RIP Calypso Story.

[FARZAD]

Good Job Steven, Its coming along very nice. BTW did that wrecked alpine belong to Ross up in Petaluma?? Cant wait to see the end result..

[Steven]

Nice build s50 vert ftw. Dig the Almond wheels, same color I've used on the 190 and e30 :D

Thanks. And yeah, originally wanted to do white, but I think that's over played. Had to be a bit different...

[E30_Pare]

Nice build s50 vert ftw. Dig the Almond wheels, same color I've used on the 190 and e30 :D

[Steven]

Update--11/23/2013

Got to work on the e30 yesterday and today. Here's the update.

Lots of picture and I don't feel like typing much so for the most part I'll let them do the talking.
Took out the ac shit, disconnected the abs, took out the brake booster, and undid the front wiring harness in preparation for the tuck.








Thanks P.O.




Bagged up the gas lines in preparation for grinding.


Took off the finder and wheel so I could drill out the hole for tucking.


Found all this in the fender where the rocker is with a nice bit of rust. Add one more thing ill now have to fix.



Grinding. At this point I had a friend keeping me company and taking pictures for me.


Disregard the holes in the metal I fucked up.


Of coarse she has to take weird pictures of me.



Dad decided he wanted to have a hand in my build.


Done for the day. Carnage:

[Dj Buttchug]

lol bastards! i bought one a while back with no trans for 300 so ya possibly could 5 hunnid for the 240 trans as well

[Steven]

hmmm lemme know if you wanna sell that m42

Vivek got a lead on ya ;), if that falls through then it's Danny, then you haha BTW whats the going price for an m42+trans? I was thinking about $500 but wasn't sure

[Dj Buttchug]

hmmm lemme know if you wanna sell that m42

[Steven]

also GL that's gonna be so much work

Thanks. It'll be worth it. :)

[Cabriolet]

cut off the head much

also GL that's gonna be so much work

[Steven]

Update--11/19/2013

Okay. Long time no update.
Well this came in a little while ago:



Stock S50 clutch with "sport disc"
Then shit hit the fan and my m42 tensioner started going out, so I decided I'd just start the swap since my engine was mostly back together.
First it got jacked up:


What if I was this low??


SO i started to take out the exhaust and drive shaft and was left with this:


Did a compression test on the m42 before it got taken out. And of coarse who cant resist starting up the engine open headers??? haha. Set off multiple car alarms.


A neighbor helping me get it out. everything was mostly disconnected


Almost there!


There *Phew*


What I was left with:


After a quick bath:



That's it for now. Once the weather gets better I'll start doing the shave. This is the look I'm going for:

[Steven]

Got the oil pan on a couple nights ago, just didn't get around to putting up the pictures.


Looks like the po drilled out one of the threads on the head. Never noticed it until li tried to put in the stud. Time to tap it.
What igloos like


What it's supposed to look like


I also got an order in from Blunt. I'll put a picture of that up when I get home.

[Steven]

Powder

Got these pictures from Bruce tonight (e30vert)











He didn't get the valve cover done, last I heard he was having problems with his media blaster getting clogged up... We'll see. Hopefully everything will work out and he can get it done. Thanks Bruce, you're awesome!

[Steven]

Update--11/2/2013

Today I got the rod bolts and main bearing bolts in the mail, along with the rest of the parts to finish off refreshing my shift linkage.
Box o' Parts


New rod bolts ready to go in. Also used blue Locktite on them...


Old vs New


What It looked like when i started:


Finished


Then I cleaned the surface for the oil pan gasket. Dropped this... Opps.. Thank god for magnets


That's it for tonight. Maybe tomorrow I'll get the oil pan on.

Stay tuned for an update on Powder coating coming tonight!

[Nick_S]

Damn that's an insane deal on that parts car. So lucky!

[Steven]

Why are you replacing the main bolts? Only the rod bolts are torque to yield.

I know but I figured I might as well while I'm at it... I want to do everything now and have to do absolutely nothing to the engine while it's in..