Dirty Baja E30

[AZRRC]

Are you gonna put a fuel cell in the trunk?

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Work on this car begins again tomorrow, hooray.

By the way, anyone got an automatic z3 coupe 3.0 they wanna sell? The lease on my Mini is about to run out and I convinced the girlfriend to get a z coupe... she can't drive stick though, carpel tunnel :o

[IzzY_325is]

This car is awesome!!!!!!

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Way too damn hot to work on the car this week, and looks like it'll probably be too hot next week as well. Dangit!

Maybe I should get one of those water cooled shirts https://www.pegasusautoracing.com/pr...asp?RecID=8831

[E30NJ]

With those tie rods, go to STS and tell them you want an "alignment" ;)
Its cool to see a baja build.

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Sorry for lack of updates, been busy raising capital for my company.

On the upside, one of my investors is a car guy, and let me drive his cars all over:








A few quick comments (I could go on for HOURS about that day).

991 Turbo S: The interior of the Porsche was supremely accurate. Super German OCD. I think more engineering went into the Porsches interior than the entire Ferrari. The idle engine noise of the Porsche sounded almost identical to my S54 in my old Z4M coupe.

458: Exotic and driver oriented. Definitely put together by Italians. Best steering feel I've ever felt.

Vanquish: Didn't get to drive this one, but exterior was amazing. Particularly the tail/trunk lid, which is a stemless single piece of carbon fiber. http://i.imgur.com/ACUluiE.jpg



I did manage to weld in a new cat into my other E30 though. I plan on reusing it's exhaust system in the offraoder when smog time comes around :P



Progress soon. Offroader WILL be ready for winter desert season.

[serdar255]

Any updates?

[tyouphoto]

This is probably the best thing I've ever seen. Keep up the damn good work, sir.

[ForcedFirebird]

Yes, stock bushings that are in good shape, drive line is installed etc.

[MPLFoster]

awesome thread is awesome.

sub'd

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2" on the nose from the top of the sub-frame to the highest part of the trunk floor.

You da man! Is that with stock bushings and the diff still in?

The reason I needed it measured was because I need to make sure my new mount holes for the diff ears are the right height, otherwise it would put a lot of force on the subframe bushings. Now that I know it's 2" I can jack up the diff+subframe until I hit that 2" mark.

[ForcedFirebird]

2" on the nose from the top of the sub-frame to the highest part of the trunk floor.

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Parked an e30 on the lift before leaving the shop. Can give you measurements in the morning sometime.

Thanks!

[ForcedFirebird]

Parked an e30 on the lift before leaving the shop. Can give you measurements in the morning sometime.

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Is there anyone out there who can do me a huge favor, and measure the distance between the top-rear of the subframe and the bottom of the trunk floor?



Basically the distance from the bolt hole to the the trunk floor, right behind the frame. It should be somewhere around 2" with stock bushings.

I cut out my trunk floor so I can't re-measure it, but I'm pretty sure it was just over 2 inches.

Thanks!