It's a rescue!

[ThatOneEuroE30]

Also put these in finally. I've had them since before the car went to paint and now im just getting to installing them. much lazy but tired of people pointing them out as missing.

Got any tips when you put these in. I tried many times and gave up after nearly scratching my paint a half dozen times.

btw car looks good as always

[oliver.r]

i thought you got there too late for judging?...

[Cabriolet]

Bro, fuck those judges, whoever they are.

i feel the same way, there was a mint condition e46m with a VR blower, real wheels, low but drive-able, destroyed in the judging like me.

[Rouvld]

Bro, fuck those judges, whoever they are. Your car is simply BOSS! Much respect!

[Cabriolet]

We'll I know live 120 miles from my dad's house, have no real job, and a mostly complete car.

So, there just hasn’t been a lot to do update on. Over the past 2 months I've lightly rebuilt an eta engine only to have it fail due to not being pressure tested like I asked the owner to do. So, that ate 3-4 weekends. I've done a few water pump timing belt jobs, diff seals and swap with drive shaft refresh last weekend and a few other odd end jobs for local guys. Building this car has taught me so much. There are so many intricacies that get over looked on most normal e30s and having to replace and rebuild everything from memory has taught me a valuable life lesson. Do everything yourself because someone else will just mess it up.

After swapping in the wilwoods I took my car to a local German car show and got nailed on the judging and that pissed me off a lot. People these days have no taste! Too stock looking just doesn’t fly in the Instgram world type judging.


Back to the subject.

My right control car ball joint started to give out so I bought M3 rubber CABs and new control arms and dropped those in. Ahhhhh no more vibration and odd shifting in corners.

After the brake swap I felt that a new master cylinder was a must. So I swapped it for the 25mm e32 one. Overall I really like it. It does feel liking you are stomping on a brick when the race pads are cold but it's really not bad to drive. No worse than the lack of power steering. which I'll do next when I install an e36 rack.

Here are the masters side by side.



I did take the e30 on a 300 mile joy ride a few weeks ago, up to the sierras. I need more power above 6000 feet. I kept having to grab 4th to accelerate.
Here are the shots from the trip:

Lake Alpine, CA by Eric Berger, on Flickr

Galaxy by Eric Berger, on Flickr

[Cabriolet]

How about the glove box lock?

same way. just go to BMW and get it cut for you.

[rcsoundn1]

How about the glove box lock?

[Cabriolet]

Looking good! How much did it cost you to get all the new locks? My drivers side doesnt work with the key at all anymore, I was thinking of doing the same.

I think both doors and ignition with key was like $70ish.

Shit if you didn't like your brembo blank/Bosch setup mine needs to go ASAP if in trying to stop a m30 powered car. Looks like I'll be getting some hawk pads. More info on lock replacement? I need to get new ones aswell

Go to any dealer. bring your ID, pick slip, reg. ask for keys to be made off your vin. 2 weeks later they come and you pick them up. make sure you get a new key at the same time. if you dont your old key will not work well. if at all if your OP messed up stuff.

brembo blanks are good. but the bosch pads are the worst brake pad i've ever driven on. they dont wear out but they also squeak at low speed and bbq if u go up in the hills for pleasure.

Brembo blanks with stainless lines, good pads and good fluid are more than enough to stop track/race cars.

true but for the price I got the wilwoods for with 2 full sets of pads it would have cost about the same for 2 sets of Hawk+/pfc008s.
not to mention the car came with Girling calipers and master cylinder. so swaping them to ATE + pads would have been way more than $400.

[stanhayward]

Brembo blanks with stainless lines, good pads and good fluid are more than enough to stop track/race cars.

Enough, yes, but the difference between 6P front, 4P rear 310mm Wilwoods is so amazing. It just makes stopping so smooth and easy. Not necessary, but neither is eating steak instead of McDicks but I'd rather that any day.

[agent]

Brembo blanks with stainless lines, good pads and good fluid are more than enough to stop track/race cars.

[ThatOneEuroE30]

Shit if you didn't like your brembo blank/Bosch setup mine needs to go ASAP if in trying to stop a m30 powered car. Looks like I'll be getting some hawk pads. More info on lock replacement? I need to get new ones aswell

[Staszek]

Looking good! How much did it cost you to get all the new locks? My drivers side doesnt work with the key at all anymore, I was thinking of doing the same.

[Cabriolet]

More money has been wasted. I 100% did not need these but I had to have them…
Wilwood 280mm BBK.
I had Brembo blanks and Bosch pads and they never inspired confidence. My wife's MK4, you touch the brakes and it lets you know they are there. Whereas all the e30s except my M3 have been garbage. I do have an ATE e32 master cylinder coming this week that I will install. All this in hopes of curing the bad brakes of a stock e30. Dmitriy disagree with the bad brakes but that like his opinion man.

After bleeding out these bad boys several times and hammering the crap out of the dust shield they fit on without rubbing. Though, the stock caliper bolts are too long and when they are tightened they interfere with the disk. This was solved by adding a waster to the back of each bolt. plus loctite.


Now that I see them like this, I want bigger brakes.

While I was at it, I lowered my car for the show this weekend. I haven't tried to get out of my driveway yet. We'll see how that goes but I'm guessing ill need to remove the front lip to get out.
YL7A9357 by Eric Berger, on Flickr

[Cabriolet]

your paint. let me lick it

I do love my paint. thx again bae

[oliver.r]

your paint. let me lick it