haha! if she's willing to drive that, she's definitely a keeper, my friend. :)
nice progress. good on you for saving another one.
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The GF's Fiesta broke again (driving until the engine arrives for her Outback), and I couldn't get the parts in time to fix it, so she got put up in the hoopte for the week!
We have only baseline functionality, as the alignment is scheduled for Friday and the wheels/tires haven't shipped yet, but with her work only a few miles from home, it'll get her by for the week.
She floored it on the test drive and said "oh, this car is fun!"
A good sign.
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Hoopte #5 went on her maiden voyage after I buttoned up the suspension.
I had a spare Z3M rack that I told myself I was not going to install, but ended up convincing myself to do so. I am glad I did.
I did:
H&R OE Sports (50404-55) (because KYBs)
E90 Drop Hats
KYB Struts/Shocks
Sachs USMs F&R
E36 Solid Centered CABs
Meyle Control Arms and Inner/outer Tie Rods
Z3M Rack 3.2(?) turns L2L
Rebuilt Calipers F&R w/ new pads and blank rotors
Front and Rear Stainless braided brake lines
Even after idling the car for a while and taking it around the block all of the smoke has cleared up and it's starting to run better and better. I am going to run some seafoam through her in lieu of the disgusting-ness that I saw when I had the valve cover off.
My old school O.Z.'s for whatever reason are rubbing on the new calipers. They're VW fitment, I learned, and are only 14x6, et33.
To reward Hoopte#5 I bought her some new shoes, which I will reveal at a later date.
OH, and a super cool chap gave me a well maintained M42 for Hoopte#4 for free- funny how things work out.
New but rusty rotors I had at the warehouse on a set of nice housings.
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Rack and modified linkage. Need to file some of the steering joint, as I am getting a small bit of binding.
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Free M42 (broken Subaru in background)
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This car is a POS, but it is reaaaaaly growing on me.
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Thanks!! I should be driving hoopte no. 5 before too long.
Man, I feel that. This '91 318 was supposed to be an engine harness away from running, but it ended up just trading hands several times without anyone having any success, so by the time I got to it, it needed everything. It was a bummer really because the car is nice, I just can't handle such a big project on top of all of the others.
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From shit to shine - I spent quite a bit of time yesterday disinfecting the blessings left over from the previous tenant. I was in full hazmat mode, this was a gross job that I was avoiding.
From this:
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To this:
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I also found the original broken glovebox latch in the car, so I swapped over the tumbler to a good one, so I can lock the glovebox!
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Loving all the hoopty content!
Bummer on the 318i. It reminds me of the 325i convertible I bought last year to flip. The previous owner kept saying that none of the electronics worked. I brought it home, put a battery in it, and immediately found the ignition switch wiring to be cut. I eventually got it running (after repairing the wiring and putting in a new fuel pump) but found the head gasket to be bad. I'm not sure how covering up problems by creating new problems is a good idea to some peopleLeave a comment:
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mirror didn't offer me any guidance, only told me to lay off the potatoes
THIS!!!!
bahahaha best hooptys indeed!
Smelled a smell in the new E30. Found the smell. I didn't even take a photo of the under dash panel, I just threw it out, as it was a rodent litter box, and caught whatever didn't make it to the ECU. I have some deep cleaning ahead of me.
I installed KYBs (not ideal, but super free) onto these H&R OE Sport springs with E90 Drop hats and new Sachs USMs onto good housings with rebuilt calipers and rusty but new rotors.
Quality control is suffering even at the Sachs level. One of my USMs has a TON of bearing play. Gonna run it for now, and FCP warranty it later.
Waiting on a few orders with control arms and E36 (non-offset) control arm bushings, swaybar endlinks, front braided brake lines (only had rears on the shelf), and a non-airbag E36 rack swap kit before I button up the front suspension, which may be a few weeks
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I pulled hoopte #5's cluster apart to diagnose what I assumed was a bad SI board (dead tach and coolant temp). Apparently the cluster was pulled from the Atlantic, as most bits were destroyed. SI board was heavily corroded throughout, NiCad batteries leaked, and it was also "long screwed" by the hillbilly Cory bought the car from.
Main board was also heavily corroded.
Took a good spare SI board, good spare main board, good spare tach, and polished a cluster lens and made it all work again!
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Yuuummmmm
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Good main and SI boards
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All better. ODO gears are shot, but I ordered them through Garagistic, so it may be next year until I receive them, so I just put it back together for now.
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Just a mental refrence...
I lust for a best hoopties that works just for fun. AWDBOBS hoopties are best hoopties. :)Leave a comment:
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The 325iS is what I hoped for the hoopty to be. Ratty, but solid, not digging to deep, and only doing what’s necessary. The 318 turned into a full on build with the motor and chassis harness, and is thus dead to me. I don’t want multiple giant projects, just something that’s solid that I can hop in whenever and not care at all, not something I’ve touched every bolt on.
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I ended up finding a 40k mile m42 dropout that I'm snagging in a few weeks!
Hoopte #5 is fun - the rear brake hoses/calipers were filled with rust and/or collapsed and/or bad, so I stopped by the warehouse and poked around and found an unused set of braided rear brake lines, new rotors, rebuilt ATE rear calipers, and tossed all of that stuff on with KYBs and H&R OE Sports, with some shock mount brackets I had lying around.
The front control arms are so roasted that they are unsafe, so I ordered some control arms and E36 solid rubber centered bushings, along with f/r endlinks. Once those show up I'll probably toss on the wheels from hoopte #4 since they have good tires and start dailying it.
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Gettin hoopte #5 road worthy has been satisfying
Timing belt/tensioner, water pump, cam seal, cap/rotor, plugs, intake boot, vc breather hose, FPR vacuum hose, and a few other odds and ends has this thing running great.
Not so good: head is nasty with grime, OG hex head bolts, head gasket leak from front corner that I'm going to pretend isn't there.
The PO was able to bleed the front brakes but not the rear, so I'm going to replace brake lines and calipers tomorrow to see if I can get the brakes fully functional.
Shocks/Struts are all blown, and I'm sure the whole suspension needs a refresh, but can still send it in the mean time as long as brakes/hoses/etc are all brought up to date.
Cluster has a bad SI board that I'll see if I can fix over the weekend.
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Coolant was disgusting and I was on borrowed time with the timing belt:
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Head gasket seepage after I wiped it away to make sure it wasn't cam seal seepage.
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Lash was in spec, cam lobes were in good shape, but head is diiirrty. I had a cleaner VC on the shelf that I threw on.
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Threw some stuff in the parts washer but didn't go too crazy.
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These are missing on every single M20 I come across so I keep a bag on the shelf.
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Plugs were mint
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Replaced the bubbling coolant hoses with whatever I had on the shelf. Going to have to flush the coolant a few times, so I'm not too worried about doing a full cooling system overhaul just yet.
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