Snowflake: The 4-Door, Alpine White E30

[gdrumm93]

Sorry for the giant pics...[emoji53]


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[gdrumm93]

My Yellow Speed coilovers arrived late today. They were great to deal with. I can't wait to get these welded up!





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[gdrumm93]

Snowflake: The 4-Door, Alpine White E30

It's been a while since I've updated this thread. I've had a couple setbacks and I've been kinda sick lately so I have made a ton of progress. She starts and runs pretty well now but there is a coolant leak that I have to address. [emoji53]

Replaced this crusty, non functioning fuel pump.


Drained the gas tank. Pretty nasty old gas.


It lives.

https://vimeo.com/194417049

Picked up a set of style 5's for a great deal, they should look great after I refinish them. Not sure what I'll do with them yet. I may use them on my e28.


Dropped my rear end this weekend. I'll be refreshing it and putting in an LSD.


I'll be rebuilding and powder coating my calipers as well. Here's what they look like at the moment.


Old springs vs new ones





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[lukeADE335i]

Nice work!

Wow - that rear spring is tiny, is there a threaded height adjuster that fits with it?

[gdrumm93]

Nice work!

Wow - that rear spring is tiny, is there a threaded height adjuster that fits with it?

Thanks! Yes there is an adjuster. We'll see how low it ends up without it and if it's too much I'll put them on.

[gdrumm93]

Adjustable subframe is welded and ready to go back in. I had to paint it because it wouldn't fit in my oven.


I'll probably be putting that in this weekend. I e also been powder coating some parts for my friend. He is doing an m30 turbo build in his e30.

Here is the front subframe I coated for him.

I'll be doing suspension work this weekend so I'll update then.



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[bobaflesh]

Nice progress, great build!

[gdrumm93]

Snowflake: The 4-Door, Alpine White E30

Nice progress, great build!

Thanks I appreciate it!

I ordered some brake lines from Garagistic during their Black Friday sale but I still haven't received them. I don't want to do them after installing the subframe so I'll be waiting on that I guess. I burned the bushings out of the trailing arms because it was easier than trying to press the out. No pics of the fireworks. I got my strut tubes cut for my coilovers.


I also removed my old control arms. I bought some Lemforder replacements. Didn't have time to install them.


Last but not least I spent a lot of time cleaning and powder coating my calipers. They look pretty great. Not flashy but I like this silver color. I'm ready to rebuild them and put them back together soon.




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[gdrumm93]

Slowly getting Snowflake closer to road worthy status. I powder coated this cover while I had the rear end drop. They always rust out so this will help protect it.

Before:


After:



Then I powder coated my diff cover


3.73 lsd ready to go with a new Garagistic poly bushing.


I put all new cv boots and 95a poly bushings on my adjustable subframe. Had to notch the bushings slightly for the hardware to work.



I'm powder coating my wipers too.


Brakes are ready to go


New Garagistic brake lines



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[ak-]

This line is for the front calipers I believe. Subframe one uses one of the short ones.




Nice work. I wish I could pwder coat a load of parts as well.

[gdrumm93]

This line is for the front calipers I believe. Subframe one uses one of the short ones.




Nice work. I wish I could pwder coat a load of parts as well.

Yeah you're right. I didn't realize that at the time. Haha


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[CubbyChowder]

Cool build! Browsing through your thread reminds me of my build a lot, we've done a lot of the same work on our E30's haha. Keep it up!

[docleary]

thread delivers, progress in every post.

good luck, i like to see sedan builds.

[gdrumm93]

Cool build! Browsing through your thread reminds me of my build a lot, we've done a lot of the same work on our E30's haha. Keep it up!

Thanks man, yours looks like it's coming together nicely!

thread delivers, progress in every post.

good luck, i like to see sedan builds.

I appreciate it, I love sedans too. I know some people hate on them but I don't know why haha.

[gdrumm93]

I got the rear end back in today! I still have a few things to button up but it's all in there. Here are some shots of the suspension.




My dad welded my coilovers for me. I took some pics while he was doing that.




Here they are painted, can't wait to get these on.


Lastly I put my new control arms and bushings in.


That's it for today, I can't wait to finish up and get it back on the ground.



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