The Malaga Bomber (no rust this time)

[Nesset]

Ugh... I really want to build my car now. To hell with an E30 project 2002 for days! Nice progress. Sub'ed.

[dvck]

Between this and Ryan's 1600 thread all I want to do is get home and put work on my car

[AbsorbantNut]

Sick video :) love it!

This thing is such a blast to drive. The video barely does it justice :devil:

God that sound... Makes me so jelly I need a 2002 turbo so bad..

Scoop up a shell! You will not regret it

This thing kicks ass. Cooler than an e30 IMO!

Thanks! The e30 body style is still my favorite. This 02 is slowly growing on me though haha.

So like I said before, I bought some axles to swap in my old e30 3.73 LSD diff. They're shorter than a 2002 axel bc the medium case diff allows a smaller distance between the dog ears and hubs on the trailing arms. I could've built a set for myself fairly cheap using a set of e21 and e30 axles....but honestly, I am getting tired of buying broken parts and merging them into something that works. So I broke my bank and bought these puppies:

They're 14" long and made of 4340 chromoly steel. Hopefully they never break/cause me issues

[Lof8]

This thing kicks ass. Cooler than an e30 IMO!

[ThatOneEuroE30]

God that sound... Makes me so jelly I need a 2002 turbo so bad..

[CorvallisBMW]

Sick video :) love it!

[AbsorbantNut]

SO glad to see youre back with this, How light is this car going to be?

Thanks Taco! I am not sure of the final weight yet, but I'll be trimming the car to lighten it up :D

Interested to see weight too! Updates?


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Here's some updates to keep you satisfied ;)

I managed to get the radiator installed, coolant system bled, fan wired up, and a few other misc things allowing me to take it for a legit test drive! Here's a pic of me making it to a 7-11 near by.



The ride there was super hectic. There was lots of tire squealing, flames, and screams, and cries of joy. But let's not mess around, we know that pictures cant substitute an actual video of the ride!




So besides tackling that animal, I also began wrapping up the transmission tunnel. This weekend a good friend of mine came into town and brought some sheet metal so we could begin to fab up a tunnel.

I had a "little" hole I had to patch up




So we started off by measuring the length of the tunnel, and width at the beginning and end. After trimming the sheet up a bit we were left with this




Next the end was folded and boxed in to close the tunnel





And here's a pic of it mocked up on top of the tunnel





To top it off, my e30 diff --> 2002 trailing arm chromoly axles came in today!
I'll have to post pics of those later

[kid325e]

Interested to see weight too! Updates?


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[TheTacoMan]

SO glad to see youre back with this, How light is this car going to be?

[AbsorbantNut]

Are you going to continue to run Motronic or are you going to go standalone?

I'll stick with motronic at this point

[varg]

Are you going to continue to run Motronic or are you going to go standalone?

[AbsorbantNut]

Rad, good progress!

Tuned in to see what you do for your shroud!

The shroud will be made from an old street sign so nothing fancy lol. I'm psyched to be wrapping up the motor stuff & moving my focus to the interior/suspension/brakes/everthingelse

Very nice man!! m20 and a tune is plenty nuff, turbo is insane

:devil:

[King Mufasa]

Very nice man!! m20 and a tune is plenty nuff, turbo is insane

[kid325e]

Rad, good progress!

Tuned in to see what you do for your shroud!

[AbsorbantNut]

Cool project, that little turbo must spool fast on an M20, looks like the same hotside as the one I'm running on my M42, compressor housing is a little bigger though. John was welding up your radiator while I was at his shop the other day getting a wheel bearing done, your project sounded interesting so I'm glad I found it.

What a coincidence haha. Yeah, it spools up real quick!!