Phoenix e30 -1987 Royalblau 4 door 24v project

[brshelton]

Day 22 was decently productive. Was only there a few hours. Got my headers on and bolted down, got my transmission bolted up, put a control arm on, attached my guibo to my driveshaft and torqued it to spec, put some missing bolts on, painted some stuff, drilled out the rear subframe thingy that broke off in frame, and worked on my wiring harness some. Terrible news when it came to the wiring harness though. I was sold a harness that was in a fire. Lots of melted stuff and damage. Its junk in my mind, and probably in general anyways. I now have to race to find a wiring harness.

[brshelton]

Day 21 wasn't that productive. I spent forever screwing with my stupid rep headers and found out to get the second one on, with the studs already in motor, I have to drop the motor mount arm. Did all my fan wiring and my harness adapter with crimps and heat shrink. Wire wheeled and painted one of my TAs and then failed at drilling out the old set screw for a whileeee. I also test fit the radiator and need to make brackets for it as my stock one didn't really hold it still and I need to trim one of the mishimoto hoses a little shorter..

[brshelton]

Day 20 you could say I did some things. Was only there for about 4 hours. Cleaned and painted the block, put the transmission on, pressed out the rest of the RTABS and installed the new ones, and took old calipers off the used TAs. O ya and I put the motor in the car. I also drove around Pimpinwalrus' awesome home made go kart a bunch. That thing is so much fun.

[brshelton]

[brshelton]

Isthisoutofmygarageyet?

I have 10 more days paid for!

[slammin.e28]

Isthisoutofmygarageyet?

I lol'd.

[PimpinWalrus]

Isthisoutofmygarageyet?

[slammin.e28]

Isthiscarrunningyet?

[brshelton]

Day 19 was a good day. Got some 4 dollar washers from the dealer and finished up the VCG with my missing hardware. Dropped off the Dot R auto trans with buyer and spoke with some driveshaft places about balancing. Took the trans off and installed a new TOB, as my old was noisy. Replaced the oil pan gasket. Also took the auto shifter shit out. I also did the firewall and trans tunnel with bed liner where the foam water trap used to be, before I tore it off, as a lot of the paint and primer came off with the water trap.

[brshelton]

This thread is hilarious and needs moar pix

I have all the pics on flickr. I'll post em right meow along with todays post.

[FrankenBimmer]

This thread is hilarious and needs moar pix

[brshelton]

Day 18 was a super busy day. Moosehead and slammin came to get the white car and drop off a ton of stuff with some buyers. Also went to the BMW CCA Adrenalin showing. Installed VCG, water pump, thermostat, thermostat housing, alternator, exhaust manifold studs, and half the RTABs.

[brshelton]

Day 17 I installed the oil filter housing gasket and did a bunch of work I don't remember and then got pretty drunk and didnt make a build post.

UPDATE: I REMEMBER WHAT I DID! I drove to VA beach to meet up with Calvin Brandt of Bear Motorsports and get a shifter carrier from him, along with pick up parts for a friend. I installed that along with the bushings and stuff.

[brshelton]

Day 16 was a super productive day. I took 1000 lbs of metal to scrap and got some cash. Took the pedals off the white car and put them on blue car along with the clutch master cylinder. My revshift stuff came so I cut out the metal part of subframe bushings and installed the new subframe bushings. Installed the brake booster and hard lines along with brake fluid reservoir. I cleaned the bay a lot also. Got it blue again, not greyish brown. Also worked on fabricating the electric fan mounting bracket and found out I ordered the wrong fan switch. Going to have to splice a connector on I think.

[brshelton]

URO is the NAME in metal t-stat housings.

I've used them with no problems.

Always heard such bad things about URO ball joints and stuff. I was really just talking shit.