My heap (notane30)

[Holland]

Really liking this thread, I cannot wait to see the awesomeness that will prevail.

[PaladinReed]

e21 looks great.

nice to see another car guy playing the best MMO ever made. what server?

[Eecen]

Thanks for the kind words fellas

nice to see another car guy playing the best MMO ever made. what server?

I'm on Asura my highest level job is a 30 warrior...lol. Me and my buddy just picked it up again after a ~4 year "break." Lost our high level accounts and millions of gil:(










Sooo....today I spent about 8 hours working on fucking cars, also drove for about an hour and a half, I'm tired:neutral:. ~5hrs dicking around on an e36 328ic....words cannot describe how much I hate e36s...I didn't even get what I wanted off the fucking car, which was the crank, oh well. Scored a ZF and the driveshaft for $150 after core returns.

I brought a weak-ass cheater pipe and fucking bent it trying to get the crank bolt loose..it is reverse-threaded on an m52 like an m42 right (I should look into this)...still have to drive up and return my cores so I'll try again later this week.



Fixed my seat today! Unfortunately I didn't take too many pictures of the process....




Layed on some POR-15, and then painted the "new" frame black.
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Put on all the foam and outer leather deals.
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For anyone that has stripped seats down I suggest you ditch these little fuckers;


And switch to these bad boys.


Here you can see how the "new" frame was damaged.


other side


I need new straps! Gotta order those up soon.


:facepalm: :fuuuuu: It was stripped by some PO. Legitimately stripped too, the things were fucking seized in there.


Dremel didn't help


Sooooo, about this time I got pissed off and decided to break out the real angle grinder and destroy the old frame I was going to throw away anyways.


Yay!!! The little fuckers are out.


Finished product.


Other side



Fuh Raze!!??


Got halfway through swapping in my nice all black "leather" door cards, but I need new outer window seals. So the interior will look like this until I lay my hand's on blunt's package...err a package from blunt.

I'm thinking these bad boys are going to leak a bit, 'eh?


The door cards need to be out to get the window strips out (I think...) anyways, I'd rather not have to take the cards out a week after putting them in. The plastic clip/tabs like to break whenever I change door cards, and my stash of unbroken clips is dwindling just a little bit.


Thanks for lookin,
Eecen

[A Sucked Orange]

Those seats are so tits.

[kingston]

Those seats are so tits.

Uhn-HUNH! Do want!

[Eecen]

They're actually a bit of a pita to get in and out of...but much much nicer to sit in than e30 sport seats.


You have to put your hand on the frame rail/black weather-strip, and pivot off it otherwise the thigh bolster is going to get worn down really quickly from constant contact with your ass.

My passengers are going to love it when I tell them how to get in/out of my car, LoL...

[Eecen]

On Saturday I put my wheel bearings and shocks back together...well almost. Need to order a few things before I have them completely together.

Box 'o suspension crap.


My work space. I like working outside.


This is where I finished with suspension and bearings. One front strut top was seized, and 2 rear bearing dust caps were bent outta shape.


This tool made putting the front struts together a pleasure. I love the internet.


Painted the window trim black. Turned okay, for a first time'r. There are a few pin holes of silver where the TRIM paint just wouldn't hold, and some over masked slivers of silver. Oh well....Once it starts flaking off I'll fix all of that, and do a real sanding job instead of just 3M pad rubbing it.




Putting the pop out windows back in was...fun, the passenger's side was being an etra big waffleswaffleswaffleswaffles for me. Advice: Put down painters tape wherever the trim could rub while re-installing them. I didn't and ended up rubbing off the black paint in a few spots. Needless to say I got a little angry after spending so much time masking off the trim. Fucking cars.


The newspaper I used to "mask" off the trim.


I also put my interior back together. Painted the silver trim pieces on the front and rear door cards as well. Interior looks great, so I'm happy with that.




My sad attempt at artsy pictures.







Yay beer!!


Annnnd, I fucking hate having cheerful people around me while I'm frustrated by cars. Wanted to strangle my buddy soooo badly. I'm a horrible person.

[A Sucked Orange]

last photo looks sweet. so those are just e21 recaros? wouldnt mind rocking those in my e30!

