Bronzit 4-door Swap... Wait what??

[BlueBimmerKid]

Ohh and nick i hate to say it but your starting to get like Bryan... youve had the car less than a year and youve now on what? the 4th set of wheels?
When your distraction is finished were gunna have a 325is to tackle. Ive decided to fix that car and drive it ;)

[nickflic3]

hahaha and when's the next time it will see said street :rofl:

[BlueBimmerKid]

umm... umm... shhush! wait till i get the money from my gmas house selling. we'll see whos crackin jokes on who.

[nickflic3]

New Motor Goes In

Been busy with a speech and church stuff; bout time for an update right? ;)

Guess the next thing is to jump in to the picture dump for the day lulz

That dolly has better pan clearance than most e30's!


skillz


Viola


For those wondering about the wheels, I traded them for a Yakima rack and an oil cooler + all the labor that Jose put in (read:still owes me :giggle:)






Guys who dropped off the motor dropped gave me a trunk + spoiler :D


Old:


"New":






Cleaned it up a bit; bout to paint the spoiler




Problems lining it up... Gap on the left and too tight on the right! After about 30 minutes of making minute adjustments, I'm done with it until time for paint.





Control arms are for my Camry which still need to go in if anyone wants to lend a hand :p









Marginal progress; painted my manifolds and installed the appropriate gaskets.








Took on a little project with a spare wheel I had laying around...




















Imperfections from first attempt:


Not too bad!




All I could get in for tonight; more tomorrow maybe...

[nickflic3]

Small Update-Stuff Goes In

Wow so Ive really kept you guys waiting lol

Guess I owe you guys an explanation: On Thursday May 5th, the car lived and made it's first trip with the new motor around the block! :D Words can't describe the feeling of all the hard work and long hours coming to life.
Ive been driving it everywhere and even had my first spin out today in the rain (yikes!!)

Enough chit chat, on with the retrospective progress!

My JDM wanna be of a friend had ordered a cheap cone filter online. After waiting 3 weeks and not receiving it he got another one just to have this one show at the same time

Since I now have the es trunk lid with an attached spoiler, I traded him for the one I had previously bought. Helped him install it lol




LOL!












Well I am not the ricer so the only reason there are so many pix of the "hot air intake" is because I traded it for a used K&N drop-in filter.





I paid almost 15 bucks to ship mine... He slipped his in a manila :hitler:

Aaaanyway

Started on wiring and realized I was missing a few things. Quick junk yard trip was in order





What I came away with for a little over the entrance fee. Cargo shorts FTW ;)


Arguably the biggest PITA job to do under an e30: Selector rod bushing. I'm getting pissed just thinking about it...


Was stick going in like this for the longest time... The hole was just too small and this was after taking a drill to it!


Eventually got the bitch in. Also had to reform the clip as popping it off distorted it.

No wonder my reverse lights don't work...


Like my intake boot?


So hard to align!


Yay!


Oh wait, I Think I forgot something o.O


Separated both sides and did everything again but with the guibo this time. No pix cuz
-I gashed my thumb
-I was already pissed about doing it twice

First sign of life: got the battery and associated alternator stuff wired up. Messed with the lights a bit
lows


lows + highs


Went on a little trip to get a broken flange welded back on to the i down pipes





Everyone was giving us crazy looks, even this guy who drove with us for a while


Lets leave it there for tonight, shall we?
I'll end with some shots on the ground so you guys believe me that I'm dailying this thing again :P

[nickflic3]

Bump from the dead!!

Oh hai, let me bump that for you :giggle:

Just about everything is in place now



Dad helped me out and traded my old starter for a refurbished one





Wiring it up...



lolstarterbolt



Next finished up the exhaust







She was all done! However it too me 2 days of trouble shooting to figure out 2 crossed plugs.



However on May 5, 2011 she started up and created a hell of a smoke show :D









And she passed smog first try :alright



Not too shabby for an 18 y/o with no job aye? ;)

[nickflic3]

In between then and now

Since I got it running, I did a few things to it.



And it did a few things to my wallet that I'm too scarred to talk about


All joking aside, went to a friend's house and got the rear bumper tucked (stage 1 lol)





Chillin at Adams Motorsports Park with another e30 I found (still don't know who owns this)



Gwaro stopped by day after bimmerfest



Yup, the one that got hit

Clean garage after the swap... Felt so weird looking at that space again lol





Messing with the lights

Clear lenses



Sealed beam high beam



JDM tight yo!







