Turbo Inka 4 Door: Stripped & street legal rotisserie build + Powdercoating Pr0n

[eduTechnic]

Picked up a pair of GC semi coils from a local. Need new Koni SA rear shocks and adjusters are are all chewed up but I'll be ordering custom spring rates and new adjuster nuts/perches. They came with the strut tubes shortened so that will save some time and effort. [IMG] http://i1305.photobucket.com/albums/...psiuexd2xs.jpg [/IMG]

Anyone know the stock spring rate on GC's kit or is it discernable from the spring's part number?

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[eduTechnic]

Haha well perhaps I'll just stick with the e30-related content and less history. Either way, it's as much for me as it is for others. From here on it'll be pics & questions for the community.

[meanEG]

good list going, but reading it was a challenge. like to see a nice 4door once in a while

[Farbin Kaiber]

Confused. So no pictures of the actual 4-door car? The timing belt and m42/318iS thing threw me, then I realized 325i. Much confuse. Such headscratch.

[eduTechnic]

Looking to turn this otherwise stock '89 4-door into a fun street & track beast and still be able to take my kids to school when it's done.

The subject: 1989 325i. 4 Door. Alpine White II. 216k miles--most of the original brake/suspension/bushings still on the car. Most everything broken. Just needed new a new muffler and rear tires to pass inspection. Did that. Registered and tore it down once I decided the turbo motor needed to go in it.

The paint is awful...some crappy spray paint job in ultra-white over the original AWII with no clear. It pulled off when the PO took a sticker off the door and is missing a 12x18" area. I don't even see sanding marks under the new paint...

the day I got the '89:




Build Goals/List:

• 350-400+ HP
• MS3X engine management
• Traction control
• Stripped interior
• Turbo M50NV
• ~3.2L displacement (86mm bore, 89.6mm stroke)
• S52 crank. Stock rods. 9:1 pistons. ARP hardware
• Inka Orange Paint
• 5-lug hub adapter
• e46M3 ft brakes. e39 rears
• Metal boxed fender flares
• 17x9+ wheels & 255/40/17 tires (Grooved RC-1?)
• Momo wheel & QR hub
• No HVAC (for now, full heat & AC later?)
• Rear seat belts
• GC coilovers
• Ft & rear subframe reinforcement, camber/toe adjustable rear subframe
• Z3 1.9 steering rack
• Fixed buckets
• Full Condor bushings
• Learn how to drive

Two years ago finally got fed up of my stupid Mazda B2300 with no AC or 4WD and bought an e34 540i/6 that was a little beat but fun. It hooked me after I got done driving/maintaining that thing. It was fast, but it was a pig.

I sold the e34 and flew out to sunny San Diego with my wife and two-week old newborn (#3 of 3), where I once lived growing up, to meet my first e30 in the form of a 1991 318is. No heat, no AC, but great weight and suspension and loud as all get out.



It was tons of fun until the water pump-to-head profile gasket blew sending coolant flooding into cyl #2. I pulled my first engine and found someone with an '86 325 that had some eBay turbo stuff and MS2. Looked fun, so I traded my 318is for it after trailing it from Utah to Reno. Because it needed a few expensive parts to get registered, I bought a very stock, very ill-maintained '89 325i 4-door. It drove fine and got me to my first real job for a few months until I decided "oh I'll just flip this thing and get back the the turbo.

Long story short, the '86 is a bare carcass in my driveway awaiting some sheet metal welding practice once I get my argon bottle for TIG.

2014-06-30 09.43.53 by brad
zoom zoom on ma bucket

...and the 89 is a bare shell in my garage awaiting restoration.




All in all, I've got a good stash of parts, some fun new tools, and I'm ready to rock 'n roll.


Parts Needed

• 3" exhaust piping
• high flow muffler
• cat to
• Lots of nuts/bolts
• Seats (Don't know yet, black, light, cheap--Ultrashield?)
• Steering wheel (Momo Mod8)
• Hub/QR (Vac?)
• Epoxy Primer
• Seam sealer
• Undercoating
• Inka Paint
• Plastic elasticizer
• plastic primer & filler
• VDO oil pressure/temp sending units
• CLT sensor wiring
• 16" Spall or dual 12"

Work to be done

• TL; DR: Almost everything but disassembly
  
• Rebuild M50 (clean, deck head & block, bore to 86mm, rebuild)
• buy gasket sets
• obtain ZF320
• obtain 328i driveshaft
• buy pistons
• Reseal trans
• Wire in Chariot Gauges bluetooth kit: So stoked for this
• Fix dings & dents
• replace 2x4" patch of rust from front driver's side fender bump
• media blast metal components
• build powder coating oven from old fridge
• coat all the things
• Strip Paint
• Paint
• Flock dash
• remove underbody coating
• Fix minor fender rust
• dist cap cover made
• learn how to weld
• weld sway reinforcement kit
• weld front subframe reinforcement kit
• shadowline exterior chrome bits everything
• buy window seals
• buy wheels
• buy tires
• buy f & rear calipers
• buy rotors
• buy pads
• buy akg shifter
• Fab up fan shroud
• buy 16" Spaal puller
• buy seats
• buy seat mounts

For sale list (transfer to ad later because too long)
Parts to sell

• Swapping to M50 with ZF320 trans & 5-lug hub swap kit so the following is for sale:
• 16x8.5 salad shooters
• 4x100 to 5x120.65 adapters
• Stock m20b25 engineSOLD
• turbo m20b27 engine pending local sale
• 2 sets calipers
• caliper rebuild kit
• 1 full set doors
• 1 hood
• lots of trim
• 2x drive shafts
• 1 G250 trans (swap to 320Z)
• New M20 Exhaust manifolds with new nuts & studs (will separate)
• Stock M20 air box filter (Mann)
• Timing belt kit (NIB: Tensioner, tensioner spring, Conti belt)
• ac o-ring kit
• Z3 1.9 SSK & complete shifter rebuild kit
• almost every m20 seal: crank, main, cam, oil pan, valve cover, head gasket, plug well gaskets etc
• Condor motor mounts (M20)
• Condor trans mounts (G26)
• Garagistic G260 w/ M50 swap brace (for rotated transmissions)
• Black vinyl shift & eBrake boot made by forum member
• UUC DSSR (M20 & G260)
• UUC DSSR (M50 & G260 10 degrees rotation)
• Ireland Engineering Race camber plates (for Bilsteins)
• Ireland Engineering Billet rear shock mounts (for Bilsteins)
• IE adjustable front sway bar end links
• New Balo rotors
• New Hawk HP+ pads
• Rear wheel bearing kit
• Rear wheel bearing snap ring & nut set
• M50 TPS
• Stock M20 motor mounts NIB
• M20B25 ECU
• M20B25 thermostat & gasket
• M20B25 Water Pump w/ gasket New
• M20 Valve cover breather hose new
• Rear Outer CV boot kit
• distributor wire set
• distributor cap
• H&R Race SOLD
• Bilstein sports SOLD
• KYB shocks SOLD
• Vogtland springs SOLD
• Kamotors ultrawide flares SOLD
• XXR 526 17x9/10 SOLD
• Falken 452s in 245/265 40ZR17 SOLD
• Cheap gauges
• 2.93 open diff SOLD
• 3.73 open diff SOLD
• Early G260 trans SOLD
• Angel-eye headlights