[Entropy] - E30 Hiatus cont - More seeing, less wrenching.

[moatilliatta]

Sept 2022

Prog?

Chapter: Thalia & Melpomene

Coming along


Ported Driver side and snagged some old headlight rings and gave them a brushed look


New Bumber shocks while in there, CCA badge transfered.


Duct work complete with mounting tabs


Slip fit


Bumper Refinishing Complete


Thinking of what to do




SEM Trip paint, well see how it last. Seemed to much risk having it coated, and the finish damaged and the tape line not being right.








And fresh lens's W/ a smack of nigh shades internally. I always loved that honeycomb look like those 90's Firebirds had.


After all the pieces were Ceramic coated individually, and the back side of the bumpers got a coating of cavity was it was ready to reassemble.


The Grills also got a coating of ceramic coating, I was quite pleased on how its cleaned up and kept the trim work fresh so far. New foam on the top of the grills! I still need to paint the turn signal lens screws.

I have finally the bright work completed on the driver side. The first time ive had the rain gutter trim on, all this work also ceramic coated, since its now raw metal with no anodizing.

Fresh! I bet the bumpers at .050 thinner! But wait, whats that uhaul trailer?





After a snack, Sometimes I forget which one to eat..


The car is loaded for a trip.


Snacks galore




Conveniently dropped the car off at tuning shop in North Carolina and picked up a trailer in Florida line up! Stage Fab forgot my appointment, and I don't think put enough time into the tune that it should have had. It idle surged in the parking lot before test drive, which comes back while around town driving... Later on found consistent adaptation faults (like 30%) while highway cruising, and a weird sputter at 7300. YAY. They were dealing with a bad ECU causing random misfires. Bummed, all is normal Till this day driving around, More motivated for standalone.


The Car keeps getting closer to complete than ever before. I put the valance back on because it just sat at the body shop not getting touched. Passenger side bight work complete!






A good detail means another trip is due, and new driving shoes :) Stoked!


Here we go! Louisville, Columbus - NIN, Erie, Watkins Glen - BMW CCA CR / Hiking, Philadelphia -The Mars Volta - Pittsburgh, Home


NIN, second time this year!






The next morning were off, when possible, back roads. New York gets beautiful around Watkins Glen


TBC

[moatilliatta]

AUG 2022

WERK

Offset bushings arn't all the same... And there is nothing really for STD E36 geometry control arms on 96+ M3 knuckles.. They all add to much caster. .


So SLR it is


Getting alignment lock back down

The car was hooked... maybe too hood. More work cut out for us... Slight roll. :(


Took about a year but finished out a TV stand.. But I love it!




Mission accomplished

Just for fun
BBS @ IKEA

[moatilliatta]

August 2022

Prog?

Yus

Front valance is coming around, probably loss 5lbs in paint and filler.. Luckily no real surprises. Still need finish sanded, I got all the easy areas.


A little corner crease, but not too bad..



These are Intergalactic back order next to probably NLA so I found some Reps on Ebay. A few to choose to see what I think. I already know the answer, do you?


Windshield banner, Helps with sun alot with lowered seats.


These little tabs I was so excited about?


Welp, the new genuine grills don't have them... WTF M9


So I made them. Not as aggressive as the Abraham Motorsport rep units. Maybe Rep units to Motorsport grills?


More work done to the valance. Bumper stripped, easy as it was just spray paint. The powder coat shop had no issues with this. Went over with a light blast media. Then I sanded it down to a brushed look. The next question, will clear powder coat work on these?

New bumper impact strip to go along with the new look!

The rear bumper... This was blasted and powder coated before.. When the powder coater was stripping it they had a really tough time... Oddly. And they told my they weren't quite what is was coated in? So on... they had to use very course media... Not easy to sand out, requiring lots of different grit of belt sanders, At least its lighter... A lot of work!




Getting there


MMM, Back to the ITB project! Time get them ready


Polishing up - Iphone likes to take sideways photos..






Oh baby, glamour shots with the RRD adapter.








I do enjoy the carbon hood I have, but fitment is OK, and needs more finish work. Weight is 11.5 LBS or so. Its constructed well, But I my first love came back in stock. Randomly searching for something else... A karbonius E30 carbon hood popped up on google saying instock @ Turner. So I called immediately and ask they put their hands on it. It seem surly they arn't making any more of these from the sound of things before hand calling everywhere including in europe... Weird enough they had it in stock and I ordered it for will call. Turner / LOL ECS is about 3.5H away, worth the drive to rule out the risk of it getting damaged during shipping. This is the same hood motorsport24de sells for their carbon E30 hood. And man it was nice and equal weight finished!






Assembly of the S54 ITB kit was pretty simple since I did all the hard work when the engine was out




Woot, Now what to do for tuning? It actually drives...


TBC

[moatilliatta]

I like the how you are lighting the front end. The air flow on oil cooler and radiator should be much cooler. I might do some similar work like you did 👍

Thanks! A little here and there adds up. Thanksgiving may add a lot! :p

A dream one day would be to have a VAC aluminum block S54. Keep working for it!

[e30m3s54turbo]

I like the how you are lighting the front end. The air flow on oil cooler and radiator should be much cooler. I might do some similar work like you did 👍

[moatilliatta]

JULY 2022

Progress? HOT.... So I decided not to drive and knock out more items on the to do list

I hate the weather here, please move.


But I sure wish I could get some more driving in...


