Matt's E30: Re-Build **Dyno Sheet and Big Pics on Pg. 5**

[Cronopoulos]

Need moar updates

[jekaio]

great build.

what kind of oil distribution block is on that on your filter housing?

[German Audio Specialties]

Looking forward to seeing this at the next picnic!

Luke

[Mr. Tasty]

what are these? esm 004?

[e30m3s54turbo]

Nice work.

[SpeedRacer85]

Great work so far, keeps me motivated.

[Northern]

sexy build. keep it coming.

[maniacmatt]

I liked the way it was before, but this is also verrra nice.
what rear apron is that?

Happy Canada Day weekend.

Thanks, I liked it too, but this should be better in every way.

The rear apron is an m-tech2 replica from abrahams motorsport. The fit could have been better but I have also seen alot worse.

Happy Canada Day weekend to you as well.

[evandael]

Details on the motor, its an M52, with a complete OBDI conversion. I actually picked up an entire second engine to transfer all of the OBDI parts from. It has 8.5:1 CP pistons, eagle rods, S52 cams, ARP headstuds and a 0.070'' cometic headgasket.

she... is a thing of beauty.


the paint, stance, wheels, and tires are fucking on point. now that powertrain. :bow:

[spanish pants]

I liked the way it was before, but this is also verrra nice.
what rear apron is that?

Happy Canada Day weekend.

[sayed ali]

Great job!

waiting to see the first start up :)

[e30pdee]

this thread has so much win! subscribed! cant wait to see how this turns out!

[maniacmatt]

One more update for tonight. There is kind of a big gap between my last set of pictures and this one. Since those pictures were taken I put the engine harness in (mostly), hooked up the coolant hoses and lines. Bolted up the turbo and ran the water and oil lines to it. I have also plumbed the oil cooler and made fuel lines and had the intake manifold on and off a dozen times. Anyway I'll let the pictures do most of the talking.






Got the downpipe ceramic coated and installed. Like everything else on this car, fits real tight. The EGT probe fitting can be seen on the downpipe now.



Intercooler all mounted and hotside plumbed. Oil cooler all mounted and plumbed.




Oh, hai.



Oil cooler plumbing. Rallyroad oil filter housing cap > Earl's remote oil thermostat.



Underneath, Earl's remote oil thermostat > oil cooler

[maniacmatt]

Got the tranny back in (didn't take any pictures) so it was time to start building the exhaust.

Downpipe fabbed up, still need the fitting for the EGR probe welded on in this picture



Muffler held up by the floor jack. Looks pretty stock, no?



Fooled ya! It's actually a 3'' in dual 2.5'' out magnaflow



Also got my boost piping back from the powdercoater's.

[maniacmatt]

Ready for some good stuff? How about intercooler fabrication? I started out with a Forge motorsport 24''x12''x2.5'' intercooler. I wish I would have taken some pictures of it before I started because I modified the end tanks quite heavily. After test fitting the intercooler with the original end tanks I was disappointed to find it would not fit between the frame rail with the inlets up at the top. I was also dead set against having the inlets at the bottom because I didn't want the hassle of having to run the boost piping down there and I wanted desperately to retain the stock foglights and brake ducts. I did not want a big ugly opening in the lower valence with a boost pipe running behind it, not very stealthy that way. So here is what I did.

Trimmed down the end tanks and welded 2.5'' tubing onto them. I wanted to run tubing under the headlights rather than couplers for two reasons. First, the tubing is a smaller diameter than the coupler and space under the headlight is definately limited. Second no risk of squishing the tubing under the headlight like with a coupler.





Set in place.



She's a pretty tight fit!





Now I had to make the valence fit. This was no small task and because I was stubborn and didn't want to change the intercooler or its configuration I had to do alot of trimming.