Eric's Mtech2 Vert

[oliver.r]

Eric do you live on wolfe? I think I just saw your car

[clarkbmw325is]

Busy weekend.
Saturday Todd and I started on reupholstering my front seats, with Kevin Chin’s seat kit. Todd is awesome; he walked me through the steps of disassembling the seats and checking them for damage. Many times the welds break, luckily both mine hadn’t broken but just needed grease.

Who is Kevin Chin and how much cash are we talking for a reupholstery kit for the front seats?:D

[Cabriolet]

Eric do you live on wolfe? I think I just saw your car

No but I work at HP over there. I live in Campbell.

Who is Kevin Chin and how much cash are we talking for a reupholstery kit for the front seats?:D

Pretty much the primer E30 seat guy. And no, they are not cheap at all. My dad bought his mtech2 very for less than these seat covers. The leather is 9.9/10, the stitching is about 9.9./10 and the fitment is about 9/10. The feeling of them while driving is a 10/10. Where as the fleabay kits rate about 5/10 IMO.

Last night todd and I pounded throught the seat back in about 4 hours. And he had taken care of the seat bottoms earlier.


Today Todd finished up mounting the hardware and we put the seats together.
Here is the finished product.

[oliver.r]

I saw a alpine mt2 with the mt2 wing parked on Wolfe like 2 hours ago haha

[oliver.r]

And with 5 spoke silver wheels

[Cabriolet]

ya that was me.

[goarmy]

very nice job! Hey is that a gold toranado in front of your house on your 6th picture?

[Cabriolet]

no, that's my dad's mint 67 Cougar, its only been less than 10k-mi in my life.

[CorvallisBMW]

Wow, nice work on the spoiler. I have one waiting around in my garage that I've been waiting on installing, seeing your photos is inspiring me to actually get moving on it.

[Cabriolet]

Wow, nice work on the spoiler. I have one waiting around in my garage that I've been waiting on installing, seeing your photos is inspiring me to actually get moving on it.

sorry to be like a year and a half late answering all your questions. when i was posting i was supper tired and didnt read many of the posts. also thx for all your complements.
Yes, it was only a refresh. but even though it was such a young engine, a full rebuild every 100k really brings a lot of life back into these m20s.

... I know it's a bit late to mention this now, but you don't have to remove the auto pedal box. Just slide out the long dowel pin that the pedals pivot on, and install the manual one with 3 pedals. No need to mess with the box itself or the steering column.

i now run spring-less because the petal box welded on tab failed. the only issue i have is at autoX where i cant get my foot off the clutch quite fast-enough.

as far as rebuilding the head.. did you replace the valve guides and all that jazz?

i only use heads that are good enough on the wear so that the valves dont wiggle too much as they slide in and out.

if you did, how do you know which to order? Did you just measure the valves themselves when it was all disassembled?

i don't have to tools to measure so i use feel. this is very tricky and i have my dad by my side for second opinions. when he rebuilt his car, he pulled 7 heads at the junkyard before getting a good one.

what was your total working hours getting this completed?

tbh 2weeks of 12h days, for the PS swap, manual swap and full engine refresh and engine bay cleaning.

Nice job. If the full m-tech wing is too much, consider modding it to use just the bottom portion. I think that would look sweet. Congrats on the ten points. How do they add up?

tbh rather than that id get another wing. the bottom piece is too steeply angled to look good by its self.


All this stuff has been done with 3 hours to spare before bimmerfest. shes now cost me over 18k =P

[freeride53]

WOW. Eric, your car is amazing.
It looked clean when I saw it last summer, but now it's flawless!
Wish I could come and see everyone again at Bfest this year..was so fuckin close to coming...
I expect mucho pictures!

[Cabriolet]

IT'S HERE!!!! A month wait and so worth it.

My Dinan cat-back gave out so time for an upgrade.

I had picked up the CF tips from RyanG about a year ago thinking they would fit on my IE exhaust. But they didn’t so I just saved them for when I could round up enough cash for the Stromung.
Old vs New:

What the stock tips look like.

CF tips

Installed:

Need to do some tweaking to get them to come out straighter.

[catuned]

very nice exhaust!

[Cabriolet]

very nice exhaust!

Thx man, I was wondering if everyone likes the CF tips or should I just rock the SS tips?

[Cptcarisma]

HOLY CRAPPERS, DUDE.. That is PERFECT (Exhaust) Where may I find it & how much $$$ is it?!

CAPP :-)