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Major aspects of the new brake system have been resolved, car is back on the road and passed the first test drive. Feels good but ill need to go find some discrete canyons or an autox to really get a feel for F/R balance and performance. Definitely a bit of a leg workout but that was to be expected. We will see if I decide to drop down to the .625" MCs vs the .700" MCs I have now. I had some minor snags on install, mainly two things. One was that the throttle body cable interfered with the closer of the two MCs - with the OBD2 TB (and M50 intake) the cable was aimed right at the reservoir. I solved this by cutting off the cable bracket and welding it back in place at a favorable angle. Oddly enough its so far resulted in a smoother accelerator pedal feel. The other snag was figuring out placement of the clutch fluid reservoir which I resolved by making a bracket for it and getting rid of the giant service port/OBD2 connector. This forced my hand to finish off another project I'd planned for years which was mounting the smaller standard OBD2 port in the glove box. Made a small loom, crimped a few butt splices and it looks right at home.
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Taking another swing at manual brakes. This time utilizing the massive dual MC kit with twin .700" MCs from tilton. Also installing a remote adjuster to go with it. Ever since I got the brakes working properly and a good pad compound for street/autox, I've had a very hard time at the autox modulating the brakes without locking up. Very hard to feel the threshold. So I'm optimistic that I might find the solution with this setup. Installation hasn't been as straight forward as I anticipated, but overall not bad. I ended up cutting off the bracket for the big under hood e36 OBD2 plug, and chopping the plug itself out of the harness. I'll finally install the small obd2 port in my glove box to retain ability to scan engine codes. I had to do this to make a space to fit and mount the reservoir for the clutch fluid. That also required minor fabrication of a bracket. I still also need to make new lines for the MC, then bleed brakes and test. Looking for an autox and track day soon to put it to the pavement.
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Yea I've been slacking posting anything. I usually have progress in my stories. I also started to sticky the engine rebuild videos on my page. To be fair though I've only been working on the motor up until this point. I dropped off a bunch of stuff today to get cleaned and blasted including a bunch of engine bay parts. So I'll be starting work on the chassis soon!Leave a comment:
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the reason I have a Capital A in the middle of 2mAn is because I’m a pain in the ASS, definitely talk a lot of trash too ... and don’t you worry my friend, I’m itching to start the new thread. I don’t have the car yet though so nothing to post that’s not already in the other thread I started about buying a new money pit
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Oops looks like I missed the recent comments.
Thanks! I enjoy your build(s) for pretty much the same reasons! Not sure if I ever elaborated on the trailing arms, but the idea was to give better articulation of the spring, make height adjustments super easy, and I pocketed the whole assembly into the arm to give more travel and use an inch longer spring (the spring perches were contacting under heavy load prior). Unfortunately it looks like the condor bushings in the trailing arm are not holding up to the current alignment specs very well... too much angle for the solid bushing to take without ovaling. I'm looking at those stimtech bushings. Or a whole set of new trailing arms with the fancy heim joint adjusters.
Lol if I pulled the dash out I'm not sure flocking would be the solution I'd pursue, but it would look good. So would carbon :P or stripping the padding off and modifying the underlying sheet metal + powdercoat. I dunno.
Not much to share recently. I've been driving the car a lot, done more autox this year than I did over the past 3 or 4, and intend to do more and a couple track days. Really just trying to improve my driving skills and get seat time. I'll probably have my set of rota grid 16x9s (TE37 reps) refinished sometime soon once I need to replace the R888s that are at the end of their life. Once I kill the nankang AR1 245/40r15s I'm currently running I'll move to the 275/35r15 and will probably have to go with a wider fender flare. I'd like to replace front fenders and do sideskirt v2 at that time as well.
This is partially true. I share plenty on the IG
maybe I'll sprinkle some photos into a thread for you guys sometime soon. But honestly the truck project is doing exactly what it was intended to do. Keep me busy and stopping me from constantly taking apart the e30. Oh and it costs quite a lot less. And Simon is just generally a hater.
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I was going to ask when you planned to flock your dash. But with all the E30 work you have been doing, you would not have the time. I remember the first post. Amazing to see what you have done to this point. How is the E36 coming along?Leave a comment:
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Fantastic update, I really enjoy this thing. Excelling specimen, Excellent back ground, Excellent progress.
The smaller details is so motivational for hamming though the big details on my project.
So whats up with that trailing arm in the INSTA with the weight jacker adjuster??Leave a comment:
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