3SGE BEAMS converted 89 E30///Stock as a rock 88 E30 325i Touring///

[kameleon]

Thanks.

In regards to the seats it was loose as per Youtube comment. When bolted in correctly they are fine (don't happen to have a crash test of a Kevlar Bride Stradia do you?) either way i feel safer in this than the stock seat and this car being a daily will never have a fixed back seat.

As you can probably tell we have access to quite a lot of cheap gear from Japan.

[MPLFoster]

Das ist gud.


Awesome build.

[kameleon]

^cheers

[kameleon]

Well after trying to keep up with my mates well modded MR2 turbo this happened....



So time to finally sort out the exhaust (well the rear at least)


Soooo many things to do before the track day in under a month, not looking good.



(the exhaust is completely blown apart at the weld seam)

[kameleon]

Well.....

So got the car in the workshop and changed and fitted many things.

* Fluid changes for everything (only genuine Toyota filters for your BMW haha) and trying some different gearbox fluid this time.
* Re-afix a broken radiator pipe
* Repair the fan wiring that got taken out when the pipe failed
* Cut more of the floor out around the shifter as i was getting a shocking vibration from contact with the floor.
* TRD short shifter which then meant the gear knob needed a thread made to refit (stock E46 M3 6 speed knob)
* Make some clearance between the gearbox and trans tunnel so the exhaust can run up next to the gearbox and over the crossmember (shit ground clearance atm)
* Played around with sway bar mounts yet again (will be going up a size in front bar yet again in the future, but due to custom bar having to be made each time it's quite expensive at $440 a pop!)
* removed the entire rear end again and swapped the eccentrics around. Also lathed the eccentric heads down to facilitate actually being able to adjust them in car (subframe is raised 12mm in this car) such a crap design. If i was to do this again i would go the whole hog and rose joint the arms as per DTM. Constant loosening is a pain.
* Trying a new wheel alignment setup too so see how that goes.
* Having to fit a fire extinguisher for the racing rules
* Space the tailshaft down to improve the alignment
* New TRD engine mounts
* Fix some power steering leaks (standard BMW)
* Retighten the seats etc

Still no stereo lol..... Priorities!

Made some purchases for the exhaust too and will be making a new setup from the primaries back (reducing the secondary length and making the exhaust to suit the current and future setup when a new extractor is made along with the ITB's)

So used Summit for the first time. Great service and will definitely use them again. No wonder they are so well known and successful at mail order!

Will post pictures of when the exhaust is done this week. Track day is next weekend and i am now doing both days not just one.

Exhaust will now be:- 2 inch secondaries (350mm long) into merge collector (2x2 inch to 2.25 inch short reverse cone to 2.5 inch), flex, ovaled pipe near gearbox, high flow magnaflow cat, vibrant resonator and into a Hooker Aerochamber muffler (especially looking forward to using this as the flow/noise is so much better than anything else at the price point)

Also added a picture of some E9's outside the workshop. They're rare as hens teeth in Australia, and you just don't see them sitting out on the road. That is a genuine Inka orange CSL too.

[Lake]

I don't want to alarm you but I think your steering wheel is on the wrong side of your CAR!!!




And keep up the great work!!! amazing car!


Besides the steering wheel issue ;)

[Wh33lhop]

1 lap dash

Nice dude, you can drive! I would suggest slowing your hands down and being smoother in general to be faster and more consistent, but that's a great pace.

Ever build that diff? You can hear it slipping in the clip, that's annoying.

[kameleon]

Thanks guys.

Yeah the diff still needs to be rebuilt, but for this track meet i cannot afford the kit to do it (would not arrive in time as well) so for now i will have to kill it some more for another two days. It will really suck on the sweeper on this other track too :(

I am no race driver so i take all criticism good or bad, i agree with you on being smoother, sometimes you get the red mist going and just forget to do it right.

[kameleon]

1KG of dead weight (hopefully useless)

[kameleon]

Well i attended the 2 day track day and got a great time on the weekend.

Drove the 2.5hrs up, raced for two days straight then drove home again (what a street car is all about)

Full weight besides removing the spare wheel i was able to get a 1:43.03, which is great for the racetrack i was at for a low powered N/A streeter.

There were two other E30's there too which was good to see.

As the gearbox was still iffy shifting down into second from third at high RPM, it eventually gave up the ghost early on the sunday so i could not better my time and only managed a 1:43.08

Regardless this car will do 1:43's all day long.

The differential....... well the car has one but lets just say i afraid to open it up and see what it looks like inside to be honest!

The new exhaust worked great, and lost no power over the straight pipe. Changing the design and having someone fabricate it the way i would makes a huge difference to the outcome. I love the sound of the Hooker and think i made the right choice. Having the ground clearance i do now is great too.

A few pictures, i will get some more on Thursday when the car is back on the hoist.

[kameleon]

More pictures of the exhaust and from the track day.

[kameleon]

[slybma]

Great job on the car, that exhaust setup looks sweet

[kameleon]

One of the detailers at work offered to give Dirk the once over.

They did a good job getting the once pink original paint to this:-



A fellow work colleagues E46 has had bags recently installed.

[DER E30]

Looks great all clean and shiny! Nice new exhaust and pics at the track!

Dat e46... I can't look at it as I want one!