Lilo, the new 24V track car project

[kingston]

The devils vagina rot can not be good karma for the car. That must go!

Agreed! She will be painted Zinnoberrot in the Spring. I'd considered spraying her Henna, but Zinno is pretty beautiful, too!

A couple of pics from the minor work I did today. First, removing some accessories and cleaning the block:

I didn't bother to take any 'Before' pic of this side, but I guarantee you that it was NOT this clean! Oil pan is the S52 one, and is going away. I've got the E34 M50 pan & pickup ready to bot on.

Next, I decided to get rid of the rest of the back seat and clean some more stuff out of the back of Lilo:


Trying to decide tonight what color to paint the block...Red block in a red car? Too much?

[JeremyE30autox]

The devils vagina rot can not be good karma for the car. That must go!

[kingston]

Happy Thanksgiving, everyone!

Just minor work today. Lilo didn't have a hood latch, so I picked one up from Guten Parts, along with the cover for the latch (used, as apparently it's NLA) and the mounting bolts. 5 minutes to install, and now my hood stays closed.

Lilo will not be running a radio, so the head unit went to a douchebag I used to be friends with. This left a not very attractive mess...


Picked up a radio blank plate (again, from Guten Parts) to clean up the mess.

Much better!

Lilo had a black pinstripe on her left flank. Not sure why, as the lines along the sides of the E30 coupes are lovely. Wanted to get rid of em.


Before


After

Losing the pinstripe showed that the car had been repainted at some point. I initially thought that the car was Zinnoberrot, although there is no sticker on the strut towers. I remembered that when I got the car, there were cans of paint inside. I decided to see what color was listed on top of the cans...and was rather surprised with what I found!

WTF! LOL!

I also pulled the gauge cluster to replace the 'e' model tach with the 'i' model one I'd pulled from a Pick'n'Pull. As it turns out, apparently there are early-model and late-model Motometer clusters, and the two do not play well together. Anyone have any early model tach? Or need a late-model one? :???:

I also pulled the rear seat today. More cleaning and pics tomorrow...

[kingston]

A little update...


She's home! The S52 for Lilo!

(I was feeling all dramatic, hence the manipulated pic of the Motor.)

WOOT!!!!

[kingston]

Well, purchased a couple of parts for Lilo (from Levent at Guten Parts, natch!), and they should be here Tuesday or Wednesday.
* Radio blockoff plate
* Hood latch, latch cover & bolts

Part of why Lilo's bay was so filthy is that the hood doesn't close! Time to fix that...

More (hopefully more interesting) update will come Sautrday afternoon, in the form of an S52

[kingston]

Lovely, Im excited for this!

Thanks Jose! You coming out on Sunday for the meet at Grinder's?

[kcdubber]

Lovely, Im excited for this!

[kingston]

I THINK that's the direction I'm heading. I can always do the 5 lug thing later if i want...

[6gen91]

I agree .

[JeremyE30autox]

Kingston the ast and uuc will be better than the m3 equipment

[6gen91]

I have all e36 m3 components . I might get the bump steer bs, but then again for the money, do things that matter most first. I got the whole 5 lug and could for around $500 from hookups so I can't complain .

[kingston]

He's talking about e30M3 stuff. Front strut tubes are not cheap if you can find them, but well worth the money if your planning on getting very serious with your build.

Neighborhood, thanks for the post. I've been looking around sort of casually for E30 M3 five-lug stuff, and it does indeed seem to be rare...and spendy. I don't mind waiting, and spending the money on the parts...if it's worth it. What I need is data.

When you say that the E30 M3 stuff is 'well worth the money,' can you define what makes it preferable to stock E30 4-lug stuff with well set-up quality suspension and BBK? If I stay with the setup that the E30 came with, I'd be adding AST suspension most likely, and a UUC BBK.

I really appreciate the info, man!! :)

[neighborhood]

The main fundamental advantage of the 5-lug IMO is the 2-piece front spindles. You can get roll center spacers and bump steer reduction kits that aren't available for the 4 lug suspension. Otherwise, ASTs + Massive kit >>> 5 lug.

He's talking about e30M3 stuff. Front strut tubes are not cheap if you can find them, but well worth the money if your planning on getting very serious with your build.

My honest opinion on the 5 lug setup. NOT WORTH IT. Other than a selection of rims, its not meant for an e30. My ride blows ass and i have all new parts from front to back. full m3 front end with 318ti rears. Shits gay and would rather rock some shit xxr's and break em than consistantly buy bmw rims. AND on top of that, not very many rims that i have owned clear the m3 front brakes so you have to rock 17s.... i got lucky with my style 5's being 16x8 et23...

I'm assuming that you installed e36 components in the front of your car?

[kingston]

Good god. I don't have that kind of patience. Nice work.

No, you don't. And that's why your shit always breaks, douchebag. I didn't have this level of patience with Siobhan, but I can take my time with Lilo. The shell is really clean and it doesn't seem to need too much in the way of rust repair (from what I've found SO FAR), but I figure I might as well do this right!

looking good bruddahh. Motivate me please, i need to get my lazy ass to workk

Thanks, Mike - now get cracking!!!! Do something every day, even if it's something minor. Helps to keep motivation up!

I dont think it would make enough difference for you to justify it on your terms right now. However how do you justify any mods to a car? To a normal person thats stupid. To all the people on here, GO NUTS!

Yeah, this is a tough one for me for the simple fact that I don't have any info about how significant a difference the suspension setup would be with the bump steer kits. Obviously, they exist for a reason, but is that reason something that will only present itself in a 10/10th situation?

Need more data!!

My honest opinion on the 5 lug setup. NOT WORTH IT. Other than a selection of rims, its not meant for an e30. My ride blows ass and i have all new parts from front to back. full m3 front end with 318ti rears. Shits gay and would rather rock some shit xxr's and break em than consistantly buy bmw rims. AND on top of that, not very many rims that i have owned clear the m3 front brakes so you have to rock 17s.... i got lucky with my style 5's being 16x8 et23...

Mike, now that you have the 5-lug, you don't like it? Are you saying that it doesn't perform significantly better than the old setup, or that it does, but not enough to justify the cost? You drift the car, right? Have you tried the bump-steer correction spacers?

Thanks for the post!

[6gen91]

My honest opinion on the 5 lug setup. NOT WORTH IT. Other than a selection of rims, its not meant for an e30. My ride blows ass and i have all new parts from front to back. full m3 front end with 318ti rears. Shits gay and would rather rock some shit xxr's and break em than consistantly buy bmw rims. AND on top of that, not very many rims that i have owned clear the m3 front brakes so you have to rock 17s.... i got lucky with my style 5's being 16x8 et23...