Boosty 30... track day, fun car (Now with a new owner)

[dugly52]

Not an update, just bored so I look at the progress I've made. And with the time I've had on my hands I can tell, I've made it much more my car than before.

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1 week ago

[dugly52]

Chuckanut Cruise

Drove home from Bellingham this morning and took Chuckanut Dr. Fun little road. Stopped at a couple places to take some pictures. (I need a better camera. And I need some photography skills) But, I hope you enjoy.

[GnarShark]

This is a pretty sweet build thread, your car is looking awesome!! Keep up the good works!

[dugly52]

Cams and cover

I put on my painted valve cover. And while I was in there I painted the support bracket for the intake manifold. I like the way it looks. And when I have the IM off, I'll paint that.

Pic:


And I checked out my cams and rockers while it was off. There is no pitting or groves on my cams, which is awesome. And the rockers seemed like they look good. But I'm not exactly what telltale signs are and only looked pretty quick. Here it is tho.



Going to head to a friends in Bellingham tomorrow, so hopefully it won't be raining and I can get some pictures on Chuckanutt drive. At least some good curves. (Not too spirited, since people get tickets on that road left and right)

[dugly52]

Timing Belt and Water Pump

Well I got in my tensioners and adjuster nutts from Pelican. And I know what I did wrong the first time, so now I can go in and actually do my timing belt and water pump.



Yup, its that time.



Part way through.



I got her all back together with only one problem. There is a leak coming from my new water pump. I don't know if I got all of the old gasket off. I used a razor blade to scrape it off, but there is a leak coming from the bottom part of it. I got it warmed up and bled the system, and I'll let it sit for the night and see if anything has changed in the morning (Fingers crossed).

[JonTheHero22]

Man very nice progress, I like the way you painted the valve cover, let's see how long that paint lasts. Glad to see you just jumping in and going for it. I'm the same way but I haven't gotten to work on mine as much as I would like but this is really inspiring. Keep up the good work man

[dugly52]

I removed my RaceSkids X brace, because it was hitting my sway bar. I'm going to try and get some spacers to move the brace down so they don't hit.

Then I took out Amber for a drive to see if I could notice. I don't hear any clunking from them hitting anymore haha :) I drove out to Magnolia and got some quick photos on her.





I'm really loving Amber right now. She's so nimble!

[dugly52]

Got another project done today. I removed the sound deadening from the trunk. There is a lot of stuff back there, and it weighs a lot. I don't have a scale, so I don't know exactly how much it weighs, but I'd guess like 40lbs-ish?



And it all out.



Bad picture but this is all of the deadening.



Didn't notice much of a noise difference. My car enough rattles as it is and makes a decent amount of noise already.

Also, I got my fog lights installed, so I don't have big holes in my valence. Although, they aren't wired up because I don't have the plugs. The pig tails that I got for the fog lights, I'm going to use for my turn signals since I need those to be legal to drive.

Got them in.



And now my front is looking complete.

[dugly52]

Little bit of an update. I finished up my new roof rack. I think it turned out good. Little lighter orange, so it isn't too dominating. I might but off some on the extra on the cross bars, but I'm going to drive it around with it for a while and see what I think.

The rack getting assembled.



And finally the rack on the car!!



What do you guys think?

And here are a couple of other things I got going on in my free time.

I got a sweet sticker. Hit up Zachary Ard on Facebook if you want one. He made them a while ago and is selling what he has left. And I think they are perfect for an early e30.



And I painted my valve cover too. Went flat black with an orange splatter over the top. Don't know if i'll sand down the "BMW" and stripes, and make them silver. Here is how its sits now.

[dugly52]

Little bit of an update. I'm still waiting on some parts from pelican. Specifically the tensioner bracket for my power steering pump. Been driving around without power steering. Nothing terrible, just would be better to have it since I have everything there. But I did get the grill for the lower part of my valence.



And on the car



Nothing too special, but it does start to complete the front end. Now I need to install my fog lights and it'll be complete.

