Bronzit E30 - OBDII S52 shaved bay - weekend/autox toy - Journey

[318aye]

Excited to see this come back together.

[jpod999]

ABS relocation turned out awesome!

How hard is it bending the lines? I'm going to have to do that eventually also and am just curious as to your method.

[rzerob]

Wow. A couple more weekends and you should be driving her again. Good job.

[e30onBBSs]

Beautiful work and beautiful car! Can't wait to see it running again :up:

[Sh3rpak!ng]

Excited to see this come back together.

Me too!! I'm getting very excited

ABS relocation turned out awesome!

How hard is it bending the lines? I'm going to have to do that eventually also and am just curious as to your method.

Thanks! Yes, I am very happy with the way it turned out. Bending the lines was easy since they're soft copper/nickle. I found a combination of my hands and these Lisle 44150 3/16" Tubing Bender Pliers worked nicely. The pliers needed to be "smoothed out" inside the jaw to keep from marring the lines. Otherwise, it just took a little practice making the bends line up where you want and the afore mentioned tips for making the flares. I got A LOT of extra tubing to allow generous room for error. It was a good idea.

Wow. A couple more weekends and you should be driving her again. Good job.

Couple more weekends?!?!?! I'll be damned if I don't drive this thing on Thursday, and use the leftover time before bimmerfest to attack as many details as I can.

Beautiful work and beautiful car! Can't wait to see it running again :up:

Thanks man!! Very soon!

[2mAn]

Couple more weekends?!?!?! I'll be damned if I don't drive this thing on Thursday, and use the leftover time before bimmerfest to attack as many details as I can.

YESS!!!

Im driving up to Reseda on Wednesday night, I wouldnt mind dropping by to see what you're up to. Text me details

[Sh3rpak!ng]

YESS!!!

Im driving up to Reseda on Wednesday night, I wouldnt mind dropping by to see what you're up to. Text me details

Awesome! I don't mind visitors. You might be just in time to give me a hand bleeding brakes if my buddy and I don't finish it tonight :)

[rzerob]

Couple more weekends?!?!?! I'll be damned if I don't drive this thing on Thursday, and use the leftover time before bimmerfest to attack as many details as I can.

Calm down. LOL. I look forward to seeing the end result on Thursday if not sooner.

[Sh3rpak!ng]

Calm down. LOL. I look forward to seeing the end result on Thursday if not sooner.

hahaha ugh I just want to drive it!!! If everything goes smoothly tonight, it should be running by tomorrow :) and that'll give me plenty of time to work out any bugs/details before the 28th



Installed the front rotors and calipers and bled the whole system. The pedal still feels kinda soft and I bet there's probably still air in the lines. Maybe need to trip the abs pump relay to get it to cycle and bleed any air trapped in it? Otherwise it went smoothly with only one leak where I forgot to tighten a fitting. Still not 100% happy with the fluid reservoir placement even though I'll make a nice bracket for it to bolt onto one of the strut studs.







Cleaned up the super secret rare obd1 obd2 hybrid fuel rail. It has the fuel feed and return at the rear like obd2, and the fpr mounted on the rail like obd1 so I can run a fuel rail beauty cover, get the fuel lines out of the way to the rear, and not plump in a clunky running loss valve or some other adapter device for the fpr.

[CubbyChowder]

Solid updates!

[rzerob]

Why not make a bracket for the fluid reservoir connect to the strut bar?

Are you still selling your AC stuff? I started my mock up for my AC and I found out I don't have the front two lines that connect to the condenser.

[2mAn]

Stopped by Charlies yesterday and that engine bay color needs to be seen in the flesh to really appreciate it. Amazing work!

[Sh3rpak!ng]

Solid updates!

Thanks!

Why not make a bracket for the fluid reservoir connect to the strut bar?

Are you still selling your AC stuff? I started my mock up for my AC and I found out I don't have the front two lines that connect to the condenser.

Now that the strut bar is installed and I have a good overview of space and mounting points, I'll probably do that.

And yes, still selling AC stuff. Just haven't gotten around to posting it. I have all NEW OEM parts to do a 134a conversion for an m20 or a 134a conversion for a swapped car minus compressor.

Stopped by Charlies yesterday and that engine bay color needs to be seen in the flesh to really appreciate it. Amazing work!

Thanks Simon, glad you made it! Hoping to get some photos of the paint in the sun now that the car is alive.



So I put the wheels on the car. Big step. Haven't had wheels on it for months.





Then I added some more parts to the picture.





And a couple more.





And a few more after that







Voila.





I couldn't be happier. It looks way better than I ever thought it would. It started up on the first crank after priming fuel.
I drove it
Naturally there are some small "issues" that'll need attention. First the brakes. I've got to believe there is still a substantial amount of air in the lines. Pedal feels springy and I can push it to the floor (with force) and it doesn't lock the wheels. More like "slows" the car. I'm thinking I need to bleed the abs pump. Second is the clutch engagement window and point. At the moment, the engagement point is quickly followed by a grinding noise/feeling which I am 99.9% sure is the pivot fork hitting the pressure plate. I already knew that I've been using the wrong pivot fork (I have a 95 m3 pressure plate which is a little shorter, requiring a slightly different pivot fork), but I've been driving with this same setup since the beginning without any issues. The only physical difference between now and then is the flywheel getting a new friction surface. For now I've set the clutch stop so I don't press the clutch too far. I actually have the correct fork, but forgot to swap them when the transmission was out.

[jpod999]

Big moment in this build, congrats!

[rzerob]

It looks great. Are you going to paint the core support?

And yes, still selling AC stuff. Just haven't gotten around to posting it. I have all NEW OEM parts to do a 134a conversion for an m20 or a 134a conversion for a swapped car minus compressor.

PM me prices for what you have for sale.