Malik's 87 325is build (DAILY DRIFT E30)

[ROLLingKING]

some bullshiiieet / puttin on parts thats been sitting in my room

so i order a coolant temp sensor from bavauto and usually their stuffs up to snuff but whatever I got was buggin out and didnt work at all. i told em the top plastic piece spins around the base and with no questions asked they sent me another one. kinda made me think they could be aware of the problem. it even looked cheap. I told them how the sensor for the ECU said bosch but this one was no name

Then i got the other sensor in the mail, used my 19mm deep socket and this is what happened. didnt even have the damn thing for 5min when it snapped as i tightened it. as soon as it got tight, plastic snapped.



i would say its my fault but i literally had 2 hands on the wrench
i had my hand on top of the wrench to make sure i didnt strip it and to ensure i was pushin down while i turned, ive stripped a bolt before so now im paranoid....didnt EVER think it would snap like that.

good thing I dont throw out most original parts. i put em in a box just in case, so i just threw on the old, rusted, corroded one
I think im gonna call bavauto and get my money back at this point.

I put on my new fuel rail hose...been sittin at the house for about 2 months.lol I noticed it was moist after drives at the rail so it needed to get fixed. next is a solid injector service.


finally put these on the front..dont have the spacers yet cause ejnight said it wont be until december(ish). now it matches the rear and i can slap the spacers on




I tried making the eyelids fit but it doesnt fit without the crease showing so imma take the dremel to it so theres no crease visible. that was the only thing i didnt like about the eyelids I saw elsewhere. looks installed wrong when it shows

[ROLLingKING]

Random update/getting these pics off my phone

FYI: that "silly ground" that "someone" welded on was factory. That "someone" was BMW.

this dude never has anything useful to say. LMAO its a silly ground cause it came on some cars and not on others. its random and dumb. i knew it was from factory by the way it was painted and how difficult it was to get rid of

but this is why u shouldnt let your strut bar touch the manifold. not only are the extra vibrations annoying it will slightly dent the manifold.



My neighbor came thru while I was lining the eyelids up and he said he liked it black and I shouldnt paint it to match.... Then I showed him the ones painted to match on the forum and he said either could work actually. so idk..imma paint it to match and then paint it black if I dont like it.
Heres his whip tho. this shit it a BEAST. 9k red line. its a sleeper for sure. which is why i wont show engine pics


and then the best dog in the world. Nia. never needs a collar even for walks. i never understood owning a dog that wants to run away as soon as the door opens.lol


OH and i rode my bike for the first time today. i bought it as a regular schwinn cutter and converted it to a fixie when I had no car in bflo. rode it all winter! id post it in the bicycle thread but ppl started buying these cause they were "trendy", ride like pussies and dont actually haul ass in em like theyre supposed to. i drop this bike left and right.lol theyre durable and quick as hell. I miss city riding



so yea, random as hell but i needed to get pics off my phone as its been reeaal slow lately. soo decided to share a little bit

i still cant go out and practice due to the stupid shoulder but hopefully ill have some kinda video soon. right now i still cant handle the wheel with my right arm but soon I will

take care r3v

[ROLLingKING]

100 Drifters of December 2011

This was my first time at a track and i felt like a kid in a toy store.
I was watching more than filming but heres what i threw together. Due to not being able to skate or film as much leading up to & after my surgery I was very rusty. I didnt capture enough footage to leave myself something to work with but I put something out anyway.
I have an outdated camera and only final cut express version 1.0.1 but i work with what i got. :???:

Enjoy

[ROLLingKING]

Drift Setup Update

After finally doing some driving im starting to get used to the the way the car responds with front and rear strut bars. Its great! The car felt much more solid and got rid of the delayed flex coming from the rear.

Sometimes I laugh to myself cause some E30 drifters on bimmerforums talked soo much shit to me when I asked for some setup help and didnt agree with their no rear sway bar theory. They started looking for me on other forums and were calling all my efforts pale, a waste of money, and pretty much saying ill go nowhere if i didnt pay $1500 for the full GC coilovers. They posted pics of my tabs that were welded on before I painted them and tried making fun of the rust that was there i guess.(which i dremeled off and painted a WHILE ago) They also said strut bars dont make a noticeable difference in handling and its silly if I thought they would. I said i never heard of the japanese running no rear sway and compensating with 1200lb springs in the rear so they told me to go move to japan. after that i stopped going to that forum. and at summit point there was not one E30 who could hold it down and look good on the track. their cars looked mushy in the rear to me. go figure. but that was only from watching. because i recognized these cars from the forum(had VA plates) I didnt introduce myself to any of these guys. the 240 guys tho were super nice and enjoyed talking to me, not trying to talk down to me because im a beginner

What I found is that the rear is more predictable and doesnt slide out as uncontrollably as it did with just a rear sway. I still have much more to learn with throttle inputs but it takes time. I suggest strut bars in the front and the rear for anyone doing spirited driving. Im learning something new every time I go out slidin. its great to finally own a rwd. i still cant get over it.haha

[Smrtpunk]

Hey, Where did you get the wheel studs from?

