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

[maniacmatt]

Some of you may remember my e30, others may not. Here is a picture of it at the griot's tech session at the picnic in 2010:


The back end and the motor:




Here is what I did to start 2011:





Then work, chump racing, and some hiccups with the build got in the way and the car spent all of 2011 in pieces. I missed driving it greatly and I am happy to report I am back in full swing and hope to have the car ready to go this summer. Specifically I want to make it back to the e30 picnic this year.


First thing on my to-do list was something I should have done when I built the car the first time. Get rid of the terrible rattle-can black paint job on the engine bay. I wanted to clean-up the bay a little as well so I removed all the soon to be un-necessary bracketry, I also removed the seam sealer around the strut towers and trimmed off most of the "battery tray". After seeing how it looked on Janderson's car I decided to finish the engine bay with bedliner. However there was no way I was going through all that work and doing it black again. So I went with a tintable bedliner and rolled it on. I considered painting the bay sterling silver but wanted something more durable since I am in there working on the car all the time.





I couldn't be happier with the way it turned out. Its not a perfect match to sterling silver but it looks sooooo much better than the black that it replaced.

I removed the front subframe and re-inforced it, then had it powdercoated and bolted it back up under the car. Decided to upgrade to the Z3 2.7 turn rack courtesy of blunttech.



Motor mounts hinting at what might be coming.....

[maniacmatt]

I won't keep you in suspence too long. Here is what will be living in that engine bay.






Here are a couple of parts to go with the new motor




Precision PW46 wastegate and TiAl Q blow off valve.

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.

I am also hoping to use this thread to draw advice from some of the more knowledgable members on here as this my first attempt at a 24v swap, and my first attempt at forced induction :crazy: . Nothing like throwing yourself in the deep end if you want to learn to swim!

[lambo]

Oh my... I have always loved this car. Part of me is sad to see the M20 go, though. Good luck!

[MattAvino]

lime

[MR 325]

Wow, love it!

[Butler]

Awesome! I love that red.

[craiggroves91]

Le titz!!

Out of curiousity how much was the Z3 rack from Blunt?

I need one

I've also been considering the bedliner thing for my engine bay. What brand did you use?

[Pantless Spency]

sorry to sound like a nub, but what exactly is going on here with the spark plug wires? what are they plugged into?

[george graves]

sub-sie-scribisie

[maniacmatt]

Le titz!!

Out of curiousity how much was the Z3 rack from Blunt?

I need one

I've also been considering the bedliner thing for my engine bay. What brand did you use?

I honestly can't remember. I am pretty sure you can look it up on his automated site. Just use a '96 or '97 1.9l Z3. Its a maval rebuild.

The bedliner was called hippo liner. The tintable stuff come in a kit, can't remember the exact name of it.

sorry to sound like a nub, but what exactly is going on here with the spark plug wires? what are they plugged into?

They are plugged into MSD coil packs. It is the wasted spark ignition setup from a '90's GM V6.

[SpeedRacer85]

Msd coil packs.^^

[maniacmatt]

Here is one of those times I was talking about where I could use some advice. Here is what I did for my turbo oil drain.




Now here is my concern, I put a VAC baffle in my e34 pan and as you can see in the second picture the oil drain is right above the baffle. I am worried about oil draining onto the baffle and just sitting on top of it, Should I even be worried about this? Should I notch out the corner of the baffle where the drain is?

[maniacmatt]

Got some goodies in the mail, Miller turbo tuning package with WAR chip.



Also went and picked up some stuff from the powdercoater.

My oil pan with VAC baffle and -10 fitting welded in for turbo oil drain. Coated in wrinkle black.





Turner motorsport underdrive pulleys, done in 2 stage candy red to match my other parts.



Aaannnddd......

[Farbin Kaiber]

Are you worried about the oil level sender not sealing with the wrinkle paint there?

[e30damen]

I love where this is going.. Subscribed!