NOVA e30's?

[evil_twin]

dude, you need to let me know about those manassas meets. im off rt 29, takes me 10mins to get to manassas.

[evil_twin]

dude, you need to let me know about those manassas meets. im off rt 29, takes me 10mins to get to manassas.

[dkbmxer002]

it's exit 47

[Bothfeetin]

on wednesday i pass manassas coming home from work what exit

[dkbmxer002]

i'm in leesburg, my poor e30 hasn't been driven in a month though haha.


we've been having a meet at the five guys right off 66 in manassas every wednesday around 6ish till 10ish. whole bunch of different cars come out.. vipers, skyline, 350z's, supra's, mustangs, camaros, honda's, porsches and a bunch of other random cars came out last night, we are hoping to keep it going with a good crowd.

[akabigmike]

I'm in fairfax. If you see any cars with "free hugs" on the window, it's one of my guys.

do those come with a reach around?

[manjambles]

shiboujin, thanks for lettin me use your tools at drift nirvana. i ended up something to get me home and already went about fixing it. but again huge thanks

[shiboujin]

I'm in fairfax. If you see any cars with "free hugs" on the window, it's one of my guys.

[akabigmike]

braddock and carlbern behind stone middle school...but the cars in manassas as i build it lol

you might see my lil bro running around..red 240sx sr wapped..hes helping me with the car

What part of Centreville are you in? Im right off Stone and Poplar Tree.

BTW, I've been seeing 2 red e30s. Slammed. 1 with widened steelies and time attack lip. Anybody? and yes I know who Yusof is lol.

[Dolmangar]

Arlington here. We've def got enough people for a solid meet.

Sure seems that way. Once we get through this cold wet weather we should pick a day for a coffee run, or meet.

[evil_twin]

What part of Centreville are you in? Im right off Stone and Poplar Tree.

BTW, I've been seeing 2 red e30s. Slammed. 1 with widened steelies and time attack lip. Anybody? and yes I know who Yusof is lol.

[1mz]

oakton/vienna/herndon area here... car still isnt driving, but damnit i hope it is by summer

[gofredo50]

Arlington here. We've def got enough people for a solid meet.

[ThatOtherGuy]

Burke here

[Dolmangar]

If you decide to rebuild, check out Tyson's Machine Shop. This guy did all the work on my m20 and he is a true perfectionist. He does get pretty busy though so don't expect it to be done very quickly (mine took 2 months, balancing and blueprinting).

I'm trying to decide on the correct balance of saving money by doing it myself, VS the simplicity of dropping the car off somewhere and picking it up later with a refreshed engine.

To pull it myself I'd need to rent or buy a hoist and spend a weekend planning and doing it. It would be my first engine removal but based on what I've seen here it doesn't appear to be to difficult. I expect that if I put the call out for assistance I could find a number of people who would be happy to show up.

The other dilemma is where to stop with the project. I know that if I spend to much time and money on small things, it's probably wasted since I'm sure that it would use plenty of work. It's probably in need of a timing belt, and the valve cover leaks, and the oil drain is stripped etc. SO I could do all of those things with it in the car. But it also has a leak somewhere in the back and probably should have a new head gasket etc. Once you've gone that far you might as well pull it so you don't go insane trying to pull it apart in the car.

THEN, once you've got the damn thing out, you might as well.......

I don't have the experience or tools to handle the rebuild myself in any sort of reasonable time. So that means for just a bit more money I could just have someone else do the work.

Anyone have an idea what it would cost to have the engine pulled and refreshed (seals, gaskets, timing belt, valves etc) done? I'd have to check but I think the internals are probably ok so it wouldn't need a full rebuild. The engine doesn't have a ton of miles on it.


The other option would be to find another engine and spend the time cleaning that one up and then do the swap. Then I could clean up the original engine and sell it off.

Thoughts?