[ROLLingKING]

Hey, Where did you get the wheel studs from?

kalib0y - http://www.r3vlimited.com/board/showthread.php?t=206133

[ROLLingKING]

Power steering leak found..i hope

so as cold weather came around I got this moaning noise from my power steering. it sounded like a whore being stabbed. i dont like leaks or any funny noises coming from under my car so i started sourcing a power steering pump and rack. I need a 95 steering rack for sure, but i didnt want to drop dime on the pump as mine looked newish. i saw fluid coming from the bolt so i thought, maybe its the pump.lol

My fluid was leaking down both hoses right from the reservoir so i had a hunch that the hoses were bad. not holding pressure. I went to autozone and had them look at it and the guy said, your hoses are swollen, need to be replaced. 1.99 + 2.99 + 4.99x2 (2 liters of auto transmission fluid) and i hope tomorrow = done, ya digg. easy fix. made me happy

[MonkeyMan]

thievery corporation = legit :up:

nice work so far bro.. it's always nice seeing someone with a plan actually follow through with it.. keep it up

btw +1 for a rear sway.. I know installing stiff ass springs may compensate for the lack of one, but shit, you gotta drive that thing everyday

[ROLLingKING]

Power steering leax fix. Replaced reservoir hose to ps pump/to steering rack.

thievery corporation = legit :up:

nice work so far bro.. it's always nice seeing someone with a plan actually follow through with it.. keep it up

btw +1 for a rear sway.. I know installing stiff ass springs may compensate for the lack of one, but shit, you gotta drive that thing everyday

Thanks man. Ive been skating for a little while and am always looking for new tunes to edit with. Dubstep is played the fuck out! I hate being trendy.lol

I had no rear sway for a couple weeks waiting for welding to be done and I hated it. Im not the best drifter, just started, but I can feel when the back or front of the car isnt doing what it should be doing. With no rear sway the back of the car flexed like crazy in the twisties. drifting just magnified the mushy feeling. it was horrible.

***Update:
so I finally got rid of my PS moaning and groaning by replacing the hoses. The car would smell like ps fluid when i got home from the engine temps cooking it and I was soo sick of seeing leaks when i pulled off. that shits embarrassing

I will suggest that you take the hoses off the rack & pump, take em off the reservoir and take the reservoir to autozone with you. When I drove my car there thursday an employee looked at the hoses, said they were swollen (which was right) and gave me the sizes he thought they looked like (which was wrong). When he just guessed and handed me the hoses i said, how about we look up the sizes but he insisted he knew my car. IDK how.

Needless to say I got all my shit apart and the hoses he sized by eye were too small. I wasnt happy. Then when I went back and a separate guy gave me heater hose. I told him thats not going to work and he said, "well thats only the return line right, it should hold up." He then looked it up on the computer and said they dont have the size there at all. Then I was pissed and caused a little scene, raised my voice and stated how I thought this was some bullshit.haha
Sometimes u gotta revert to plan-C to get things done right. He then asked me for the reservoir, which i put on the counter from the beginning, went to the isle with the hoses and found a snug fit. He came back and one of the hoses read "fuel hose". I told him I need all my shit to say "power steering" please. He went back there and found it. Cut me about 2ft worth. Then he tried to charge me extra for getting more hose so I asked for the manager and told her what happened the previous day. I said I think we should look up the size but he said theyre all the same.lol shenlet me go without having to pay again.

After 25min at autozone I got home, attached the lines to the reservior, put clips on it and that was snug. THen attached the reservoir back to the bracket. Got under the car, cut em down to length, put new clips on the hoses down there and was done.

While it was still jacked up I started the car and turned the wheel lock to lock with the CAP OFF. Added some more fluid and then lowered the car off the jack stands. Started the car again, with the cap off went lock to lock till I saw bubbles stop coming up and now I have full power steering in my E30 for the first time.
The wheel spins quicker on its own and its easier to steer in general. Im glad finally did this.



Then I had to hop in the shower and run out to the college park meet. I kept hearing about some car show at a garage out in Rockville, MD that we might be going to but I did not know it was going to be such a fun night. Didnt get home till like 2am. Gotta love it. Pics of that will be in here soon!

[ROLLingKING]

have been in cali for 2.5 weeks now and as much as I enjoy the weather and food out here, I can not wait to get back to MD and drive a real car

[dnick]

oh nice how is it in cali right now? and when do you get back?

[ROLLingKING]

oh nice how is it in cali right now? and when do you get back?

oakland is the shit and im back now. weather was 50's.

as soon as my car warmed up i was driftin backroads.lol

[dantheman]

Nice thread man! Seems like I'm going the same direction as you. I love what the shadowline did for your car btw, totally transformed it. I'm definitely going to look into doing it once the weather gets better.

[ROLLingKING]

Nice thread man! Seems like I'm going the same direction as you. I love what the shadowline did for your car btw, totally transformed it. I'm definitely going to look into doing it once the weather gets better.

go for it. i did mine in the garage so u could do it now
And thank you for the kind words. the shadow line did A LOT! n. otherwise its so tedious u might keep procrastinating it like i did. next time i have the time ill be respraying the plastic bumper trim and the black trim on the side of the car waay at the bottom.

so a little update...one thing has led to another and ive had to take the e30 off the road. Surgery and then unemployment has made other things more important.lol ill be working on the car again soon but living in NYC. Kinda sucks that i cant drive it, but it doesnt really need the winter miles. And once im back into work i can save up keeping it off the road. next update will be major. SLR angle kit and coilovers is all I have planned for now. cant wait till spring

[ROLLingKING]

NYC life

What up r3v!

Im living in the nyc area and have a few leads on employment which is great.

I also started my first class at lincoln technical institute today. Should be fun and very informational for me. Theres a lot I want to do but just can not do the right way without the proper knowledge and training.

The E30 will be extra healthy after i graduate. :nice:

sry but no actual car updates YET