My Hoopte30 Project Attempt #6 - the painless way to earn cash back every day

[e30austin]

No E30 updates, but I got the barn wired and the ceiling closed in this weekend!! Hanging 36 sheets of 3/4" OSB over your head ain't no joke- can't thank the homies Casey and Clint enough for the help.

I made a floor plan, and against my initial assessment, I'll be able to fit the lift in here while still having more available shelving than I have at my current spot! I bought two 60" ceiling fans that'll move 9000cfm each, and ran outlets by the lift on separate 20a circuits so I'll have enough juice for whatever I need with separate light switches for upper/lower mezzanine. I still have to run another 20a circuit for a commercial dehumidifier and then I'll be set. Going to terminate the electric and hang lighting next weekend. The 30x38 main floor will have five rows of two 8' 9k lumen LEDs, and then above/below the mezz (12x30) will have 4 of the same 8' LEDs each. In the back of my current warehouse (40'x50') I only have 3 of the same 8' LEDs and it lights the place up fine, so I should be able to get a tan in the new barn, comparatively speaking. The lights also have the ability to daisy chain 4 each which I'm not taking advantage of, so adding additional lighting will be simple, should I find it necessary later on. I wanted to do a mini split, but am going to focus on moisture mitigation/insulation first to get that squared away so I can more efficiently do HVAC later.

Once the wiring is terminated I'll insulate and then can start moving stuff in!!! Getting there, slowly but surely

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hell yeah! looking great. fingers crossed the rest of it goes well.

[AWDBOB]

No E30 updates, but I got the barn wired and the ceiling closed in this weekend!! Hanging 36 sheets of 3/4" OSB over your head ain't no joke- can't thank the homies Casey and Clint enough for the help.

I made a floor plan, and against my initial assessment, I'll be able to fit the lift in here while still having more available shelving than I have at my current spot! I bought two 60" ceiling fans that'll move 9000cfm each, and ran outlets by the lift on separate 20a circuits so I'll have enough juice for whatever I need with separate light switches for upper/lower mezzanine. I still have to run another 20a circuit for a commercial dehumidifier and then I'll be set. Going to terminate the electric and hang lighting next weekend. The 30x38 main floor will have five rows of two 8' 9k lumen LEDs, and then above/below the mezz (12x30) will have 4 of the same 8' LEDs each. In the back of my current warehouse (40'x50') I only have 3 of the same 8' LEDs and it lights the place up fine, so I should be able to get a tan in the new barn, comparatively speaking. The lights also have the ability to daisy chain 4 each which I'm not taking advantage of, so adding additional lighting will be simple, should I find it necessary later on. I wanted to do a mini split, but am going to focus on moisture mitigation/insulation first to get that squared away so I can more efficiently do HVAC later.

Once the wiring is terminated I'll insulate and then can start moving stuff in!!! Getting there, slowly but surely

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[AWDBOB]

A/C in an E30 is the luxury a hooptie will never accept

tiz true, hoopties Sanden conversion cracked an alloy fitting at the end of last season that I have yet to fix.

and here i was giving my red car a bad time. nowhere near as bad as that one you just parted. guess i should be grateful...

bummer about the compressor but you'll get it sorted!

ooooh yeah that car above is your "average" midwest car. Scary what's driving down the road out here

Teh ol refurb spray job.

craigslist rebuild paid off!!

After the last compressor failed, I swapped the new compressor onto texas holdem (it's a 4seasons bosch rebuild, same line style as the seiki), successfully pulled vacuum, slightly overcharged it because I overlooked something, recovered some, and all is well.

I need to put some A/C tape on the expansion valve, reassemble interior, fix some other odds/ends and it'll be almost ready to list!!! I am quite ready to put this one behind me.

This is colder than my sanden car (older style aux fan still on low speed which I'm going to fix when I get the car back).

The A/C solutions CSF condenser set up for the 13" spal is tempting for the sanden car, but I think it'll be fine once I put the later style fan on and bypass the low speed resistor.

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**edit** looking at this the following day, the condenser to compressor hose is already splitting lol. oh the joys of old car life

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[moatilliatta]

Teh ol refurb spray job.

