The Ultimate Poor College Student's Daily Racecar Build Thread

[lolcantturn]

Looks awesome. Any reason you didn't pull the ABS pump before you painted?

seemed like more work than necessary, I would have probably pulled it if I had to do it again though.

because racecar

This too

what the hell is this shit

good luck gais

<3

good work man, was really not expecting to see such quality work.

Thanks! Yeah I'm trying to build it up as best I can with the budget I have haha.

Nice work! Wish I had your connections. My only hook-up is illfornoreason :)

illfornoreason is an ill dude ;)

[Jafxod]

Nice dick

[BoostinEuros]

You used the e34 motor mounts on that old car right? Any long-term problems?

New project looks great!

[lolcantturn]

E34 mounts still looked new on my old car even after 7000miles

Got the car started! We had a few problems getting it started for apparently NO reason because I usually get this wiring harness thing always right. Before I tried starting the car I had to make sure, for peace of mind, that I was getting power to my fuel relay and fuse 11 (fuel pump). I had no power to either of them, and I didn't even try starting the car. I tried troubleshooting the problem for probably 3 hours. Then I said fuck it and just tried cranking the car over and over until it magically shot out gasoline, which it did, then I hooked up the line and we got it to fire. It doesn't make sense cause I still don't have power to my fuel relay or fuse 11, and the fuel pump relay doesn't even click haha. Weird, but whatever, it works



the vacuum leaks kill it out, I don't even have an intake boot, and there are zero vacuum lines attached haha. Very excited though.

[Jafxod]

ok? cool?

[lolcantturn]

thx for the free bump <3

[F34R]

How is this a rust free e30? I see rust on the drivers door, rear apron, engine bay. But good luck with the build.

P.S. I got my roller rust free from cali for 250 =)

[lolcantturn]

It's has enough little rust for me to call it rust free on the east coast, anything you see is surface and not even close to being structural

[Highway1]

Ordered all my suspension goodies, got a free Getrag 240, free new sachs clutch, ordered my tires, brake goodies, cooling goodies (IE 14" electric fan)

Got all my 24V parts together, just missing motor mounts.

With all that I still have $1900 left over for a 24V swap..which I will do for much less than $1000

Wait, so you got ground control coilovers, billy sports, Getrag 240, new sachs clutch, new tires, brake goodies and cooling goodies (IE 14" electric fan) for $700?

teach me

[acolella76]

Wait, so you got ground control coilovers, billy sports, Getrag 240, new sachs clutch, new tires, brake goodies and cooling goodies (IE 14" electric fan) for $700?

teach me

+1... i am a little skeptical :shifty

[mccor023]

+1... i am a little skeptical :shifty

#2 i thought this thing went pver budget back on page 2 but Im still intrigued and trying to stay positive.

[dinanm3atl]

Wait, so you got ground control coilovers, billy sports, Getrag 240, new sachs clutch, new tires, brake goodies and cooling goodies (IE 14" electric fan) for $700?

teach me

It's over budget or he isn't good at math. No decent tire that you can DD and then will be good(not even awesome just good) would be a vast majority of the supposed 700 dollars here. The GC conversion kit is 400 dollars new. Bilstein sports ~400 new.

He also got a free g240 and a free clutch kit? Sounds reasonable to me.



I remember this being the guy that said you can S52 swap for less than 1K... which is less than 99% of what S52 motors are selling for so maybe it is magic? Or he is going with really high mileage used parts and just chucking them on with no regard to mileage or operation. Sure you could search out a 200,000 mile S52 if you wanted to save a little money but if I had one I wouldn't be selling it for less than 1K...

[lolcantturn]

I totally didn't keep tab of everything, but here you go
GC Coilovers shipped- $420 shipped
2 Front Yokohama S-drives (Only needed fronts my rears are perfect) - $160 shipped
Mintex brakes - $40 shipped
Ireland Engineering fan - $40 shipped
G240 - Free
Billy sports- Free (paying friend back in kindness and series of favors..sexual or not)
Sachs clutch was also free, but ended up not using it cause my E36 motor came with a realy nice clutch.

I did my wiring harness (was using my friend's wiring adapter for the first start), I recommend everyone do their harness instead of paying for one since it's relatively VERY simple, this is my second time doing it with zero problems. This time it only took me about 20minutes going very slowly. Only problem I ran into was the C104 connector and figuring out where to put the x20 Pin 20.
Also got this done.


Thankfully the fan is going to be covering it.

Also not sure if you can see those really nice camber plates in the picture ;)


P.S: I'm not the one who said you can swap an S52 for less than 1K, that'd be a bit absurd since you have to get EWS delete or go OBD1 which is a decent expense in itself. But you CAN EASILY go M50 Vanos or Non-vanos for <$1k . Going S50 for <$1k is a bit more of a challenge since they go for $1k + all day long, M52 is also hard to do for less than $1K since you have to go OBD1 or EWS, S52 forget it.

[acolella76]

Why would you put those pads and s-drives on a track car? Still seems like your bullshitting a lot of numbers.

[will61]

we should make a college r3vers fb group