88' Zinno M3 (Progress Thread)

[YAN-3]

i would crash into something if I was driving through a neighborhood and saw a garage with two same color e30 M3s parked inside!

[jhaurimn]

You are doing an amazing job. I wish all M3 owners were like you =P

Thanks! What am I doing different then other m3 owners?

My buddy just picked up an e30 m3! So he stopped by on his way back from texas. This is easily the highlight of my garages career.

[ser1992]

You are doing an amazing job. I wish all M3 owners were like you =P

[jhaurimn]

I was missing some of the trim underneath the rear bumper. I replaced the missing pieces and cleaned the ones that were still there


Washing the hood insulation was not the best idea. You don't want to soak it with water. It was becoming very faded.


I had a non m insulation piece to experiment on....and I tried duplicolor trim paint on it. Worked good, so I went ahead and put two light coats on.


I pulled the valve cover. Insides are stained a bit but everything looks normal.


I pulled it because I was sick of seeing this


I bought a single can of VHT wrinkle black paint, and did 3 coats in a crosshatch pattern. I think it came out great for $8 total spent. I put it in the oven for an hour at 200 degrees to cure the paint as the can directs.


Now the engine bay is presentable. I replaced the hood ground and the battery tray to valve cover ground wires as well. Expansion tank will be getting replaced with other cooling stuff next week.


Replaced the strut nut caps too.


And a shot from a meet this past week.


Tint is coming off soon...

[JCarp90]

That "storage" place is awesome. They're building one like it in South Kansas City. It's been in progress for a while, but should be pretty badass when it's done.

[jhaurimn]

Heres a few more from cars and coffee this satuday. Nice to see all the little things are making a difference.

All photo credits go to the rightful photographers




I edited this one a bit. Didnt spend too much time on it


And this one in route to cars and coffee with my friend Erik and his 850i 6 speed. (v12)

[jhaurimn]

Dude where are you getting all this oem stuff?

Like what? The stickers are from pukardesigns .

[M-technik-3]

Hmmmm...look what we got here... update to come later today :)

Discontinued tire here folks so these are gonna go fast. Dunlap has a new Star Spec coming out.

[Bimmer_man]

Dude where are you getting all this oem stuff?

[SteadyAim.]

Everything looks great! Hope to pick up another one in the future

[jhaurimn]

Things are warming up for good. After getting 8" of snow Thursday, I am ready for spring weather.

The hazet 880amgt spark plug tool came. It was over $50, but was worth it, as any other spark plug socket has to be ground down to fit. So I replaced the plugs, and checked condition of the plug wires and distributor cap. Wires and cap look good. The wires are the red evo version, so it was replaced at one point.


Old plugs, it was time.


I went ahead and replaced all the engine decals. Most of them came off pretty easy.








This one was a PITA to remove, however.




You can see some of the wiring was wrapped in some janky looking tape. So I re-wrapped it with oem tesa harness tape.


Engine bay is getting there. I also put in the middle harness cover and wiper fluid bottle. I'm thinking about pulling the valve cover this week to get it powder coated. With that and a new coolant bottle, the engine bay should be looking great :)


And here's a shot from cars and coffee. More maintenance stuff coming soon.

[Bimmer_man]

in my opinion i think you should keep the oem head unit. or save some bucks and get a oem CD player for the M3 and have it worked on cause from what i recall they skip like hell. Go for a concorse restoration ^_^.

[jhaurimn]

So today I took care of a few things with my cluster. Taking the cluster out is something that might take awhile the first time, but really is very simple. I had a refurbished board from Greg to put in


I also had a good working led panel from his as well. The other main reason I pulled the cluster was the left illumination bulb was burnt out, so at night I had no idea how fast I was going. They are the larger bulbs that aren't in a socket. The small green bulbs are extras I bought in case any needed replacing.


Back of the m3 cluster. Had a weird plug I hadn't seen before that I'm guessing is for the oil temp




Let there be light


So as I'm sitting in the car enjoying all the lights working, I can't help but notice my defrost button doesn't light up...


That's better


Still not sure what route I want to go on the stereo/headunit

[Bimmer_man]

Damn dude that thing looks like it came off the show room floor.

[jhaurimn]

Got the car out today. :)









I did a few things
-replaced ebrake handle
-replaced third brake light bulb
-replaced window trim pieces on pass side
-ordered trim pieces under rear bumper

Hoping its nice enough out next Saturday to bring her out to cars and coffee :D