NEW UPDATES! Bretts Turbo Twin-Cam M3 bodied project.

[gofast]

really want some of those rear fenders lol. looking real good

[evil_twin]

wow, that looks really good.

[turbo325i]

GOOD NEWS EVERYBODY!!!!
I got the 18x9.5" to fit in the rear. I had to grind away the control arm a little bit, but it fits like a dream now! I cant believe I almost just gave up on trying to fit it...
So now I have 18x9.5" rear with 265-35-18 (NO SPACER)
Then on the front I tried a 235-40-18 on an 18x8.5" et 35 and it hits the strut... With a 12mm spacer it clears but then sticks out of the fender...
I might mess with it more to see if it will fit, or I will just order the 18x7.5" et42 and that will net me 5mm more on the offset and .5" on each side.




Fun Stuff!!!
P.S. The motor is getting close to being ready to assemble. Autohaus sent me the wrong main bearings, so I have to get that straightened out, then its time to assemble!

[turbo325i]

slowly but surely... :D

[Court M3]

Nice work!! Subscribed

[turbo325i]

The trucks keep rollin in with parts... :D Still waiting for main studs and rod bolts. Autohaus got my main bearings wrong :( Gotta send them back and get it right.

[turbo325i]

Got some wheels in today...

The deep dish wheel is the 9.5" that I was unable to fit... :( The other wheel is the 8.5" that I will be running.


Mounted up my 265-35-18

They fit like a Charm...

they tuck nicely. I could even space them out 5-10mm...

[gofast]

so so good. i need to get myself in gear and work mine more. lol

[So Live]

wow thats a pretty good deal. It cost me almost $300 to deck my head and do a quick valve job.

[turbo325i]

It was just under $400 for the hot tank, hone, align and check main caps, chemically check the head for cracks clean up, cut new valve seats machine valves, check valve guides, knurl the intake guides, assemble head.

then I took the crank, pistons and rods and cams to him. That was like $70 to check crank , cam for cracks and pistons skirts mainly for collapse, rods and polish crank and cams and clean pistons and rods.

They are a great machine shop.

[So Live]

Right on, sounds like a good recipe to me dude!

Just curious, how much did you spend on getting the block cleaned up like that?

[turbo325i]

Yea I am using stock crank, rods, pistons, and s52 cams.

[So Live]

Looks good dude!!! Just refreshing the stock motor? Not a bad idea, theyre pretty well proven. I was going to build a motor but decided to drop in a m52 because theyre so beefy from the factory...

[turbo325i]

SO Brett says his Fiance says he spends too much time on the forums so he wont update us... WEAK!

HEY!! Thanks a lot Chris!

I do spend too much time between 8 forums... 6 BMW and 2 Chevelle

So the bodywork is getting closer and closer to being done and I am getting very excited! Pictures wouldnt really show much right now so none of those. I am still in desperate need of e30 m3 bumper mounting hardware... I might just have to run plastics for a while...

I got the motor and head back from the machine shop where they went throught the entire motor and honed the block cut new valve seats in knurled the intake guides and put new valve seals in. Machined block and head to 20ra just in case mls... Crank, cams, pistons, rods all checked out perfect.

had crank and cams polished, pistons and rods cleaned and prepped.

Cell phone pics... Why cuz im lazy. :D

[So Live]

SO Brett says his Fiance says he spends too much time on the forums so he wont update us... WEAK!