Prolonging the Procrastination...

[Mtriple]

I saw my e30 next to a stocker 325is. No side mirrors and the drop made mine look tiny too!

Love this build up! So much anticipation, on so many sweet parts into it!

Congrats on the wedding too! Just remember to give the e30 its once a month lovin too. ;)

no kidding!
Looking forward to seeing this come together..






















.. someday.. lol
j/k
Congrats on the upcoming wedding !

Holy ISH!

Movement!

Congrats on the wedding.

I was a goalie 100 years ago.

I love hockey but as a Ranger fan that takes most of the joy out of it.

No stinking badges...leave it clean if they have to ask it's a 316i. Makes me want to finish mine but the darn house is eating my time.

I say no on the badge, but I don't really like stuff like that.

+1 on no stinkin' badges..

Thanks guys, we are lookng forward to it. And yeah, I'm leaning towards no badges although I would wager that very few would even no what the badge meant...

[Mtriple]

You and Blunt need to race when it's done 24V vs 12V turbo.

Haha, I've ridden in that car. My setup isnt in the same league, his car is stupid fast.

[Simon S]

+1 on no stinkin' badges..

[parkerbink]

Holy ISH!

Movement!

Congrats on the wedding.

I was a goalie 100 years ago.

I love hockey but as a Ranger fan that takes most of the joy out of it.

[M-technik-3]

No stinking badges...leave it clean if they have to ask it's a 316i. Makes me want to finish mine but the darn house is eating my time.

[Good & Tight]

You and Blunt need to race when it's done 24V vs 12V turbo.

[z31maniac]

I say no on the badge, but I don't really like stuff like that.

[Simon S]

on so many sweet parts into it!

no kidding!
Looking forward to seeing this come together..






















.. someday.. lol
j/k
Congrats on the upcoming wedding !

[Van Westervelt]

I saw my e30 next to a stocker 325is. No side mirrors and the drop made mine look tiny too!

Love this build up! So much anticipation, on so many sweet parts into it!

Congrats on the wedding too! Just remember to give the e30 its once a month lovin too. ;)

[Mtriple]

This project is sick! and even more so because you have goalie equipment in your garage! SWEET!

Thanks man, hockey is my other passion so I'm a bit of a gear whore.





So in the process of going through the front end and installing the M3 rack, I will remove my GC camber plates and install the new touring version in an effort to get a little more streetable ride.

IMG_0121 by Bob Cooper, on Flickr

...and some roll center spacers from AKG along with the spacers and hardware for the rack swap.

IMG_0122 by Bob Cooper, on Flickr

Cant decide if I should rock the badge in the left corner of the trunk lid. Opinions?

IMG_0120 by Bob Cooper, on Flickr

IMG_0119 by Bob Cooper, on Flickr

Manifold

IMG_0125 by Bob Cooper, on Flickr

And I pulled in the Mini tonight to wax it and thought this was interesting. The Mini which is lowered makes my E30 look small...

IMG_0128 by Bob Cooper, on Flickr

[JK_E30]

This project is sick! and even more so because you have goalie equipment in your garage! SWEET!

[Mtriple]

So everything is back from PC. I did end up getting the pan done and I'm glad I did, it looks pretty good. I pulled the motor off the stand the other night and did the rear main seal and then put it back on the stand and mounted the pan. I also disassembled the oil filter mount/thermostat and had that sent in for PC as well.

IMG_0111 by Bob Cooper, on Flickr

IMG_0112 by Bob Cooper, on Flickr

With our wedding in 4 weeks, work on the motor is at a standstill because I need to get the head out to VAC but there is just no fundage for that right now. I'm going to wrap it up, push it off into the corner, and get to work on things that I already have. First on the list is the M3 steering rack, and a few other things for the front end.

[Mtriple]

Insignificant update.

Most of the parts are back from PC. I'm only waiting on the oil pan and the oil filter housing. The oil filter housing was an afterthought and I only dropped it off yesterday. The pan has been there for a while but I have to wait for them to get enough other customer pieces to do a run of metallic silver, otherwise I would have to pay $80 which is the minimum order.

I have spent the down time from the E30 to work on my Mini. I've been installing a stereo and should be finished with that tomorrow. Anyways, here's the smaller stuff that I had done in gloss black. The tube toward the back of the box is the tank for the aftercooler and was done in the textured black like the valve cover, intake, and aftercooler.

IMG_0095 by Bob Cooper, on Flickr

Water to Air aftercooler:

IMG_0093 by Bob Cooper, on Flickr

Water pipe, intake, and valve cover.

IMG_0092 by Bob Cooper, on Flickr

[Mtriple]

Nice, i like.

You running the top or bottom TCD?

Bottom mount/log manifold

[BrewCity11]

Nice, i like.

You running the top or bottom TCD?