[Eecen]

Yeah they're E21 recaros that got reupholstered at some point. You'd need adapters to put them into an E30.

[Eecen]

Looks better than it did. Gotta order some paint from Paintscratch one of these days....

Bye bye rear bumper. And behold the puss encrusted scar that is left by US bumpers.......fuck.




Hello rust.:???:



Decided it looks weird w/o something out back, also the trim strip has bolts that go into the trunk, I'd rather not have open holes in the trunk so it went back on.




Need to break these things down this week and fix some mounting tabs, then paint.


Fixed the sun roof crank too. Some knob broke the handle..


The orifice.


Fixed.




Look at all my shit Juan!!


M20b25
Getrag 245/288 (from E21 323)
Suspension crap
Two E21 diffs
One S3.46 Side loading diff
paperweight Discs
E21 halfshafts
etc


M10b18
Getrag 245 (E21 320)
Matching driveshaft
E21 gas tanks
ZF 5 speed
Matching driveshaft
Bin full of brake calipers and boosters


....Too. Much. Shit. There's still more.



Pictars I took earlier. Ho-ray Samsung P&S













The white front end looks bad...:(

[Eecen]

E21s make good shell tractors. LoL



Sawzall <3





Safety first?


Success


Unfortunately I managed to tweak the frame just enough to make fitting the front subframe impossible....lots and lots of cursing and physical violence ensued. Luckily my mom came out to hear me yelling something along the lines of "fucking waffleswaffleswaffleswaffles, bitch FUCK!!" and suggested using a jack to help out. I probably would've thought of it eventually.....


Now I can mock up brake lines and brackets w/o taking the car off the road.



After seeing the interior of the super eta that burned down on a Cal. highway (thread was is on here, forget the name though) I decided to see what an E21 dash would look like w/o any foam covering. Since both of my dashes are in such immaculate condition (read: cracked to shit) I figured why not.

Out came the angle grinder and wire brush.

Rough idea..


With vents and cluster installed.




Finished product




Dusty


Might use it, might not. E21 clusters use bulbs that shine down into the cluster through little "windows" on the top...so unless I cover the holes above the luster the dash is going to look like a jack-o-lantern. If I do use I'll probably dust it w/ black paint. Or run it unpainted...the metal is closer to tin than steel. Very malleable. So maybe it won't rust...idk


M20 ready for T-belt and WP.


The engine was "rebuilt" last year. Head is nice and clean.


Cam. has some wear though.


PO made a gasket w/ white "permatex." Getting the VC off was harder than it should've been. Also judging by the underside of the VC this engine had a bad head gasket.


Block is nice and clean.


What's missing here?


Wtf is that?


really?


Someone must've dropped this doing a valve adjustment...I drove the engine for 100km with this floating around in there.





On a side note I've already spent more on new parts then the initial purchase price of the car. Yay.

[Reap3r]

Looking the goods! Good to see someone doing some good work to a E21!!

[Eecen]

Went and picked up 5 big boxes on Saturday. Still need to spend at least $1000 on bushings and other little things before I have any real updates.

The engine swap/bumpers/suspension/brakes won't be happening till next spring at this rate...I've decided to spend my hard earned money on something that'll actually see a return not this shit heap...so I won't be ordering anything in the near future. It's also getting cold, and "my" garage ain't heated, or insulated very well.

In the mean time I'll keep driving this gutless, noisy, blown shocked, vibrating, body-rolling, clunking, tractor sounding exhaust, squealing tired, fun to drive, awesome little car on a daily basis.


Maybe I'll r3v it thing into a tree over the winter and I won't have to work on, or throw money at it anymore.:p ...one can dream right?

[PaladinReed]

Great little project. One day I'm shooting for a 2002 project but these e21's would be a close second. I too have an unheated garage so winter slows me down a bunch. Still play FFXI? Kinda crazy, I've been on Asura since 2005 lol. I'm in AFKftw but havent played much since early spring.

[Eecen]

I stopped playing after SE did the account transfer deal. But I'm tempted to start again as I'm going to be on EI, and doing part time school in 1 or 2 months, so I'll have plenty of free time.

Jparkr said he started playing again and he's on Asura too...we really should start a r3v linkshell. lol