And for my side project. If you haven't guessed it, its a roof rack. I like the look of wood racks on e30s so I thought I would give it a try. And I can give it an orange stain to help tie it into the car.



Staining



Should finish it up today and I'll post some pictures.

I also, got a BUNCH or random e30 and e34 parts for a screaming deal. So I'll be posting a for sale thread.

[dugly52]

Teaser...

Bored for a moment so I thought I post up a teaser. But mostly I've been out and driving the car and taking advantage of the nice weather until it gets shitty. But here is a teaser of the project I'm working on around the other stuff. Seen pictures of a couple cars with them, and I love them so I thought I would give it a try.



And here is a picture from my hike today at Heather Lake. Borrowed my friends dog for the hike :)



Hopefully I'll have an update in the next day or two with the finished product.

[dugly52]

New LSD Rear Diff

Today I got around to installing the 3.73 LSD I picked up a couple weeks ago. The PO of my car had switch out the diff for a 2.93 open. I'm guessing he wanted the LSD that comes with an iS for his car. The joys of buying old cars. I also installed a new Condor Speed Shop bushing I had.

Here's the diff:





Installing a different diff is pretty straight forward. Undo the axle bolts, undo the drive shaft bolts, and undo the bolds holding it to the car. So I didn't take many pictures while I was installing

Putting the new diff in:



And to give credit to the great products made by other R3v members, here's the Condor bushing.



It wasn't quite as big of a difference as I thought it would be, but it makes the car much more rev happy. And now the car actually wants to go into 5th gear when cruising on the freeway.

Also, I ordered the rest of my parts so I can finish up my face lift. Bought the front bumper brackets off Pelican. And picked up late model fog lights, front and rear bumper shocks, and rear bumper brackets from E30partsguy. Once those arrive I get to figure out when I want to tackle cutting and fitting the new bumpers. And I bought a sticker :D Pretty excited for it to get here

[dugly52]

Photos

More Pictures!! Had a nice sunset looking at Seattle, so I messed around with some photos. Sorry for cell phone shittiness.





Washed my car but didn't finish drying it. Thought it would dry driving around but needed pictures while the sunset was good.

[dugly52]

I never posted pictures of the strut bars that I installed on the car. I have a sparco front strut bar and IE rear bar.

Front bar


I had to unhook cruise control to fit it in. But it didn't work anyway, and I would never use it. If I go on long continuous drive I take the Audi. I haven't fully taken it out yet, but its not in the way, so it just sits there.

Rear bar


I couldn't fit the bar and the reinforcement plates I have, so if anyone wants some, PM me. I'll sell them cheap. And they only have like 50 miles on them. So basically brand new :D

But since I drive an E30, this is how my trunk usually looks.


Always have a tool box strapped in with the tube of zip ties behind it. And you can't see it but I have a breaker bar and extra oil and power steering fluid in the compartment on the driver's side. You just never know when something is going to happen or you might need to help someone out. I'm also thinking about throwing my used v-belt in. Just in case.

[dugly52]

Quick Update

My bushings came!! Aww yeah



So I finished installing my front sway bar. Which it hits my RaceSkids front brace when the car is on the ground. :down: So I'll have to add a couple spacers and move the brace down slightly. But either way I was getting it back on its wheels so I can drive it!! I've been waiting long enough.

I forgot to mention that while I was working on my failed attempt at the timing belt, I finished painting my front bumper. I looks great, but I think I need to sand and paint the bumper trim so it matches the bumper.

Quick pic of the bumper on the car.



Then I needed to drive the car. 1) to bleed to cooling system. and 2) because I want to feel the difference with the new sway bars and strut braces. So I took a drive out to West Seattle and got some quick pictures at the boat launch looking back at Seattle. Didn't have too much time since I had to go meet my buddy. (The one who informed me of my dumb@ss mistake with the timing belt).







Lighting wasn't the best since the sun was going down. But I didn't care, I just was happy to be out driving :D