My 88' e30 325i Touring build thread, wiretucked, ITB'd M20, Bagged.

[bmwandhonda]

Couple of stickers :)

[bmwandhonda]

interested in selling the mtech 2 wheel?

I am going to hang on to it for the time being. But might sell it sometime down the track.

[bmwandhonda]

hahaha cheers guys :)

Got around to installing the UUC shifter and shift linkage.




Gotta say that out of all the DIY jobs I have done on cars, this was one of the most awkward and annoying jobs ever… Pretty much 90% of the job is by feel alone >_<



Anyway after about 5 or so hours of struggling, with thousands of scratches and cuts on my arms and hands, finally got it all in. Only to find that the shift linkage now rubs the driveshaft when in 2nd gear and in 4th and slightly rubs in Neutral as well.

But does feel awesome, extremely solid shift feeling and super short. Is a little difficult getting into 2nd sometimes though.

Also got the car out of the garage for a day out with a bunch of other E30's for the first 'Team e30' meet. Was a good day :)

[semaj4712]

I hate you and have a boner

[twism]

So much awesomeness in this thread!!!

[e30Nicko]

interested in selling the mtech 2 wheel?

[bmwandhonda]

Few more things done this arvo :)

Alpina wheel installed:


Big Bore TB + New intake boot + 'Kamotors' cf intake:


Miller MAF to go on as soon as I get the right tools (soldering iron etc):

Goooood stuff man.
Yeah, once you bend the crap out of those plates, they never stay true to how strong they were before. Same problem here.

Yeah sucks, But I did buy a brand new one but made no difference. I had to space the plate down about 20mm and file down the heat sink fins on the sump just to get a tiny bit of clearance between the base of the sump and the new plate...

I really think my mounts are busted, only reason I can think of as to why the motor might be sitting lower than befor

...Need to know more about Borbets please!! what are you asking for them?

Borbets were for sale for about 3 weeks for $1100 (pick up) but didn't sell, so I dropped them to $950 for a week and they finally sold a couple of days ago to a guy in Sydney. He is putting them on his DC2 Integra. Although I just this afternoon, got a msg from him saying he doesn't like the way they look on the car so he might sell them off again lol

[mtech2_touring]

...Need to know more about Borbets please!! what are you asking for them?

[ak-]

Goooood stuff man.
Yeah, once you bend the crap out of those plates, they never stay true to how strong they were before. Same problem here.

[bmwandhonda]

Got some more work done tonight, just more maintenance type stuff I wanted to get done before I put it on the road properly.

New plugs


New Leads, to get rid of the ugly blue ones that came with the car


New Ignition cap + Ignition Rotor


New Fuel pump + Level Sender


New custom cup holders thanks to R3vlimited member 'SFGadgetGuy'. Fit perfect :)

[bmwandhonda]

Changed all the Coolant hoses on the Touring to Silicone replacements this arvo. Also looped the coolant hoses that previously went up to the throttle body. Had a long piece of silicon hose to direct link the two coolant ports.




This hose was the only one that didn't fit perfect, the lower part of the hose had a slightly bigger opening than the stock one, so was a little bigger than the water neck :/ hopefully it won't leak, I have tightened a clamp down onto it fairly solid so should be ok.

[bmwandhonda]

Did a little bit more work on the Touring today. Got the Treehouse racing lower eyeball control arm bushing things installed:



As well as new Mahle HD Front swaybar endlinks:



And took out the TB and intake setup to make way for a BBTB setup:

Nice cars, I recognize your coupe from SW. You need a new skidplate like now.

I want that Awesome Sauce air freshener lol, what's it smell like?

haha thanks mate, yep that is the truth. If i was going to be driving it low in the future I would probably invest in that skidplate that has the big welded hoop bar in the design. Would take a lot more abuse than the current one i use. I am swapping in the coil-overs into the touring so the coupe won't be all that low anymore :(

The awesome sauce freshener smells good man, hard to describe but they don't last very long. looks cool though, i have a heap of them in the garage, made by 'Hybrid Racing' who sponsor my civic racecar.

[E30SPDFRK]

Nice cars, I recognize your coupe from SW. You need a new skidplate like now.

I want that Awesome Sauce air freshener lol, what's it smell like?

[bmwandhonda]

E30 Touring is finally registered, so now i can get to work on doing a few things to it. Unfortunately due to the shitty road laws down here in AUS i can't take the risk of modifying too much for at least 1 month after acquiring the roadworthy certificate, otherwise the mechanic that gave me the roady could get in trouble...

So starting off small.

My touring didn't come with the factory tool kit... So i ended up buying a stock e30 318is tool kit as well as a nice little wrap up tool bag. Just so happened to fit in the factory side compartment perfectly :)




Also changed the front brake pads to a set of EBC greenstuff. I have matching rears which i will put on soon. While trying to remove the factory brake pad wear sensor I managed to completely wreck it...:/ No idea how it was meant to come out...
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So another replacement sump came in about a week ago. Just in time for a photoshoot for a website. Thought I would lower it to its max for the shoot. Anyway, drive to the shoot, hit the road once, photographer gets to work and notices a small leak coming from underneath... Thats right, another sump... Lucky I ordered two because the second one came a few days later and i fixed it up no problems. But this time I have raised the car a bit more, hopefully will stopp busting sumps...

Even with the bashplate, I think my engine mounts are gone, because the motor seems to be sitting lower than it used to. I have ordered new mounts so should get here soon.

Also in other news, the Touring is going in for rego tomorrow morning so I will finally be able to drive it on the road legit and start to have some fun with it :) Froth.