[e30austin]

The midwest definitely has its way with these cars. People always brag about their unrusty cars out here and I threaten to start poking.

ignorance is bliss methinks

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Well that didn't last long lol. There's actually a shaft seal you can buy for these Seiko-seiki compressors (MT2037), but I know exactly 0 people who have replaced them without a blowout immediately following replacement

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Thankfully, I know a guy

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and here i was giving my red car a bad time. nowhere near as bad as that one you just parted. guess i should be grateful...

bummer about the compressor but you'll get it sorted!

[2mAn]

A/C in an E30 is the luxury a hooptie will never accept

[AWDBOB]

Ooof, yeah no blame there. Surprising to see one worse than mine haha!

The midwest definitely has its way with these cars. People always brag about their unrusty cars out here and I threaten to start poking.

ignorance is bliss methinks

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Well that didn't last long lol. There's actually a shaft seal you can buy for these Seiko-seiki compressors (MT2037), but I know exactly 0 people who have replaced them without a blowout immediately following replacement

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Thankfully, I know a guy

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[Reichart12]

beauty is in the eye of the beholder ;)

This is what too rusty looked like to me on that '91:

Ooof, yeah no blame there. Surprising to see one worse than mine haha!

[AWDBOB]

every time a shiny car like that drives into the shop i have to have a sit down talk with it letting it know that its parts will be used to save other little cars that are needing help in different ways but unfortunately...... there are no other little cars that have available to donate what it needs to live, so it must prepare for its next life as the frame of a microwave or mailbox.

always a tough chat

[moatilliatta]

[AWDBOB]

How rusty is too rusty? Asking for a friend (definitely not me)

beauty is in the eye of the beholder ;)

This is what too rusty looked like to me on that '91:

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[Reichart12]

'91 325i met its maker this week. The deeper into it I got, the more rust I found, RIP

How rusty is too rusty? Asking for a friend (definitely not me)

[AWDBOB]

Your evaporator core looks in better shape than mine did when I pulled it out lol. Maybe I should’ve cut that foam corner. Ah well it’s all buttoned up now 🫡

That foam corner removal is also the secret to being able to get to the upper right evaporator cover bolt without a swivel. Definitely don't recommend it on a cream puff car, but once it's done and you have working A/C, it is quickly forgotten.

[raymang]

Your evaporator core looks in better shape than mine did when I pulled it out lol. Maybe I should’ve cut that foam corner. Ah well it’s all buttoned up now 🫡

[AWDBOB]

HELL YEA, BROTHRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRrrrrrrrrrrrrr

hahahaha

I wonder how many E30s have died in pieces in those hands that ate pizza together?

lets not talk about that, I am paying back my debts through this thread lol


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I have unturned the A/C stone on Texas Holdem... I told myself I wasn't going to do it, but that '91 I just parted was retrofitted already and I had some good parts on the shelf so here we go lol.

I'm using the stock condenser with the updated BMW aux fan with the low speed resistor bypassed.

I installed the r134 drier, single pressure switch, and wired the low pressure switch closed, as the new single pressure switch provides both high and low pressure safeties. I jumped the updated pressure switch wiring and hit snowflake to make sure I had 12v at the clutch wire (compressor grounds to the engine) and all was well.

The compressor I pulled off of the '91 is the later seiki unit. The wiring was cut to the compressor but the system had fresh oil in it, so I am hoping for the best. Worst case scenario, I scored a rebuilt seiki off of rockauto a while back I have been saving for something like this that I can install if this one is no good. It spins freely, builds pressure spinning by hand, and clutch engages/disengages smoothly.

The seiki lines are different than the bosch lines on the car (compressor to cabin and compressor to condenser), so I have them ready to go.

Under the dash I installed the evaporator from the '91 as well as a new r134 expansion valve I had on the shelf.

I wrote a note to the next guy, lol, hoping no one sees it.

Green orings all the way around. I'm going to pull vacuum on the system tomorrow and hope for the best!

I also installed cruise back onto the car tonight now that it's no longer a parts car. The cluster I refreshed for the car had a main board issue, so I have a tested main board going in that cluster so I finally get blinkers on the dash.

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Cruise back in bizz

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