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

[Matt341]

Nice!

[kameleon]

Cheers

[Loupoz]

That is fucking clean! Congrats!

[kameleon]

Locally in Melbourne this week.

[lukeADE335i]

Your touring is super clean! Where did you pick it up (I'm always on the lookout for tourings in OZ, but didn't spot this one!)

[kameleon]

Tougerunner:- Don't be! it was matte pink when i purchased it, anything can come back with the right love.

[kameleon]

Wrote this 3 times already in detail and got deleted each time.........

CBF typing anymore.

Here is my latest purchase.

[Tougerunner01]

Love the swap and jealous of your paint!

[kameleon]

[kameleon]

Well a few updates. Some good, some AWESOME! and some pretty crap....

Firstly went to a hill climb event at Haunted hills (have taken this car there twice now)

Was supposed to just come up with friends and man the BBQ and esky but the racer in me decided to take the car out instead......

All this would be fine if the car was running well, but the diff was already fubared and the transmission was not shifting into gears at times and is crunching.

ANYWAY

Long story short after doing limiter burnouts (now 8,600rpm) i heard a bang....

Parked the car and went out with some friends in their MR2's for the rest of the day and drove home in convoy with the worlds worst knocking and clunking noise i have ever heard (assumption at this time was it was just the diff)

Went to the wreckers and bought a small case 4.10 non LSD with more oil on the outside then in. Cleaned it inside and out and resealed it. Put this in the car and WOW why the hell did i ever go 3.9! This is so much better than 3.9 in terms of keeping the BEAMS in it's right rev range.

I used to hate the 4.1, but i think this was when i was running around on stock wheels and tyres. That change in tyre height obviously makes a difference.

So pulling the 3.9 LSD apart it is not as bad as i thought (gears fine) but the LSD is rooted!
Atleast i can order the parts from America whilst still driving the car.

Which brings me to the next "issue".... that bang i heard? it was the BEAMS dual mass flywheel deciding to break. The Toyota dual mass flywheels are nothing like a BMW type and fail with high RPM (stock redline is 7,800) and abuse. Still daily driving the car like this though it will not explode.

Luckily i have a ORC clutch/flywheel combination to go in with the rebuilt gearbox i have on it's way from Japan. TRD gearbox mount also coming.

[kameleon]

Yeah not sure what the bias would be, but the weight of the whole car is just over 1100kg wet in street trim. The Beams does sit further back than the original M40, but the engine is now upright and not on a slant like the BMW engine.

I would say closest weight split figure would be a twin cam 318IS M42 powered car.

[Nick_S]

Very nicely done!

[alexlandro]

Just went through the hole thread, awesome !! Nicely done car and driven how it should be ;) Would be curious te see the front/rear weight balance with the beams.

[kameleon]

Dyno result was a little disappointing for me. Power plateud earlier than on a stock BEAMS, and you could see the ECU started to fuel dump shortly after.

The car has started to feel quite dull up top as well (engine health completely fine, still revs out cleanly as well)

So rethinking where i may have gone wrong i did change the throttle (half electric throttle) and AFM the day prior. The way Toyota have made the inlet side of these engines is very fine tuned. If you fit a pod filter to a BEAMS on an stock computer you will have hesitation issues and the like which is one reason i retain the stock air box albeit cut away underneath.

So i will be reverting back to the original AFM and throttle body i had which i hope will remedy this.

So here is the graph. You can see the power plateu. As i said the BEAMS in stock ECU form makes power higher than this. I was hoping to see over 120RWKW as my friend has a stock standard BEAMS that has made this in the past. Another similar Altezza made a few RWKW less than me on the day in comparison.

One of the guys from work gave me this relic of a owners manual too. We received so few options in the E30 line up here in Australia it is really interesting to see that the 325i made more torque than the 324TD!

[kameleon]

Not much happening besides daily driving the car and having fun.

Boys went over the car again before a car show i attended on the weekend.


Currently testing a "tuned rom" Blitz access computer for the car and WOW big difference.

Dyno day coming up in a few weeks so we will finally see what DIRK makes power wise.

Also purchased these track decals of the tracks this car has raced at so far. i Hope to fill this window in the future :)

Sandown/Phillip island/Calder park to name a few.