my 325 build

[stoja e30]

engine done, paint next

so finally got off my ass to update the thread. managed to finish the engine and transmission the day before i left to go home to australia for three weeks to see the folks in august
when we installed the engine we broke the breather valve thingy on top of the transmission so instead of buying a new rear end for the transmission cause no-one sells just the plastic valve, it comes as 1 piece, we decided to glue the top back on and shrink wrap the brittle bottom part, seems to be working fine.


replaced the filter and the seal while we were at it.

started her up and took her for a drive, man it felt good to be back behind the wheel of an e30 again, coming up to 2 years since.
plan on switching out the injectors from my old manifold that was on the 'is' turns out the motronic is chipped from that car. I think I was running bigger injectors cause when i plug that motronic in she wont idle. so I figure that bigger injectors = more fuel = idle with chipped motronic. I could be wrong guess we will have to see.
anyway loaded her on the uhaul and started home

20 min into the hr drive home......

long story short uhaul recovery dept had dispatched the service guy to sebastian, fl which was 140 miles away from where i was, on top of this my ph died, ended up getting home around midnight 4 hrs later.
the next day flew out to oz

[stoja e30]

Glad the gears worked out for you!

Very good quality build with lots of attention to detail. Looks like this e30 is in good hands with you!

Thanks, i am tryin to keep her orgional with some tasteful upgrades.
Gears worked out great

[garagistic]

Glad the gears worked out for you!

Very good quality build with lots of attention to detail. Looks like this e30 is in good hands with you!

[stoja e30]

Finished odometer
I am going to do another one so i will take more pics of the process

[stoja e30]

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wasnt able to go work on the old girl this week so decided to reset the odometer from the 'is'. Found the cluster in the store room and got to work. after removing the speedo discoverd that the mile reset mechanism was busted and that i couldnt get the face off, the screws were too tight for the drivers i had. So fished around for the cluster from the old e car that i striped couple of years ago and proceeded to pull it apart.
Had ordered my new gears from garagistic the week prior which arrived last monday, quick delievery.

Removed the old rubber gears and blew out the particals with one of those duster air cans

Made a tool to remove the screw holding the miles spindle

So here is the tricky part you have desolder 5 pins from the circut board that connect to the motor that turns the spindle, 3 hold the copper wire housing and the other 2 connect to plastic housing behind the copper wires. These are all connected. Be carefull not to break the copper wires, they are very thin and break easy (found that out the hard way but managed to fix it with a little solder) once the circut board is off you can remove the screw that was behind one of the circuts (yellow square one). you can now remove the houseing that contains the magnet and the copper wires, behind that is the other side of the spindle for the miles, push the spindle through from this side after removing the screw from the gear side. The spindle should pop right out and you can reset the miles. Use some tape to hold the miles in place, pop it back in making sure the little gears line up, they should all be in the same postion. I rolled on some miles before i started to see how they line up and work so i knew how they were suposed to go. Push the spindle back into its postion and screw the screw back in. Then its just a matter of putting everything back on the way it came off. As you can see i did it a different way hence the broken copper wire



New gears on after resoldering the circut board on.

[stoja e30]

cheers mate, been a long time since i've driven her and and its getting close, have to stay patient.

[efficient]

Looks good.

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all hooked up and running. few tweeks and she back to the body shop to finish getting her coat then i can put the rest of her back together

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new boots for the rack
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sprayed the oil lines for the tranny and bolted her on
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[stoja e30]

in and running

ok so monday and tuesday saw the engine get finished up and installed, after about 30 secs of cranking she fired straight up. excited to see this restoration/build getting closer to being finished. pics of what was done

gave the air flow meter a refresh, and coat of sliver



and a little black



ready to bolt on with a new k&n filter

[stoja e30]

ok so monday and tuesday were spent cleaning, painting and installing parts from the 'eta' along with the right water pump. only have the brackets for the alt and the power steering to go on, engine monuts and the transmission and she will be ready to drop in the body. this how i left her yesterday.



so the eta block turns out has 'i' piston heads already installed, sweet. have the 'i' head and the 'i' manifold ready to go. so will figure out what how i am going to set up this engine in the near future



suggestions or thoughts fellas?

[stoja e30]

a few weeks ago sprayed the valve cover with high heat wrinkle paint came out pretty good, looks better in person


cleaned up the harness a bit,



raped the other m20 for the seals and timing belt,

did the valve job and buttoned her up.

monday see's the headers, timing belt cover and leads go on and then should be ready to drop her in, oh do have to replace the water pump. realized we got sent the wrong one. new one coming on monday with sump gasket and new boots for the rack.

[stoja e30]

nearly there

had the day off on friday so drove down to do some more work on the m20. my buddie was working on this audi when i got there, this guy was racing and busted a valve then wondered why the his engine locked. fucked up the block, head and the #1 piston




i like how the whole front end comes off on the new audi's

[stoja e30]

so was looking at the pics i posted in the last post and the second last one is the 'eta engine, sitting on the dolly, from the 85 that was give to me. we rebuilt and installed it but couldnt get it to run due to the different wiring setup of the 'i' body to 'e' engine.
anyway took a closer look at the pic and noticed the cast numbers on the head 1705885. now dont know what the block is 'i' or 'e' but i do know that the intake is from an 'e'.
will confirm everything on monday when we pull the head from that block, stay tuned.
wonder how that ran with that set up??

[stoja e30]

change of plans

so decide to take the eta motor out and rebuild the engine from the 'is' and drop that into the 4 door.





I am going to how ever in the near future is rebuild the eta motor into a 2.8i beast or maybe a 3.0litre.

here is the rack from the 'is' on the car, the other had a broken seal

as you can tell i like to change my mind.