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

[AWDBOB]

Hooptie #4 looks to be coming together well really well. You are spot on with your thoughts on the difference between the 4 and 6 cylinder cars, the 4 cylinder E30's are underrated by many but when you spend some time in one they have a different dynamic....and this applies to the M10 powered cars as well. Add lightness and good things happen.

Thanks, man! With how much I ended up having to do to the car, I think it will be rewarding to see it/feel it finished up. I am planning on keeping it around for a bit to experience the car with the 4cyl when it's done to 'say I did', and work out any kinks that may arise. The goal was to get it sold before winter, but now that we've already had one snow, it doesn't look like that's going to happen, so I won't be offended if it hangs out until winter passes.

Definitely interested to see how you like the m42.... the most fun I've ever had in an e30 was with an m42. In general, it felt about perfect.

I am excited as well! Just "handling" the engine/trans when putting it in the car gave me a perspective on how light it is. Curious to see how it all translates to the drive, overall.

I had a 318is and loved the handling. I like the sound of the six cylinders better, and that's why I originally sold the car.

A supporter of the hoopty series offered up a stromung catback for this that I'll be using when I have the exhaust built (still have to retrieve yet, but that's the plan). I'm going to use an ultra quiet resonator in conjunction with the stromung in hopes to keep sound and drone down.



In other hoopty news, hoopty #5 (325iS) is going to cruise up with me to the ClassicDaily HQ some time this winter where we will be manual swapping and doing a before/after dyno Megasquirt conversion! Will likely report back this weekend (bday is sunday), with whatever I'm able to get done over the next few days. Coilovers are welded, should be able to build them and get them on the car, maybe get m42 hoopty running, etc etc. We'll see!

[twright]

I had a 318is and loved the handling. I like the sound of the six cylinders better, and that's why I originally sold the car.

[KI4UJO]

Definitely interested to see how you like the m42.... the most fun I've ever had in an e30 was with an m42. In general, it felt about perfect.

[mjweimer]

Hooptie #4 looks to be coming together well really well. You are spot on with your thoughts on the difference between the 4 and 6 cylinder cars, the 4 cylinder E30's are underrated by many but when you spend some time in one they have a different dynamic....and this applies to the M10 powered cars as well. Add lightness and good things happen.

[AWDBOB]

Bringing the Carolina Squat to the E30 community....love it. Needs moar front height...time for iX springs.

Bummer on the front coils but it will be all worth it in the end and it will be right.

I kinda like the Ronals without the caps...maybe paint the center lug dished area black or dark metallic gray?

Bahaha I love it- if it didn't take time it would make for a hilarious photoshoot.

Yep, I had a similar thought about doing black or nogaro centers, akin to many of the Alpina wheels!


Prepped hoopte #5's original housings to get welded! Came apart like buttah. I love working on cars that havent been showered in brine all of their life.

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Gettin' hoopte #4's new M42 together! Prepped a bunch of small stuff, mapped out all of my new hoses for the "mess under intake" simplification, etc. The new M42 had some head work done recently and also has a coil on plug conversion. I hate to admit this because #m20life but I feel like an M42 stroker would be a really neat motor with how light these things are. There is just so much room for activities, and the weight difference between m20 and m42 is more noticeable than I thought. The more I work on this car, the more it seems like it doesn't have many miles. Lots of small things are very clean/pliable/etc that I didn't notice initially. I didn't get a cluster with the car, so it's TMU, but it shows better than all of the 100-150k mile cars I've had.

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[mjweimer]

Bringing the Carolina Squat to the E30 community....love it. Needs moar front height...time for iX springs.

Bummer on the front coils but it will be all worth it in the end and it will be right.

I kinda like the Ronals without the caps...maybe paint the center lug dished area black or dark metallic gray?

[AWDBOB]

Out of curiosity, was it a place on ebay? I just picked up most of a 323i exhaust from a seller there who was doing exactly that

I’m not sure if they’re selling stuff on eBay, but it was just a shop in Indy that called and said “hey you’re the guy that buys everyone’s old BMW parts right?” And of course I said, “Sure am!”.

They were going to scrap the stuff so they just offered it to me for scrap price so it didn’t get crushed. Bunch of really cool NOS piece that they used to keep in stock 20 years ago.

[KI4UJO]

Sounds stock! This is just an OE replacement unit. Got it with a “lot” of new old stock exhaust systems from an old euro shop cleaning house.

Out of curiosity, was it a place on ebay? I just picked up most of a 323i exhaust from a seller there who was doing exactly that

[AWDBOB]

How's the sound? Is it too loud?

Sounds stock! This is just an OE replacement unit. Got it with a “lot” of new old stock exhaust systems from an old euro shop cleaning house.

[twright]

How's the sound? Is it too loud?

[AWDBOB]

Got the NOS (free and beat up) ansa catback on and went for a spin. I think these Ronals look quite nice with the studs, without the caps. Not for every application, but no caps and studs feels at home here.... goes with the vibe.

I'm going to have to roll the rear fenders, but I think it looks good! I broke down and ordered front Konis so I can do the front GCs right, do it once, and be done.

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[AWDBOB]

Linda is most definitely not a hooptie.


This car needs a M10 - 292 cam and side drafts.....

Maaan I am right there with you- just m30 instead of m10- a ratty early car build would be a fun one!


Parted/sent another car off to the yard to make some room.

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Much better


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So, if you have ever spent more than 30 seconds in a build thread of mine, you are aware of my debilitating habit of taking on new projects for no reason that effectively completely distract me from the other missions at hand. I have done it again.

I purchased the track car because it was claimed to have a nice set of GCs and a slew of other good parts to "quick swap onto hoopte". I couldn't get the rear GC adjusters off of the TAs and noticed it had eccentric TA bushings and new powerflex subframe bushings, which led me to swap the entire subframe assembly (incl small case s4.1) into hoopte just to get the rear coils, further justified by the fact that I had a new old stock ANSA catback to replace the rotted one, so I had to "drop the exhaust anyway". I then noticed the rear axles were non-abs so i had to swap those out, rebuild ebrake assemblies, etc etc. Getting the d/s on the diff was a huge pain, and ended up converting the diff to studs and macgyver-ing it in the subframe whilst lining up d/s studs so I didn't have to collapse the d/s.

It was at this point that I realized I shouldn't have done any of this and should've left hoopte well enough alone that I wanted to just pull the front GCs off of the track car and toss them on hoopte and be done, so I went to do so and found out that the "nice GCs" were trash heaps built on 45mm non-abs strut housings and needed to be totally redone. So now hoopte is low in the back and high in the front, the brakes won't bleed right, and the other 95 projects that I have are left untouched as usual. If I said "lesson learned", I'd just be lying.

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Pulling a subframe in the rain was super fun:

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ABS axles courtesy of mjweimer's old stuff he donated.

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Almost there:


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Lowrider. I adjusted it 6 turns up from this height and may still go higher once I see how front clearance is after I finish rebuilding the front coils on 51mm housings.


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[mjweimer]

Linda is most definitely not a hooptie.


This car needs a M10 - 292 cam and side drafts.....

[AWDBOB]

I dont even know which one is THE hooptie anymore... they are all hoopties

bahaha fair enough. The keeper hoopte is the lachs 325iS. Fixing the sedan to sell it still, and track car was just a random pickup. iX hoopte is a shell now and getting scrapped any day

[2mAn]

I dont even know which one is THE hooptie anymore... they are all hoopties