Work Log: Rebirth of the Vert (Red Oktober)

[vlad]

wow.. looks like an awesome project, you are doing great, never expected such a nice transformation !
I may hire you and Levent for some future work on the e30s ! :up:

how did you change the color of the carpet?

[oekundar]

coming together nice!!! nice progress. Ill be down in the south jersey tomorrow, let me know if you need anything and ill bring it down.

Levent....shooting you an email!

[ZM Blue Devil]

coming together nice!!! nice progress. Ill be down in the south jersey tomorrow, let me know if you need anything and ill bring it down.

[ZM Blue Devil]

coming together nice!!! nice progress. Ill be down in the south jersey tomorrow, let me know if you need anything and ill bring it down.

[Motorsports]

nice to see another E30 coming back to life.

[nhskibm]

looks like it is coming along nicely!

[Julien]

not really feeling the rear seat, but hey.. quick fix! good luck with the rest of her

[oekundar]

Well here are the pictures of the engine bay clean up:






I'm sure some will like/dislike my color combo...but I'm digging it...so :p


Onto the e36 switches...as you can see there are 3 switches and the "lock" switch. The wiring harnesses have been extended as they came a little short...



Here they have been installed and zip tied to make them nice a tidy for when I reinstall the center console. So I originally bought 4 switches, but as you all know the e36 switches can vary and one of my 4 was an automatic switch for the driver's side door. In any case what I ended up doing was wiring up the rear windows to the same switch. My rationale was...since no one will be sitting back there...EvAR (being 6'5" negates any space for a humanoid back there). SO essentially I can put down the back very windows with one switch...I like ALOT...an unplanned MOD!



Don't mind the multimeter and mess...its all part of making progress...LOL

Another note...when I bought the seats (used) the PO put a hot rim/tire on the rear seats and damaged them...I bought the seats regardless...knowing that the rears were pretty much toast...but I previous interior...(find pics in the early part of this thread) was worse...unto the pictures:

Before:




After:





...enjoy!

[oekundar]

Well...there has been progress and the pictures will come shortly...front cam seal/o-ring have been changed....new timing belt/tensioner...cleaned up all the oil/grease...new belts will go on tonight likely...new (used) automatic radiator should be in route to the house (going to be a 5 speed swap eventually so why put a new one in there?--I know the question is coming). I should have most of the engine back together this weekend

On another note....window switches have been/are in the process of being converted to e36 style switches, with a twist...there is also other progress with the interior.

I know this post is worthle$$ without pics....but they are coming...didn't want to use the crappy camera.

[skatebline]

Damn son! its all turning out great....
Good luck. Im looking forward to see more!

[oekundar]

change that big t-shaped heater hose if you had not planned on it, always a good idea, esp when you have everything out like that. Nice progress, looks like fun, it makes me miss working on my projects.

*change gas lines also, pretty cheap. Maybe you already said you are changing this stuff, i dont know.

I had planned on changing all that, as I have no...ahem zero plans on doing this again! :D

[rede30]

change that big t-shaped heater hose if you had not planned on it, always a good idea, esp when you have everything out like that. Nice progress, looks like fun, it makes me miss working on my projects.

*change gas lines also, pretty cheap. Maybe you already said you are changing this stuff, i dont know.

[oekundar]

Update:

Here are pictures of the cleaned and painted associated parts...Duplicolor Engine paint used here. Not sure what my overall theme will be, but I'm leaning towards a Black/Red Theme with a hint of yellow to complete the Germanness (new word)





Unto the other work...after fighting with the car...I finally got this off:


here's what I find below:





So I go to work and here is where I ended last night:





I now need to order new intake manifold gaskets...as well as the O-rings for the block return, and while I wait for the parts...I might install these



:D

I'm sure there are some opinions on my colors of choice for my engine bay... ;)

[oekundar]

Ah...more progress or rather an update...I will be looking to purchase/order the cam seal today as well as a new valve cover gasket/seal. I had pulled the radiator, but didn't realize how bad it was until yesterday....enjoy:







Those silver lookings spots are actually light shining through the freaking thing...oh well...time to replace I guess! ;)

And I figured that while I was changing the timing(cam) belt/water pump and stuff, I would pretty up the cover...my initial goal was to just clean off the grease...then I found some paint (bought some more) and went to town...after pictures to come...here is the before in the utility sink:

[N2MYE30]

I just replaced that seal last week and MAN, it was a biotch to get out. Good luck.