E30 M52B25tu S/C

[tubby17s]

after finding out one of the rear calipers was stripped i got another one and bolted it on.

Put some oil in and wound up the oil pressure to find i had missed covering up one of the holes that provides high pressure oil to the vanos unit. So Had to plug that up and oil pressure was reached.

Then was next onto wiring.
This is what it looked like in S50 Wiring style


mounted the battery back in the boot where it started life origionally

Then started pulling it down to bare requirements which a mate had helped me with.



got it to this point





filled her up with fluids and after a quick fix up with the haltech software this happened

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YES0EiYJmH0

[Ray Smoodiver]

Whoa what airbox is that!

[tubby17s]

Custom made single layer carbon.

[Iain]

Get the pedal box sussed, Josh?

[tubby17s]

Nope. not fully yet. Still deciding what to do with it. The angle is all wrong.

so finished up the wiring in the engine bay.

[Wh33lhop]

:up:

[Ray Smoodiver]

I think that's the sexiest engine bay I've ever seen.

[Reap3r]

Just stumbled across this thread. Absolutely perfect mate! Good to see more nice E30's in Australia. There just aren't enough around that are done right.

[CorvallisBMW]

That is beautiful!! Nice work on pairing down the wiring too, I knew there was lots of extra but not that much!

[tubby17s]

Thanks guys.

Yeah there are a lot of useless wires when your using an aftermarket ECU. It will make it a lot easier to diagnose problems too (if i have any). Just have to make a aluminium board to mount everything on.

[Be30mer]

Nice project! carbon airbox + euro s50 + possible turbo/supercharger = subscribed

[e30guydownunder]

The calipers are skyline R32 GTR calipers with Supra MA61 discs

What thickness was the mount plate you made up for the rear, those rotors would be cheap as chips around here! And the skyline calipers aren't that exe either!

What are you running on the front? Skyline calipers with *insert name* rotors?

Must be getting awefully close now!

[tubby17s]

unfortunatly be30mer i will not be going turbo or supercharged at this point in time. As i have used up my allocated time frame to build my car. Have to concentrate on other things in life.

Chris

12mm thick plate milled down to 6mm at the ends. i have the drawing for you in CAD if you wish.

one thing i didnt count on with the rotor is that the rotor hat thickness is 3mm thinner than the E30 one. so on the hub it has a locating spigot for the disc and then goes down to another locating spigot for the wheel. currently the wheel when done up stops 3mm short of the disc... so im going to be running a 3mm spacer plate between the disc and the wheel. I have Studs on the front and still have 8 left over so will be putting 70mm long studs on the rear too and bolting the spacer down through the disc and onto the hub.

The rotors i got for free. The calipers were $140 for the pair.

on the front is Lee's Race big brake kit.

getting close. just need to finish off pedal box once i get the accelerator cable

[e30guydownunder]

Nice catch there on the hat thickness! What is the diameter of the Supra rotors?

Lee makes very nice kits!

[tg318is]

wow great build mate! the engine bay is bloody awesome