My turbo 24v alpine coupe

[haaken675]

You have a pretty similar setup to me. Out of curiosity, do you know what your car typically sits at temp wise? I am trying to judge if mine is getting too hot or if I am just paranoid.

[mitchlevy7]

About a month ago I bought these wheel alignment plates on amazon because im too cheap to pay for an alignment. I did a customer car first and it turned out pretty well.

Spent like 2 hrs getting the front toe and camber correct. Before the alignment camber was -3, -2 (full degree of cross camber) and total toe was like 2 full degrees. the car was pretty hard to control. any slope or dip in the road and it would

now I have 0.3 degrees of total toe in and about -1.9 degrees of camber on both sides. Cant wait to drive it. im just a little worried that the wheels stick out ALOT more from having less toe in and camber. Might up the front camber a tad.

hoping to get the car on the lift after work today and start knocking out the next stage in making it reliable:

-remove valve cover so that I can mark the hole for the vanity cover from 22rpd and mill it out for the pcv fitting
-remove vanos and fix the threads in the corner bolt hole that are causing the current leak
-put a new 80 degree thermostat in and chase down a potential coolant leak.

might take out the cams and verify torque on the head studs too, seems to be some seepage from the corners. Cant wait to rebuild with no copper spacer and just run e85.

It really bothers me that there is an oil leak on this car. I am trying to take it to streetcar takeover at Zmax at the end of the month(booth car). Hopefully i can put it on the dyno before then and tune it. It has some hotstart issues (gotta feather the throttle) and some tip in issues (stumbles a tiny bit at tip in) but besides that shes a rocket. the kinda car that you look down at the speedo and hope theres no cops around because its just too much fun to slow down.

[mitchlevy7]

i need me some fender trim

1B3A2162 by mitchlevy7, on Flickr

[mitchlevy7]

booty booty booty rockin everywhere

1B3A2234 by mitchlevy7, on Flickr

[Victell]

Its official: red is the best color for e30s

[mitchlevy7]

Thanks!!

here are a few of my favorites from the shoot. Photographer https://tripulvila.com/ really knocked it out of the park.

1B3A2146 by mitchlevy7, on Flickr

1B3A2144 by mitchlevy7, on Flickr

1B3A2227 by mitchlevy7, on Flickr

1B3A2190 by mitchlevy7, on Flickr

1B3A2152 by mitchlevy7, on Flickr

[haaken675]

love what you've done so far. Can't wait to get my car looking this good.

[jeenyus]

[emoji106]

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[mitchlevy7]

a little teaser of whats to come

IMG_1079 by mitchlevy7, on Flickr

[mitchlevy7]

trim painting is done.

IMG_1064 by mitchlevy7, on Flickr

masking tape from the lower trim took off a bunch of paint on the upper trim, again. Redid the upper trim in SEM paint.

Dyno is up and running. Did the first tune on it on friday. Now to find time to put it on and get it dialed in.

[mitchlevy7]

went and tried to "touch up" those few spots that came off with the tape, worked well until i removed the new tape and a bunch more paint came with it, so i retaped and started sanding. SEM trim paint came in saturday!

Tried to work on it today during lunch and but had a customer call and take most of my lunch break.

Saturday I FINALLY had a full day to work on my own car on the lift, but I picked the fiesta. I installed my wilwood big brake kit and rebuilt the front coilovers because they kept coming loose and one side was raising itself and the spherical bearing was shot. Putting like 2-3k miles on it in May so daily took priority over race car.

700D93D1-B55B-4783-AD09-5892395FE8A2 by mitchlevy7, on Flickr

IMG_1023 by mitchlevy7, on Flickr

IMG_1028 by mitchlevy7, on Flickr

This thread isnt even about the same car it started with so might as well add that stuff.

I think I am going to get a radium universal catch can for the e30. Cant stand the mishimoto one (there is blowby oil/water/stuff coming out of the outlet) and I have installed countless radium ones and they are great. Also have a 22rpd vanity cover coming soon. Really going to clean up the look of the bay and protect the coilpacks. http://www.22rpd.com/item.php?item=34

DSC_1298 by mitchlevy7, on Flickr

Going to order new rotors and pads for the rear soon as well, trying to get ready for when i drop the rear end and do the hydro caliper setup so I can get it back in ASAP. Thinking about running EBC slotted rotors with yellowstuff pads for the main caliper and then some cheapo pads in the hydro caliper. I have heard that the hydro calipers usually don't heat the pad up to optimum temp, so using a basic street pad will allow some cold bite. plus its not really a "safety" thing.

[TeXJ]

oh nice!

[mitchlevy7]

why is that?

Its a higher quality paint overall. Many body shops use the SEM trim paint on cars as its an OEM quality. Should last longer, stick better, ect. Also its cheaper, at least on amazon by a significant amount. 15oz for $12 vs 11oz for $13.26

https://www.amazon.com/SEM-39143-Trim-Black-Aerosol/dp/B000EM019O/ref=sr_1_1?crid=27YV1WF6ZA234&keywords=sem+trim+paint&qid=1555508516&s=gateway&sprefix=SEM+trim%2Caps%2C168&sr=8-1

[TeXJ]

trim and bumper paint from duplicolor i think. Should have used SEM trim paint.

why is that?

[mitchlevy7]

what did you use to paint it with?

trim and bumper paint from duplicolor i think. Should have used SEM trim paint.