After the whole year of searching I finally found a rust free 1991 E30. Although I've never owned an M42 before, it feels good to own a car that you know everything about. Sometimes I feel I know these cars more than myself...
Now that I'm back in another one, let's get started.
Not bad for $500
She's Sterling Silver, 80K miles, no rust except surface (rear kick), black sport interior, M42/240-5, umm... Little fender bend and some mechanical issues. This thread will be devoted to me doing a slight resto-mod.
1-1-2011
Brought her home and wash the hell out of it.
Attached the coolant hoses only to find a horribly fast leaking water pump.
Started her up without coolant, not much smoke but after adding seafoam to the oil and coolant in the radiator out pours white smoke!
Motor hesitates and shakes pretty bad in the lower RPM's but when you bring it above 3k it r3v's so smoothly and nice. anything below it sounds horrible and misses. She pours white smoke when you hit the gas as if it just got a seafoam treatment through the intake.
Other bads,
-Ugly nasty dark tint
-needs new steering rack (pops and clicks)
-Needs new driver fender or bondo
-DASH IS EPIC FAIL! Large cracks and glue everywhere
-Rear pass. wheels is noisy, new bearing in order.
-Dick headed wiring of a cheap alarm.
Goods,
None really. nice-ish interior and original BMW "swipe" style radio.
Now, before I tear this engine down I wanted some suggestions on what to do or what the issue might be. Here's a quick video of how it sounds.
Please excuse my truck running in the background. I know it makes it hard to hear the car but this should still give you an idea of what's going on.
any ideas?
My major issue right now is this. Weather to tear the motor apart and machine/rebuild or to find a swap. Only thing about going the swap route is it has to be plug and play right now as I don't have time to source parts or the extra cash so M20 or M50 sounds legit.
I'll have more pics later but now, time to shampoo!
Now that I'm back in another one, let's get started.
Not bad for $500
She's Sterling Silver, 80K miles, no rust except surface (rear kick), black sport interior, M42/240-5, umm... Little fender bend and some mechanical issues. This thread will be devoted to me doing a slight resto-mod.
1-1-2011
Brought her home and wash the hell out of it.
Attached the coolant hoses only to find a horribly fast leaking water pump.
Started her up without coolant, not much smoke but after adding seafoam to the oil and coolant in the radiator out pours white smoke!
Motor hesitates and shakes pretty bad in the lower RPM's but when you bring it above 3k it r3v's so smoothly and nice. anything below it sounds horrible and misses. She pours white smoke when you hit the gas as if it just got a seafoam treatment through the intake.
Other bads,
-Ugly nasty dark tint
-needs new steering rack (pops and clicks)
-Needs new driver fender or bondo
-DASH IS EPIC FAIL! Large cracks and glue everywhere
-Rear pass. wheels is noisy, new bearing in order.
-Dick headed wiring of a cheap alarm.
Goods,
None really. nice-ish interior and original BMW "swipe" style radio.
Now, before I tear this engine down I wanted some suggestions on what to do or what the issue might be. Here's a quick video of how it sounds.
Please excuse my truck running in the background. I know it makes it hard to hear the car but this should still give you an idea of what's going on.
any ideas?
My major issue right now is this. Weather to tear the motor apart and machine/rebuild or to find a swap. Only thing about going the swap route is it has to be plug and play right now as I don't have time to source parts or the extra cash so M20 or M50 sounds legit.
I'll have more pics later but now, time to shampoo!
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