Cirrus Saloon

[ikonwun]

NEW shift boot!

Now need to find a new drivers seat belt buckle.

I have cleaned/ detailed the trunk area. Now need to find a OEM jack and tow hook and the trunk will be finishied



I have fog light covers to replace my cracked out fogs. ( AZ never gets fog anyways LOL)
I have painted them black and will take pics when they are installed.

[ikonwun]

sanded down and installed

[ikonwun]

wow 2 months later up date...

I took the E30 off the road because it would not pass emissions. I ended up buying my sister's 2000 expedition to match my wife's expedition.having 2 of the same BIG trucks is not all it cracked up to be . limited space in the carport and 14 MPG on both trucks sucks G*ASS

Putting the E30 on the back burner until last week. when I took it to Jack @ Stuttgart Southwest and he tuned my air meter to pass( the only thing I couldn't do).
Now I have a registered E30 !!!!!!!


Here in lies the problem I have 2 cars for daily, I kinda fell in love with the expedition. Mind you all I am FORD guy to the core ( I have had a vintage mustang for 14 years).

The E30 will be cool with the wheels and the little mods I have planned but its 6-12 months from being a respectable daily.Its hard to choose a 88 E30 with lots of little things that still need to be done over a '00 ford that I just have to add gas and change the oil.

My wife wants me to sell the E30 and Wheels and put some cash into my long term project ( Mustang) and just daily the Ford.
I really want to get further on the mustang Project. The E30 takes time and money away from it as it is.

I just feel like I should finish the E30....... but the goal of it was to make a reliable/ respectable daily. The ford checks almost all the boxes I want. But there is a lack of my personality in it. I would have no plans on modifying it just driving it. This would be a first for any of my 65 cars, yeah 65 believe it or not. so I feel I'm letting my INNER car guys down by laying up and daily a stock SUV.

Rant over...................



Up date the rims!!
They are NOT getting Powder coated any more I am having them bead/vibration polished!!! They should be bad ass fully polished mesh wheels!!!!

[ikonwun]

$25 each they recap/o-ring them.

Wheels are low priority untill I pass emissions.

Wheels Update
Barrels need to be finish cleaned. Still slowly working on the faces it's a lot of space to blast .the lips haven't even started to sand them. Lots of work still.

I will buy 1500 and 2000 grit paper this weekend. And get one lip started.


I finally finish trimmed the sides of my mk3 lip looks a lot better.

[88SuperETABD]

Update on wheels please!!!!!!!!!!!!! Nice progress so far. What'd the injector cleaning run ya? I think I wanna go pull some 19 lb'ers off an m30 from a junk yard and have em cleaned.

[Mr. Tasty]

can't wait to get back into town! definitely need to hit up pavs

[ikonwun]

I waited to long to do this. Best e30 mod ever. CLUTCH STOP! I dug around in my bolts bin and found a bolt that was long enough and the right thread. Now it is so nice to shift. Now my knee doesn't hurt as much ( long story) when clutching. Worth the free bolt and 30 seconds on my knees threading it in. I will jb weld a pad on top this weekend, but I don't mind the clink I hear.

I hope to test my fuel pressure after the rail this week end and blow out the return line.
make it to emissions and pass this time.

[ikonwun]

Hello SAM. Cirrus ftw.

Updates ..

I got ready to install my refurbished oil pan. I drop the oil and looked at the threads. They looked good so I put a new crush washer on and no more leak. Goes to show you change out the crush washer every time!.


I picked up the injectors form the shop and they looked great I installed them and the car runs a little better, smoother idle and the knowledge that they all are spraying correctly worth the money to do it.




This week end when waiting for parts I clean up the wiring on the passengers side. nothing crazy just cleaned up the routing of some and removed others.

After I cleaned it


Then cleaned up the driver’s side removed the Cruise control. Still need to install the ABS delete kit!!!!


I will be installing M3 wire covers and wire tucking the drivers side. Soon. Stay tooned.

[sgmira_e30]

Mike Put you your high beams back in!!!




ps. good work, like the write up

[Mr. Tasty]

I know you. when you getting back ?
That other oil pan was missing a chunk and could not be repaired.

Haha, I told you that in the text. Would have needed stupid amounts of cutting and welding to fix that corner.

Early august.

[ikonwun]

I know you. when you getting back ?
That other oil pan was missing a chunk and could not be repaired.

I dropped off my injectors off at azspeed this morning for flow testing and cleaning. wont get them back till Monday. so car is down all weekend will be doing lots of fun stuff to it .

[Mr. Tasty]

finally saw this build. I approve!

[ikonwun]

Wheels / parts update

Wheels how they started






Here is the color scheme I’m going for Polished lip, raw alu center and yellow zinc bolts


Not mine closest pic to what I want I could find.

So I the lips got picked up from me to get stripped on weds afternoon on Thursday Frank came back with these all stripped and ready to polish!!!!



Also got some vintage NOS Porsche center caps for FUCHS. Fits in my elipson’s very nicely








I had a spare oil pan that had the dreaded stripped drain plug. So I make a plug at my works fab shop and then had the Man Al weld it for me.





I got lots of little parts, clips, air filter and oil pan gasket CORK ftw.






I have extra grills and will start the next cosmetic project for the front end ( flame suit on)





This is the car that made me want to get my e30. I’ve looked at it for years. I’m an ex VW guy.

[ikonwun]

Finally the bolts are off to ZINC and lips are off to the chrome stripper!!!!!

Now I have to get the faces done sandblasted and the barrels cleaned and off to powder coat. I need to do work!

I ordered lots of little BMW parts today clips and what not. The cover under the driver's side of the dash came off and all the wires are finally getting on my nerves.

I'm fixing the spare /bad oil pan I have. It had stripped out threads beyond repair. I'm thinking about putting a turbo drain on it just in case I go crazy later on.

This weekend I should be installing a new oil pan and flushing the rad and refilling with distilled water and some coolant.

[NC318e30]

I run 16x8 style 5s with 18mm adapters in the front and 20mm in the rear. Factory offset of 23 so if you look thru my posts you will find some fitment pics that will be somewhat similar to yours bud! Love the wheels!