Welp, I got some new wheel to fit the style of the car better. Felt it out with the kooglewerks spoiler. It'll be a bit till I mount up the spoiler, I'm still working on mechanical grip. Not like this aero is that substantial..


I decided to finally get the bumpers sorted. Fitting the NOS front bumper shrouds. One needed a confidence boost after setting around for years..


Did my old night shades inside of the side reflectors. They are no longer wired up.


Brake ducts fitted


Finally got some LTW in on the front






Feels good, Checking the CAD work for the air dam


Getting stoked






Fantastically the back side of the passenger side grill line up with the airdam, the driver side is off, but maybe I could order one that has more air openings for the radiator.


What a secrete.


Fitting up


STOKED


While here I finally got to do some finish work on the oil cooler brackets






The fan mount got some too, Need all the CFM available.


No body shop wants to touch this valance. Even if offered to bill me by the hour... One guy mentioned that his guys cant focus for that long... But I still dig deeper into looking for restoration shop that'll enjoy the work... So as usually, I get to work


What will we find.


Werk.
99 Lives on and Got some support in BMWCCA PWR2 class


323 Cartech turbo car has been freshen up


Play with oddball stuff, get oddball results. FFFFF


More X5d's...


And some Goods to just help out the day
Fresh E88 combos


GTMORE

[moatilliatta]

Great pics! Looks like an adventure.

Thank you for sharing.

Thanks, Of course, Love sharing E30 adventuers!

[moatilliatta]

JUNE 2022
Went a few car shows / CnC, Got some new wheels. Did a few smaller bits. Didn't really do to much, to hot...
Was good to be home. HEH oh deer.


A new look.

https://hosting.photobucket.com/images/y202/CruceE1Rubicon/IMG_9815.MOV

I just cap it at top 5 cars I enjoyed while out in the E30.












Work:
M240 getting some goodies, its a shame there arnt more of these on the road...





Rebuilt and 02 heater box






Got some cleaning and organizing done.



Bunch of other stuff, thats enough clutter.

[Panici]

Great pics! Looks like an adventure.

Thank you for sharing.

[moatilliatta]

May 2022

The Vintage 2022.

Not wanting The Vintage to end you scalp the parking lot looking for the last time, the details you didn't see before start to appear on the left over rides. The last absorption of The Clarion parking lot.










We part ways and We're (Me and S.O.) are back to The Blue Ridge Parkway - When in Rome.. or NC..


YUSSSS.




Captions aren't needed up here.












I seem to find this spot every year.










Viaduct




Cafe, Lunch time. Some other E30 Travelers












Made it to Salem, almost all the way... Maybe Next year will complete up to Skyline Drive.


The place we stayed was an old auto repair shop.












Motivation










The next morning, Coffee food.




Then, back to reality, back to home.

The End

[moatilliatta]

May 2022

The Vintage 2022.

This year we took the back roads into the event.


Got there later than wanted, I love being there early when its cool watching the cars roll in. Carry on.

2002 ONLY.


Touring


Baur


Campy


M51?


Please fix wheels.


One of my fav


Strip zone


Love seeing cars that travel


Basics.


I would


Smells 70's


Keep those miles rolling


One of the group, one and only, Johnatron @KI4UJO





After dinner desert


Nuburgring needs crank sensor. Hope that was it and made it home safe.


Back at the station. Crowd thins as things end. Closing time.

[moatilliatta]

May 2022

The Vintage 2022.

ONCE Inside the the foundation...

Sheah


Ughuh...


Yah?


Are you shitting me?










AND Cecotto M3 EVO II Nogaro.










2002 Turbo.


E34 M5 with interesting wheels.




Spotting on the way to the Zentrum


Inside the Zentrum


Next we head our way to the Clarion! But first a stop at autozone for a oil catch can and supplies.

Get in the Zone


Quick wash and now time for break-in oil service




As seen by the Roundel


Old oil coming out looks good, New oil going in :)


Chatting with E30 update and E30ers from Indiana.


Not to many more pics I took around the lot. NUMBER NINE.....


Tomorrow, The Vintage.

[moatilliatta]

Awesome trip!

Switch to imgur - it's fast and you don't need an account.

Thanks! More to continue.

I switched to Flickr years ago. something like $50/ year which sure sucks but at least Im not worried about them pulling photobucket BS on me. Moved most of my pics from photobucket over too... that wasnt fun.

I despise Photobucket and it was a hard trigger to pull when actually paying for after they destroyed the internet..

But what do you expect out of a free service.. Free.. ha And I'm pretty sure they are in it together.



SO... I finally figured out the photos that wouldn't load were RAW format on the I phone.. I had this issue before and quit using the RAW formatting, looks like that option got changed while being in the pocket, and assumed that wasn't the problem but their primitive uploader..,

[DEV0 E30]

I switched to Flickr years ago. something like $50/ year which sure sucks but at least Im not worried about them pulling photobucket BS on me. Moved most of my pics from photobucket over too... that wasnt fun.

I had flickr for years, then even paid for a little bit, but their ads in-between pictures completely turned me off from them, they just started doing all the wrong things to foster a photography community IMO. Being tied to a proprietary yahoo email too - I just grew tired of them sadly, used to love that site.

[2mAn]

I switched to Flickr years ago. something like $50/ year which sure sucks but at least Im not worried about them pulling photobucket BS on me. Moved most of my pics from photobucket over too... that wasnt fun.