What did you do to your E30 today?

[rzerob]

Cleaned, cut, buffed and waxed. Installed roof rack, fixed fog light and stuck on new registration sticker. Installed steering wheel and quick release with working horn and installed black door panels.

[horse30]

head reassembly, valve adjustment, valve cover and intake paint

[burkey001]

Finished wiring the bloody thing!

Here's the way I am dealing with passing the knock sensor loom through the firewall to the SKM.
Souriau autosport connector and 2.5mm carbon plate. Overkill of course.

I am just making the firewall plates etc here, the actual wiring has been done by Advanced Motorsport Electrics. Top job from them, amazing OCD.






bit blurry here sorry, workshop is a bit dark


Tucks in with the main engine harness and uses the stock knock sensors (x3)



Jason from Advanced Motorsport Electrics also delivered my steering wheel with buttons! 4x buttons into the C127 dash with another Souriau connector and a custom curly cord





Need to spend some time on the laptop now to do some configuring of dash and ECU to suit all the things.


Car is filled with liquids, should be making noise next week!

[JeLani]

Painted the valve cover and timing covers

[rzerob]

Tore it all apart to replace the input shaft seal and then put it back together. I also did an oil change.

[elDizzle]

Installed H&R Sports (cab-specific). PITA installation (my first time), but well worth it, IMO.





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[burkey001]

Finished off the remote primer oil circuit for the Petersen filter unit.


Used some rivnuts and Adel clamps to keep it in place





Rivnuts.... is there anything they cant do??


Also firesleeved some oil lines, they are a bit close to headers and headers are so tightly bundled they are impossible to wrap.




this is why we run a skid plate...




:)

[Das Delfin]

^ Good thing the rest of your car is so clean :up: My car had the same oil smell when I first got it but the smell isn't there any more. I guess I should check to see if it has any oil left! Just kidding.. though I noticed my throttle body gasket has started weeping so I probably do need to top off my coolant

[elDizzle]

I too get scared about the water damage. I believe i have a leak in that spot too, next time i change the oil I'm going to try and figure it out, did u change your head gasket recently? I think mines is leaking from there and the oil pan which were both changed. -_-

Changed oil, and when I cleaned the bottom end, noticed the leak. The HG (Victor Reinz gasket) was changed about 35k mi ago. But it looks like it's leaking between cylinders 3 & 4 . I'm not experiencing any major oil loss issues or typical HG leak issues (yet...knock on wood). I get that foul oil-burning smell tho. That's enough for me to want to change the HG. May do a leak down test to see if it's the HG or a cracked head. Hoping for the best.


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[Garrick2007]

Did a cosmetic detail of the engine (freaked out about causing water damage to any electronics):

Downside after driving today, noticed some oil weeping from here:

:(
Ah...the life of a new E30 owner!


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I too get scared about the water damage. I believe i have a leak in that spot too, next time i change the oil I'm going to try and figure it out, did u change your head gasket recently? I think mines is leaking from there and the oil pan which were both changed. -_-

[elDizzle]

Did a cosmetic detail of the engine (freaked out about causing water damage to any electronics):

Downside after driving today, noticed some oil weeping from here:

:(
Ah...the life of a new E30 owner!


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[jeenyus]

awesome. does it feel pretty different now? make a big difference?

[Eufonik]

Finally finished off the remaining parts for my Front End Suspension Refresh.

New UUC front Sway Bar kit, New Lemforder Control Arms, New Lemforder Lollipops w/ New Powerflex Bushing and New Lemforder e36m3 Tierods w/ New boots.


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[burkey001]

Hah, I think I got lazy, this is the 3rd engine swap... :)

Bit late for a build thread, it's just about done. I should take some more pics whilst still clean, thanks for the love :)

[jeenyus]

I couldn't agree more. Where is this clean-i-could-eat-off-it build?!