Swapped my bulbs; high beam bulb in the low beam and vice versa. Look at the difference! (high beam bulb on the left)



My buddy backed in to me at church :/ Busted my minty tail light and warped the metal there...



Less than perfect replacement, but it's something plus you can't beat free



New wheel



Correct 44" fairing





Some stickers I collected



"Amikay" because it's a replica of a Yakima fairing lol





Tic Tac Toe lol



What could be the problem...



My brand new oil filter :hitler:



Back to the garage...



Wait, Coolant too??



Check out that sexy radiator



Other side...



Lets fix that...



Found those bolts on the floor; looks like they backed out and ground in to the radiator and punctured it :(



Picked up a free radiator from Mike and traded it for an early model one to match my cooling system



Zip ties don't last forever LOL



Neither do sunroof cables apparently...



My car gave life to another e30! (Kadeem's drift car)





Just in time for Archifest 2!

[nickflic3]

Stopped by Terry's house (recipient of my BBS RG's) on the way back from Archiesfest 2. Hooked me and Kadeem up with some wheels!









The plan was to respray them and paint them black but after seeing them on an e30, decided against it and my buddy eventually picked them up to put them on a Honda

We took Ortega HWY to Archiesfest and my car couldn't really hang (really awkward shifting between 2nd and 3rd lol)

So on the way to have my exhaust welded up I swooped up an open 4.10 diff from JakeP for 20 bucks. Best 20 I've spent!!



Exhaust is i manifolds>eta exhaust>Random (OBX?) muffler







My buddy AJ gettin down lol











Done for the night



It sagged a bit so I put this extra hanger to good use (modified below)


Need to grind it off a bit





Sounds alright, my old system sounded like a hybrid...
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Loooooong geeeeeaaaaars
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Back to Brandon's house to do the diff

2.79 is a big case and the 4.10 is a medium case I believe.







WHEEEEEE!!!:giggle:



vs.



:twisted:

[nickflic3]

It's against my car's nature to run right at any given point in time...

Fuel pump was cutting in and out and left me stranded close to home. Buddy gave me a push with his wagon and kind of tucked one side of the rear bumper



Changed the fuel pump with no difference



Problem ended up being loose fuse box harness wires and fouled spark plugs from running rich





Gaps all over the place





Care was fixed but still had the paint rubbed off and had never installed the new lens. Pulled out my bumper using a wire hanger inside a plastic tubing haha





Also got this for really cheap from my buddy Dustin. We were laughing at how useless this was but decided to give it a shot. It works surprisingly, better than it should haha









Painted and drying. Just sitting on the towers in t he pic. Installed it later that night.



Got more stuff from Dustin





Sanded





Mocked up







not really feeling it... Sitting in my garage now

Came really close to going with the factory is valance...







Buuut I've always dreamed of installing a sport lip and finding one is near impossible. However, through some poking and pestering, I found one at a price I couldn't refuse. It's rough but it gets the job done for now. May try to repair it in the future; of course always looking out for another one out there.











Part number?



Commence prepping





It was minty, think it was a factory replacement.










Could not wait...





Don't even attempt to sand 4 layers of paint with 600 grit LOL
The middle white spot is he original primere. Radiating around it are the various layers of primer and paint





Exacto knife FTW





Paint



Getting ready to swap valances





vs.



Tucked and painted the front bumper while I was at it

[nickflic3]

To complete the front end transformation I smoked the headlights Like so

Fuk it, lets just run no grills



Phase 1: Low bems

Heat gun did the trick





Detour!!







lol jk



How e30's achieve superior cut off haha









vs.







Phase 2: High beams







Painted them at some point





It was a little bit too bright outside and the lights were on lol







More tomorrow...

[FunfGan]

Holy crap, you do work my friend.

[CHIF8008]

nice little thread you got here. keep up the work homie

[nickflic3]

Holy crap, you do work my friend.

haha thanks man, these are just all the pics I've been hoarding and too lazy too post. But now we are just about caught up; fun updates tomorrow and then it will be teh slowz

nice little thread you got here. keep up the work homie

Thanks man, and thank you for all the help!

[dougie30]

wow this is a nice thread, alot of work that i wish i could do to my car

[nickflic3]

Thanks! And I still have a long way to go too :P