbxblitz]

so nearly 3 years later. i finally came up with the motives to finish this thing.

to update on the last 3 years this is basically what happened.

- frek no job, i should sell this thing.
- sold sensors, coil packs, engine stuff, tree house racing bushings, wheels
- got a job 3 months ago
- went to the junkyard yesterday and bought my sensors.

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Lets see some picture updates then!