The Malaga Bomber (no rust this time)

[deutschman]

Very cool rebuild! Some day Ill have another m20 02.
Few questions.
What radiator are you running? I had a hard time finding a good fit that would keep a performance built motor cool on track.
What rear end are you running? Bigger CVs?

[morfiya]

Double braaaap braaaab

[phreshkid]

Nice build you make me want to go back and do mine over great work

braaaaappp

[morfiya]

Nice build you make me want to go back and do mine over great work

[AbsorbantNut]

Still waiting on burnout videos...

Also I'm loving the fact that you're still rocking the "Team Avatar" avatar. Just finished my third re-watch a week ago lol

Haha, I'm actually in the middle of a Trigun binge. But now I kinda wanna rewatch avatar

[lambo]

Also I'm loving the fact that you're still rocking the "Team Avatar" avatar. Just finished my third re-watch a week ago lol

[lambo]

Still waiting on burnout videos...

[AbsorbantNut]

You're tires don't fit

I found some better ones

damn. this things gonna be sick

It's alright;)

Do a suspension restore and enjoy it!

That's the easy part. I wanted to knock this motor stuff out of the way first.

[Nesset]

Do a suspension restore and enjoy it!

[Dj Buttchug]

damn. this things gonna be sick

[Jonny Cash]

You're tires don't fit

[AbsorbantNut]

Oh my dear god that is awesome. Want to do up my 76'? :)

Ha, I barely have enough time for this project What are your plans for the 76?

This is gonna be fun!

It is fun!


Here's the video of it running

[Vanilla Gorilla]

This is gonna be fun!

[Nesset]

Oh my dear god that is awesome. Want to do up my 76'? :)

[AbsorbantNut]

Okay, so time to catch you all up to the present.

After many more test fits & trimming of the chassis/hammering the living crap out of the tunnel, I got everything to fit. However, even though it physically fit, the motor sat crooked & didn't allow the driveshaft to line up with the differential. So again I had to drill more holes into the front subframe.....


















Finally straight!




Now with my crooked motor problem fixed, I was able to make the CSB mount for the driveshaft. So as of now, the motor sits in the car perfectly straight & everything is solidly mounted with Condor Speed Shop bushings.




With that done, I messed around with the wheels some more, the color of the centers have really started to grow on me. I think that it goes well with the body color of the car & gold hardware.









To try to fit as much as possible in the bay, you have to cut out a LOT of stuff













Seeing as the hard part was done, I took the car out of Condor Speed Shop & had it towed back to my house by a friend (E-Racing). So I began to wrap it up & finish the smaller details.






I started to mess around with the charge pipes, oil catch can locations, etc. I was really trying to figure out how I was going to be able to fit this massive amount of stuff in this tiny engine bay.












Then, about a month ago I started the car for the first time. It fired right up after figuring out that I needed to bypass the e30 on-board-computer circuit lol. Man did I miss the sound of a turbo m20. I proceeded to take it for a spin around the block. No gas pedal, no seat, no brakes, open downpipe. It was ridiculously fun hahaha.

As of lately I've began tidying things up. I adapted an e30 gas pedal linkage/pedal to the 02 & have it all mounted/functioning properly. There are quite a few small details I've left out in the build, but that's what happens when you start a build thread 4 months into the build